Pawsitive Change for Kitsap Cats

10/11/2026

It's almost here! This Friday—October 16—is Global Cat Day® and National Feral Cat Day® 🌎🐈

On the big day, we encourage you to take a National Feral Cat Day Action for cats where you live!

You can find action ideas, from doing to handing out educational materials in your community, at GlobalCatDay.org/Take-Action

✏️ PLAN your National Feral Cat Day Action to take place on or around October 16. Find ideas in the link above or come up with your own!

✨ INSPIRE friends, family, neighbors, and other community members to join you in your National Feral Cat Day Action, or plan their own.

💻 POST your National Feral Cat Day Action on social media with a description and photos. Use , , and .

10/08/2026

09/27/2026

Shelters could really use many of the tools in this program to greatly reduce stresses on cats coming in as strays or owner surrenders.

Imagine a veterinary technician who never learns to scruff and has the training to make feline visits calmer and safer.

09/24/2026

Please share and lend your voice. What happened to the cats??

JUSTICE FOR THE HOME DEPOT CATS IN FLORIDA. LAW ENFORCEMENT NEEDS TO INVESTIGATE THE MANAGER AT THAT HOME DEPOT STORE AND MAKE THEM PROVE WHERE EVERY CAT IS. HOME DEPOT IN LAKE CITY FLORIDA SHAME ON YOU.

09/23/2026

FOOD FOR THOUGHT!! We have made animal rescue WAYYY too convenient for everybody except the people actually doing the rescuing.

Moving and can’t take your pets?
“Call a rescue.”
Had a litter you didn’t plan for?
“Call a rescue.”
Cat had kittens because no one got her spayed?
“Call a rescue.” And if the rescue says they are full? Then they are definitely the bad guys. Somewhere along the way, “rescue” stopped meaning helping animals.... And it started meaning offering an unlimited cleanup service for unwanted animals.

Rescue work matters. But so does personal responsibility. We need to have more conversations about how we can do better as a society for animals. We have to stop putting all responsibility and all expectations on rescues and shelters to clean up the mess that is happening everywhere. Overpopulation is bigger than, "Just call a rescue" - All of us have to find a way to better serve the animals that we are sharing our communities with.

09/22/2026

If you've started caring for community cats and don't know where to begin, please don't just grab a trap and hope for the best. TNR is incredibly rewarding, but learning how to do it properly makes the process safer and less stressful for both you and the cats. ❤️

Here are some of the most respected and useful TNR resources to explore:

🐾 Alley Cat Allies
One of the best places to start. They have step-by-step TNR instructions, trapping tips, colony-care information, shelter guidance, post-surgery care, and resources for finding local TNR and low-cost veterinary services. Their Community Resource Tool can help you locate resources in your area.

🐾 Neighborhood Cats
A fantastic resource for hands-on colony management. Their materials cover trapping, feeding, winter shelters, veterinary care, difficult-to-trap cats, kittens, and much more. Their 7 Steps of TNR is an excellent place to learn why planning BEFORE you trap is so important.

🐾 Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends offers extensive resources for community-cat programs and TNR/TNVR, including a comprehensive Community Cat Programs Handbook and practical training materials. Their resources are particularly helpful for understanding how community-cat programs can work at the shelter and community level.

🐾 ASPCA
The ASPCA has information about community cats and publishes a formal position supporting humane, effective, and lawful community-cat management, with TNRM (Trap-Neuter-Return-Monitor) identified as an important approach. Their information can be especially helpful when you're looking for a large animal-welfare organization's perspective.

🐾 Humane World for Animals
Their community-cat resources include information on getting started, finding local organizations and spay/neuter programs, identifying caretakers, and learning the basics of TNR.

❤️ And don't forget your LOCAL resources!

Your local shelter, animal-control agency, humane society, rescue organizations, low-cost spay/neuter clinics, TNR groups, and trap banks may have information specific to your community.

Policies and available resources vary from one community to another, so always find out what is available where you live.

Learn as much as you can. Ask questions. Find an experienced TNR person who can teach you. Take advantage of low-cost resources. Help with trapping or transportation when you're able.

TNR works best when it truly becomes a community effort.

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09/21/2026

This guy is now an extremely cuddly and affectionate lap cat after 10 days of de-stressing and feeling safe. He was going to be euthanized as feral. In Kitsap he would have been turned away from the shelter without so much as a chip scan and the person bringing him in would be told to put him back where they found him. “Managed Intake” fails these cats.