Feral Cat Consortium

03/28/2025

Our view from last weekend! — 9 cat lives improved through TNR at St. Tammany Parish Department of Animal Services via the BISSELL Pet Foundation “Fix the Future” program. This was quite the collection as 2 were from Pearl River, 2 from Bush, 1 from Lacombe, 1 from Covington, and 3 from 3 different Slidell locations. 😮‍💨

P.S. Hey, speaking of numbers, that makes 81 feline TNRs so far this year!! 🙌

03/19/2025

Important message to understand and share.

Those not actively participating in rescue or TNR criticize everyone promoting cats living outside. They must not understand feral cats or know that hundreds of thousands cats are euthanized in the US every year. Unless you're part of our village trying to reduce those numbers, please don't criticize. 😽

03/17/2025

03/14/2025

Please help us find a foster or adoptive home for this sweet puppy that was dumped in Bogalosa! TIA 🙏🏻

03/06/2025

TNR, TNR, TNR! These 3 were done today.
How can one person save 100 homeless cats?
Easy... Just spay one! 🙏

03/01/2025

FREE!! vaccine & microchip clinic —>
🐶 Saturday 3/15 for the dogs
🐱 Sunday 3/16 for the cats

02/27/2025

Dear friends, handsome boy Turbo is still looking for his FURever home…

Sadly, he was owner-surrendered to the shelter a couple months ago. With his world being flipped upside down, FCC has been fostering him via St. Tammany Parish Department of Animal Services in hopes that it would reassure his spirit. We’re pleased to report he’s done really well, does great on a leash, knows “sit,” and enjoys hanging with his humans while watching TV! 💙

A few extra notes:
- he’s heartworm-negative and in good health
- he’s approximately 8-10 yrs old
- we think he would do best as an only dog (he’s not great with cats, he’s OK with some other dogs, but is food protective with other dogs (not with humans))

If you are interested in adopting this sweet older pup, please reach out to us. 🙏
Also, please share and help us get this boy a perfect home to live out his golden years!

02/26/2025

Do you recognize me??

This friendly ginger boy was trapped on Trade Winds Court off Mariners Blvd in Mandeville during a TNR mission. He was neutered yesterday and we’ve found he is quite the talkative tabby! 🧡 He is so sweet, we thought perhaps there’s a worried owner out there looking for him…

02/25/2025

Look at these numbers!! 👀

Please share, help us educate others, and please do your part by spaying/neutering your pets as well as any strays or ferals you care for.

02/23/2025

Guess who we just trapped??
That’s right – the ADORABLE yet incredibly elusive Racetrac kitty! 🙌

She’s headed for spay with St. Tammany Parish Department of Animal Services Monday morning. TBD on return (only if a reliable caretaker is confirmed), potential relocation, or given her petite stature suggesting kittenhood, potential socialization. We’ll keep y’all posted!
For the meantime, we’re just grateful she finally decided to go into a trap, she’s safe and warm, and as adorable as she is, no homeless kittens to be born here.

🪤 PRO TIP: Explanation of my trapping method for this particular situation —>
After…
- 1) spending weeks attempting to train this kitty to go into the trap by leaving food inside one that was zip-tied open,
- 2) hearing from 2 trappers that she ate the bait trail and then backed out of the trap before reaching the trip plate, and
- 3) feeling fairly confident she was trapped (by one of my traps) and released (by a random passerby) weeks ago which has likely led to her extra cautious behavior…
I decided to try the drop trap method followed by actually leaving the area with my largest cat trap set.

Drop traps can be very helpful when trying to trap extra cautious cats as they are lifted up and don’t feel as enclosed for the cat entering. However, after setting my drop trap with nice smelly tuna and seeing no sign of RaceTrac kitty for over an hour, I decided to use our largest cat trap, and rather than setting it up with a can of tuna, I poured the juice inside the trap and let a few small pieces fall through the trip plate so she would have to paw at it to reach them. I left it set for a couple hours to ensure she would feel no one was watching (she’s a savvy kitty!), and upon return, there was her cute little face in the trap! 

