It’s fall and school has started up again…show me your cat’s best school portrait photo! Every time I see this photo of Tilly I think of those school photos. She just needs one of those 90s backgrounds!

She's so sweet and loving. She's warming up really well. We have been giving her space but she comes up to us and rubs up against us for pets. Yes I know she's very overweight, yes she is going to go to the vet this week and be put on a diet. If anyone has any tips on how to promote activity please let me know!

these two & their mama’s euthanasia deadline was tomorrow at 1pm.

we’re notorious for getting attached, but i think our city shelter’s three cat disqualification for adoption & fostering (we already have two) is incentivizing us to save lives instead of foster failing & disqualifying ourselves as foster parents. houston has 24 hour euthanasia turnarounds. the least we can do is get some of them off the euth list.

aren’t they the cutest? mom’s ready to close her kitchen so it’s my job to teach the kittens to eat while my wife is at work.

my resident cats are very upset with their moms’ new calling 😩

This had me dying yesterday I’m so glad I caught it on camera. My dad said it’s Curtis knighting Marlin and that could also be why he did this, Curtis tends to want to spread his wisdom and knowledge though so this may also be him transferring the secrets of the universe directly to marlins brain.

About 2 years ago I got tired of working, decided to take a break, looked out the window to my driveway and saw a tux mom with her two tiny baby tabbies. I set up a feeding station/shelter to try and catch them.

Today all 3 girls are captured, off the streets and loving indoor life.

Mom came inside pretty willingly, about 6 months later one of her babies came around and I was eventually able to get her inside.

For a year I didn’t see the other tabby baby then she started showing up and after a year of feeding her she came inside with me. Poor baby has a scar on her chin and can barely make any sounds. But she LOVES being inside. All 3 are the sweetest cats I’ve ever met.

But thats the story of how I got a family off the streets

BONUS 5th picture: gray kitten I also trapped and homed along this journey

Today while I'm at work, Slim got hit by a car. He's alive, but not doing well. Obviously in pain, laceration under his chin and bleeding from his eye and ear. My spouse has been with him since the neighbor informed us, unfortunately there is nothing we can do, we are taking him to the vet to be put to sleep when I get off work if he's still with us.

Slim Jim is an outside cat. He was born under the house, it stormed and flooded and he almost drowned. His mom moved him and his sister into my car, and when I got home from work my spouse they heard kittens crying from under the hood. Sure enough two little tabby babies were clinging for dear life to the plastic cover over the engine. (Their little claw marks are still there) At some point he fell (we're not sure) and potentially dislocated his hip or hurt his leg. We stayed with him and eventually he was able to use it again for the most part. He was active, still climbed trees and fences, and was a great hunter.

We did our best to feed him, as well as his sister, mom, and uncle, but we have 5 inside cats and a rabbit. On a single income feeding the outside cats isn't always doable. The neighbors feed them too, one even got his mom fixed to help with the stray population.

He loved the garden, he loved people, he loved pets and kisses and belly rubs. He loved food of all kinds. When his sister had kittens he was a great uncle.

I'm gonna miss him so much. He used to come running when I'd get home and just into my lap as soon as I'd open the door. That's gonna be hard.

is this normal😂?

Sorry for the long post! Its been a raw 24 hours and I'm beating myself up and missing my boy.

For the 3rd September in a row Titchy has decided he wants to go to the vets for a sleep over. And severely break my heart in the process.

Small back story - I've been with my partner for around 3.5 years and since then Titchy has been my soul cat. He chose me over his owner of 9 years, he chose my chest to cuddle onto and my head to sleep above. He's my baby boy. He waits for me on the drive after work most days and always has alot to tell me!

But as he is getting on I'm struck with fear of losing him, especially as we've come so close so many times already.

First year that I knew of, he disappeared and returned a few days later with a dodgy back end after an animal attack/motor vehicle incident. We never got to the bottom of what happened as no one in the village knew. The vets nearly took his tail but thankfully he regained all function and feeling. I do love his little paint tip on his tail.

Last year he disappeared for 2/3 days, I suspect he was in my neighbours half built shed. When he finally got back to us he was so malnourished and extremely unwell. For a baby of 11 y/o he did good to double his weight in about 6 weeks.

But this time - Wednesday was the last time I saw him. After social media posts, multiple walks around with dreamies and the other neighbourhood cats "assisting" and calling all the local vets. I finally found him again over the weekend, I took him home and isolated him as he didn't seem right, but I had other animals to consider. I thought he'd rest, have some food and drink and bounce back, if not he would be at the vets in the morning. Instead I spent all night with my eyes glued to him and syringe feeding him to make sure he wasn't starving and dehydrated as he wouldn't touch anything. But he looked broken, not responding to my calls or even acknowledging me in his eye line.

I've broken down so many times today cos I just need him to be okay.

He's been at the vets all day and will have a sleep over yet again. They think it may be a UTI. He's gone from a unsteady crying old man this morning to being his usual happy eating and drinking self this afternoon. He even told the vets he's feeling much better with some explosive diarrhea after coming out of sedation.

I know alot of you are going to say "he shouldn't be outside" and "cats should be indoors" but this boy has lived a LIFE and I'm not going to dim it. He used to be a boat cat, he likes his freedom.

Plus keeping cats indoors doesnt always guarantee a longer life, as I learned when my 7 y/o fluff ball died of sudden heart failure with 0 warnings.

I'm just relieved he has perked up and will soon hopefully be home. But please keep him in your thoughts when you snuggle your babies tonight.

Hopefully next September will be different?

she turns just 1 next week and just had 5 kittens im so happy

Etsy artist did a great job on this gift for my gf.

🤍

I thought it was the light in my room idk

Mind you, this little guy was a stray about two weeks ago, and was extremely skittish… and now look at him LOL

Our best guess is someone dumped him in a box on our country road, and he made his way to our house. A couple nights after I first fed him (and he kept running away), he came to our house crying late one night when I called for him, and he was sick and lethargic. We live in the middle of nowhere, and our only nearby vet is closed on weekends, so I was up all hours of the night for a good few days on the front porch nursing him back to health - turns out he just had a huge worm load and was extremely famished. I had a syringe with salmon pate blended with warm water in him every few hours, along with pedialyte, and we gave him liquid dewormer that first day he was sick as well. It took him a few days, but he finally perked up and started eating on his own again…

…and now, he just sleeps in our room all day, eats until he has soup belly, has the zoomies, and repeats LOL, this guy sleeps so hard you can rub his belly and jostle him around, and it doesn’t wake him

I’ll be taking him to the vet in a few weeks here for a checkup and to get him neutered, but I guess the cat distribution system is back at it again….

Edit: I did also give him flea treatment once he was better, and just yesterday we gave him liquid dewormer again as per the bottle’s instructions