Herdin Cats

04/07/2025

PSA from Portsmouth Humane Society !

This little kitten, Surfer Ken, needs the Portsmouth Humane community to rally and hold him tight in your hearts tonight.

He was given an over-the-counter flea medication that caused significant neurological issues almost immediately. He started having seizure activity, and his caring family rushed him into the shelter.

We worked quickly to try to figure out the next best steps for him with the hope of saving his life. We spent the last six hours working with Caring Hands Animal Hospital: Suffolk and the ASPCA Poison Control hotline to help this little guy.

We don’t know if his little body will be strong enough to recover, but we’re all rooting for him.

We’re sharing his story because it’s just so important for pet owners to purchase medications from their Veterinarian. It doesn’t make sense that something that is so toxic would be easily available for pet owners to purchase. We get it - it’s confusing. No one should have to worry that something they’re buying to keep their pet healthy would cause them so much harm. Unfortunately, it’s reality, and we hope you’ll share Surfer Ken’s story. We don’t want any family to suffer the horror and uncertainty that Surfer Ken’s family is experiencing.

Let’s all hope Surfer Ken will be able to return to his family soon.

25/06/2025

17/06/2025

The life of a community cat isn’t forgiving—not in the slightest.

Exposed to traffic, harsh temperatures, and daily hazards, they live in a constant state of survival. Their only saving grace is when a dedicated caretaker checks on them every night, hoping they show up to eat.

We fixed this sweet girl at the beginning of ’24. But then life happened—the person watching over her moved away, like many others in that area.

With obvious signs of past injuries and some recent, more severe wounds, the decision was made with her quality of life in mind. Thank you to the staff who stayed with her in her final moments.

13/06/2025

For Pet’s Sake Rescue did alot for us when we were just an idea.

They are doin the ring thing and showing the heart break and the not so pretty of rescue!

07/06/2025

The trailer park colony now has 53 fixed cats because we tried to educate as much as we could.

Fixing stops the breeding!

"But I don't want him to loose his man hood" "but he won't beable to defend himself"

The testosterone leaves the body there is no need to fight, and attacking is a rare occurrence!

Every kitten who dies because you "wanted her to have atleast 1 litter" is on your conscious!

🛑 𝗟𝗘𝗧’𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗭𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗘𝗚𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 🛑

𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙛𝙞𝙭𝙞𝙣𝙜 — 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙄𝙎𝙉’𝙏 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨‼️

It shouldn’t be normal to drive into a mobile home park or apartment complex and see cats scatter like roaches — sick, starving, scared —
while the people who live there just go about their day like nothing’s wrong.

It shouldn’t be normal to sit in your home while dozens of cats live under it — breeding litter after litter, growing sicker and more feral with every generation.

🛑𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡.

🛑𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧.

🛑𝐈𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞.

This is not okay. This is not normal. And we need to stop pretending it is.

𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.
It is the 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 solution to stop the breeding and the suffering.

Yes, I know — when you call animal control or the humane society,
you often hear, “Sorry, we can’t help.”
But that doesn’t mean help doesn’t exist.
It just means you might have to do some work to find it.

🚩What isn’t ok is believing that you “care” for the strays in your neighborhood but allow them to look like this.

🚩What isn’t okay is letting strangers sit in front of your house until 1 a.m. trapping cats — the same cats you have been watching breed for years — because you didn’t want to be inconvenienced.

We have to stop normalizing suffering. We have to start caring enough to act.

✨ Want to be part of the solution?
Learn how you can help — whether it’s trapping, fostering, or donating —
Visit www.feralatheart.org

We’ve got TNR resources, support, and real ways to make a difference.

𝙇𝙚𝙩’𝙨 𝙛𝙞𝙭 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙢, 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙩.

30/05/2025

No truer words have been spoken, when you as a rescue(r) have done all you can to help without any return in favor, assistance, or motivation-the burn out will eventually catch up and you the "caretaker" are left having to figure it out on your own!

Our Friends at Fixin the Coast - Nonprofit has posted this harsh reality if things don't change by the end of the year. Honestly, this is not a singular problem!

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1. TNR would no longer be our priority - there are too many colonies with people that the general population would rather not deal with.

- Too many colonies where feeders ONLY CARE ABOUT GIVING FOOD and nothing more!

- Too many colonies of outside pets that owners REFUSE to fix, yet they can pick them up and place in a carrier - I will never understand this mentality!

Too many non cat/dog rescues BITCH about what we do and are beyond comprehension terribly disrespectful.

This move would place the burden of fixin feral and stray cats on the feeders shoulders, where it should be anyway.

From everything I have seen in 9 years of doing TNR, we have made very little progress in fact I believe it is much worse now, than it was then - for every one cat we TNR, 5 more litters are abandoned - it’s a battle that can not be won at the rate we are going.

WHAT WOULD WE DO IF NOT TNR?

2. Our main focus would change to more of a “Friends of Animal Control” to help them with their efforts and provide funding for educational opportunities.

3. We would still offer one pet program per year, which would then include pet dogs, too!

4. Any TNR done would be to support businesses that are respectful of what we do. Backyard colonies (90%+ of our list falls into this category) would be left to feral/stray cat feeder since they feed them. They own them according to the local shelter.

All things are pointing that we must change for our sanity because the public isn’t.

29/05/2025

We echo what Paxton Feline Rescue says!

STOP GIVING KITTENS AWAY.

If they aren't fixed, you're just starting the next kitten season. Handing them out to whoever wants them does these babies no favors and it certainly doesn't help our overpopulation crisis.

STOP HANDING OUT KITTENS LIKE PARTY FAVORS. If you take them in, YOU need to step up and get them fixed. There are so many resources out there to help, just ask any rescue or shelter. HELP US HELP THEM.

28/05/2025

Our friends at FAN putting in work at a place only a select few get to operate!!

23/05/2025

One of our dear friends and partners in rescue Save Them - Spay Them - Love Them had a devastating fire in the Rescues storage damaging their inventory.

If you can please show them some love and go to their event June 21!

In the mean time check out their page and support where you can! All the support goes back to the community!

16/05/2025

We have documented colonies that we were able to 100% sterilize that have not repopulated. Only stragglers who were lost entered the colony and were also fixed if they stuck around.

Can a well-managed TNR program eliminate a feral cat population from a remote location?

A new community case study published by Hannah Tilley, Fiona Woodhouse, Mei Chi Wong, Ka Yee Wong, and Amanda Whitfort in the ASSOCIATION OF SHELTER VETERINARIANS INC's Journal of Shelter Medicine and Community Animal Health (JSCMAH) explores this question through a longitudinal investigation of Hong Kong’s Cat Colony Care Program (CCCP).

The program—led by the SPCA in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region—employs a comprehensive trap-neuter-return (TNR) model that includes health and behavioral assessments, public adoption when feasible, and long-term monitoring. On one remote island, where initial cat numbers exceeded 100, CCCP interventions led to a steady population decline until only a single cat remained.

This article offers compelling evidence that targeted, sustained TNR efforts, when coupled with community engagement and strategic rehoming, can be effective in reducing free-roaming cat numbers.

Read more at https://jsmcah.org/index.php/jasv/article/view/125.

06/03/2025