The Cat.ty Shack

22/09/2024

🚚📦 Saturday Amazon delivery! 📦🚚

I want to thank Ellen, Amy, Sharon, Michelle, and Heather for the donations this week!
IF I didn’t list your name, Amazon did not send a receipt in the box. But, thank you!!!

Thank you to everyone who follows our page. And everyone who shares our posts.
We couldn’t do this without you! YOU are saving lives.

Keep the goodies for the babies coming!!!
Please share!

➡️ Amazon supplies list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/MALJJHEHU2OF?ref_=wl_share

➡️ Cash app: https://cash.app/$NicoleThomas757

➡️ Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Nicole-Thomas-757

ALL cash donations go directly towards taking care of the cats.

21/09/2024

🚚📦 Friday’s Amazon deliveries for the ferals!!! 📦🚚

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!
Keep the goodies for the babies coming!!!
Please share!

➡️ Amazon supplies list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/MALJJHEHU2OF?ref_=wl_share

➡️ Cash app: https://cash.app/$NicoleThomas757

➡️ Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Nicole-Thomas-757

ALL cash donations go directly towards taking care of the cats.

19/09/2024

Todays Amazon shipments 🚚 📦 😍😍😍
Thank you to our donors for sending the feral kitties some items!!! Stinky wet food makes it easy to hide medicine 💊
We really appreciate all of the love and support.
It takes a village. ❤️

19/09/2024

😻😻😻 It’s $3 Thursday! 😻😻😻

Why?!? It’s costing roughly $3 per day PER CAT to keep these babies safe in our care.

That’s not including the medical expenses that Billy the Kidden Rescue is covering 😫🤯

If you can donate $3 towards our fundraiser we would greatly appreciate it!!!!

➡️Cash app: https://cash.app/$NicoleThomas757
➡️ Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Nicole-Thomas-757

ALL cash donations go directly towards taking care of the cats.

➡️ Or you can always send the kitties supplies that to directly to the shack! ⬇️
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/MALJJHEHU2OF?ref_=wl_share

18/09/2024

🍔Don’t forget it’s National Cheeseburger Day!🍔
Go get you a cheeseburger!

18/09/2024

It’s wishlist Wednesday 💙
It takes a village to help these innocent souls.
Please share! The more shares, the more we can spread the word and get help from our community.

The kitties and the volunteers thank you!!!!

➡️ Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/MALJJHEHU2OF?ref_=wl_share

➡️ Cash app: https://cash.app/$NicoleThomas757

➡️ Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Nicole-Thomas-757

ALL cash donations go directly towards taking care of the cats.

17/09/2024

💙💙💙 It’s TNR Tuesday!!!!!! 💙💙💙
The Catty Shacks main focus is TNR.
Trap 🪤 Neuter ✂️ 🥜 Return ↪️

We are…tired. We are working a very, very large TNR project. All cats come here until we get spay|neuter appointments for them.

We need to treat them for fleas and worms when they come in.
➡️ I can order a bulk amount of meds from this company. I can pay by Venmo and the total order will be approximately $140. If 14 people donate $10…..❤️

We are also needing CHEAP wet food to hide the meds in. 😑
I have moved wet food to the top of our Amazon list.

Amazon list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/MALJJHEHU2OF?ref_=wl_share

Cash app: https://cash.app/$NicoleThomas757

Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Nicole-Thomas-757

Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)

Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is the only humane and effective approach to community cats, or unowned cats who live outdoors.

Scientific studies show that TNR effectively addresses the community cat population by ending the breeding cycle, meaning no new kittens are born to a community cat colony. As sound public policy, TNR addresses community concerns, reduces shelter intake and killing, and reduces calls to animal services, all of which save cats’ lives and taxpayer dollars.

When cats are free from the burdens of mating and reproducing, their relationships improve with the people who live near them (think: no more kittens outdoors or yowling, roaming, fighting, or spraying). Additionally, many diseases associated with reproduction, like certain cancers, are prevented.

The TNR process is simple: community cats are humanely trapped, brought to a veterinary clinic to be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and eartipped (the universal sign that a cat has been spayed or neutered through a TNR program), then returned to the outdoor homes to which they are bonded so they can live out their lives where they thrive.

Before TNR

For more than a century, the American shelter and animal control system has been relying on catching and killing outdoor cats to control their population. This approach continues to fail, and the number of outdoor cats increases despite the millions of vibrant, healthy outdoor cats who are killed each year. Taxpayer money that funds shelters and animal control agencies is wasted on an endless cycle of trapping and killing. Increasingly, the public agrees that the money spent on killing could and should be re-allocated to programs that help animals.

With catch and kill policies, cats are removed from an area in the hopes that the population will never bounce back. But removing cats only creates a vacuum in the environment, where new cats move in to take advantage of available resources. The new cats quickly breed and the cat population rebounds, or even grows. Catch and kill policies are not only cruel and ineffective, they are the antithesis of the compassionate values of the public, which overwhelmingly supports humane, effective policies and programs for cats.

After TNR

Through TNR, adult cats, who have been spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and eartipped, are returned to their outdoor homes to live out their lives with their feline families. Many of these cats have dedicated caregivers, who provide food and outdoor shelter with their own time and money.

