Feral-To-Family Cat Sanctuary

29/01/2024

Rescued feral cat Sloopy prescribed special diet for struvite crystals.

12/01/2024

Cat sanctuary internet issues.

24/12/2023

It's a Furry Feral Christmas Eve! Feed (and ultimately and fix) any feline ferals that frequent your front (and back) yards!

All the kitties in this video I adopted from feral litters. I know I pinched the choir grouping from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody video (and the Queen II album ...

24/12/2023

It's a Furry Feral Christmas Eve! Feed (and ultimately and fix) any feline ferals that frequent your front (and back) yards!

All the kitties in this video I adopted from feral litters. I know I pinched the choir grouping from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody video (and the Queen II album ...

17/10/2023

Rescued feral cat Emerson chills to his own song (original piano piece).

05/10/2023

“You Only Eat Mice” (rescued feral cat Emerson encounters the James Bond chord)

27/09/2023

Rescued feral cat Emerson loves “Islands” by King Crimson 😻🎹🎶

26/09/2023

25/09/2023

UPDATE

It's been more than two years since my last update, so I thought another was long overdue!

Firstly, thank you to all who have liked and who follow this page. The situation is pretty much the same as the last update, except that I now have more cats in the sanctuary and six Litter-Robots in the kitty bathroom.

I have continued to keep and take care of my indoor cats rather than find adopters, so I have renamed the page accordingly. Food, litter, and other costs continue to be a challenge, but I continue as best I can. I hope to be working again in a musical duo soon, which might bring in a little extra income.

My sanctuary cats occasionally appear in my home-made music videos, too, which helps them get more views and maybe encourages others to support their local animal welfare and feral cat TNR efforts. Here's a recent one posted on YouTube:

The song was written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss, and recorded by Elvis Presley for his album Blue Hawaii (1961). In 1962, the s...

27/06/2021

UPDATE

When I created this page, I was becoming overwhelmed with the situation at home and in my yard. I had brought indoors several cats from feral litters, got them fixed, vaccinated, and chipped. I would also (and continue to) provide food, water, and shelter to the outdoor ferals that frequent my yard, and have had some help with TNRing some of them, though more needs to be done.

I tried to use this page and other online efforts to find homes for some of the indoor cats, but found most of the situations in the responses unsuitable. Many wanted a kitten as an apartment moving-in gift for a son or daughter, often asking me to waive the adoption fee due to financial difficulties, which raised a concern as to how well the cat would be fed and looked after. Others wanted one as a barn cat, which would be hard on a cat that had become used to living indoors with regular feedings and other cats. Some even stated openly they would get a new cat declawed and let it outside, and already owned terrier dogs.

So even though I'd brought more cats indoors by then, I decided to suspend the adoption efforts and organize things at home to accommodate the indoor cats. They have access to their own "bathroom" with four Litter-Robots, and I have set up regular autoship orders for food and litter from Chewy.

I used to perform the occasional restaurant gig as a singer-guitarist to help finance the food, litter, and clinic visits for both indoor and outdoor cats, but the lockdown curtailed that. On the encouragement of friends, I have been learning how to live stream "gigs" at home that anyone can watch on YouTube. Viewers also have the option to tip the musician or donate directly for the kitties' benefit via Chewy eGift card if they wish.

My YouTube channel:

https//www.YouTube.com/barleyc

I live in Mesa, Arizona, USA, originally from Birmingham, UK.I'm a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. I also play bass, ukulele, and keyboards. I enjoy colla...