Bernie’s Buddies Celebrates Community Cat Caretaker
April Zirnheld and her family hosted the first annual Bernie's Buddies 5k walk/run through Iroquois park on November 8th. The event honored Bernard Abell, April's father and a life-long animal lover. Bernie's Buddies donated over $1100 in proceeds to Alley Cat Advocates. This gift will help Alley Cat Advocates to [...]
Foster Volunteers Save Lives
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 [...]
Shopping for Thanksgiving?
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 [...]
Save the Date … December 1 is Giving Tuesday!
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 [...]
Lolly Needs Your Help
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, [...]
Transforming shelters from places where animals go, to places where animals leave!
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 [...]