TNR balances the needs and concerns of community cats and the people among whom they live. The fact is people don’t want cats rounded up and killed. When citizens bring a cat to an animal shelter, they do so believing the cat will be safe and cared for, not terrified in a cage for days only to be killed. What the people want are cat populations stabilized through humane methods that bring cat mating behaviors in check so all can live in harmony.

TNR in conjunction with community cat care best practices is the recipe for happier communities in which cats and people peacefully co-exist. Cats Are Community™, and TNR is the best way to help our feline community members.
Source: alleycat.org

13/09/2024

12/09/2024

‼️Colonna’s Shipyard Cat Relocation Project Update‼️

📰 We know many of you have requested an update on the shipyard project, so here is the current status.

📝 ACME has been setting traps daily (except weekends) since September 3, 2024. As of September 12, 2024, they have transferred custody of 2 kittens and 2 adult cats to BTKR. We have offered our trapping assistance to Colonna’s, but they have decided to stick with their contract with ACME. In our meeting on August 28, 2024, permission was granted for BTKR to collaborate with ACME in agreement that all trapped cats and kittens would be turned over to BTKR to be reacclimated.

📝Per ACME, traps are being tampered with almost daily, which is the most significant hold-up due to the traps being set but left unattended for multiple hours. We would like to be involved in this process to ensure traps are monitored on much more frequent basis in order to facilitate the humane treatment we all agreed upon.

📝We have expected to get more cats from them by now, but we also understand the complications in trapping. It does not always go as planned.

📝On September 4, 2024, it was suggested by Colonna’s Executive Facilities Director that BTKR be given access to non-secure areas to expedite the trapping process. To date, we have been unable to gain said access.

📝Despite the agreement of collaboration and permission for BTKR to trap in non secure areas, Colonna’s has not followed through and become non-responsive to requests for updates as of this date. Communication with ACME has, however, been ongoing.

📝BTKR has purchased many acclimation cages and supplies for relocating these cats thanks to the generosity of the local concerned citizens who have stepped up to assist with this project. They hope Colonna’s will allow them to help in getting these cats trapped safely.

THANK YOU for your support! 🙏🏼

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‼️Help control the pet population - have your pets spayed or neutered! 💯

04/09/2024

It’s wishlist Wednesday!
Here is our monthly supply list for the shack fosters. If you can share, this will reach more people and we would greatly appreciate it!
The kitties and the volunteers thank you!!!!

Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/MALJJHEHU2OF?ref_=wl_share

Cash app: https://cash.app/$NicoleThomas757

Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Nicole-Thomas-757

ALL cash donations go directly towards taking care of the cats.

04/09/2024

We need some positive vibes over here.
We have an owner surrender we pulled from animal control.
I named him Heath.
His level of depression is heartbreaking. He’s refusing to eat. I’m giving him sub q fluids and syringe feeding him for now.
He is the absolute sweetest boy. He started out doing great. I think he realized his owners weren’t coming back. He just cries and cries. We are giving him all the love he allows.

Feel free to send him a gift from his wishlist. We are trying all types of food and nothing is working yet.

Heaths Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3GX6G2104PDDZ?ref_=wl_share

Cash app: https://cash.app/$NicoleThomas757

Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Nicole-Thomas-757

ALL cash donations go directly towards taking care of the cats.

03/09/2024

My babies and their momma are ready for adoption 🥹❤️😭🖤

02/09/2024

Happy Labor Day from The Catty Shack

02/09/2024

Don’t blame them. It’s not their fault.

31/08/2024

Which means that they have multiple estrus cycles during the breeding season. As the amount of daylight begins to increase at the winter solstice, the reproductive cycle of intact females kicks into gear, and most will go into heat by late January. A female cat will keep coming back into heat every 1 to 2 weeks until she gets pregnant, or the amount of daylight decreases (October). The feline gestation period is about 63 days, so the first kittens of the season will start arriving in late March.

NOW is the ideal time time to spay and neuter feral and stray cats to get ahead of kitten season and end the breeding cycle before it starts.

30/08/2024

All you have to do is adopt. ❤️

29/08/2024

It’s Thank you to our followers ❤️ We appreciate you more than you know!

29/08/2024

27/08/2024

We need to upgrade our storage cabinet in the shack. Ours is in rough shape and starting to wobble 😑😩
If you have a few dollars to throw at the cost, we would greatly appreciate it!!!

https://a.co/d/a7OWejQ

Cash app: https://cash.app/$NicoleThomas757

Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Nicole-Thomas-757

ALL cash donations go directly towards taking care of the shack.

22/08/2024

Virginia Beach Animal Control brought us the babies a few hours ago. They are now safe with Billy the Kidden Rescue and have been moved to their new foster homes ❤️❤️❤️ It takes a village. 💤💤💤 These babies are NOT currently available for adoption. We do not accept early applications. No exceptions.

20/08/2024

🆘 Another large pull from Animal Control is happening and we need your support. 🆘

Are any of my friends or followers able to open your home temporarily? We are in desperate need of more fosters.

We also need volunteers to come and help with the ones we are taking in here at our location. Come volunteer and get your kitten fix. It’s a great dopamine boost.

If fostering/volunteering aren’t feasible right now, please share this post to help us reach more people. The more people who see our posts, the more lives we can save.

They need us.