02/19/2025

Spay and neuter ASAP 🙏

Kittens having kittens. We see it way too often. Spay your cat(s)!

Aside from the obvious benefit of population control, spaying a cat reduces her risk of mammary (breast) cancer by 25%, makes her less prone to urinary tract infections and prevents uterine cancers. It also prevents pyometra, a deadly infection of the uterus.

Cats are sexually mature by 4 MONTHS of age! ACT FAST before your kitten has kittens! Cats can also get pregnant while they are still nursing a litter. A cat can have multiple litters per year; there is no time to waste!

Constant reproduction wreaks havoc on a queen's body; it robs her body of nutrition and physically exhausts her. Sometimes, her body is not able to support the kittens and they're either born deformed, are stillborn or naturally aborted. Sometimes the queen dies from complications of the pregnancy or from multiple pregnancies.

A spayed cat is a healthier, happier cat. Please spay your cat before 4 months of age.

02/19/2025

There should be ZERO intentional litters while ~390,000 dogs/puppies and ~530,000 cats/kittens are currently euthanized annually due to lack of shelter space and lack of homes…

If you are at a vet clinic or shelter often enough, you will hear people say things like “he’s so cute, I want to get one litter from him” or “she’s got such a great personality, I’d love to get a puppy out of her”.

❌❌❌ NOOOOO ❌❌❌

There should be no intentional litters while dogs are euthanized for space. Dogs and cats are being abandoned, neglected, and are running the streets at record rates. There are not enough homes, but especially not enough good homes with responsible people who can afford vet care. Nothing should be added to the population until all of these issues are well under control.

➡️ Your dog or cat is not that cute or special ⬅️

Please share to raise awareness because not everyone is aware that we are in a population crisis.

02/12/2025

Such important perspective! Please help spread the word 🙏

BEFORE YOU GET OFFENDED when someone suggests you neuter your cat please read this.

1. When a cat becomes pregnant, it is not through choice. There is no romantic liaison.... it literally is the equivalent of sexual assault.
The male cat's p***s is barbed and causes excruciating pain for the female.

2. Every rescue is dependent on volunteers. Volunteers who lose family time, money, sleep, weekends and evenings caring for and fundraising to ensure unwanted cats get the correct care.

3.Animals have no voice... So when somebody speaks on their behalf, stop getting upset.

4.Uneutered Male cats will wander miles in search of females. They will fight ferociously and cause terrible injury to other males in the process causing sepsis. And dreadful life threatening diseases.

5. Every litter of kittens born in your home and sold adds to the problem by stopping a rescue cat being adopted.

6. Rescues are full to capacity with cats which have been bought on a whim of Facebook and surrendered or abandoned due to boredom or inability to afford vet bills, Neuter, Vaccines, Food, Flea and worm treatment

7. Each rescue has a waiting list. They spend literally thousands of dollars a year on Vet Treatment. Food, Litter. Flea and Worm Treatment, Electricity, Shelter Rent, Fuel... These are just the basics.

8. Behind the scenes volunteers nurse kittens every 2-4 hours, feed ferals everyday, clean litter boxes and field calls from people several times a day. All this while fundraising constantly. Worry about cats who have been surrendered and are traumatised by being torn from its surroundings and carry the guilt of the decisions they have to make.

9. Rescues have volunteers who drive for miles. Trapping stray and dumped cats, picking up unwanted cats and spending hours on the phone trying to find spaces and homes for unwanted pets.

10. Volunteers spend their free time and energy picking up the pieces from people who allow cats to have kittens and refuse to neuter.

Please don’t be offended when someone asks are you getting your cat neutered - rescues see the consequences of these actions every day 365 days a year and are simply giving a voice to the vulnerable creatures so casually given away or sold for a dollar.

Thank you 2nd Chance For Strays