By the time the deadline was up for my feral cat commenthon, I had 74 comments, but somebody mentioned on my Facebook page that they were having a problem commenting, so I added them in to make it 75, for a grand total of $37.50… but Spitty’s human offered to match my human’s donation, so Fixnation is getting a full $75! Isn’t that awesome?
My human saw the little adoptable cutie above when she went to Fixnation for their National Feral Day party. Fortunately for me, I did not see her later, because you know my human would have been more than happy to bring her home!
Los Angeles is a very big city and we have several organizations that help feral and stray cats — community cats — through TNR (Trap, Neuter, Release), education and advocacy. Along with Fixnation, there is also Stray Cat Alliance and Kitty Bungalow. That is actually pretty amazing and wonderful, considering that they are all working in what is actually a hostile environment politically for feral cats. Several years back, some humans with very wrong information and attitudes forced an injunction through in this city that prohibits animal control from participating in any actions to help feral cats — or even talking about helping them! Never, ever bring a cat you don’t know into an animal control facility in the city of Los Angeles. If it is judged feral they have no choice but to kill it. I hope this changes someday. But until then, these organizations and others are working hard to protect homeless cats who just want to live and be left in peace.
What is going on in your city regarding community cats? If there are any organizations working on TNR and adopting out socialized former-feral kittens, please get involved. If your city has laws that hurt feral cats, find out if anything is being done to change this. I know that everyone who reads my blog is on the side of us cats… and it is up to you to act on your passion.
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Woot! Your human and Spitty’s mom ROCK!!
YAY that you raised so much money on your Commentathon and that Spitty’s human match your human’s donation, so Fixnation is getting a full $75!
XOXO
Well done on a fab amount raised!!
Oh no, we missed your commentathon. Good that it went so well. We hope to come back to more regular visiting and posting now that things are settling a little at home. Thanks for remembering us and visiting.
Wow! Your Commentathon Rocked!!!!
Kisses
nellie
That is a very nice donation to help the feral kitties. Here in the boonies it’s not a big issue but that is terrible how L.A. Handles it. I too, hope that can change.
What great news! And isn’t Spitty’s mom wonderful? Our mom just heard of a group doing TNR in our community and she is excited to be going to their next meeting this coming Wednesday.
That was very generous of your human and Spitty’s human! Good job you were on their case, or they might have wriggled out of it!!
How wonderful of your Mom and Mr Spitty’s Mom to donate $75!!!!!!!
We know it will take a long time to convince many humans that
they need to treat homeless animals with compassion.
We need to convince them that animals,mostly cats , are NOT disposable!
We try to do the best we can.
Purrs Tillie and Georgia,
Treasure,Tiger, JJ and Julie
That was super Sparkle and it was so nice of Spitty’s Mom to help. The critters appreciate you both!
That is so awesome that you had the Comment-a-thon and that Spitty’s Human matched you! Yay! That little kitty looks exactly like our Inka did as a young cat, purrs for the little cutie to find a loving forever home shortly!
Sparkle this is fantastic! We are so happy that this was a big help to those ferals who need our help.
That was a great commentathon, Sparkle, and how nice of Spitty’s human to contribute too! The real winners are Fixnation and the feral kitties!
Yay for your and Spitty’s humans for helping Fixnation! We don’t have an organization in our town that does TNR but the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon was here the end of September and had a clinic to spay and neuter kitties to help out. We wish we there was more done the rest of the year though.
HOORAY for your commentathon and for Spitty’s Mom. THAT is wonderful!
Good work Sparkle. I must have missed your commentathon and I am sorry. I am usually more on the ball.
concats on the commmentathon and concats to Spitty’s human!
Paws up for your commentathon ! We didn’t realize till today that in the USA feral cats were killed and not re-homed. Concatulations for your action (to your mom too). Purrs
Yay! Every $ and every action to help cats is how we can manifest positive change.
We has a group of peoples here that helps all kitties..they is very good peoples.. 😀
Yay for the commenthon!
Concats on the success of the Commentathon Sparkle…..what a grand organization Fixnation is. As a formerly feral cat I hope people DO get involved in the issue of ferals who really do deserve a home as any other cat does.
Kitty hugs, Sammy
And I made her do it, Sparkle, I really did! We sended our half on Thursday! I also made her read a little about Fixnation on their site and we think it is a fantastic organization! Thanks for everything you do on behalf of our feral brothers and sisters! You are a very good LadyCat, Sparkle, and I think your Human’s okay, too. XOXOXO
Good job, Spitty! You are training your human well.
Hooray for Spitty’s human! That’s what Piranha Banana did for us when we had our commentathon. Animal bloggers are the best. Mom works with one TNR/rescue group in our community, which she has mentioned on several occasions. The other has a no kill shelter as well, and they work hand-in-hand with the group mom works with as they only have foster homes. There is still much trouble with the various local city and county shelters around here. Some won’t even check if a cat is microchipped (though they have the means to do so) prior to euthanizing it. Same goes for ear-tipped cats when one phone call would have them picked up. We have one of the higher-end neighborhoods in our town plagued by rats. A feral colony could really do some good work for them. Los Angeles really has done a disservice to the cats. Hope you and others can get things changed. Purrs and hugs, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
yeah for FIxNation!!!! it is sad that so many communities can’t see past the stupid and realize that ferals in a community aren’t such a bad thing if they are spayed and neutered…..
Congrats. I did not know that was the rule on Feral cats at different shelters. Very sad to hear.
Kudos to your human and Spitty’s human for their much appreciated donation to Fixnation! Pawsome!
Paws up to the commentathon results. We didn’t know that LA detroyed ferals immediately. Our local animal services has a lot of very serious issues, but they do have an arrangement with local TNR groups to “jailbreak” eartipped ferals. We hope that LA can change, too.
Sparkle you had a most successful comment-a-thon!
You are a sweetie
Hugs
Madi your bfff
Sparkle, I cannot believe that your Mom didn’t bring that kitty home. She is soooooooo cute. You lucked out that time Sparkle. We don’t have a lot of TNR here in our town but there is some. It is such a wonderful thing to do.
That’s fantastic news Sparkle,xx Speedy
Congratulations on raising so much $!!! Happy Caturday!
Concats on raising that much for Fixnation, and kudos to all those who commented & matched funds! That little kitten looks adorable! 🙂
We weren’t aware that in the USA feral cats were killed in many places without any efforts made to re-home them. It’s the humans who discard them in the first place and let the feral colonies get bigger that need that doing to them.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx