11/21/2025
🐾 A Message From a Female Community Cat on Feral Cat Day
“I’m a community cat. I was born outdoors, and that is the only home I know. I’m not socialized, and living inside just isn’t something I can do. I look like a regular cat, but I live more like a wild animal than the cats who live indoors with their humans.
But today, something great is happening for me.
A kind person trapped me and brought me to Carol House Pet Clinic for TNR: Trap-Neuter-Return. It’s the best way to help a feral cat like me live a healthier, safer life and stop the cycle of homeless animals.
Today, the humans here will make sure I’m healthy and give me vaccines to protect me against diseases like rabies and feline leukemia, a virus that spreads easily among outdoor cats. I’m also being spayed, which protects me from dangerous infections like pyometra, a life-threatening uterine infection many outdoor females don’t survive. It also means no more pregnancies, which is a big deal for a cat living outside. Pregnancy and birth take a huge toll on my body, and most of the kittens I would have outdoors wouldn’t survive. Spaying means my body can finally rest and stay healthy for years to come.
After I recover, I’ll be returned to my colony, the place I know best. But life will be easier now. No more fighting. No more kittens I can’t protect. Just a safer, calmer life.
Thanks to caring trappers, rescue partners, and the clinic team, cats like me get a chance to thrive outdoors… without adding to the cycle of pet overpopulation.
We may not live inside, but we still deserve to be healthy, safe, and cared for.
And today, you helped make that possible.” 🐱💛
