Holly's Merry Moggies cat shelter Nottingham

10/07/2025

Let's play cat lookalikes! I've finally realised what grumpy kitten Mango reminds me of: the somewhat terrifying harpy eagle.

Your turn - who (or what!) does your cat look like?

09/07/2025

The incredibly skinny stray we took in on Sunday is a girl, and she reminds us of the beautiful Tommy that we were lucky to look after for the winter of his life. So she is now called Thomasina in his honour 🥰

Thomasina's blood results showed a very overactive thyroid (like Tommy's!) which we'll start treating immediately. They did also show some concerning liver markers, but we'll start treatment for now and see how we go. Fingers crossed we can help this beautiful girl feel much better and put some weight on those bones.

08/07/2025

Superb fan art of Sprout's ridiculous sleeping position by the wonderful

07/07/2025

Some of the cats due to arrive at the weekend were delayed, so we had space for this very skinny stray that we've just taken in.

Bit stressed and panting at the moment but we've already started flea and worming, and there's unlimited food on tap, so they're about to feel a lot better 😊❤️

07/07/2025

Have you ever been looked at the way Smol Paul looks at cream?

04/07/2025

Guess what?! We're down to the final 4 in the Animal category of the BBC Nottingham Awards! I can't believe it!!!

At about 2 hours and 49 minutes into Dino's show below, you'll hear me finding out on the phone, in the car, and flapping about what on earth to say / wear 😅

Thank you so much to the two people who nominated us, this has really made our year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002dx47

02/07/2025

I've tried to write this update three times and every time I just basically end up screaming at the screen 😅

Suffice to say, we are REALLY swamped with cats at the moment. It's bad out there. Our priority is disabled cats and we've never had to put them on the waiting list before, but this month we have SIX disabled cats and kittens waiting to come in.

I could wang on and on about the factors causing the insane workload on shelters this year (cost of living increase, layoffs, higher vet costs because of chains buying up independents, etc) but the upshot is -- we need all the help we can get!

As we speak, I'm arranging transport for a beautiful black stray who was wandering the streets with no eyesight, and a visually-impaired girl who was left behind when all her kittens were adopted. We are often the ONLY shelter who will say yes to cats like these -- disabled cats are more expensive, they're more work, and they're harder to find homes for.

This is why we get cats from all over the country, not just Nottingham.

So, how can you help?

😻 If you know anyone who might be interested in adopting a cat, especially one with a disability, please send them our way (we can arrange transport all over the country).

😻 If you're in or near Nottingham and would be willing to foster for us, please send us a message -- it doesn't matter if you have other pets, you only need one safe room to foster in.

😻 If you can chip in a few coins for our somewhat alarming vet bills, we can keep helping the cats with nowhere else to go:

https://ko-fi.com/hollysmerrymoggies

Thank you! I appreciate every single one of you 😘 aaand now back to screaming into a pillow. Ha ha.

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30/06/2025

Please share far and wide!

We are urgently looking for a fosterer, foster-to-adopter or even a forever home for the beautiful Brownie. She's a sweet, chilled-out senior-ish cat, 13 years old, who's had a bit of a rubbish time -- and the medication she needs unfortunately causes problems with my own health, so having her here is quite tricky.

Brownie's previous home couldn't keep her because she was frightened by their loud dogs and children and kept running away and not coming home. She's been in foster for the best part of the last year, happy and settled, but sadly despite loving her to bits, the fosterers have some personal stuff going on and can't foster anymore.

Brownie has been much trickier to find a home for than most of our cats because she's on a twice-daily medication for her overactive thyroid, and a once-a-month jab for arthritis. We can pay for these, and you'd be very welcome to go to your most convenient vets for the jab -- it's just giving her the liquid into her mouth or a bowl of treat milk AM and PM.

We really desperately need a place for her because I (Holly) have the opposite thyroid problem, and if any of the liquid gets on me (as it often does because like any cat, she's not keen on taking her medicine!), it messes up my thyroid further -- often for months.

We sadly no longer accept hyperthyroid cats for this reason but Brownie came in before we made that decision and we're committed to helping her find the home we promised. If you can help or know anyone who can, please message us -- we can arrange transport to pretty much anywhere in the country and she is a truly lovely cat. She'd make an ideal companion for someone home a lot, who doesn't have other pets or young/loud children. She can be indoor or outdoor and has no health problems other than the ones mentioned.

Thank you 🥰

29/06/2025

After 5 years as a specialist shelter for disabled and different cats, we finally got our first tripod today. Welcome Herbie, you are a treasure 🌟

24/06/2025

You can literally see the moment Smol Paul turns off gravity

24/06/2025

The first cat we ever rehomed was called Max Cuddles, and not long after moving into his new forever home, he made friends with an enormous white stray boy in the neighbourhood.

Now called Mouse, he moved in too. Their owners Ben and Jenny recently got a wildlife camera to watch the badgers and foxes, and... well, they've mostly been getting pictures of Mouse pulling stupid faces 😅🤣

22/06/2025

Here are some of the amazing cats and kittens we're seeking homes for at the moment.

We rehome across the UK, including to indoor-only homes and flats, and will often consider people other shelters won't. Well, our cats are a bit different, why not their keepers too?

If you know someone (or are someone!) who might like to offer one of these extra-special sweeties a foster or forever home (and you can try them out as foster-to-adopt until you're sure either way), please do get in touch, because we are absolutely SWAMPED. We have some very needy kitties on the waiting list who are facing euthanasia without us, and I'd like to make space for them as soon as we can.

Please do share the post or tag your friends, a lonely kitty's new best friend might be waiting on your timeline 🥰