Jack Of All Cats: A Cat Rescue

27/04/2025

Kitten season is in FULL SWING!

We need supplies and volunteers so we can help save babies in need. Accepting applications for short (1-5 weeks) and long term (5 weeks-3 months) fosters for kitties of all ages and levels of care!

Apply to foster at https://form.jotform.com/240156269208153

Donate supplies from our Amazon Wish List. No amount is too small. If you even just have a few dollars, you can apply it towards our gift card fund so we can purchase necessities as needed.
https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/2FJ0NDQ1TQJKA

Thank you for your support!

26/04/2025

Kitten season is in FULL SWING!

We need supplies and volunteers so we can help save babies in need. Accepting applications for short (1-5 weeks) and long term (5 weeks-3 months) fosters for kitties of all ages and levels of care!

Apply to foster at https://form.jotform.com/240156269208153

Donate supplies from our Amazon Wish List. No amount is too small. If you even just have a few dollars, you can apply it towards our gift card fund so we can purchase necessities as needed.
https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/2FJ0NDQ1TQJKA

Thank you for your support!

24/04/2025

Is there anyone on the FW side of the metroplex who maybe can't commit to fostering for weeks/months or adopting, but would enjoy some kitten time so we can get our newest litter of kittens socialized around more people?

20/04/2025

Tango, m, 10 weeks
Incarcerated: 04/19/2025
Release date: Awaiting verdict

20/04/2025

Urgent need for kennels!

Out of kennels and in immediate need of some for recoups!

If you have been loaned a kennel and are no longer in need of it, please DM me asap.

If you have any kennels 30"+ that you are no longer using and would like to donate it to a good cause, that would be so greatly appreciated! They get used up so quickly when we have recoups and kitties needing to be confined to socialize and I'm in immediate need of 2 more. Please send a message if you have any to donate, as well!

Thank you so much!

20/04/2025

"Happy Easter!" ~ Marseille (resident kitty and best big foster brother)

18/04/2025

It's $5 Friday and we are featuring Cookie, the Manx kitty, who is still waiting for her furever home after months and months of waiting! All of her babies were adopted out last year, she deserves a furever home, too! Find out more about her and apply at jackofallcats.org/adopt-cookie

Your contributions help us to supply everyday essentials, cover medical care for kitties to make sure they are healthy and have all their vetting before they go to their furever homes and also allow us to TNR in the DFW Metroplex, the most important key in trying to get a handle on the rampant overpopulation epidemic we are facing here.

Amazon:
We have labeled some necessities as "most needed" that you can select to send directly to us. If you have a few dollars to contribute, you can also add to the gift card fund that we can apply as we get enough donations to cover items.
https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/2FJ0NDQ1TQJKA

Venmo:
https://venmo.com/code?user_id=4025294444823725399

PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=KKVGKX6W926RS

GoFundMe:
https://gofund.me/9951bb6e

Merch:
Purchase merch, designed by me, Sara, where 100% of the proceeds go towards the rescue.
https://jackofallcats.myspreadshop.com/all

As always, please like, share, and interact with our content to help get the word out. The more people who see our work, the more likely we will be able to sustain rescue efforts with donations, get kitties adopted into great homes, and get the necessary help needed!

Thank you so much to everyone who continues to support in any way they can!

17/04/2025

Yesterday, Isla made adoption #20 for Jack of All Cats since the first of the year!!! Not bad for such a small operation!

We are down to the last few kitties and unfortunately, unable to help any more without dedicated fosters. I'm always more than happy to intake for people who bring in their own fosters they are dedicated to. However, all so far have only been willing to foster the ones they needed help with and we have only had a few foster parents who have volunteered to help others so we can intake kitties who don't have a foster that comes with them.

