Edda is a 60-year old woman with limited income and means caring for up to 20 cats in the Hermosa neighborhood of Chicago, an area filled with cats. This is a very common scenario on the west side of Chicago and all over for people who feed cats. My TNR friend Oleksandra told me… Read more »
Back in April we helped Katarina find her lost declawed pet cat, Nico. Another neighbor, Steve, eventually found Nico on his property. In the meantime we TNR’d two other cats while we set out traps for Nico. One of those cats was Bailey. I wasn’t surprised to trap these other cats. There are… Read more »
The four kittens trapped from the Charlie Chaplin Colony last week are already in the admission process for PAWS Chicago’s adoption program. They just need to gain some weight and get fully vetted. Their first appointment for their vaccinations at PAWS is tomorrow, and we couldn’t be more proud of them! They are complete… Read more »
When we started TNR on the Charlie Chaplin Colony, Melanie told us about a mama cat and kittens. We trapped the mama cat, Katler, right away but let her go because we could see she was lactating and we weren’t sure if the kittens were completely weaned, or where they even were. Melanie… Read more »
A young man named Atticus was worried about a TNR’d colony cat on his block. The cat was acting sick and lethargic, so Atticus posted this heartbreaking message on Everyblock, asking for help: “so there’s a feral cat, a sweet old man, who lives on my block. i think a neighbor across the street usually… Read more »
Say that five times fast! A woman named Margie called from another location in Avondale about a very sick kitten she found in front of her house, by himself right in her front yard. It was supposed to start raining with tornado warnings really soon so Joann went straight to her house to pick… Read more »
When I first started talking to Kim a few months ago about all of the cats she was seeing in her colony and neighborhood of Avondale, I was determined to help her mostly because of a cat named Big Daddy. Her Big Daddy Colony is named after him to honor his memory. Big Daddy… Read more »
We think Maribella is the mama cat to at least some of the kittens being fostered from the Avondale TNR Project. In true mama cat-like fashion, she’s been very hard to trap. George, the feeder there, will not stop feeding, so that doesn’t help either. In fact, there’s been a lot of things happening… Read more »
Cats #19 and #20 trapped from the Avondale TNR Project ended up belonging to a neighbor that lets all of their pet cats outside. Panther was trapped last week and taken to PAWS where she received their TNR package, including spay surgery, ear tipping, microchip, vaccinations, and parasite treatments. She was also acting friendly… Read more »
Ivan is the second cat that has died since we started the Avondale TNR Project. With every TNR project of this size – here we are talking about estimates of 50 cats within three blocks – there are always inevitably sad endings along with the happy ones. Ivan was trapped and taken to the clinic… Read more »