Sweet Tomatoes Fundraiser - help us fight pet overpopulation by dining out!

Join us on Tuesday, June 8 from 5PM-8PM at the Sweet Tomatoes on Capital Blvd.  for our "FunRaiser" to help raise money for our Alter an Alley Cat fund, which sponsors spay/neuter surgeries for cats owned by families on fixed/low incomes and feral cats.

Please print the linked flyer (http://alleycatsandangels.org/SweetTomatoes.pdf) and bring to the Capital Blvd Sweet Tomatoes, purchase a meal and a beverage (beverage must be purchased in order to Alley Cats to receive credit), and present the flyer at time of order and Alley Cats and Angels will receive 20% of sales generated by our group.

Please assist us in our mission to help end cat overpopulation. Thank you for your support.

During the first four months of 2010, Alley Cats and Angels sponsored over 40 spay/neuter surgeries and vaccinations for cats owned by families on fixed/low incomes and cats in feral colonies.  We may be a small organization, but we are a mighty one!  And we are committed to ending cat overpopulation.  If we had the money, we would spay and neuter every cat in the Triangle area. 

Volunteer Spotlight

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome our new "virtual office" administrator Karen Tracey.  Karen fosters for us, has helped staff adoption/community events, and most recently conducted a home visit of a potential foster home.  Karen wants to continue to expand her role with our organization and we can't thank her enough.  

Karen will take over several very key administration activities including following up with adopters and fosters, maintaining our adopter database, registering microchips, and other various tasks.

So how over the moon happy are we?  In a word - ecstatic! "Thank you" does not convey how appreciative we are for all she does for the cats and our rescue. 

Saturday's Barn Relo

We relocated six cats to a property near Castalia Saturday.  These are six of the trailer park (first trailer park) cats.  Some feral, some semi-feral, some with "potential" and one friendly guy with a blind eye.  The relocation went well and the new caregiver emailed me yesterday to thank me for the "vicious ferals" (haha!!) as he's covered in cat hair because the bad eye kitty was sitting in his lap.  Of course I knew he would be ok with a friendly or two otherwise we would have sent only the ferals.   So bad eye kitty is most likely  moving into the farm house with access to the outside via a doggie door (access to outside after he gets acclimated).  I think kitty will be very happy.   And we are so happy for such a wonderful barn home. 

We've checked in with the last four barn relos we did in April and all of the cats are doing great.

Thank you to all of our barn cat "owners".  You gave a new and safe life to cats that otherwise would have no chance at all. 

Muffin adopted

It was a slow adoption weekend, but we did adopt out one adult yesterday (Saturday).  An adult - YAY!!!   She seems to be settling in well and has already let the poor doggie of the house know that she (Muffin) is the boss! 

Newest kittens from last night

We received a call last night about two kittens found in an attic in a house being remodeled.  It's possible mama cat was moving them to or from the attic when the workmen left for the day and these kittens got locked in.  Thankfully the owners heard the kittens. These two little gems are about two weeks old.  The "cow" kitten is just fine. 

The primarily black (some white) kitten has upper eyelid agenesis -- meaning he has no upper eyelids.  At only two weeks old, his eyes are ulcerated because he has no eyelids to protect his corneas.   This little one will be going into Animal Eye Care next week to see how to proceed.  In some cases, it's treated with artificial tear ointment twice daily, or removal of the offending hairs in conjunction with artificial tear ointment.  Severe cases typically require surgery to create an eyelid (often cryogencially created).  Sometimes treatment is a combination of several of the above.  It's possible this little guy is already blind in one eye. We won't know until he is seen next week at Animal Eye Care.

Cute times two!!

I mean how cute is this??