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Lolly rests comfortably in the lap of her Alley Cat Advocates foster care volunteer. Meet "Lolly", a little Alley Cat Advocates kitty that is currently in foster care. Her Alley Cat Advocates foster mom calls her Lolly because this cutie is as sweet, or even sweeter, than a lolly pop!  Of course, her real caregiver mom already likely calls her by another beautiful name! Lolly just can't get enough snuggles and hugs, and makes "biscuits" all day! Thanks to her caregiver, Lolly came to our latest Big Fix, to be spayed and to [...]

Our wonderful volunteer, Lauren Kehr, spent the morning with the awesome kids at Laukhuf Elementary sharing information about spay/neuter, trap-neuter-return and community cats.                          

We're currently looking for volunteers to help with our next BIG FIX! Please come help make a real difference for the cats we adore. They are calling your name!!! Current volunteers can call or e-mail us at contactus@alleycatadvocates.org if you are able to help. For those new to the process, the BIG FIX starts with a call to our hotline from a caretaker (someone taking care of an outdoor cat). Caretakers may be caring for one cat or 30! Most caretakers are able to provide food, water, and shelter for the unowned cats in their [...]

In 2012 Louisville was selected to participate in the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Community Partner program. The ASPCA works with Alley Cat Advocates, Louisville Metro Animal Services and The Kentucky Humane Society.  ASPCA provides support and tools to help partner agencies achieve their shared goals: 1.Increase live outcomes 2.Reduce intake Last week ASPCA released our 2014 Community Partner progress report. We are so proud of the results! Increasing Live Outcomes Our community-wide Live Release Rate reached 82.7%. This is an increase of 7.1% from 2013. This means many more [...]

Meet Fob. She came to Alley Cat Advocates from Metro Animal Services. When she arrived she couldn't use her back legs and had to drag herself to move from place to place. She took up residence with an Alley Cat Advocates' foster, where she met a kindred spirit named Bear. Bear is an adult cat who also has no use of his back legs. It was love at first sight. Bear and Fob licked, frolicked and played together. That's when this sweet girl found her name, Fob, for Friend of Bear. Not only did Bear and [...]

Alley Cat Advocates provides these tips for caring for unowned, community cats in snow and cold temperatures: Remember to knock on the hood of your car before starting it. Cats climb into engines for warmth and protection. Community cats can get snowed in, so it is important to remove snow from all entrances and exits to their shelters. Shovel regularly to stay ahead of the snowfall. Avoid using salts and chemicals near your cat colonies that are designed to melt snow. They can be toxic when licked off paws or ingested from melting puddles and [...]

We're currently looking for volunteers to help with our next BIG FIXES!  Yes, that's right!  It is kitten season and we're working overtime with two Big Fix events in March! Please come help make a real difference for the cats we adore. They are calling your name!!! Current volunteers can call or e-mail us at contactus@alleycatadvocates.org if you are able to help. For those new to the process, the BIG FIX starts with a call to our hotline from a caretaker (someone taking care of an outdoor cat). Caretakers may be caring for one cat [...]

Love your community cats ... but don't want more? Kitten season is right around the corner.  And, these unseasonably warm February days mean kitties are getting an early start.  They are getting frisky, and you know what that means. Don't forget about the fellows! Fixing your male cats prevents more unwanted pregnancies and reduces or eliminates the incidence of roaming, fighting, urine marking and other objectionable behaviors. Get ahead of kitten season! Now is the time to fix your cats! Call (502) 634-8777 to get started.

Neighborhoods Program Expands to ALL Jefferson County Zip Codes Alley Cat Advocates is receiving national attention and support for our progress in making this the safest city in the country for community cats! Thanks to support from Petsmart Charities, ASPCA and Best Friends Animal Society, the Neighborhoods Program has been expanded to all Jefferson County Zip Codes. Day-by-day and cat-by-cat we are working with our partners at Metro Animal Services and Kentucky Humane Society to: Implement Trap-Neuter-Return and other key programs to reduce community cat over-population. Improve the health and safety of community cats by [...]

