While 2025 has been a real challenge for WLCA, the cats in care have been provided with exceptional care and homes! Hugo is doing great in his new home. At his last checkup, he needed to lose a couple of pounds but his family is working on that in a safe manner so he loses the weight slowly and keeps it off. Great work, family!

We had Lucky at the vet for some bloodwork, a checkup and her rabies booster. She had previously had an extensive dental and wouldn’t ya know it, the one tooth she has left (aside from her canines) has a resorptive lesion. So, she will be going back to have that tooth removed. Hopefully, that will be the end of dentals for her.

Shadow and Blue are still in foster care and we continue to work on getting their poop solid. Both boys have healed from their full-mouth surgeries and are eating well. In consultation with our vet, both cats will be starting on a fecal transplant supplement.

Did you know, doctors are using poop supplements for humans? That’s right. People diagnosed with a c. difficile infection are getting poop therapy. The success rate for people, and cats, is noteworthy. Each cat gets one capsule of freeze-dried poop each day for 30 days. Healthy cats with a good microbiome profile donate their poop. It is screened for pathogens and viruses before freeze-drying. The idea here is similar to a transplant, where the new poop’s microbes will take over their gut and help them produce normal poop. Shadow and Blue are the first cats to do this at the clinic, so it will be interesting to report on this.

Nothing new to report about Dot other than she’s thoroughly enjoying living with Blue. She’s a happy little kid so long as she has her pal. I’m hoping they will get a home once Blue’s poop is sorted out.

Jaspurr was being fed at a home in the north end for several months before I was contacted. The homeowners thought he was a visitor from the area. and didn’t know he was homeless until he started living in their cat shelter. These lovely people adopted from the WLCA Scaredy Cat Academy program back in 2018. They worked hard to turn their the kitten from shy and skittish, to outgoing and confident. She is now a diva and knows it. They could foster the newcomer, but couldn’t afford vet costs. How could I turn them down?

Jaspurr recently got his neuter at WHS, along with his vaccinations, parasite treatment, tattoo and virus test, which he passed with flying colors. He is still healing from surgery but soon enough he will meet the other cats. We will see what kind of personality he is and what kind of home he fits into. There is no doubt this boy is as handsome as they come. Because he has been fending for himself for months, he hasn’t had the opportunity to have the best food or sleep. He is a long-haired cat who hasn’t seen his potential yet. Once his nutrient needs are being met, his fur will grown in longer and he will be more active. WLCA will be helping this family find him a good home – the right home. Stay tuned for new of his availability.

WLCA has been working hard helping people who message in. We have been helping a family who had a cat they were feeding suddenly show up with kittens. The mother cat had been transferring them from one location to another and used their home as a stopover. I assessed their age and knew they were old enough to eat on their own, so I asked them to scoop the kittens up. Little did I know at the time, mother cat had already move two of them. Over the course of the summer, mom cat would move the two kittens around, but the family remained elusive. It wasn’t until later in the summer the homeowners were able to capture mom and the last kitten. The other kitten stopped showing up a couple of weeks before their capture. Sadly, we weren’t able to find out what happened to them.

Mom wasn’t feral, but she didn’t start out super social either. I had worried that she might be pregnant again, but the family assured me, she wasn’t getting bigger at all. We held off getting her spayed. I had made her an appointment and they were working on socializing her when, out of the blue, I got a text informing me mom cat just had another litter of kittens. Ugh. I should have gone with my gut. With the first batch of kittens largely spoken for, the homeowners got to work on socializing the newest kittens. Finally, we were able to spay the mother cat. Her four kittens will be going for their surgeries at 16 weeks.

As luck would have it, these lovely people also found a batch of kittens at the commercial building they run their business from. They have a spayed warehouse cat and had never seen another in the area. They managed to collect all of the kittens and trap mom, too. Mother cat will be getting her spay in December and will be living in the heated warehouse once she’s ready to go back. The kittens will be spayed/neutered and put up for adoption, with trusted people.

This is a best-case scenario for WLCA. Homeowners who need help with the parts of rescue they can’t navigate on their own, but want to foster and find homes for their cats and kittens are rare. I was happy to be able to help and know these kittens and females are off the street. Those cats won’t be able to reproduce by the time they are adopted to their permanent families.

Fall is giving way to winter and in no time at all, we will be finding out who the homeless cats really are. While we can’t TNR in the winter, we can definitely focus on the cats and kittens who won’t survive the cold. It’s time to get those winter shelters made, scoop up kittens from under the structures in your yard and get your own cats spayed or neutered. A mere $20 will cover a spay or neuter for those who qualify for CARE. If you didn’t think you could rescue a cat, think again. It doesn’t take much. And rescuers like me are always eager to help those who help themselves.