Volunteer News

Petco Foundation grant of $38,000 will extend efforts to save more animal lives in Louisville. Alley Cat Advocates of Louisville, Kentucky today announced it has been awarded a $38,000 grant by the Petco Foundation to support the Alley Cat Advocates Trap-Neuter-Return program. Alley Cat Advocates is a local nonprofit organization serving Louisville and the surrounding counties. Using a humane Trap-Neuter-Return program, Alley Cat Advocates has altered over 35,000 stray cats in our community since they began in 1999. Since 2011 alone, these efforts have contributed to a 61% reduction in the intake of cats at [...]

Pick up the Courier-Journal today to read the feature on Alley Cat Advocates and The Community Foundation of Louisville's Give Local Louisville day.                    

Louisville, KY - March 31, 2016 - Alley Cat Advocates (ACA) has received a grant of $50,000 from Best Friends Animal Society. The funds will help ACA reduce the number of cats euthanized in local shelters by providing spay/neuter surgeries, vaccinations, and veterinary care for over 1,000 unowned community cats in Louisville, Kentucky. Cat caretakers who live in Jefferson County will be offered, at no cost, spay/neuter services for unowned community cats. "We are excited to continue to offer no cost spay/neuter surgeries through our organization and look forward to an exciting year as we [...]

We're looking for a few good men and women who care about helping people and cats! Louisville is lucky to have thousands of residents who care for community cats, keeping them fed and sheltered and getting them neutered. However, some of our elderly and disabled caretakers are not able to trap and transport the cats. This is a critical need in our community. We need enough volunteer trappers to assist our most vulnerable cats and their caretakers. Who can volunteer as a trapper? Must be 18 years old. Have your own transportation. Hours are flexible, [...]

"About three weeks ago, I started yowling uncontrollably, which never happens in December. Then, I started feeling restless. I couldn't settle down. When Whacky Whiskers started following me around, I knew for sure what was happening ... I was in heat! I thought I had a few months of reprieve: no kittens, no male cats. But of course, this warm winter weather had to trick my body into thinking it was spring again. Now I'm a few weeks pregnant, and I'm worried! I wish I had a little tip of my ear missing like ZadieCat. [...]

Enroll today to support Alley Cat Advocates every time you scan your Kroger Plus Card to buy groceries, prescriptions and gas! The program costs you nothing. And, last year Kroger donated over $15,000 to Alley Cat Advocates because people like you chose us as your charity. Visit www.kroger.com/communityrewards and select Alley Cat Advocates (#10571). Thank you!

Thank you to our friends at the ASPCA. A recent technology grant has allowed Alley Cat Advocates to upgrade our phone system to more efficiently answer and manage the 500+ calls we receive each month! ASPCA also provided a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet that will help our team members to communicate, schedule appointments and record data from the road! THANK YOU, ASPCA!

Louisville, KY - November 17, 2015 - Alley Cat Advocates (ACA) has received a grant of $84,000 from PetSmart Charities®, the largest funder of animal welfare efforts in North America. The funds will help ACA reduce number of cats euthanized in local shelters by providing spay/neuter surgeries, vaccinations, and veterinary care for 2,100 unowned community cats in southwest Louisville. Working through the ACA Neighborhoods Program, cat caretakers who live in the Jefferson County zip codes 40219, 40258, 40272, 40208, 40209, 40213, 40214, 40215, 40216, and 40217 will be offered, at no cost, spay/neuter services for [...]

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 [...]

This year we've had an unusually high number of cats in foster care ... from litters of kittens to community cats with injuries, infections and parasites. Right now there are 84 cats in the homes of Alley Cat Advocates foster volunteers. Since we began, Alley Cat Advocates has been committed to providing a gold standard of care to our community cats. We do not euthanize cats that have treatable conditions. Healing Takes Time Healing takes time. By providing 2-3 weeks of foster care, a cat can receive the medical treatment and recovery time she or [...]

Choose Alley Cat Advocates as your charity of choice, at Kroger Community Rewards. You can raise money for community cats while you're shopping for your Thanksgiving feast ... at no cost to you. Kroger has donated $11,584.26 to Alley Cat Advocates over the last year. Not signed up? This support is so important, so easy to do, and there is no cost to you. Visit http://kroger.com/communityrewards and choose Alley Cat Advocates today!

Save the Date ... December 1 is Giving Tuesday! You've heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. But there's another day you need to know about ... Giving Tuesday! This year, on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, Alley Cat Advocates is participating in #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving to the charities and causes you care about most. On December 1st, please consider making a gift to continue the life-saving work of Alley Cat Advocates.  

Lolly Needs Your Help Last Spring Lolly showed up on a country road near a farm. On that very day, a group of loving cat caretakers were putting out traps to take their colony of cats to the Alley Cat Advocates Big Fix. They saw Lolly, a sickly new arrival, and decided to take her along. Their last minute decision saved her life! Lolly was spayed and vaccinated, but her veterinarian also observed a serious ear issue. Lolly has an ear polyp. It is in her ear canal, but growing into other areas of her [...]

Matt Bershadker, President of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), released a Position Statement on the responsibilities of effective animal shelters. His article resonated with our team. Since we began in 1999, Alley Cat Advocates has been dedicated to collaboration with Louisville Metro Animal Services and The Kentucky Humane Society. Mr. Bershadker discusses the following themes that ensure the improvement of struggling shelters: Teamwork - When the very best partner with those who are struggling, more lives are saved and struggling shelters improve. Evolution - Shelters must continue to evolve [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Over the past year, Kroger Community Rewards has donated $11,584.26 to Alley Cat Advocates, because you chose us as your charity of choice. This support allowed Alley Cat Advocates to help 300 more community cats! Kroger requires that you confirm Alley Cat Advocates as your charity of choice each year in August. If you don't, your support expires. Please renew your support at Kroger Community Rewards today! This support is so important, so easy to do, and there is no cost to you. Please re-enroll today to continue supporting Alley Cat Advocates!

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 [...]

Feeding stray cats? If you feed and care for unowned community cats, now is the time to get them fixed! Appointments are available now ... NO lines! NO waiting! NO cost to caretakers! Cats will be spayed/neutered, vaccinated, treated for fleas and ear mites, ear-tipped (the universal sign of a 'fixed' cat) and given a great veterinary check-up! Call (502) 634-8777 today!