Support Stray Cats' Road to Recovery

Help these stray momma cats and kittens recover from illness, get neutered, and find loving homes.

Here's the "Too Long, Didn't Read Version" - I want to take 5 sick cats to the vet and spay 2 female cats so they can't keep having kittens every season. The eventual goal is to get these cats healthy enough to find loving homes.

Story:

The Cat Distribution System is real people, and I'm here to tell you how I was so blessed (obligated?) to take care of a community of cats that found my soft heart and decided to hang around.

I live in an area that is absolutely drowning in stray cats. There's far too many, they're competing with each other, they get sick and unfortunately don't often live a full life. 7 such cats have taken to visiting my front porch each day, and I can't keep up.

I'm a camera operator in the Atlanta film industry. When we hit our major work slowdown last year due to the strikes, things didn't bounce back this year like we all hoped it would. We're all still struggling to get enough work to get by.

Unfortunately, this is also when a bunch of strays who rely on me have gotten an upper respiratory illness that requires prescription medication.

Going to the vet is already expensive for your own pets, but for these guys? It's getting unmanageable.

The first I took to the vet was the <1 yr old I call Kitten-Cat, who got so sick earlier this spring I caved and brought her to the vet.

That vet visit absolutely saved her life.

Kitten-Cat had an upper respiratory illness, an eye infection and a devastatingly bad eye ulcer (read - hole in the cornea) that required her to wear an Elizabethan collar and come indoors for about a month. If she didn't come in, that eye ulcer could have ruptured and she would have gone blind. Kitten-Cat required flea meds, antibiotics 2 times a day and prescription eye drops 3 times a day. This sweet kitty took to living in doors like a champ, healed up amazingly, and is back outside with her friends.

Before (you can see the ulcer in her right eye):

After - A healthy, affectionate cat:

But that same illness combo of eye infection and upper respiratory is going through all the kittens and one of the resident momma cats now too.

A few days ago I took Kitten-Cat's littermate to the vet. I found him outside, lethargic, unwilling to eat food. The vet gave him an antibiotic shot. Said he was anemic. This cat died that evening and I had to bury him the next morning, feeling all sorts of guilt that I couldn't help him.

I am not one to ask for money or even help at the best of times, but a friend of mine reminded me there's plenty of people who would want to throw their $10-15 in to help some cats.

Here's my goal to achieve with whatever money we raise:

Ultimate, ultimate goal?

Can you spare a few dollars to help me reach these goals?