Tenth Life

01/08/2026

Grab your table for the Coalition for Pet Progress' upcoming New Year for the Strays Trivia Night and support local rescue organizations and shelters in the St. Louis region! Tenth Life is proud to be a member of the coalition, and we appreciate all of their efforts in changing the lives of pets in need. Some of our staff will be volunteering, and we hope to see some familiar faces there!

Just 6 days left to purchase tickets for the 2026 New Years for the Strays trivia with only a few tables remaining.

You won’t want to miss this event with St. Louis’s own Courtney Landrum as your emcee for the evening. Grab your friends and grab a table to support an amazing cause!

HTTP://newyearforstray.givesmart.com

01/07/2026

We have to brag on one of our adopters! Max is a young man whose family has adopted three very sweet kitties, Porgy and Bess, and Berloiz. Max’s mom volunteers on our adoption team, completing families with Tenth Life cats. Recently, Max made these fun CAT YAK signs, sold them, and donated the proceeds to Tenth Life. He raised $230!! Thank you so much, Max! We love your creativity and kindness. 🧡🐱

01/05/2026

If you’ve been thinking about grabbing tickets to our upcoming fundraiser at Bellwether Hall but haven’t taken the leap yet, this might be your sign. 👀

Our special guest speaker, Professor Jonathan Losos, is an evolutionary biologist who wrote the narrative for Felines, the stunning photography book by renowned photographer Tim Flach. The book was recently featured on CBS Saturday Morning, and we are beyond excited to hear Professor Losos share the stories behind it.

Add in a beautiful venue, great drinks, and a night that supports cats in need, and this is one fundraiser you won’t want to miss!

TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tenth-life-fundraiser-at-the-bellwether-tickets-1977978267243?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O83thhFAtE

Wildlife photographer Tim Flach has been around the world to get the perfect shot. But his latest book, titled "Feline," may have been one his biggest challe...

01/04/2026

239 cats were adopted from Tenth Life in 2025 🎉 Mystic and Sprinkles were two of them and their story is full of patience, trust, and transformation.

This bonded duo spent over a year in their foster home after first being cared for by a kind neighbor to our lounge and going through TNR. When we met them, we saw that they were learning to trust. As the weather turned cold, we decided to take a chance and see how they might do indoors.

Mystic settled in right away. He was confident, curious, and happy to be around people. Sprinkles, on the other hand, was shy and unsure. With time, consistency, and lots of love, she began to blossom, eventually snuggling up with her foster dad and showing just how sweet she could be.

Right before the holidays, the perfect family came along and Mystic and Sprinkles headed off together to their forever home. 🧡

Congratulations to Mystic, Sprinkles, and every family made complete by a Tenth Life kitty in 2025!

01/02/2026

Tenth Life turns 17 today! Wow! 17 years of giving cats their best lives. Since January 2, 2009, 2,971 cats to be exact, have been rescued, loved deeply, and given better lives. What’s our birthday wish this year, you may be wondering? Well, we do have just one. Carl desperately needs a foster home. This sweet dude deserves more than a kennel, but due to tummy troubles we’ve not been able to integrate him into our adoption lounge. He’s poopy, but he’s really trying, okay? Help make our birthday wish come true and apply to foster Carl or share this post with your friends and family! Cheers to 17 years of saving cats like Carl! 🎉🎉😻

Sign up to foster at www.tenthlifecats.org/foster!

01/01/2026

Happy New Year from the Tenth Life family to yours. Our big resolution this year is the same as always… snuggle even more cats. What about you? What’s your purrfect resolution?

12/31/2025

KAYDEN WAS FOUND! We are so relieved and grateful. Thank you to everyone who shared and helped! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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One of our foster parents was in a car wreck this evening, totaling her car. When she called from the ambulance headed to the hospital, she was just worried about her foster kittens. Her 6 foster kittens were in the car with her, on their way home from the vet. We are incredibly thankful that our foster is okay. We’re sharing this heartbreak because one of the kittens, sweet little girl Kayden is missing.

Our director rushed to get the kittens from the tow truck. Kayden’s carrier was opened and she wasn’t in the car. She searched the side of the highway the best she could in the dark and with the others, but couldn’t locate her. We will go look again first thing tomorrow.

If you’re around highway 64 eastbound between the Kingshighway and Tower Grove / Vandeventer exits, or surrounding neighborhoods, please keep an eye out for Kayden.

We’re trying to remain hopeful. The other kittens are uninjured and it is possible Kayden crawled out of her carrier somehow and out of the car.

She was just microchipped to Tenth Life Cat Rescue today.

Please report any sightings by calling or texting 314-200-5607. Thank you.r

12/30/2025

Our Hope for the Holidays fundraiser wraps up tomorrow, and we want to share the story behind this tradition and the beloved cat who inspired it.

In 2018, an emaciated, fragile cat was found abandoned in an apartment. She had gone days without food, water, or human contact. When our team arrived, she was seizing, terrified, and barely hanging on.

We named her Hope because every cat deserves a chance at a better, brighter future, and this little one desperately needed hope.

Hope survived. She healed. And she was adopted by a loving family who cherished her deeply. While we are heartbroken to share that Hope has since passed due to heart and kidney failure, her legacy lives on.

Her forever parent recently shared this with us:
“I’m so grateful to y’all for rescuing her. She was SO loved and spoiled. Such a shy little sweetheart, and I’m so glad I got to give her a home for as long as I did.”

Every cat deserves hope. At Tenth Life, that is what we work to give every single day, and we cannot do it without you.

Our Hope for the Holidays fundraiser helps ensure we can continue saving lives and offering safety, love, and eventually a home of their own. Just like Hope inspired this fundraiser, your generosity inspires us, especially on the hardest days.

✨ There is still time to make a life-saving gift before the fundraiser ends tomorrow. Please consider donating today and helping us continue giving cats HOPE. ✨

https://secure.givelively.org/donate/tenth-life-cat-rescue/tenth-life-hope-for-the-holidays-2025

12/29/2025

Gianni was recently adopted, but while he was here, he made the most of his time playing with fresh catnip toys. We think he may have even snuck one into his little kitty suitcase when he headed home.

Gianni also wanted to help us send a huge thank you to everyone who has donated supplies this year. Every time we put out a call, whether we were running low on litter or the cats were eating us out of house and home, so many kind people showed up for them and we are most grateful.

Thank you for giving cats like Gianni the lives they deserve in 2025. 🐾