#TNR cat stickers

[wizardsandco]

[cowboycatss]

I bought this sticker recently at a con (I cannot remember the artist's name rn) and I thought you might appreciate it

hoooooly shit…. maybe this town IS big enough for the both of us..

[constantlyscreaminghere]

I'm sick of this, man. I just wanna make pins and stickers of my art to sell. I wanna make videos doing covers of songs. I wanna rescue and tnr cats. I'm tired of desperately applying for part time entry level jobs that don't even want me.

[edweenie]

selling commissions for TNR (trap-neuter-release) program and stray hospitalization

Hey guys:) A read/reblog on this would be so much appreciated!!! Around my area and a lot of areas around my friends, family, etc. there are cats and kittens overpopulating and a lot are born with diseases and most of them I find are malnourished with numerous other complications... I spend hundreds of dollars taking strays to the vet for medical care then releasing them.

just some proof of (some of the most recent) vet bills...

On designated days and times, the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) allows you to drop off any feral cat and it would be 25$ for a spay/neuter and an additional 15$ for pain medication. Through donation theyre also able to give the cat a free rabies shot. I've been doing this for 2 years now with my local ASPCA clinic. I set out a live trap in hopes to catch a feral cat or kitten. any kittens I catch, my lovely boyfriend takes them into his home and domesticates them. (unless we get them young enough, most kittens we catch are deathly afraid of humans. if they're less than about 9 months old, they can and will slowly adjust to human contact and will become domesticated. in other words, they can get a home!!!!) typically, any feral kittens we catch take about 2 months to become domesticated.

that's 2 months of the kitten living under the care of my boyfriend (and, sometimes, frequent vet visits.) it gets pricey.

after we think the kitten is okay to have a home, we take it to a NO KILL shelter and it will be adopted within a week. the fee of taking a kitten to the shelter is 50$.

some beautiful kittens we got homes for last week. they were all feral upon capture besides Georgia (the tabby cat), with love and lots of work they're now the sweetest, most friendliest kittens.

any feral cats I catch I take to the clinic and get them fixed with their pain meds. again, my boyfriend will take them into his home until they recover from surgery. Male cats take about 2 days, females normally take 4 or 5.

I also hospitalize cats and kittens in my home, all taken to my local and trusted veterinarian.

this is dear faith. she almost had to get an amputation after being attacked by an animal (most likely a stray dog or raccoon; you can see her sling in the photos above). after rehabilitation for about 4 months, she's great now- walking fine, and very happy!

we also nurse and raise kittens as well when they're abandoned by their mother or when the mom is barely around.

these cuties grew up to be such sweethearts and now have great homes. the mother gave birth in our garage and never returned after 2 weeks.

with that being said!!

I'm opening commissions OR donations for this reason only. I've never had commissions before, I've always given away my art freely to people who requested anything. but this is such a pressing issue on my heart and it's very hard to do it without any financial support.

All, and I repeat, ALL of the donations I receive are going to go towards TNR, hospitalization, or kitten drop off (surrender) fees. the money will also go towards gas and expenses along with TNR/hospitalization ex:(new traps, food, litter, etc.)

any donations, or commissions over 20$ will also receive (if address is provided) a FREE sticker:

thank you so much for reading my post. if you cannot donate, reblogs and shares are just as much appreciated. also don't forget that you can drop off food, litter, leashes, etc to your local ASPCA if you can't afford a dollar donation

and just a reminder to stay strong during these trying times. love yourself and spread love to those around you!!!❤🧡💛💚💙💜

[ashen-vulture]

As someone who volunteered at a no-kill shelter, I wish this information was more widely known. I was only there for a year, but in that time it was miserably overcrowded and there were just some animals that got ‘stuck‘ there.

They would always take in pregnant cats because the kittens were quick to adopt, then they’d spay the mom and put her in the TNR program to either be dumped back outside or adopted out through the “Barn Cat” program.

The cat section of the combination animal shelter and thrift shop was comprised of two rooms, a small front room that was stacked almost to the ceiling with crates and small kennels where some cats lived in quarantine and some cats (feral) just lived 24/7 now. And then the back room, which was a little more spacious where the cats who weren’t sick or overly agro lived. There were five litterboxes in that back room that had to be cleaned no less than three times a day. Because there were nearly thirty cats back there at any given time. The room was maybe 15x12, and again with only five litterboxes (though they had added a whole sixth litter box by the time I left and admitted that the room’s capacity was supposed to be twenty).

Over the year I was there I got to know a number of those cats, because they never got adopted out and had already been there for years. The stickers. They were shy or scared or stressed and constantly crammed in corners when strangers came by. People got kittens instead, the most personable and charming and curious/young cats who approached immediately. There were even a couple of Boomerang cats, you know? You adopt them out because they’re a fine cat, and then they are really quickly returned by their adopter, normally due to behavioral problems that became more apparent once they were brought to a new alien environment with weird people and a totally different life schedule. You were allowed to surrender the cat back to them so long as it hadn’t been more than like a month or something (only exception being october).

It was perpetually overcrowded and they could only manage it because they had a steady stream of teen volunteers coming in for 2 hours at a time and a few regulars who were always there.

I just remember one specific instance that one of our boomerang cats got adopted out, and a few more cats were moved from quarantine crates to the Cat Room to make space for a new “feral” cat for TNR and a trio of kittens who had been brought in. The kittens were too young to adopt at first, and that feral calmed down and became friendly after about 2-3 day, so she was probably just a really stressed out and mad stray who was willing to re-acclimate to being fed and brushed on a regular basis, so now she wasn’t a good candidate for Barn Cat OR TNR. The kittens ended up unadoptable for months because the brothers kept passing infections back and forth and we didn’t have the resource to quarantine them from each other. And numbers of cats just piled up like that, and there was never enough room to take in new animals (except kittens, we could ALWAYS make room for more kittens), and even when there was they had to turn animals down because they were always overcrowded and had to account for shelter returns.

Boomerang cat came back a week later because of behavioral issues, something anyone who volunteered to clean the cat room would have been able to warn them about. I liked to call him Mister Bitey for entirely predictable reasons, but he wasn’t a bad cat. I actually really liked this large and feisty man, he had incredible confidence and charisma, and he would have made a great pet. He just needed some better outlets for his energy, some good solo training, and an understanding/patient family that is willing to help heal a middle-aged cat with his own quirks and issues.

But that’s not what most people came to the shelter for.

And the cycle continued.

I think this is super important to remember.

[theshadowytiger]

If you could help kitties by buying cute stuff, why wouldn’t you?

All profits help kitties in need; 2-5lbs of kibble per box sold is donated to our local animal shelter and the rest is used for feral care (TNR, vet, etc). Click here for the store! Jewelry, wallets, and cat toys, oh my! 🙀BONUS; Any orders placed this week get a few kitty head stickers!

We will draw the second name in our giveaway (click) on Thursday!