The following story is featured in the Alley Cat Action® 2026 Winter Newsletter. Read the full newsletter edition here.
Throughout 2025, Alley Cat Allies’ Cats Are Family, TooTM—Keeping Families TogetherTM program provided over 1.1 million meals to community cats across the country. In today’s challenging times, when so many people face financial hardship and struggle to afford their own meals, let alone their cats’, we helped ease the pressure.
Community cats and their caregivers are particularly underserved by animal food banks. Together, we’re changing that at a pivotal time. Our community cat food bank in Atlantic County, New Jersey, alone helps caregivers provide meals to more than 800 community cats each day.
250+ Cats Fed in a Single Texas Food Bank Event
Alley Cat Allies’ lifesaving work for cats never takes a holiday! Days before Christmas, our one-day Community Cat Food Bank in Granite Shoals, Texas, provided no-cost wet and dry cat food to more than 250 community cats.
Our team was on the ground to hand out the food personally, and meet cats like Gizmo and Raccoon, who would enjoy those holiday meals. Each caregiver who came to our food bank also received a bundle of Alley Cat Allies’ expert educational materials.
But our action is never confined to a single day. Alley Cat Allies has been working collaboratively in Granite Shoals for years on behalf of cats. It all began in 2023, when community cats and Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) were targeted by threatening rhetoric from the former city manager and a wildlife committee.
Our team strongly condemned the disturbing comments calling for the killing of the cats. And, together with Granite Shoals advocates, organizations, and law enforcement, we championed the only humane and effective policy: TNR.
Guided by our expertise, Granite Shoals went on to implement a TNR program—both in practice and in law! In March of 2024, the city updated its animal ordinance with heavy input from Alley Cat Allies to include language that protects TNR and community cats.
True change only happens when we bring a community together to implement evidence-based humane programs and expand resources that protect and improve cats’ lives in the long term. It’s only because of our supporters like you that we can bring this change about—and we’re just getting started!