Ivy and Friends

Ivy and Friends We are a small group located in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, focused on maintaining cat colonies in commercial areas. We are not currently a 501(c)(3).

We all started as volunteers with different rescues and shelters with backgrounds in colony set up and maintenance, TNR (Trap/Neuter/Release), socialization and special needs foster care. We are not a typical “rescue” as we do not take in and adopt out cats. Rather, if there are friendly cats, we rely on and have received support from local rescues and shelters who are set up to find homes for hom

eless cats. Our goal is to educate people how to set up housing and feeding in a safe, clean, controlled way in commercial locations. We also provide information on how to conduct TNR and utilize the resources available to insure that these cats are not adding to the cat population. In many of these settings, the cats are seen as the problem when the fact is they are very likely there because the location has a rodent problem. In exchange for housing and food, these cats will be healthy and will provide a service as rodent patrol while they remain out of sight for their sake and the sake of the business.

Just some friends sharing a meal together. We are going to do a little test. If you can see this post please say somethi...
09/07/2025

Just some friends sharing a meal together. We are going to do a little test. If you can see this post please say something in the comments. It can be as simple as hi or yes.

Happy Saturday evening friends. This handsome photogenic boy is Jasper. He resides in our third colony. He’s long haired...
09/07/2025

Happy Saturday evening friends. This handsome photogenic boy is Jasper. He resides in our third colony. He’s long haired and in the winter he gets really fluffy. This is his Summer coat. He’s got gorgeous green eyes that can give us many different looks. Jasper doesn’t care much for us humans but that’s ok we love him just the same

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09/04/2025

This talkative beauty is Drama. Can you guess how she got her name. Drop your best answer in the comments section.

This photo was taken in the Spring of 2020 after we discovered what we call our second colony. The conditions the adult...
09/02/2025

This photo was taken in the Spring of 2020 after we discovered what we call our second colony. The conditions the adults and kittens were living in were just horrible. There were cats and kittens everywhere and all unaltered. It was also a very dangerous situation because this was in a busy what we call a junk yard type of business. The kittens were running everywhere and cars were flying in and out. The adults seemed to be able to maneuver all the cars but the kittens were clueless. The business owner had be feeding them but not nearing enough for the amount of cats on the property.
The next evening we did a big trapping. We trapped 20 kittens in one night. We are so thankful for the people who fostered them. It definitely took a village for that. All of them were spayed and neutered and went on to forever homes. We also continued trapping the adults so we could stop the breeding. The whole colonies has been TNR’d.
This photo always make me sad thinking that if we hadn’t of showed up this is the life the would have lived.
Please spay and neuter there just aren’t enough homes for all the kittens being born or the adults for thst matter. Shelters and rescues are full. Become part of the solution not the problem.

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This gorgeous ginger tabby is Rocky who resides in our third colony. He and his best friend Apollo like to be adventurou...
09/01/2025

This gorgeous ginger tabby is Rocky who resides in our third colony. He and his best friend Apollo like to be adventurous around the property but when they hear our vehicles you can bet they are right at the feeding stations within seconds. Rocky likes to be around us but only at a distance. He’s still learning to build trust.

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Our featured handsome boy of the day is Spot. He resides in our second colony. His best friends are Coco and Swirls. The...
08/31/2025

Our featured handsome boy of the day is Spot. He resides in our second colony. His best friends are Coco and Swirls. They are like the three amigos always together. We have many photos from our cameras showing them eating together with their tails intertwined. Spot isn’t much on human interaction however he will come out to eat while we are there feeding. He’s more comfortable watching from a distance.

This is one of our beautiful calico girls who resides in our third colony. We don’t see her much as she is very fearful ...
08/28/2025

This is one of our beautiful calico girls who resides in our third colony. We don’t see her much as she is very fearful of humans. That doesn’t make her less worthy of the love and care she deserves. Her circumstances aren’t her fault. She didn’t have a choice to live this life. The human who didn’t spay and neuter created her outcome. We have to advocate for them and be their voice. Until spaying and neutering is made mandatory we are always going to have an overpopulation. 

Today is however we are going to do things a little differently today. We have a challenge for all of our followers. I...
08/27/2025

Today is however we are going to do things a little differently today. We have a challenge for all of our followers. Instead of sending food for us this week we would like for you to either spay or neuter 1 cat in your neighborhood or sponsor 1 cat to be spayed or neutered with any rescue of your choice. Do you know what a difference that would make in our community ? The breeding has to stop. Rescues, shelters are all busting at the seams. There aren’t enough foster homes or adoptable homes for all the animals. That will never change unless they can’t reproduce.
We hope you accept the challenge and make a difference in an animal’s life. Let us know if you do the challenge.

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This is our beautiful girl Tilly who resides in our third colony. She has yellowish eyes and a diluted coat of black, or...
08/26/2025

This is our beautiful girl Tilly who resides in our third colony. She has yellowish eyes and a diluted coat of black, orange and cream. This is her summer time coat. In the winter she gets really fluffy. She doesn’t have one friend in particular as she seems to pal around with all the cats. She’s still on the shy side. She watch’s every move we make while feeding. She does eat in our presence.

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Spock and Dusty showing that community cats do love each other. They get such a bad rap when in reality if you get to kn...
08/25/2025

Spock and Dusty showing that community cats do love each other. They get such a bad rap when in reality if you get to know them they are no different than our inside cats. The only difference is they don’t have the luxury of living inside because they have never had the socialization skills to do so. We see beautiful relationships with the cats all the time. They are a true family. Some sleep, eat, play and pal around together. We’ve even seen on our cams them grooming each other. Just because they live outside doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to live the best life they can.

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