It’s STRAY MAY and we’re raising funds to support colony cats and the people who care for them! We’ve got some great prizes—some local to Nashville and others shippable in the U.S.! www.catcolonyfoodpantry.org/blog/stray-m...
Something’s coming…
One of our caretakers taught me to use chip-and-dip trays from the dollar store. They make great feeders for large colonies and clean up nice too!
That’s really cool and smart. Thank you for commenting and engaging. 🩷
This is the picture of Dexter that made me want to help him. He is doing a lot better but still has a long way to go. It seems like he scratches at his ear because he has some kind of hard, painful mass. His wound tested positive for e coli, which we are treating with antibiotics.
My foster is Dexter! He was found on the street with a badly wounded ear and URI. I am helping him heal so the vet can eventually poke around and see if he has some kind of a mass in his ear. Despite his pain and these annoying but necessary e-collars, Dexter is an absolute sweetheart.
Thank you for building habitats for birds. They don’t deserve to be killed by cats. I wish there was a way to protect them all. But for now, I am encouraging people to be good colony caretakers, and I tell people who feed outdoor cats to take their bird feeders down.
Pet abandonment often happens when people get evicted from their homes, have health crises or financial crises that make caring for pets impossible. Where there’s an animal hurting, there’s often a human hurting too.
Part 3: Rescues that find homes for friendly cats and kittens are almost always run by volunteers who solicit small donations from supporters. Grants are scarce. Competition is thick. Cats require fosters. Fosters are scarce. It costs money to treat animals who have been living on the street.
Part 2: We don’t encourage colonies to grow. We spay/neuter all of the cats in our program, thanks to a nonprofit vet clinic in Nashville. We don’t create colonies, we stop them from growing. We are sometimes able to get friendly cats into rescues. Sometimes not. “Adopt out” isn’t easy.
Part 1: I actually agree with you. Cats shouldn’t live outdoors. But there are far more cats than there are homes for them, far more cats than there are barns. Very few communities have affordable spay/neuter for pet cats, let alone unowned feral cats. Cat overpopulation is a crisis…
Community cats come in all shapes and sizes …
There are several construction fences in the road on 8th Ave. S just north of Kroger. They are extremely hard to see.
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We support ~400 cats year-round by providing food and spay-neuter, including Mesa here! Isn’t he stunning?
What’s Falkor pondering?
We hope our pals in Middle Tennessee are safe today and that all cats will be accounted for. Remember that outdoor cats know when bad weather is coming and usually know a safe place to hide out. You might not see them for a couple days. When they return, they’ll be hungry!
The cheeks tell the story 📖
Big Poppa (he’s a foster)
Tell me how Missy feels about the temperature dropping
Has never answered an email in his life
This is Sandy, the outsider in a close-knit colony that our client Linda cares for. Barely tolerated by the original crew of cats, Sandy has taken to acting as a social safety net for orphaned kittens in the neighborhood.
This is Jill. She is a member of a small colony of six cats we support. Jill has the cutest pink nose.
This Precious Angel on the day he was neutered and vaccinated. He lives in a colony we support. He is on the shy side, and despite his big size, other cats sometimes chase him away from dinner. We love a shy guy.
This is Zeus. He lives in one of the Nashville colonies we support. Zeus enjoys judging the music selections of drivers in the condo parking lot.
Hello! We're the Cat Colony Food Pantry. We provide cat food to colony caretakers in Nashville, Tennessee. Follow along for feral cat facts and TNVR adventures while we celebrate the human-animal bond! 😻
