Chattanooga Feral Cat Alliance

10/01/2026

We started a new colony this week and TNRd boys Sophie, Alex, Oscar and Eddie, and girl Phoebe (who surprisingly wasn’t pregnant!). Their names are courtesy of CHAFCA’s longtime friend and supporter Lisa Smith, who donated during our Fix Ferals by Fall campaign this summer.

There are still about 7 or so more cats left to be TNRd at the Smith Colony, so we’ll be back!
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We’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit providing TNR services for managed colonies in near-downtown Chattanooga neighborhoods. If you’d like to support our work or learn how you can start doing TNR in your neighborhood, please visit the link in our bio. 🏡 🐈 🐈‍⬛ 💚
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Please donate to help feral and community cats! Donations allow us to continue to spay/neuter and vaccinate against rabies—we pay anywhere from $35 to $100 per cat depending on the clinic, so every donation helps. Link to donate is in our bio.

09/29/2026

We had a rare opportunity to trap on a Sunday this week, so we returned to two colonies and TNRd the remaining cat at each one! Fried Chicken was the last cat who hadn’t been trapped yet at the Catering Colony, and BeBe Zahara Benet was the last regular at the RuPaul’s Drag Race Colony. Both girls received spays, rabies vaccines and ear tips before being returned to their respective colonies this morning. We’re happy to have been able to close out these two colonies before the end of the year!

09/20/2026

This past week our volunteers TNRd four cats! Three girls (including one who was pregnant and received a spay abort) and one boy, all who are now back in their respective colonies living their lives healthier, happier and safer. Even though summer is turning into fall, the days are still long and the cats are still reproducing. 😅 If you’re feeding community cats, now is the time to trap, spay/neuter and vaccinate them! Visit our website (link in bio) or send us a message to learn how you can TNR the cats you’re feeding in your neighborhood.

09/10/2026

This week one of our volunteers, Lauren, took the trapping reins and was able to TNR Number 19 and Number 20, two of four kittens belonging to Number 16/Mama, who she TNRd back in June. They’re all part of a large colony where she’s now trapped (you guessed it) 20 cats herself! We love when TNR requests turn into expert trappers 👏 🐈

09/03/2026

This week we provided TNR for eight cats at the Beaches Colony: New Smyrna, Laguna, Clearwater, Garden Key, Daytona, Rockaway, Coney and Atlantic! Clearwater received a spay-abort, which is always the most compassionate choice for a pregnant cat. We say it all the time but it bears repeating: it’s estimated that 75% of kittens born outside will die before they reach six months of age, including kittens whose mothers die during labor. And especially here in Chattanooga, shelters and rescues are full of friendly cats and kittens needing homes, so there’s no place for more to go.

🌟 Our mission as a TNR nonprofit is to humanely reduce overpopulation and improve the lives of community cats, which means we will always choose spay-abort over adding more kittens to an already overwhelming population.
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A big thank you to Camp Chihuahua 🐶 💕 for donating during our Fix Ferals by Fall fundraiser to name this colony! If you’d like to donate to help us continue spaying/neutering and vaccinating community cats, the link to support us is in our bio. We pay anywhere from $35 to $100 per cat depending on the clinic, so every donation helps.

08/27/2026

This week we pulled off a rare feat: we managed to trap every single cat in a colony in just one trapping effort! It helped a lot that the colony caretaker had gotten everyone on a very strict feeding schedule while on our waitlist, and then the TNR stars aligned and in less than two hours we were able to trap everyone in the Star Trek Colony: Beverly Crusher and Jean-Luc Picard plus their kids Guinan, William Riker, Data, Worf and Wesley Crusher. Mama Beverly has had two other litters, so we’re especially glad to have been able to get her spayed before she had another.