Fostering and seeing them leave may be sad. But it's far less sad than the alternative to them sick, and sad, and dying in the streets. They literally have no one to help unless more people can step up. Based on both my own personal foster experiences with other rescues and from what I have heard from other people's foster experiences, I would like to think I have been able to provide a pretty good one for foster parents. I do my best to be very accommodating and active and very on top of the fosters and hands on. Foster timelines have been cut down pretty short with fairly high quick adoption rate and now a quick alternative option for getting them out in a timely manner so that fosters don't end up with them 4, 5, 6, 12 months later. The only few fosters who have been here longer than 3 months are ones that their foster parents have declined multiple offers to get them out through other rescues, which is totally fine, but I know how long some fosters have gotten stuck with no help to get kitties adopted out and I want volunteers to take comfort in knowing we have ways to get them out, should that need to happen. We have only so far done that with one foster, due to being on a big time crunch so it was great to have an out for him within 3 weeks of intake and he was then adopted within 2 weeks of his departure.

YOU ARE THE ONLY CHANCE THAT SOME CAT/KITTEN HAS TO GET A FUREVER HOME OFF THE STREETS!

Apply today at https://form.jotform.com/240156269208153

17/04/2025

A huge shout out to North Texas Barn Cats for helping us get 3 kitties out of a dangerous situation and in the program to be shop cats!

These three babies came from the Chick Fil A parking lot at an incredibly busy intersection with no regular caregivers. We have trapped 4 so far there over the last week. All 4 were trapped within a couple minutes each time because they were so desperately hungry. I was able to trap 2 back to back. The first one was only 1:13 seconds and the second came back out immediately after setting another trap, so unfazed by his buddy getting trapped because he just wanted food so bad. Normally TNR means returning back to where they came from, but the ideal situation is that they have regular caregivers and are not in danger at that location. We were able to get them neutered, vaccinated, dewormed, and treated for fleas, but had no set backup plan for where they could go, as they weren't necessarily able to be socialized enough to get adopted out.

I got a text message at 8pm last night saying they could take 2 if we could get them there with all their paperwork at 9am. I was not about to miss the opportunity after being on the wait-list for a year! "You want cats, I'll get you cats!" We made sure they got their dewormer and flea meds last night. It was a group effort with Shannon gathering and bringing them early this morning and another person bringing the copies of their paperwork after, of course, the printer this morning said "but I am le tired" and didn't want to print. I told Shannon to bring 3 of them, just in case, so they could pick who would be good candidates. Well, they ended up being able to take all 3 of the kitties!!!! 🤗

Congratulations little dudes! I hope you never have to worry about your next meal ever again!

17/04/2025

Stanley and Momma Grey made it to Tennessee and New York! Congratulations on your furever homes! No more living your lives roaming the streets.

16/04/2025

URGENT! Still have no volunteers to foster Willow. She is with an amazing temporary foster, but needs somewhere she can go for a little bit longer asap. She has only till next weekend to find another foster. The original "volunteer" to help Willow backed out, to no fault of her own. She's so sweet and just needs somewhere to stay while we find her furever home and also get to her appointment to get her fractured canine removed before we can get her into a furever home.

If you're able to commit to fostering Willow or any other kitties in need, please apply at
https://form.jotform.com/240156269208153

16/04/2025

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The Emotional Impact of Rescue – What People Don’t Always See 💔🐾

Rescue work is often portrayed as inspiring—and it is. But behind every rescue is a weight that’s rarely spoken about.

Rescuers and carers often suffer quietly:

🌧️Compassion fatigue – constant exposure to suffering wears you down.

🌧️Burnout – the emotional cost of always being needed, of never being able to do enough.

🌧️ Witnessing trauma – seeing neglect, cruelty, abandonment.

🌧️Making impossible decisions – when you can’t save them all.

🌧️ No support system – many carers work alone, with no therapy, no backup, no rest.

And still—they show up. Every. Single. Day.

Some rescuers carry multiple responsibilities and that in itself is taxing.

A full-time job, household responsibilities, family obligations, owned pets - not including fosters. Rescue comes with many hats and there are many that don't just juggle one role.

We need to talk about the emotional toll of caring.
Because the truth is: saving animals often breaks the people doing the saving.

If you know someone doing rescue work—check on them. Help them. Listen.

They carry more than you realize. 🐾💕

In honor of National Animal Care & Control Appreciation Week and to all of the individuals involved in Animal Welfare, doing far more than anyone truly understands.

