JazzyCat Feral Care

11/06/2025

My special boy Romany🧸🩶

Reserved, patient, and highly intelligent. Ferals all have their own personalities, just like our cats at home.

06/06/2025

Two less females who would've had to give birth repeatedly. ✨️⚘️

TNR ✅️ (Trap-Neuter-Return)

Left: Opal (F🩷)
Colony: Gemstones - Rivonia

Right: Honey (F🩷)
Colony: Sweet Treats - Dunkeld

"Thank you to Simone for sponsoring our sterlizations and vaccines, and for changing our lives for the better."

05/06/2025

I went to the Gemstones Colony to release Opal and saw Onyx lying on the floor next to the food and sleep station. I suspect he was hit by a car. Thank you to the team at Rivonia Village Vet- Village Vet Group for helping him quickly and compassionately. He has crossed the Rainbow Bridge. It is even sadder to think he was nearly trapped for TNR yesterday, but it was not meant to be.

I'm sorry boy - you deserved so much better. 🌈

20/05/2025

TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) ✅

Graphite (F🩷)
Colony: Gemstones, Rivonia

13/05/2025

TNR ✅️ (Trap-Neuter-Return)

From left:

Colony: The Restauranters, Dunkeld
Custard (M💙)
"Thank you to Gabrielle for sponsoring my sterie and vaccines, and for changing my life for the better."
This boy has been on the TNR list for over a year. Thrilled to know he has had his life changing day.

Colony: Gemstones, Rivonia
Tiger's Eye (F🩷)
Moonstone (F🩷)
A new colony I am working on with All Hearts Foundation SA. There are many unsterilized cats here and we are thrilled to have removed two breeding females from the mix. We need all the help we can get and have about 13 cats to go. Any donations would mean the world and can also be made directly to the vet.

04/05/2025

I was asked to help with a suspected feral who was being fed in someone's garden in a residential complex in Lonehill. A very kind group of residents wanted a better life for this little one. After being successfully trapped, kitty turned out not to be feral at all - just very scared, and was definitely someone's pet at some point.

Thankfully this sweet soul is now inside and doesn't have to face any more cold weather or car dodging. Settled onto a couch very quickly. The perfect home will undoubtedly be found soon. Happy endings are the best. 🩷🐱

16/04/2025

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... 💓

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02/04/2025

Colder nights means more worry for a feral carer. New updates coming soon. 🐱

17/02/2025

09/11/2024

Please be responsible and sterilize your pets. Feral cats are a HUMAN fault.

24/09/2024

My favourite kind of post to make:

TNR ✅️ (Trap-Neuter-Return)

Left: Bean (F🩷)
Right: Black Cat (M🩵)

Colony: Undisclosed residential complex in Sandown

03/08/2024

So excited about the new feeder at the Sweet Treats colony in Dunkeld. 🍩🎂🍰🧁The cats have had many birds snacking on their food at this site, so glad to know it will be protected now. A huge thank you to G&K Feral Feeder Manufacturers for such a high-quality and beautiful feeder.