🌟 A huge shoutout to our longtime supporter and friend Greg, who donated during our Fix Ferals by Fall campaign and came up with the Star Trek theme. If you’d like to donate to provide names or themes for future colonies, please visit the link in our bio! Donations allow us to continue to spay/neuter and vaccinate against rabies—we pay anywhere from $35 to $100 per cat depending on the clinic, so every donation helps.

08/16/2026

Chanel and Dior are still waiting for their forever home! These girls have been doing great in foster for the last two months, developing confidence and learning how to do “cat stuff” from the resident adult cats in the home. Their favorite activities include chasing each other up and down the stairs, running after mouse toys, napping in the sun together and eating Churu before bedtime. They get along great with the resident cats and dog (a lazy senior), but still prefer to spend their playing and napping time together. They will explore the house separately for a bit, but call for each other if they’re out of sight for too long.

The perfect home for them would be quiet, calm and patient. While they’ve developed a lot of confidence in their foster home, they had a rough start to life in a community cat colony and they’ll need time to adjust to a new environment. We’re not looking for just any home for these girls: we’re looking for the right home with an adopter who understands that earning their trust could take some time.

We’re accepting applications for them to be adopted together; if you’re interested, the link to apply is in our bio.

🐈 Their stats 🐈‍⬛
• 5 months old
• Spayed
• Fully vaccinated
• Microchipped
• FeLV/FIV negative

08/13/2026

We’re celebrating 6️⃣0️⃣ cats trapped, neutered and returned since our Fix Ferals by Fall grant program started on May 15! 🎉 Sixty cats TNRd in just under three months is a huge deal for our small team, which is made up of two trappers and one very dedicated early-morning clinic transport volunteer. We’ve been hustling to get through our very long waitlist, and we really appreciate our regular TNR clinic along with our private vet partners for accommodating more surgeries than usual this summer. We’re really excited to have helped so many cats so far!

This week we TNRd Oliver Twist, a young kitty who showed up at CHAFCA headquarters a while back and was quickly accepted into the colony by long-timers Uncle Meat and Meemaw. We also returned to the Catering Colony and were able to TNR Chicken Cordon Bleu, Caesar Salad and Cobb Salad.

📝 With more than 100 cats currently on our waitlist for TNR, we’ve temporarily closed our request form until we can work through that backlog. If you’re feeding community cats and want to get started with TNR yourself, please reach out to us! We’re happy to offer guidance, advice and best practices to get you started.

08/04/2026

Heads up to anyone who was planning to trap a community cat for surgery tomorrow! McKamey’s Community Cat Day is on pause this week.

🐾 TNR Services Update

Community Cat/TNR services will be paused on Wednesday, August 5th. Services will resume next week.

We’re sorry for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding! 💙🐱

07/30/2026

This week we returned to the Catering Colony, which we’d stabilized after TNRing 20+ cats back in 2024. But unfortunately when nearby folks bring free, unfixed kittens home and then put them outside once they’re not young and cute anymore, they’ll find their way to the largest food source in the neighborhood and start making more cats.

Luckily the caretakers kept our contact info from a few years ago, and we were able to come out and TNR five of the eight new cats this week. Cheesecake, Hot Dog, Pizza Roll, Hamburger and Patty Melt all received surgery, rabies vaccines and ear tips. Can y’all believe that everyone but Hamburger is a girl and NOBODY was pregnant?! We’re buying lotto tickets this weekend.

Hot Dog had a wicked polyp removed from her ear thanks to the meticulous vet at McKamey Animal Center, and she also got an antibiotic injection to help her feel better. She’s probably experiencing all new sounds in stereo now, that thing was so large. 😅

The caretakers warned us that Bagel Bite, a kitten, had started limping this past weekend and sure enough he was found to have a fractured humerus bone (and an upper respiratory infection). Our friends at Felty’s Feline Friends accepted him into their rescue since he’s no longer a candidate for return to the colony, and he’s receiving top-notch care while in medical foster with Blue House Cats 💕. He’s already purring up a storm, so we’re confident he’ll heal up well and get adopted into a loving home once he’s ready.