Tally Cat Cafe

11/15/2024

Late last month, our rescue partner took in a scared kitten and saved her from a life on the streets where she likely would have had dozens of kittens, lived in fear of people, and would have passed away at a young age from a car, parasites, or illness. Instead, she was one of the lucky ones! She was saved and learned that inside is safe, people are nice, pets are good, and cuddles are great. Her community saved her and didn’t let her slip through the cracks.

Her initial outrage really resonated with us and captured an emotion many of us have felt or are feeling, so we decided it was a perfect opportunity to create this "Hiss Hiss" design.

After polling our followers, we've determined that the proceeds from sales of this sticker will be split between Planned Parenthood & The Trevor Project

Stickers are available in store and on our website at www.tallycatcafe.com/gift-shop

10/29/2024

Happy National Cat Day! 🎃🐈‍⬛

To celebrate, comment with a picture of your cat(s)! Bonus points if they’re alumni 😻

& Don’t forget to vote in the pumpkin carving contest!

10/29/2024

It’s time to pick the winner of our pumpkin carving decorator contest!

We hosted several nights of pumpkin carving with cats, and these were the results! React to your favorites and the photo with the most reactions will be our winner 🧡🎃

Winner will receive two cat passes along with two spooky cat skull pins and matching stickers!

Voting closes and winners announced November 1st at noon!

10/15/2024

Have you booked your seat for pumpkin carving with cats?

Book now on our website at www.tallycatcafe.com/reservations

We pre-hollow the pumpkins and preserve them with vinegar so you get to focus on carving your vision, or as much as you can while the cats do their best to distract you, and leave with the purrfect Halloween decoration.

10/13/2024

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Hello to our new followers!

We know we have a lot of animal lovers who just found us, so we wanted to take this opportunity to share some information!

Formed in 1960, the Leon County Humane Society is Tallahassee’s largest life-saving, non-profit animal welfare organization.

With a mission to “Rescue, Rehabilitate, & Educate; Fostering a Kinder Community for People and Their Pets”, LCHS is dedicated to matching families with homeless pets, advocating for animals in need, and educating the community about responsible pet ownership. Approximately 1,000 animals find their way to LCHS every year through various means including transfer from crowded animal shelters, surrender by owners who can no longer care for their pet, and rescue from cruel and neglectful situations. Once healthy and available for adoption, we do our best to match adoptable pets with informed adopters.

LCHS is a life-saving organization, not an open intake shelter. Therefore, animal intake is limited to provide humane care and socialization for the animals in our program. LCHS works closely with numerous animal shelters as a receiving animal transfer agency. While we do receive some animals as owner surrenders, priority is placed on animals at risk of euthanasia. LCHS also works to find loving adoptive placement for many senior animals and animals with special needs. While LCHS does house adoptable cats and kittens on site, all underage kittens as well as some senior cats reside in foster homes. 10-16 cats are also housed at our adoption partner, Tally Cat Cafe.

The LCHS Dog Program is completely foster home based. All dogs live in homes with foster parents who are able to learn about the dogs and match them with the best possible home. Fosters are provided with food, supplies, and vet care through LCHS and our Veterinary partners.

LCHS foster parents and volunteers make a huge impact on the lives of animals within the organization. While LCHS is not directly affiliated with any national animal welfare organization, the organization does act as an Emergency Response and Placement Partner with both The Humane Society of the United States - Florida and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This allows LCHS to provide a safe foster environment for some additional animals who’ve fallen victim to cruelty.

At LCHS, we recognize the importance of educating and equipping the community to be the best pet owners possible. Through humane education lessons in local classrooms, offering spay and neuter vouchers and education, and offering assistance through the LCHS Pet Food Pantry, we seek to encourage a positive relationship between pet owners and the animals in their lives.

LCHS relies on the generosity of others to fulfill our mission to “Rescue, Rehabilitate & Educate, Fostering a Kinder Community for People and Their Pets”. We rely entirely on donations from our supporters. If you have questions about the Leon County Humane Society, animals in our care, or programs offered, feel free contact us!

You can see animals available for adoption any time on our website!

Cats: https://www.leoncountyhumane.org/adopt/adoptable-cats/

Dogs: https://www.leoncountyhumane.org/adopt/adoptable-dogs/

If you would like to support us in our mission to Rescue, Rehabilitate, and Educate, you can donate at www.leoncountyhumane.org/donate

Or, you can send us Highest Priority Items through our Amazon Wishlist here: https://a.co/d7b61Eh

We're also on Chewy! That wish list is here: https://prf.hn/click/camref:1100letsF/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chewy.com%2Fg%2Fleon-county-humane-society_b68611572

Thank you for your support!

10/09/2024

Magnus and Boba.

We love them so much, but also they need a home like, yesterday.

This bonded pair of wobbly brothers overcame an illness as kittens that left them a little off balance, but otherwise healthy, and hasn’t slowed them down at all.

If anything, the wobbliness might have been a necessity bestowed by the universe so that they wouldn’t become too powerful.

They have two modes:

Mode One: Lil’ Baby Sweetie Pie Snuggle Butts
Mode Two: Inspectors and Harbingers of Chaos

Best of both worlds.

There’s a question on the adoption application where we ask what your home is like, and we ask if it’s like a library, a carnival, or somewhere in-between. We ask because some cats benefit from a quieter space and won’t do well in a carnival setting. Boba and Magnus would not only do well in a carnival of a home, but we’d estimate that within a couple weeks they’d be the ringmasters.

To help them find their forever homes fast, we’re breaking one of our rules.

