NEW RESOURCES: COVID-19 Guides for Advocates and Animal Professionals
At Alley Cat Allies, we are committed to providing you with good common-sense advice to protect yourself and the animals you care for during the COVID-19 pandemic. Things are far from “business as usual,” and we have to operate in new, innovative ways in order to continue our important work for cats and kittens. With […]
Defending Cats in 2020
It’s been a busy summer in our global movement to protect cats. We have been hard at work protecting the cats of Casper, Wyoming, where a cruel feeding ban on cats outdoors would have passed last month if not for pressure from Alley Cat Allies, dedicated grassroots advocates, and our supporters. Journalists across the country […]
Alley Cat Allies COVID-19 Funding Saves Kittens and Feeds Cats in North Carolina
Through our Keeping Families TogetherTM campaign, Alley Cat Allies is helping to save cats and kittens in communities across the nation, including the Brunswick County area in North Carolina, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn. Our emergency funding allowed local organization Paws-Ability to feed and care for cats in need—like a tiny kitten named Opie. Opie was […]
Alley Cat Allies Thanks Local Advocates for Big Shift in Casper, Wyoming Law
Alley Cat Allies deeply thanks our supporters, and especially all of the local grassroots advocates, who successfully pressured the City Council in Casper, Wyoming, to drop a proposed feeding ban for cats outdoors. By empowering these Casper residents to speak out, advocate, and spread the word about the unacceptable ban, we drove a big shift […]
Alley Cat Allies Provides Emergency Funding for Cats in Brunswick County in Response to Pandemic
SOUTHPORT, N.C. – Sept. 15, 2020 – Alley Cat Allies is building upon its extraordinary support of families with cats and dogs in their homes and caregivers who feed community cats, with a new donation of veterinary care and dozens of bags of animal food to Paws-Ability, a Brunswick County animal welfare organization. The support […]
Alley Cat Allies Reacts to Casper City Council Vote on Community Cats and Animal Ordinance
Alley Cat Allies deeply thanks our supporters who successfully pressured Casper City Council to drop a proposed feeding ban for cats, but also explaining that Council has simply substituted one bad idea with another. “We thank the many Casper residents and people around the world who spoke out for the cats, which demonstrated overwhelming opposition […]
Starving Cats is Not the Compassionate Choice for Casper
On Tuesday, September 1, the City Council of Casper, Wyoming, is scheduled to hold a final vote on a feeding ban which would criminalize the compassionate act of feeding cats outdoors. Even residents who feed community cats on their own property would be subject to penalty. Ahead of the meeting, Alley Cat Allies is mobilizing […]
ACTION ALERT: Raise your voice to protect Casper Cats
Casper City Council in Wyoming is moving forward with a measure that would starve cats outdoors and make it a crime to feed them, even when people do so on their own property. We urgently need cat advocates everywhere to help convince Council to reject the feeding ban when it comes up for its third […]
Alley Cat Allies Rushes to Protect Cats as Hurricane Laura Approaches
Ahead of Hurricane Laura, which is predicted to strike the border between Louisiana and Texas tomorrow as a dangerous Category 4 hurricane, Alley Cat Allies has been moving fast to protect cats and kittens in the storm’s path. “The threats posed by the hurricane are heightened by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, which has left communities strained financially and complicates […]
Alley Cat Allies Demands Casper Drop Cat Feeding Ban
CASPER, Wyo. – Aug. 4, 2020 – Alley Cat Allies, the global engine of change for cats, is demanding that the Casper, Wyoming, City Council immediately table a proposed ban for the feeding of feral cats and instead focus on humane management of the city’s cat population. “Feeding bans have proven to be failed policy […]