Cats Home Foundation

05/26/2026

2am feedings. Tiny paws no bigger than a fingertip. Kittens fighting to survive before they have even had the chance to live. 🍼🐾

The first kittens of 2026 are already in our Kitten Nursery Program, and right now, they are alive because this community chose to care.

This year’s first nursery kittens came into care alongside a mother cat who was struggling with serious health concerns and required hospitalization herself, while her babies needed immediate intervention and specialized care for multiple illnesses.

And that is what this program is here for.

Some kittens come into the nursery orphaned. Some arrive critically ill, dehydrated, or dangerously underweight. Others need emergency support because their mother is too sick to safely care for them on her own.

No matter how they arrive, these tiny kittens require intensive, around-the-clock care to survive.

Incubators to keep them warm. Feedings every 2–4 hours, through the day and overnight. Medications, fluids, supplements, weighing, cleaning, monitoring, and constant care from exhausted but deeply dedicated foster homes and volunteers.

Tiny lives can change so quickly. A few grams gained matters. Finishing a bottle matters. Making it through the night matters.

And because of your support, more of these kittens are getting that chance. 🩷

Every donation helps provide formula, medical supplies, medications, incubators, emergency veterinary care, and critical neonatal support for vulnerable kittens with nowhere else to go.

Kitten season is only beginning, and we know more fragile little lives are coming.

We are so grateful to everyone helping us continue saying yes. 💟

Please support our Kitten Nursery Program:
https://www.catshome.org/donate

Together, we are creating better futures for the tiniest lives. 🐱

05/23/2026

A balloon. 🎈

That was the latest item a cat who recently came into our care passed after likely swallowing it when he was a stray looking for food. 😢

Thankfully, this cat avoided emergency surgery, but not every cat is that lucky.

Over the years, we’ve seen cats require emergency foreign body obstruction surgeries to remove:

• Hair ties and elastic bands
• Dental floss
• Yarn and string 🧶
• Tinsel and holiday decorations ✨
• Clumping litter
• Broken toy pieces
• Rubber balls
• Crayons
• Random plastic
And now, balloons 🎈

Many of these are everyday household items most people would never think twice about, but for curious cats, they can quickly become life-threatening.

String-like items are especially dangerous because they can become trapped and cause severe damage to the intestines as the body tries to move them through the digestive tract.

Some common signs of a possible obstruction include:

• Vomiting
• Loss of appetite
• Lethargy
• Hiding
• Straining to use the litter box
• Pain or discomfort

Foreign body surgeries are invasive, costly, and emotionally difficult for both cats and their families. Prevention truly can save a life. ❤️

A few easy ways to help reduce the risk at home:

• Keep hair ties, floss, string, and elastic items put away
• Supervise play with ribbon or string toys
• Discard broken toys immediately
• Keep balloons, tinsel, and small decorations out of reach
• Monitor cats who chew or swallow non-food items closely

We’re incredibly thankful this little one was able to pass the balloon safely, and we hope sharing real cases like this helps prevent another emergency for someone else’s cat.

What is the strangest thing your cat has ever tried to eat? 👀

05/20/2026

What Rescue Actually Looks Like 👀

Most people see the happy parts of rescue.

The adoption photos.
The cozy beds.
The fun events.

But rescue also looks like five days of hospitalization on oxygen for a 1 year-old cat struggling to breathe, eat, and stay hydrated. 🐈

It looks like foster homes being anxious and staying up all hours monitoring seizures, giving medications, and celebrating the moment a cat finally starts eating on her own again after days of refusing food. 💊

It mostly doesn’t look like much at all from the outside.

The late-night vet visits.
Laundry.
Cleaning carriers.
Answering emails.
Medication schedules.

Behind the scenes, is what rescue really looks like most days. Quietly making sure we are there for them.

Suki is only 1 year-old. Prior to coming to us, she contracted panleukopenia and beat the odds to survive, but suffers from neurological deficits and a weakened immune system due to the disease. After being hospitalized with severe upper respiratory symptoms, dehydration, refusal to eat, and increased seizure activity related to her seizure disorder, she is finally stable and continuing her recovery in a medical foster home while awaiting further diagnostics.

And despite everything she has been through, she still finds comfort curling up in cardboard boxes and batting toys around like any other young cat. 🥹 It’s what sometimes keeps us from posting here (we’re sorry!) But it’s also what keeps us going day to day.

That’s the part people don’t always see.

Rescue is built from thousands of small moments of care, consistency, and community support. 🩷

Every donation.
Every foster home.
Every volunteer shift.
Every adoption.
Every share.
Every kind word of support.

It all matters. It makes a difference. It keeps us here for them.

