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We have gotten another round of vaccines as part of Petco Love’s commitment to 1 million free vaccines for animals in need! We're doing our part here by providing no-cost vaccines to community cats who come through our trap-neuter-return program. #Petcolovevax #PetcoLovePartner

By creating your will this month, you can get peace of mind for the future, protect your family, and even support the future of community cats. Nearly 67% of American adults don't have a will, and we’re sharing a free, online will-writing tool from FreeWill so 100% of our Alley Cat Advocates community can protect the people and cats they love. Create my free will

Pumpkin needs some dental care. This handsome guy is thin and dehydrated because of painful fractured teeth. We can help relieve him of pain and you can help by donating toward his dental procedure. We know he will feel better and gain weight as soon as his mouth heals. Make a Donation for Pumpkin's Dental Care

Thank you to everyone who entered, voted, and shared. You made a difference in the lives of community cats.   Presenting the 2025 Alley Cat Advocates Calendar Cover Cat: Moki Congratulations to the twelve 2025 Alley Cat Advocates Cat Calendar Cat of the Month Winners!

The Alley Cat Advocates 2025 Cat Calendar Photo Contest is underway. Make your cat a star! Upload a high-quality image of your favorite feline today and help Alley Cat Advocates care for this community's unowned cats. Submit your cat's photo and collect votes to pounce on one of the 13 top spots to appear in the 2025 Cat Calendar and win a great prize package.

A few weeks ago baby Spirit started her stay with Alley Cat Advocates with a painful eye injury. Spirit is thankful that Alley Cat Advocates helped her keep her eye. The tissue around her eye was very inflamed, but with treatment, her eye has now healed. Please celebrate this happy outcome for Spirit. Donate today! Make a Donation for Spirit

Do you have an IRA, Donor-Advised Fund, or appreciated stock or cryptocurrencies? If so, we have a gift for you — an online platform that makes it easy to use these resources and give back to Alley Cat Advocates. Tax-smart gifts come with a series of advantages for you while making an immediate impact on making Louisville the safest city in the United States to be a community cat. Take a few minutes this summer to save and give, at the same time. Give a tax-smart gift P.S. Show gratitude to Alley Cat Advocates this [...]

Alley Cat Advocates, in partnership with Pet Friendly Services of Indiana and Piece of My Heart Rescue, is continuing to offer no-cost trap-neuter-return services to Indiana caretakers. Anyone feeding unowned cats in Indiana is encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to have those cats spayed or neutered and vaccinated through Alley Cat Advocates. Schedule an Appointment

Alley Cat Advocates is proud to announce it received a grant from the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (HOKC) in the amount of $10,541.50 to go toward the purchase of a total building generator. This amount will fund half of the generator. Alley Cat Advocates will be seeking donations to fund the remaining half and hopes to have it purchased and installed before the cold weather comes around again.  

Taco has been avoiding being trapped for a long time. His caretaker has been feeding him and a few others for years. Taco's mates were all trapped, spayed or neutered and then returned home, but Taco was having none of it. For the last few months, Taco has been sporting a wound that has gotten progressively worse and he has drawn the attention of most of the neighborhood. With the wound looking nastier and nastier, the efforts to trap Taco were intensified. After teamwork in the community and a persistent caretaker who pulled out every [...]

You can now request an appointment through our online portal. Your appointment request will be reviewed and you will be contacted to confirm. Remember, you must be feeding the cats and the cats must be unowned to be spayed or neutered at Alley Cat Advocates.

Announcement! The Catalyst Club is our brand new monthly giving program and we would love for you to join. Commit to a monthly gift to Alley Cat Advocates and improve the lives of community cats who visit the Community Cat Complex for vaccines and spay or neuter surgery all year long. Those who join the Catalyst Club this year will be added to a special donor acknowledgment wall installed at the Community Cat Complex early in 2025. Already a monthly giver? Then you are an inaugural member of the Catalyst Club and your name will [...]