Thanks to the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, our transport van is now equipped with wonderful shelving to keep the kitties safe and secure during transport. The van, whom we affectionately call Audrey, was purchased with funds from Best Friends Animal Society. Thanks to both groups for their support and help with the kitties.

Apricot came to Alley Cat Advocates on Oaks Day 2014. He suffered from a high fever which caused a neurological disorder. Eight months later, Apricot has been fostered, loved and rehabbed.  He attended his first Alley Cat Advocates volunteer meeting and made the rounds!  He was perfectly at home, visiting with each volunteer around the table and giving each person ample time to scratch his head or rub his belly. Because of his neurological disorder, he can't return to the outdoors.  He has found a forever home with the founders of Alley Cat Advocates, Karen [...]

Reposted from ASPCA: http://www.aspcapro.org/blog/2014/10/13/spotlight-alley-cat-advocates Since 1999, Louisville, KY’s Alley Cat Advocates (ACA) has spayed and neutered more than 30,000 community cats. Thanks to their Big Fix and Quick Fix programs, Operation City Kitty community outreach program, and collaboration with Louisville Metro Animal Services and Kentucky Humane Society, this ASPCA Partnership agency is making Louisville a safer place for unowned cats. We talked with ACA’s co-founder and executive director, Karen Little, about the organization’s groundbreaking work. ASPCApro: How did Alley Cat Advocates get started? Karen Little: In the 1990s I worked for the University of Louisville. [...]

Alley Cat Advocates has been given a grant, thanks to an anonymous donation through Best Friends Animal Society. The grant was awarded to three key local organizations, Alley Cat Advocates, Saving Sunny and the Kentucky Humane Society to enhance and save more of the most at-risk pets in the shelter - community cats and pit bull terriers. "The organizations have been working together for a while, and the additional funding brings more pieces to the no-kill equation," says Michelle Logan, Best Friends Animal Society. The grant will help Alley Cat Advocates to reach and save [...]

Please enroll today to support Alley Cat Advocates! Enroll today to support Alley Cat Advocates!  You'll support Alley Cat Advocates every time you scan your Kroger Plus Card to buy groceries, prescriptions and gas! Here's how to enroll: Visit www.kroger.com/communityrewards Sign in to your online account, or create an account Scroll down to find your store location and click "Enroll Now" Find and select Alley Cat Advocates, and click "Save" You'll need to re-enroll every August.  We'll remind you Have a question? Need help signing up? Contact development@alleycatadvocates.org

Do you know someone who lives in the 40208, 40209, 40213, 40214, 40215, 40216, 40217, 40219, 40258, or 40272 zip code who feeds and cares for unowned community cats? Our Neighborhoods Program, supported by Petsmart Charities, has been expanded to include ten zip codes. The program targets those zip codes with high rates of stray cat intake into Metro Animal Services. This targeted neighborhood approach has been wildly successful. Although the PetSmart Charities grant was designed to targeted specific zip codes, Alley Cat Advocates will help caretakers and community cats in ALL zip codes. Call [...]

Recently, a Kentucky city passed a leash law. Alley Cat Advocates received a number of calls and emails from concerned citizens wondering if this city's law would have a negative impact on our unowned community cats. It does not. But, we're glad you asked.  Those questions prompted us to share a brief overview of our wonderful, groundbreaking Metro Louisville city ordinance! In early 2012, Alley Cat Advocates, Metro Animal Services and Metro Council representatives began working to develop an ordinance that would serve the citizens and the cats of our community. In late April, 2012 [...]

Alley Cat Advocates earned “bragging rights” as a national model for success for reducing cat overpopulation and creating a safe city for community cats. Alley Cat Advocates Executive Director Karen Little spoke last month in Virginia at a regional symposium called “Rethinking the Cat,” sponsored by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). In her presentation, Karen shared the story of the truly remarkable and successful collaboration between local organizations and the community of people who have made Alley Cat Advocates a success story that other cities can model. Attendees had a choice of [...]