Because behind every cat who gets a second chance is an entire community helping them heal. Our community. You. 🩷 Thank you for being part of the community that makes stories like Suki’s possible. 🥰

Thank you for supporting our work and making second chances possible. ⬇️
https://www.catshome.org/donate

05/16/2026

It might be gloomy outside, but it’s very cozy at our adoption centre today 🐱☔

Our cats are curled up in blankets, stretched out in sunny windows, playing with toys, and quietly hoping that someone will stop in and choose them. ❤️

Some cats will walk right up to you for attention.
Some are a little shy at first.
Some are playful chaos.
Some just want a warm lap and a safe place to belong.

Every single one has their own personality, story, and reason they ended up needing rescue. Now they are just waiting for you!

If you’ve been thinking about adopting, this weekend is a perfect time to come meet them. You never know which little face is going to steal your heart.

And every adoption truly matters. When a cat goes home, it creates space for us to help another vulnerable cat or kitten in need. 🩷

Come spend your Caturday with cats at 🐾

View adoptable cats and apply:
www.catshome.org/adoptable-cats

05/16/2026

Found kittens? Before picking them up, stop and watch first. 💗🐾

Not every kitten outdoors has been abandoned. Mother cats often leave briefly to search for food and may stay away if people are too close.

If the kittens are:
• warm
• quiet
• clean
• sleeping comfortably

…the safest first step is usually to monitor from a distance and give mom time to come back.

Please intervene sooner if kittens are:
• cold
• crying constantly
• injured
• weak or listless
• covered in parasites
• in immediate danger

If you intervene, it’s important to know that young kittens under 4 weeks also need additional heat and help toileting to survive. They should also be fed every 2-4 hours.

Keeping mom cats and kittens together whenever safely possible helps break the cycle of kittens being born outdoors, gives kittens the best chance at a healthy start in life, and allows mom cats to safely be spayed once the kittens are old enough. 🐱

A very important reminder:
Cow’s milk, sugar water, and cat milk treats are NOT safe for neonatal kittens. KMR (Kitten Milk Replacer) is the safest option for orphaned kittens.

If you find kittens and aren’t sure what to do, contact us:
📧 [email protected]

Please save and share this post so more people know how to safely help kittens this spring. 💕

05/15/2026

🐈 TNR WORKS! 🪤

Trap/Neuter/Release is an evidence-based, humane approach to managing cat overpopulation by reducing the number of cats born into unsafe conditions, stabilizing community cat populations, improving feline health and welfare, reducing nuisance behaviours, and supporting shelter capacity and resources.

Cats Home Foundation is proud to have participated in the original TNR pilot in Medicine Hat and have seen first-hand the positive effects that this program had in the community. We hope that a TNR program will be permitted in this community, as well as in communities throughout Alberta. 🩷

Community cat welfare is an important part of cat welfare, which is why we have a program dedicated specifically to helping community and feral cats and the people who care for them.

Thank you for supporting our programs and initiatives to help mean meaningful impacts for both domestic and community cats throughout Alberta! Stay feral! ✌️💕

We have stayed quiet about this for a long time. 🩵💗

Not because we agree with what is happening in Medicine Hat, but because we genuinely tried to work with the city behind the scenes first.

But at this point, staying quiet is not helping the cats.

Here is the reality:

Medicine Hat has thousands of community and unowned cats.

And despite Trap Neuter Return (TNR) technically being “allowed” within city limits, almost no meaningful TNR is actually happening.

Since the bylaw changed to allow TNR through a specific approval process, only ONE pilot project has happened in nearly two years.

If that does not signal a problem with the process, we do not know what does.

Back in 2024, that pilot project involved the Medicine Hat SPCA, Persian Dreams and Canine Themes, and us before we were incorporated.

From first contact to approval, it took SIX MONTHS.

Six months of kittens being born outside.
Six months of preventable suffering continuing.

We saw dead kittens.
Young moms that did not survive birth.
Cats dying from illnesses that could have been prevented.

And since then?

Nothing meaningful has changed.

To the best of our knowledge, the bylaw was created without meaningful input from groups actively doing TNR, and it does not reflect the systems being used successfully in other Alberta communities.

One of the biggest concerns with the process is that groups are expected to provide names, phone numbers, and addresses for people feeding the cats before being allowed to proceed with TNR.

No ethical TNR organization wants to hand over information that could place caregivers or colonies at risk.

Especially when an urban wildlife bylaw was later proposed that included making feeding community cats a finable offense.

Protecting colony locations and caregivers is part of ethical TNR work.

Today we were reminded of one of the situations that first pushed us to reach out to the city.

Nearly 20 kittens and a few moms were picked up by Bylaw down in the Flats. That was only a fraction of the cats there. Many more were left behind. We approached the city to see what they required for us to be allowed to fix those cats at no cost to taxpayers. It took almost 3 weeks for them to even provide us with the long list of hoops they wanted us to jump through. We couldn’t waste more time with the city in the middle of our busiest season, not when there were cats surrounding the city we could help.

