Shadow Cats desperately needs your help.  Yes, I mean YOU.

Shadow Cats Rescue group feeds 400+ cats each day, rain or shine and right now they are down to the last 150 pounds of food. If you have spare cat food, please contact feralfriend@Austin.rr.com and they will gladly pick up the food.  You may also contact them through that email or their website, http://www.Shadow Cats.net.

Is there someone on you Christmas list who is hard to buy for, or doesn't really want anything, and you feel obliged anyway? Consider donating to Shadow Cats in their name.  If you have some spare cash, or cat food, think about helping them out. 


The harsh reality is not everyone cares for animals.  People abandon them, often without them being neutered.  Cats can have two or three litters of several kittens a year, starting at less than six months of age.  Do the math, and the population of feral cat colonies can make your head spin.

Shadow Cats is doing something about that.  They practice Trap Neuter Return, where volunteers trap the feral cats, vet and neuter them, and if not adoptable, they return them where they found them.  They feed over 400 cats daily.  They make every attempt to socialize kittens, including fostering, so they can be adopted. 

Two such kittens have found a loving home with me.  While born feral, my two, pictured below, are affectionate little purrballs.  The grey, Plunkett (formerly Hocus) just spent the last half hour alternating between lying on my hand, preventing me from typing very fast, or cuddling up on my shoulder, purring, covering me with licks until I kissed him back.  He's a very sweet cat.  My last cat of 16+ years who died recently was born in a house but was not as well socialized as these two.  If it weren't for Shadow Cats, he would have been out during the frosts we've had in the last couple of weeks, as well as some torrential downpours.  But he's not. All because of this volunteer organization. 

So in the season of caring, think about helping Shadow Cats care for their charges.