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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.

12/01/2025

Giving Tuesday is an annual global movement that happens on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, designed to encourage and celebrate acts of generosity after the consumer-focused days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It promotes giving back to communities through various actions, such as donating money to charities, volunteering time, or using your voice to support a cause. The movement aims to inspire people to do good in their communities in any way they can.

We are just a small group who cares for 3 colonies that we dearly love. We started back at the end of November of 2019. If you are lead to participate in Giving Tuesday we would be thrilled if you considered us in the form of food. We feed about 150 cats and it takes a lot of food to fill all those bellies. We’ve provided our Walmart and Amazon links below.

Walmart Link⬇️

https://www.walmart.com/registry/ER/6c923501-dd46-4e35-a7df-0c26cbe58ba9

Amazon Link⬇️

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3FBO9LD3Z31PU/?ref_=lol_ov_le&fbclid=IwAR0tn0gtc0IBKzMTAkjmzZ-oJlDFFkFUbgg_OL3Ajr9dbp5lpK-L68EMUsw

11/30/2025

Hi it’s me Toby and a little birdie told me that Ms.Debbie has a birthday coming up on Wednesday December 3rd and her only wish is for all of my colony friends to have full bellies. So we thought that maybe all her human friends could help make her birthday wish come true. Shhhh I had to sneak and get the wishlist without her knowing. After all we want it to be a surprise. Help us celebrate her special day.

Walmart Link ⬇️

https://www.walmart.com/registry/ER/6c923501-dd46-4e35-a7df-0c26cbe58ba9

Amazon Link -⬇️

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3FBO9LD3Z31PU/?ref_=lol_ov_le&fbclid=IwAR0tn0gtc0IBKzMTAkjmzZ-oJlDFFkFUbgg_OL3Ajr9dbp5lpK-L68EMUsw

11/29/2025

Misty just being her beautiful self. She has the sweetest little face.

11/28/2025

Benny and Spock enjoying their Thanksgiving meal. All the colonies got extra wet food.

11/27/2025

Today and everyday we give thanks for the incredible loving community we have. Thank you for being part of our journey into the lives of community cats.

We are thankful for our amazing team who give the gift of time in support of our mission to help cats less fortunate. Thank you for your love and dedication in making a difference in the lives of so many.

Ivy and Friends wishes you and yours a loving peaceful Thanksgiving.

11/26/2025

🚨Update on Smokey

We are so filled with gratitude to those who contributed for the vet care for Smokey. Your generosity really warms our hearts. We can’t thank you enough. We would also like to send a big thank you to A Cat and Dog's Friend Rescue Inc. for their generous assistance in helping with Smokey’s care. It’s wonderful when we can all work together for the greater well being of the animals.

Smokey was seen by the vet yesterday morning. He had a long day. It was confirmed that he does have pillow foot on all 4 paws which will require long term care. They ran labs on him he’s also anemic and has low albumin. Other labs looked pretty good. His combo test was negative. He received capstar and a topical for fleas. He also received a convenia and depo shot for the pillow foot and inflammation.
He was neutered given a rabies shot and FVRCP.

Smokey is being well cared for by one of our team members where he will stay until after Christmas then will go to another team member where he will live out the rest of his life.
When he got back to his crate and his box with his blanket picture below he looked so relieved to be there. Please keep him in your thoughts.

Again we want to thank you for being such a caring community.

Any funds left over will go to Smokey’s long term care or another cat in need of medical care.

11/25/2025

Hello humannnns are you in there ????
Photos from our cams.

11/24/2025

Creamsicle just being nosy.

11/23/2025

Meet Smokey. He resides in our third colony. He started showing up awhile back. Then one day we noticed he was limping. No visible signs of injury then we started seeing blood on the wooden feeding stations. Caretakers noticed his foot was swollen and really red and he just didn’t look well. On Thursday night of of the caretakers went up at 10:30 at night to try to get him and had a run in with the cops they thought she was there stealing Cadillac converters. On Friday we went to try to trap him but he never went all the way into the trap. This morning one of us went out again and he went right. Got him in about 5 minutes. We suspect that he may have pillow foot but wont know until seen by a vet
Tonight he is is warm, has a full belly and has a nice comfy blanket to sleep on. Smokey is a semi friendly cat. He will let you pet his head and he meows at us when we come to feed. We will know more about his personality in the coming days.

We urgently need your help. We don’t have any money left in our emergency medical fund. We don’t know the extent of what his medical bills will be. So we come to you this evening asking for help for medical expenses. Anything helps is appreciated it all adds up. If you’ve followed our page for awhile you know we don’t usually ask for monetary gifts. Please remember we are not a 501(c)3 so you won’t be able to write this off on your taxes. Please help us get Smokey the medical attention he needs.
Below we’ve add a Venmo and a PayPal.

Venmo - -Casuccio
PayPal- [email protected]
Please use friends and family only for the PayPal.
Thank you in advance for your kindness.

11/22/2025

These cats crack us up sometimes. It can be difficult to get photos of them and this one turned out so funny. Toby in the back photo bombing.

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