We see you... 💓

15/04/2025

Willow: "...the ability to grow and prosper despite unfavorable conditions. Willow is a name symbolic of resilience and vitality."

We are so grateful to have been able to finally give this sweet girl a break so she can be the baby and be taken care of. After years and years of having babies, she has finally been taken out of the baby-making game.

Unfortunately the "volunteer" who offered to foster her prior to in-taking her has backed out. We are so grateful she is safe with a temporary foster but we absolutely need a committed foster lined to to take her asap. She will need somewhere else to go in under 2 weeks.

If you're able to commit to fostering Willow or any other kitties in need, please apply at
https://form.jotform.com/240156269208153

13/04/2025

Urgent immediate help needed for cat in Dallas who just got out of her spay surgery!!!

Update: the foster parent is safe and has responded. It was definitely a missed calls and texts situation, most likely one of those things when the kiddos are on the phone and push notifications aside. The main issue is the re-coordination of transfer so I will be keeping up the post until she is securely in a foster home in case we aren't able to arrange her to the OG foster. Maybe we can find a closer foster and then will get another kitty in with the OG foster. Both the finder and the foster have incredibly packed work schedules and with them being so far, it's a little difficult to figure out when to do it during the week right now.

If you have a place for her to crash please DM us asap. If you're interested in fostering her or any other kitties in need, please apply below.

https://form.jotform.com/240156269208153

13/04/2025

Unfortunately, these two cuties are seemingly just "feeder friendly". It's definitely a thing where a feral cat can be used to their caregiver and friendly but truly feral with other people. Without time, a safe space, or volunteers, their best option at this time is to go back, unfortunately.

If we weren't also fighting the elements I would give them a little more time but at this level of feralness, it could take months and months and months and still may never happen. In all reality, there are SO MANY cats needing help here, to keep cats against their will to be miserable to try to possibly tame them for 6, 8, 12 months is taking that space, time, money, and energy away from helping significantly more kitties who are wanting to be inside and off the streets and may only take 3-8 weeks to get into a home, allowing a lot more to be helped. I would love to give them a fair chance of at least a few weeks, but that won't happen and isn't fair to them to hold them in an incredibly hot garage.

They have not eaten in 4 days aside from a few bites or wet food this whole time. The boy is incredibly scared and aggressive, the girl is so scared she just freezes up. There were quite a few "volunteers" to help so we could separate them and give them more time, but unfortunately, I have tried following up a couple times with all of those people and no one has come through.

Tomorrow is going to be in the 90s and my garage will be far from ideal. When it's hot, my garage is about 10-20 degrees hotter and will not cook down somehow even with a fan and it cracked, not even at night. With them so miserable, not having eaten in 4 days or gone potty except for a few poops they did in the carrier, and the freezing and aggression, and no help to get them inside, I will be releasing them tomorrow back at the property where they came from. At least they now have been neutered and vaccinated.

I really don't feel comfortable handing the boy over to anyone at this point with how aggressive he is, but if someone wanted to try fostering the girl for a short while please fill out the application at https://form.jotform.com/240156269208153

If I don't have anyone committed to getting the girl by 3pm, I will be releasing both. If you're looking to foster but dont feel comfortable with fostering this girl, please still fill out the application as there are so many kitties in need right now. Accepting short term (1-3 weeks) and longer term 4-12 weeks) fosters

12/04/2025

Cinder and Smoke are in such good hands with their foster Momma's Mireya and Veronica! The boys are doing so well and are scheduled for their neuter at 12 weeks old on May 14th after which, they will be able to go to their furever home.

If you're interested in adopting Cinder and Smoke, we are accepting pre-adoption applications at this time.

https://www.jotform.com/form/240006793672154

12/04/2025

I tried to tell them immediately after surgery isn't a great time for acrobatics 🤷

Really hoping they come around with more regular interactions so we don't have to release them back to where they came from as it isn't safe after their assumed-dad was mauled a few days ago. 😞

The good news is now they are neutered, had their first vaccines, microchipped, and their combo tests were negative for FIV/FeLV 🤗