If not for Alley Cat Allies and our supporters like you, a deadly removal of community cats in Puerto Rico would be underway right now.

The United States National Park Service (NPS), which announced intention to eradicate cats from the San Juan National Historic Site late last year, planned to start ripping cats from their outdoor homes as early as October 1, 2024.

Alley Cat Allies’ legal efforts and refusal to back down forced the NPS to agree to halt all movement on its cruel plan until a federal court decision in 2025. Cats like Bella, Mufasina, and Llorin are still eating, sleeping, and playing amid the surf-swept rocks of their outdoor home because of our action—and our supporters like you who make it possible.

Other organizations believed affecting the NPS’s plan wasn’t possible. Alley Cat Allies has faced the “impossible” before. Once upon a time in 1990, humane programs for cats like Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) were considered impossible, too. We made our name by proving otherwise and launching TNR into the mainstream in the U.S. and worldwide.

Now, after launching a historic federal lawsuit against the NPS and celebrating our latest victory, we continue our fight until the NPS abandons its inhumane and illegal plan permanently, and community cats in Puerto Rico are protected and supported as the community members they are. These cats’ future still hangs in the balance.

Learn more and share our victory far and wide at alleycat.org/PuertoRico.