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Enjoy a night out and support Alley Cat Advocates! Bring this flyer to BoomBozz Taphouse in the Highlands on Tuesday, February 21. Turn the flyer in with your order.  Alley Cat Advocates will received 20% of your order total as a donation. BoomBozz Pizza & Taphouse 1448 Bardstown Road located in the Highlands at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Bardstown Road Please share!  Bring a friend.  We hope to see you there!        

After our summer-like Saturday, winter blew in to remind us ... it is December! Keep your community cat warm, cozy and safe this winter. Visit our community cat center for easy ideas to care for un-owned, community cats in snow and cold temperatures. Try this simple plan to build a winter shelter for your outdoor cats. It is simple, inexpensive, and your kitty will purr with delight. Learn more ...  

With a twinkle in her eye, and a Ho-Ho-Ho, Stephanie Gillis, Alley Cat Advocates Cat Care Coordinator checks in another lucky community cat. Our work doesn't stop. This week we're giving 169 community cats the best holiday gift. They are scheduled for spay or neuter, vaccinations and the best veterinary care! Because of YOU, we have spayed or neutered thousands of community cats this year. Thank you for your support. We wish you happy holidays!    

When Ms. Kitty arrived at Alley Cat Advocates for her spay appointment last month, we asked the caretaker if she was having any other medical issues. This is a routine question, because for most community cats, this appointment is likely the only vet visit they will ever have. Her caretaker reported that she appeared to be in pain, barely able to walk, and was suffering from an upper respiratory infection. After the spay procedure, she got the antibiotics she needed and her breathing improved. Unfortunately, x-rays and blood tests showed that her joints were severely [...]

Prince Charming found his way to Alley Cat Advocates for neuter surgery. During his exam the vet team found that this shy, sweet boy had serious and painful dental problems. Prince Charming's teeth were cleaned, many decayed teeth were removed, and he was neutered. His oral surgery hasn't detered him from being a great eater and enjoying his treats. But, there was something Prince Charming wanted more than food - love. This large cat with a scarred face wanted what most cats do, someone to take the time to get to know him. He may [...]

Meet Charm.  This unaltered boy with a broken leg was brought to Alley Cat Advocates from Louisville Metro Animal Services.  No one knows when or how Charm was injured.  - Upon arrival, Alley Cat Advocates went to work.  Charm was x-rayed and examined by veterinarians.  The team found that his bone had already started to calcify and heal.  The vet team decided that the best option was to allow Charm's leg to continue to heal on its own.  - Charm was neutered and delivered to foster care.  Since then, he has been recovering in the [...]

Thanks to everyone who attended the Alley Cat Advocates annual holiday party and made gift baskets for our volunteer vets.  YOU are heroes! See the holiday party photos.

*** Updated 11/30/2016 *** Niko came to Alley Cat Advocates as a severely ill kitten. We almost lost her. But, after hospitalized and care, she was transported to an Alley Cat Advocates foster volunteer. She was kept warm in an incubator and loved and cared for by her foster mom. Fast forward ... look at her now! She's now taken up part ownership of her foster mom's recliner :) Niko still needs more time to get strong but she has already exceeded all expectations, just by surviving! Thanks to Alley Cat Advocates friends and supporters, [...]

April Zirnheld and her family hosted the second annual Bernie's Buddies fundraiser to benefit Alley Cat Advocates on November 12. The event honored Bernard Abell, April's father and a life-long animal lover. Bernie's Buddies donates all proceeds to Alley Cat Advocates. This gift will help Alley Cat Advocates to provide spay or neuter and vaccinations more community cats this year. Mr. Abell was known and loved by our team as a wonderful guardian and advocate for community cats. He is missed and we are so honored to be a part of his beautiful legacy. Special [...]

This sweet girl arrived at Alley Cat Advocates with serious injuries, a ruptured and bulging eye, broken jaw, and an injured tongue. She had likely been hit by a car and was found in her neighborhood emaciated, dehydrated and unable to eat. After just a few weeks with the Alley Cat Advocates team, she is healing and feeling like herself again. She made her debut at our monthly meeting and walked down the table introducing herself to each person. When Executive Director, Karen Little, asked us to name her, a volunteer suggested "Flower." As she [...]

*** Simon Update *** Look at me now! They removed that painful leg that gave me so much trouble. They're calling me "tripod" and I'm getting faster and faster on my three legs. I was boney and my hair looked terrible! Now, I'm looking more handsome every day, filling out a bit and my hair is so smooth and silky. My foster Mom loves me to pieces. She tells me how handsome I am while I snuggle on her lap. Thank you to Alley Cat Advocates volunteers and donors who saved my life. Purrrrrrrr!   [...]

Charlotte, a community cat caretaker, recently sent us this note. "Only two of our 'Alley Cat' cats are still with us. Ziggy and Rosie were the youngest of the group that was trapped and fixed by Alley Cat Advocates 15 years ago. They are litter-mates, both sweet and gentle. Thank you so much for all you do." We reached out to Charlotte to hear her story. Charlotte remembers a cold night 15 years ago when the first stray cat began to hang around her house. "We noticed stray cats and of course, we fed them. [...]

Click to Read Pick up a copy of this month's Catster Magazine (formerly Cat Fancy) to see the beautiful face of our Buddy-Bear. Writer Denise LeBeau captured his touching story. Buddy-Bear is a symbol of the changes brought about by our work in the community. "Only a few years ago in our city, a disabled cat like Buddy, one that couldn't walk, would automatically have been put down," said Karen Little, executive director of Alley Cat Advocates. Today, in 2016, that kind of automatic thinking no longer happens. Read Buddy's story below. And, [...]

Miss Agatha is like most calicos - beautiful and strong. She looks at people with a certain curiosity and beckons them to pet her with her expressive eyes. However, Agatha's spark was dimmed. She suffered a pelvic fracture and a tail and spinal injury. Most of her tail was gone but an open wound remained. Obviously, she was in tremendous pain. Metro Animal Services reached out to Alley Cat Advocates, and we immediately connected her to our superb community of veterinarians at Jefferson Animal Hospital and Fairleigh Pet Center who were able to provide the [...]