Street Cat Angels

Meet Our Cats Ace Angel #12: Susan, The Pioneer for Mobile’s Community Cats For Susan in Mobile, everything began with a discovery that was impossible to ignore. In early 2005, she found a colony of about thirty cats living behind a business. There were sick kittens with ringworm and eye infections, thin mama cats trying to care for babies, and large tomcats competing for scraps of food. They were all gathered in one place, simply trying to survive. It was heartbreaking, and it felt wrong that nothing was being done to help them. When Susan reached out to the main...

For Jessica Nelson in Willows, everything started with a stray cat named George and what she jokingly calls “paying child support.” When she and her family first took him in, he wasn’t neutered, and it quickly became obvious he had been fathering kittens all over the neighborhood. By the time they were finally able to get him fixed, Jessica believes he may have fathered well over one hundred kittens. Nineteen of those were with their own female cat before she was spayed, and every kitten they personally raised was placed into loving homes. That experience opened her eyes to how...

Meet Our Cats Ace Angel #4: Andra, The Dawn Feeder of Foley Sometimes becoming a Cat Angel begins with one small, unexpected visitor. For Andra Collins in Foley, it was a tiny hungry kitten who appeared at her back door not long after she moved into her new home from Arkansas. She had always loved cats and had brought her boy Luke with her during the move, never imagining that another would soon follow. But the kitten needed help, and she couldn’t turn him away. She fed him, kept him, and named him Socks. At the time, it felt like...

Meet Our Cats Ace Angel #8: Melanie, The Colony Keeper of Manteca Sometimes a Cat Angel is born from one quiet act of kindness.For Melanie Parker, that kindness began at just 13 years old. A Heart for the Forgotten From Argentina to California As a teenager living at a boarding school in Argentina, Melanie noticed the stray cats that wandered nearby. While other students finished their meals and moved on with their day, Melanie did something different. She gave her meat to the strays. It was simple. It was instinctive. And it was the beginning of a lifelong calling. From...

Meet Our Cats Ace Angel #10: Cats Ace Angel Linda  Not every Cat Angel works from a big rescue property or runs an organization. Some simply step outside onto their deck every morning… and make sure no one goes hungry. For 74 year old Linda in Conneaut Lake, that small deck has quietly become a sanctuary. And it all started because people moved away and left their cats behind. When Others Leave, She Steps In Left to right. Peaches, Stash, Star, Fluffy, the front is Stripey Linda lives in a beautiful mobile home park in Conneaut Lake. It is peaceful....

Sometimes becoming a Cat Angel starts with a single moment when you decide not to keep driving. For Janice in Fortuna, that moment happened on a quiet rural road lined with redwood trees in Humboldt County. Every day, she drove past a barn and saw them. Seventeen or more kittens. Tiny bodies scattered across the property. No plan. No protection. No future. People said the man who owned the barn was mean. Most would have kept driving. Janice did not. The Deal That Changed Everything One day, she stopped. She walked up and asked, “What are you going to do...