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Alley Cat Project’s primary mission is to reduce the population of stray cats in Seattle through trap, neuter, and return of feral cats. We spay and neuter feral adult cats, and we foster, socialize and adopt out kittens as well as adult cats who have socialization potential. ACP is 100% volunteer run and foster based, and does not have a physical shelter.
What We Do
Here are some things we do to help Seattle’s feral, stray and abandoned cats:
- Trap, Neuter (or spay), and Return (TNR) feral cats to their colonies. TNR is a humane solution to the problem of unowned free roaming cats.
- Foster friendly cats who were lost or abandoned so that they can be redeemed by an owner or adopted to a new family.
- Socialize semi-friendly kittens and cats so they can be adopted as pets.
- Provide basic medical care, nutritious food, and safe and sanitary conditions to all cats after alteration.
- Alter cats through the services of Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Project (FCSNP).
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Alley Cat Project
Alley Cat Project is a non profit organization run by volunteers working to reduce the cat population through humane solutions such as trap, neuter, return (TNR).
In honor of National Tabby Day, here are some of our most beautiful and unusual tabby cats, in all of their striped, swirled, spotted, and ticked glory! We've got mackerel tabbies, classic tabbies, spotted tabbies, ticked tabbies, tabby points, dilute tabbies, torbies and torticos, tuxedos, and piebald tabbies! Which is your favorite?
Please forgive our accidental sneak peek of next week’s mewsletter! ![]()
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Today’s actual mewsletter discussed the importance of sterilization, especially for female cats. Unaltered female cats not only run the risk of experiencing back-to-back pregnancies, which is incredibly taxing on their bodies, but that also puts them at a high risk of developing an infection called pyometra. We’ve already seen a few of these cases so far this year, and luckily we were able to intervene before it turned deadly. ![]()
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Your donation this Give Big will help ensure that we are able to continue to provide prompt veterinary care for the cats who need it most. Feral or not, they are all deserving of a healthy life free from pain and suffering ❤️🩹
There will never be enough slides for us to showcase the INCREDIBLE, INDESCRIBABLE, SELFLESS work that our volunteers do! ![]()
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Answering calls, trapping, fostering, adoption screening, event planning, fundraising, accounting, driving, clinic planning, recovering, kennel cleaning, socializing, marketing, networking, vaccinating, medical advising, record keeping, bottle feeding, website building, supply ordering, acknowledgment writing, adoption profile auditing, photographing, training, recruiting, community building, feral feeding, supply storing, advocating, shelter building, fospice-ing, lost pet reuniting, ringworm-quarantining, fecal float preparing…..and certainly we’ve forgotten a few (not on purpose) ![]()
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This work is hard. It’s heartbreaking, infuriating, stressful, challenging. There’s poop. There’s pee. There’s loss. There are bites and urgent care visits and being paranoid about rabies! There are people who love what we do and people who hate it. Sleepless nights hoping the cats you’re responsible for will make it til morning. Trying to say yes to every call for help while keeping one eye on the bank account wondering “Can we afford it? We have to” ![]()
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And there’s love. Lots and lots and lots of love. Respect. Selflessness. Gratitude. How lucky are we to have a group of 350+ badass people giving up their time (a lot of it) to help the cats of Seattle and beyond?! Not enough slides. Not enough words. ![]()
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Thank you, team Alley Cat. We truly could not do it without you.
🐾Raise your paws if you have a new furrever home! ![]()
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This sweet lil tabby, El Tigre, was recently adopted along with his brother, Blue Steel, after being socialized by one of our dedicated foster parents. 🫶 Another happy ending thanks to our amazing trappers, vaccinators, transporters, fosters, and donors! 🙏![]()
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👅🐱🐶Tongue Out Tuesday is better with friends! 🐶🐱👅![]()
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These adorable foster kittens have found the perfect playmate…their resident dog buddy!![]()
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Moments like these highlight what foster care is all about—helping cats and kittens become confident, social, and ready for their forever families. ❤️![]()
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If you’d like to support Alley Cat Project, make sure to mark your calendars for our GiveBig fundraiser on May 5, with early giving starting on April 28!![]()
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If you subscribe to our mewsletter, you already saw todays story of the heavily pregnant cat we rescued from an encampment, who gave birth less than two hours after arriving safely in foster care😮![]()
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Pregnancy can be challenging for cats, especially without reliable shelter, warmth, or nutrition. Thanks to quick action, this mom was able to deliver her kittens in a clean, safe space, with steady access to food, water, and medical care- including an unplanned visit to the emergency vet. Today, she and her babies are thriving- a reminder of what’s possible with timely intervention and compassionate support 🫂![]()
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At the same time, we’re heading into the height of kitten season. Shelters and rescues are feeling the strain, and more kittens are being born outdoors every day. Some, like black cats, may take longer to find homes, and the growing number of litters means increased demand for care, space, and adopters.![]()
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But there’s hope! We know that we can’t adopt our way out of overpopulation alone. Lasting change comes from preventing the cycle before it starts. By supporting our trap-neuter-return (and trap-neuter-adopt) work, you’re helping create a future where fewer kittens are born into hardship, and more cats can live safe, healthy lives ❤️![]()
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