We are excited to announce that we were recently awarded a $15,000 grant from the Humana Foundation. This grant was secured by Alley Cat Advocates volunteer Lynn Westberg who works for Humana and participated in a special fundraising event held by the Humana Foundation where she was selected to award a grant to the nonprofit organization of her choice. We are so thankful to Lynn for choosing us to receive this grant and for the generosity of the Humana Foundation!

We have gotten another round of vaccines as part of Petco Love’s commitment to 1 million free vaccines for animals in need! We're doing our part here by providing no-cost vaccines to community cats who come through our trap-neuter-return program. #Petcolovevax #PetcoLovePartner

Tax season is a powerful moment to support Alley Cat Advocates' work, and our free tool makes it easier than ever to save while you give. By giving a tax-smart gift — like appreciated stock or an IRA contribution — you can make an impact with Alley Cat Advocates now and feel the financial benefits tomorrow. Give a tax-smart gift here P.S. Give smarter this tax season with a gift of stock or an IRA contribution Learn more and save while you give!

Petunia is staying at the Community Complex for extra care. She came to us a few weeks ago with severe diarrhea. She was very thin and disheveled. She has been receiving treatments to help stop her diarrhea and help her gain back weight. She still has a little more to go, but she is making improvements. Your donations will help us cover the costs of diagnosis and treatment of Petunia's "tummy troubles" and get her back to health. Please donate today. Make a Donation for Petunia

Kitten season isn't just coming it is here at Alley Cat Advocates. Mother cats with tiny kittens are beginning to arrive at our doors. While moms are receiving vaccinations and getting spayed so that they will never have to care for another litter of kittens, the babies are cared for by our special group of kitten daycare volunteers. As we move into the spring season and kittens begin to arrive we need many supplies to care for the tiniest visitors to the Community Cat Complex. We are throwing a virtual Kitten Shower to help [...]

Alley Cat Advocates is excited to announce that the Bernice Barbour Foundation has awarded the organization a grant of $15,000.  These funds will go to support the spaying and neutering of cats in Jefferson County with a focus on those cats who make their home in mobile home parks. "Recognizing the need to humanely reduce the community cat population through spay and neuter efforts and by supporting our efforts where the need is greatest, the Bernice Barbour Foundation once again demonstrates their ability, as their mission statement makes clear, to make the lives of animals happier and healthier," says Executive Director [...]

Founded 25 years ago today, Alley Cat Advocates has spayed or neutered more than 70,000 stray, free-roaming cats and has seen our community transformed into one that respects the needs of our citizens – cat lovers or not - and our community cats. After a successful capital campaign in 2019, Alley Cat Advocates was able to move into their current home at the Community Cat Complex located on the campus of Louisville Metro Animal Services. This move has enabled the organization to provide onsite spay/neuter surgeries and medical care for the cats. Adam Hamilton, Interim [...]

This Frosty doesn't have "two eyes made out of coal." Instead, he has two beautiful cat eyes that need some help. Frosty has a condition called entropion in his left eye. If you have been around awhile, you know that this happens when the eyelid curls inward and causes the hairs to rub against the eye. This irritation causes pain, and vision impairment and can lead to infections. Surgery will correct the problem and Frosty will go on his merry way soon. Meanwhile, please donate toward Frosty's surgery here.

Monthly recurring donations make it easy to support community cats all year long! We use your PayPal account to set up your monthly gift so you can easily manage and update your giving information. Set up your monthly recurring gift today or contactus@alleycatadvocates.org and we can do it for you.

Are you feeding community cats? Did you know that cold weather increases a cat’s energy and nutritional needs? You should provide extra food and extra water to prevent dehydration and replace it often to keep it from freezing. To prevent pests, only leave food out for 30 minutes to an hour and pick up any disposable plates or trash every time you feed. Learn more about feeding and feeding stations for community cats on our website.     Read More Here