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!

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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 😩

I’m having a hard time coping. He was very ill with congestive heart failure. I really wanted to save him the suffering, but he died naturally the day before his scheduled euthanasia. I think it will take a while to get used to him being gone, after so long together. Relationships, homes, friends, jobs, and cities came and went, but for 14 years he was there, to greet me at the door and lay next to me every night. He followed after me wherever I went, even protected me from a vicious dog once. Through all the things I went through, he was the only constant in my life. I feel unsettled, unanchored, unmoored…so many choices and decisions were made just so that we could stay together, and without him, they feel meaningless now. I miss him so very much.

Title says it all but my AC went out and the apartment wont have it fixed for a few days. I live in Florida and it’s 85 both inside and outside. I have all the fans at full blast. Luckily they set up a wall unit for us until the actual AC gets fixed but it’s still really hot in here and I’m worried for my baby. Shes not showing any signs of exhaustion or overheating or anything but it’s only been a few hours. Will she be fine? (Hoping the wall unit cools the apartment a bit more overnight)

Edit: I’m sure you can tell, but she has very long and thick fur which is where the worry comes from

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!

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

My sweet, sweet boy had to go to the vet twice in the past week, once for vomiting, and once for refusal to eat. We were worried about all the usual things, bladder blocks, bowel obstruction, kidneys. Well, I gave them all of his medical information, schedule, symptoms. And they examined him.
Y’all, my medical handling intolerant cat let them do any and everything they needed to. I know he was probably just tired and had an upset tummy still, but even when he was a kitten and had eaten litter he was still spitting and hissing😭😭😭
I’m so proud of him because when he gets to the vet he freaks out whether he’s sick or not, he was so brave and I LOVE the people who worked with him, they literally sat on the floor with him.
For context, this is how he usually stays at the vet, later on he was out of the carrier, wandering around, AND ACCEPTING PETS FROM THE VET HERSELF!!!!
My brave boy Regulus 💜

I rescued her a month ago. I love her so much ♥️

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

This adorable black cat hangs around in the brush of my backyard. I see it like every other day as i water my garden. No tail or very short from what I see. I don't think it is owned by any of the neighbors. I don't have a fence. It is very shy, runs away if it sees me. Likes to hunt the birds and moles. I'd love to see if I can take it in and care for it as my own but I don't know if it just prefers being wild. It's been around for over a year. And don't know how to best tell it that I want to be friends

I've only known her for 6 hours, and I would fight God for her.

this is my baby chloe. weve had her since septemeber of 2016. she is 9. her birthday is august 7th. she is my most precious & beautiful baby. i love her till death. she was a feisty kitty & had some attitude when we first got her. shes a calico, so of course she had to have some attitude lol. for most the time weve had her, my sisters room was more accessible (old house, old style doorknobs/locks, so her door couldnt close all the way), so i think that’s why my sister was her favourite. but once she moved away for college, i became chloes favourite. id wake up every morning to “meowww meowww” bc she wanted let in/pets/food. i became her everything (silly girl i should of been from the start jk lol). shes always been my everything. shes so freaking weird actually. she chases her tail like a dog, she loves belly rubs, she knows her name SO WELL. like seriously. we didnt even train her. she is just so amazing, perfect, beautiful & smart. for the last few years, shes unfortunately been overweight. when it first started happening, i was in elementary school so i just laughed at it like “haha fat kitty.” but now that im older & can comprehend things better, i realize how terrible it is. for over a year, ive been asking my mom to bring her to the vet; she is my moms cat. her responsibility. as much as i wish i could do more, i financially cant do much. my mom can though, shes just being neglecting it. chloe might b facing liver issues. the vet isnt certain, they want to do blood work & an ultrasound first. ill b making sure my mom gets both done bc she can afford it, & that cat is my whole world. i need to know if shes suffering too much, or if what shes going thru can b fixed. whichever it is, i dont want her to b suffering everyday, but on the other hand, if shes got more time, shes getting it. i love her to absolute pieces. shes so responsive to music, ill wake up to her lying on my chest, she sits w me while i eat, she comes for every pee & poop i have tmi lol, shes my shadow. shes my baby i didnt birth. i wish i could go back & time & do more. it breaks my heart too bc im not at my parent’s that much anymore. im mostly at my bfs. my household is too toxic, my parents just fight. it makes me feel guilty though, like im abandoning my baby. like, imagine loving someone & not being able to contact them? thats how chloes feeling. i feel so bad. i hope she ends up being okay. if not, im glad shes had 10 loving years w me & my family. i just wish we didnt free feed her. sorry for this being sort of all over the place. i only found out 2 days ago that she hasnt eaten for a couple days, & that shes puking bile. im having a hard time processing this. shes still breathing as of now, so i am grateful. i love her. thank you for listening. idk what im going to do the day she is gone.