Cat Trap Fever

06/02/2026

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After double (okay… quadruple) checking our math, we realized we completely missed celebrating our 1,000th cat vetted in 2026 — last Thursday! 🎉

Not because it wasn’t important… but because we’re moving nonstop. Every day is filled with the mission: the care, the decision-making, and constant coordination with fosters, finders, caregivers, and rescue partners.

Right now, in foster care alone, we’re juggling:
• four leg fracture cases
• one upcoming eye removal + two in recovery
• a senior with an unknown mass
• two dental cases
• a complex hoarding case
…and still transporting double-digit cats to and from clinics daily.

On top of that? 70 underage kittens currently in foster. 😵‍💫

We do all of this for $0 pay, by choice — driven purely by belief in this work and the impact it has. We have jobs and families that are completely separate from the CTF efforts!

If every one of our 3,000+ followers donated just the $35 average TNR cost, we’d generate over $100,000 in financial resources for these cats that are no one's and everyone's. The support we’ve already received — locally and beyond — has been incredible, and it’s what makes milestones like this possible. 🫂🙏

Because of you, we’ve now surpassed 1,000 cats vetted this year — and that doesn’t even include the many intact transfers to trusted rescue partners, especially for vulnerable kittens. This is TNVR+, and it’s saving lives on multiple levels.

We’re also currently sharing our trusty cargo van between Jessica and Sue, making it work day by day — but it’s clear we need another one. If you have a lead or want to support this specific need, please reach out directly. We spent 8 months finding our last “unicorn” van, and we’ll be just as thoughtful again. 🐾🚐💝

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05/31/2026

There are no words to describe the gratitude, appropriately 🙏🫂

05/31/2026

We have quite a few litters who are on the younger side of weaning and would benefit from some options of various wet foods for slurry making. Between the moms being stressed out and generally unwell/unthrifty, themselves, we have a few who have chosen to abandon their good mothering tactics. This pivots our plan to keep em on mommy cats til 1lb.

This fragile age also warrants some urgent care food which is a prescription-only item that is packed with nutrients. The texture is phenomenal but the price point is a doozy. We do have an active prescription for this food which we are so grateful for but unfortunately, it's nothing that can be purchased on a wishlist.

If you could spare some supportive dollars for our foster kitties, we would be so grateful. We've added three kitten wet foods, atypical to our go-to's but beneficial for little ones.

https://linktr.ee/JessiCatTrapFever

05/22/2026

Self trappers!
Limitations on the holiday weekend!

Memorial Day Weekend Intake Schedule:
Intake for MEOW Now self-trapping will be OPEN Sunday, May 24.
Intake will be CLOSED Monday, May 25, as the shelter will be closed for Memorial Day.
If you are trapping this weekend and planning to bring cats in Sunday, we advise you to be here when we open at 10 a.m.! Sign up for our MEOW Now text notifications by texting JOIN to 813-497-2362 so you can get prompt notifications if our program reaches capacity.

05/20/2026

How sweet it is to be loved by you
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Some kitten beans for your enjoyment!

05/16/2026

The greatest need is a safe place for these cats to land lined up! Please please consider acclimation to your home. An outside of the box idea might be a fun little garage cat or two. They make for excellent natural rodent repellent and truly don't require more than food, water and someone in their corner.

05/11/2026

Such a special girl to us! Her journey has been full of judgement calls, professional advisements, unconditional love and trust building. Now, she is the star of our show. I have no doubts that she will find her person through Cat Kids screening adoptions protocols and make someone so so happy!

05/11/2026

More gremlins from a different skeptically, scared-to-bits-mommy cat, who came in yesterday. She said no paparazzi 🤣 They are so stinking cute but so skinny and scrawny! This litter isn't screaming obvious illness but they are definitely not healthy and hearty like we love to see at this age. They were riddled with fleas and intestinal parasites that take a grueling toll on fragile felines.

With just a short required time window to stay with their under socialized mom while at Cat Trap Fever, we will keep this litter in house, at home base, as to not stress mom into mutilation/elimination/and/or/rejection of her kittens while we encourage supplemental nibbles, antiparasitics and calorie support. This litter was sent our way and we're questioning whether they are tried and true developmental sibling or their caregiver just hodge podged them together. Either way, we're providing assisted trap, neuter, return for any and all adults in the clowder. That is always our first priority. We gauge kitten ability into our scheduling formula which will never be perfect but we'll always help when we can and always aim for 100% stability through sterility!

We know, somewhere not far, there's a pregnant cat or two in rescue foster care, waiting on kittens to be born. We encourage everyone to do some research on termination spay or a common practice referenced as spay-abort. In animal welfare, it is our duty to provide possibilities to cats and kittens in need. Since there *IS* an option to safely and humanely terminate a pregnancy in cats, it should be a no-brainer to take that option. Immediately and urgently, in order to save a litter who's already out there, suffering right now. If your queen is so friendly that you want to rehome her instead of TNR her, it should be a short recovery stay in foster not the long and drawn out, romanticizing doula stage, nursing stage, waiting waiting waiting before she finally gets her chance to shine- then to be in direct competition at being chosen by her own offspring 😭

If you care to sponsor a spay on behalf of a suffering kitten or litter of kittens, out there, our approximation for TNVR cats is just $35-$45!

https://linktr.ee/JessiCatTrapFever