Trap Dat Cat

June Adoptions!

Congrats to these two very lucky kitties- Trinity and Shortbread! They found their forever homes!

While adoptions remain very slow, we are grateful for every kitty we can take off the streets and get into a safe and loving home. If you have been thinking about adopting, now is the time!

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Heads up.... we will not be trapping this week due to our trapping coordinator being out of town. We have often said if anything happens to Nita Fairley Hemeter that TNR in this city would come to a standstill. And this proves it. No one is willing or able to do what she does for these cats.

If you need cats trapped this week, or anytime actually, you can borrow traps from the LA SPCA and do it yourself. Here is how you do it:

You can bring 1-2 cats at a time to The Louisiana SPCA without an appointment for TNR. They must be in a trap. They cannot be in a carrier. You can rent a trap from the LA SPCA or you can borrow one from us. Just bring the cat to the front entrance on any Tuesday or Thursday between 7:30-9am. You will pick them back up the following day. It is $50 per cat, which includes spay/neuter, vaccines, and eartip. If you are from Jefferson Parish and have a drivers license with a Jefferson Parish address there is no charge. If you cannot afford the $50, we can help you cover the costs.

Be sure to label the trap with your name, address, phone number and a description of what the cat looks like (such as gray tabby adult or black and white adult). You can just write on a piece of duct tape and put it on top of the trap. Also be sure there is newspaper in the bottom of the trap when you trap them. And be sure to cover the trap with a towel or pillowcase at all times to keep the cat calm.

You can review the trapping basics and video tutorials on our website for a quick lesson in trapping.
www.trapdatcat.org/learn-to-trap

We will be back to business as usual after June 15th, so if you put in a trapping request, please be patient. Requests are already piling up and we will get to you as soon as we can.

There will be a house sitter at Nita's, but they cannot help with anything trapping or cat related. If you have an emergency, please contact the LA SPCA by dialing 911 and asking for Humane Law.

Many thanks to Nita and all our volunteers for busting their butts every day to get this work done.

Are y'all ready for another super cute T-Shirt? We call this one "Crawfish Season"!

This t-shirt design was donated by Srimoyee Handmade. All her work celebrates wildlife and cats, and each sale supports animal rescue organizations like ours! She donates a portion of her sales to us quarterly, and has been doing so for years!

When we reached out to artists asking them to donate their talent to help us raise money for Trap Dat Cat, she didn't hesitate!

And here's another super sweet fact about this particular design. The cats at the crawfish table are Marjie and Sabrina, who belong to our very own local cat content creator Nola Neighborhood Cats! And Marjie was actually a kitten we rescued and adopted out to her!

Get your "Crawfish Season" t-shirts and merchandise today and help support our continued rescue and TNR efforts!

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Sadly, we had no adoptions for April. I can't believe Bernard is still with us! He is patiently waiting for his forever home! How can you resist this guy?

He is about 6 months old. Has been living as a solo kitten but we would love for him to have a kitty friend.

Apply to adopt Bernard today!
Bit.ly/trapdatcatadopt

Unbelievable. We are still in shock after seeing the numbers this morning from Give Nola Day. We did it! We hit our goal! We SURPASSED our goal! And we won $12,500 in prize money!

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. To every person who donated, promoted us, shared our posts, and harassed their friends and family to donate. To our volunteers who compiled email lists and signed up for donation times in the middle of the night. And to Nita who sent a personal text message to everyone she has ever helped in the city. Y'all, that's A LOT of text messages.

This money means so much to us. With the donations and prize money, that's like half our budget for the year. And it represents hundreds of cats that we can help.

But more than that, it represents the fact that people in this city really care about community cats. There is a huge need for TNR, and yesterday showed us we are not alone in this work. There is a community behind us that believes in what we do and stands behind these cats just as strongly as we do.

Thank you again. We are beyond grateful - and we are getting right back to work!

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