We NEVER do this, since adoption fees support our rescue partner’s efforts to save more cats, and the adoption fees never cover all the costs incurred to get them adoptable and find them homes, but after 500 days in the care of LCHS, we’re ready to say goodbye.

So, their fees are waived. You heard me: WAIVED.

Yeah, two free cats. That’s right, if you love them, if you’re in their hefty fan club, you’re running out of excuses not to take them home.

You still have to submit an application and be a good home for them, but at this point we’d pay you to take them.

In fact, we’ll even throw in some tally cat merch with their faces on it: after all, they’ll be YOURS.

Submit an application today at www.leoncountyhumane.org/adopt/adoption-application and once we review it, we can schedule a time for you to come by at no cost to meet them, if you somehow haven’t met them yet.

09/27/2024

Everyone is safe and all’s well! No power but 🤷‍♀️

Hope everyone’s made it through ok! Once we have power we will update with our plan to reopen.

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09/20/2024

Boba and Magnus, the two headed tabby! Have you met them?

09/18/2024

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09/13/2024

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09/02/2024

We are indeed OPEN today!

We highly recommend making a reservation through our website if you’re looking to go in the cat room to ensure your spot. 🧛‍♀️

08/28/2024

You might notice we’re at max cat-pacity for a bit, and we aren’t complaining! Thank you to our rescue partner for going above and beyond for the cats in your care ❤️🫡

**Office Updates**

It's been an incredibly rough summer.

You may have noticed that our office has been closed to unplanned and unexpected visitors, that our phones are off and we're responding to voicemails and emails as we're able.

If you stopped by to drop off much appreciated supplies, you may have noticed the many signs posted to our door begging visitors to stop and read a warning about a deadly virus before entering. We were hit hard this summer with Panleukopenia, and it resurfaced several times - often right as we started to look forward to being out of the quarantine.

Just as we were starting to win the battle with that intense and fatal virus, Ringworm, a non-fatal but highly contagious fungal infection raced through our office, lengthening our quarantine yet again. We had hoped to reopen much sooner, and have battled not only Panleukopenia and ringworm, but a feeling of guilt for not being able to be as available to our community as we would prefer.

We wanted to reopen on several occasions, but we kept getting knocked back down just as we started to see the other side, and we knew keeping cats safe was most important. We committed to providing them the care they needed, and unfortunately, this was what they needed.

While we've been closed, we've been deep cleaning our isolation spaces daily, providing supportive care to cats who need it, doing vet runs, treating those who had ringworm spots and dipping those who were potentially exposed to prevent further spread.

We've had to mostly do this on our own, as a small staff of 6, because we didn't want to endanger any of our volunteers' pets during this time. Our cleaning protocols required strict adherence to a lengthy cleaning method, and limiting exposure meant limiting the number of people in the building, meaning that all of our staff's focus has had to be redirected to this effort. We miss our volunteers and are more grateful than ever for their daily help and support.

We are tired, but proud of our survivors, and looking forward to reopening our office fully on September 10th.

We truly appreciate your patience and support during the last couple of months, and we want you to know that your patience and support helped us save lives that would have never made it otherwise. Panleukopenia is usually a death sentence in shelters and rescue, and on a smaller scale, ringworm can be too - just because of how difficult it is to contain and treat.

Big thank you also goes out to our cat and kitten fosters, who kept their fosters for longer than we would normally ask since our office was not an option for them to return to. Our cat/kitten fosters' patience and commitment to their care and safety has made all the difference, and we truly could not have made it through without their willingness to help us contain this outbreak.

If you've been waiting to visit our kitties and adopt, please consider stopping by our BOGO Kitten Adoption Event this weekend! We miss you and would love to see you.

We have more events upcoming, and we're looking forward to things returning to normal!

08/17/2024

Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day! 🐈‍⬛

Looking for your very own tiny house panther? We have a fine selection 🖤

08/12/2024

Happy First Day of School! 🍎

With a new school year comes an updated rule for our cat cafe.

We know it will be a disappointment for some, but this summer break highlighted the necessity for changing up our age requirements.

Starting Monday, September 23rd, we will have a 5 and up age requirement in the cat room. We hope this grace period gives time to adjust to this change.

Children under the age of 13 will still need an adult to accompany them into the room, and children under 13 will still not be able to pick up cats without assistance.

We love that children enjoy the cafe, but ultimately our goal for the cafe is to provide a relaxing and safe space for both our guests and the cats in our care. We were having to step in frequently to maintain our policies or hearing from guests that children were causing a stressful environment for their visit, even with several warnings.

We know there are children under 5 who are wonderfully respectful of animals and have parents who take our rules and their supervision seriously. Unfortunately, too many aren't, so we've been pushed to make and enforce this rule with no exceptions.

We appreciate your understanding, and hope you know we make all our decisions with the cats' wellbeing coming first and foremost.

08/07/2024

Looking to adopt? We gotchu.

Visit www.tallycatcafe.com/our-cats to see an up to date list of all adoptable cats at the cafe, as well as the link to our adoption application.

Did you know that if you submit an app ahead of time we can contact you to set up a reservation at the cafe at no cost so you can meet with the cats and see who's the right fit for you and your household? Submit an app today at www.leoncountyhumane.org/adopt/adoption-application

Your application can be for any cat - even if you put Sugar or Fawkes (pictured) you can still come fall in love with someone else! Your application is good for any cat in LCHS' program for six months, unless your information changes.

08/04/2024

We’ve been monitoring the incoming storm and have decided we’ll be closed tomorrow, Monday, August 5th.

We’ll keep you updated for Tuesday!

The kitties will be safe and sound in the meantime, and we hope you are too! 💖