And two years later, cats and kittens from that same colony are still arriving at Animal Pound Services Medicine Hat.

A senior had been feeding and doing their best to care for them.

And that is another part people need to understand:

Much of the burden of caring for community cats in Medicine Hat falls on seniors and disabled members of the community.

Ignoring the issue does not lower the cost over time.

It increases it.

And we want to be extremely clear about something:

Animal Pound Services Medicine Hat is doing important work, and the staff there are doing the best they can with the system they have been given.

This is not criticism of them.

Having a pound matters.

But prevention matters too.

Animal Pound Services Medicine Hat is now fully taxpayer funded.

Every cat not addressed through effective TNR becomes a cost carried by the citizens of Medicine Hat.

And organizations have repeatedly offered to do this work without asking the city to fund it.

This issue will not improve through quiet conversations behind closed doors.

It changes when the people of Medicine Hat tell Council clearly that the current process is not working.

Because this is not the version of TNR the public asked for.

If you care about this issue, contact your City Council.

Ask for a TNR process that actually works.

https://forms.medicinehat.ca/Mayors-office/Contact-City-Council

05/14/2026

🚨 EMERGENCY HELP NEEDED FOR IONE 🚨
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This sweet little girl has already endured far more pain than any cat ever should. She is less than a year old. 😢

Ione was found with a devastating crush injury to her back right leg, leaving her in significant pain and struggling to move comfortably. She was already missing her foot and a portion of her leg when she arrived in care.

After assessment with our friends at , the decision was made to proceed with an urgent leg amputation to remove damaged leg, relieve her pain, and give her the best chance at a comfortable future.

She is now resting safely in a medical foster home where she is being monitored closely as she begins her recovery. For the first time in a long time, she is warm, safe, and receiving the care she desperately needed.

💔 Emergency medical care adds up incredibly quickly.
Examinations, diagnostics, surgery, medications, hospitalization, and follow-up care have already brought Ione’s veterinary costs to over $1,100, and she has only just arrived in care.

This is the reality of rescue work. Cats needing urgent, intensive medical treatment arrive without warning, and community support is what allows us to continue saying yes when cats like Ione need help most.

🩷 HOW YOU CAN HELP IONE RIGHT NOW:
💖 Donate: https://www.catshome.org/donate
📱 E-transfer: [email protected]
🔁 Share this post to help us reach more people

Every donation helps provide pain relief, lifesaving medical care, and second chances to vulnerable cats like Ione.

Thank you for standing with her and helping create a better future. 🐾💖🩷

05/13/2026

Did you know that Cats Home Foundation is one of 57 animal welfare recipients for Country for Critters Fund with Sponsor Energy? Help fill the pot, spread the word, and share! 📣

https://place2give.com/donations/country-for-critters-fund/

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there — especially the ones raising kittens. 💐🐾

Recently, we welcomed two mama cats, Dolly and Sammy, into our care alongside their young kittens. Watching them care for their babies is a reminder of just how much motherhood takes: patience, protection, resilience, and unconditional love.

For many cats in rescue, motherhood starts far too young and happens far too often. One of the greatest gifts we can give moms like Dolly and Sammy is the chance for this to be their last litter — a future where they can finally rest, heal, and simply be loved.

Today, we also want to celebrate the incredible people who make that possible.

To our foster moms spending sleepless nights caring for vulnerable kittens, helping scared moms feel safe, and pouring endless love into cats who needed a second chance: thank you. You are the heart of rescue.

To our adopters and cat moms who open their homes and hearts to former rescue cats: thank you for being part of the Cats Home family. 💖

Tell us about the rescue cat who made you a cat mom in the comments — photos encouraged. 🐱✨

And please share this post to celebrate foster moms, adoptive cat moms, and every mama cat getting her last litter.

05/10/2026

🐾 Caturday Adoptables are here! 🐾

We’re officially back from our post-auction social media break, and we have some amazing cats looking for homes this weekend. ❤️

A few of these cats just became adoptable and haven’t hit the website yet — but you can still apply!

If you’re interested in one of the cats featured:
• Leave the cat selection drop-down blank on the application
• Write the cat’s name in the text box instead

Every adoption changes a life. When a cat leaves for a loving home, it opens space for us to help another cat in need. 🐾

Looking for:
✨ A social companion
✨ A laid-back couch buddy
✨ A confident cat with personality
✨ A quieter friend who just needs a chance

We may have your perfect match waiting. ❤️

Please help us by:
❤️ Applying
📲 Sharing this post
💬 Tagging someone looking to adopt
📣 Spreading the word

Apply to adopt:
https://www.catshome.org/adoptable-cats