The Promenade Cat Colony

09/18/2024

One highlight of the summer is that the friendliest of my colony cats - Luka - found herself a home!

Unfortunately, I couldn't do the long introduction to the indoors that I normally do with my colony cats because a neighbor's aggressive dog had been terrorizing my cats, so I wanted to get the one most suited to indoor life into a home ASAP.

As such, she was very shy when she went to go live with a friend of mine. Fortunately, he was a very patient cat dad, and after three weeks of her hiding under his bed, she came up to him for pets and is now a snuggle monster.

Here she is in the special nest that he made for her - a cuddly blanket on top of a heating pad, right in front of the best window around.

So happy for the both. :)

09/18/2024

Foster update - both of my foster kittens, Riker and Troi, have both been adopted (I promise Troi is happy despite her Resting Tortie Face)! I'm so proud of these babies and so happy for their new familes.

Fostering for Pounce De Leon has been a joy and I'm expecting to get another batch of kittens soon. :)

08/23/2024

Welp, I know it's been a while since I posted - I'm terrible with social media management - but I've continued being busy through my summer!

In addition to managing my own cat colony, I've started working with an Atlanta-area rescue group called Pounce De Leon (I love these rescue names).

Since mid-June I've been lucky enough to foster some kittens. Meet Riker (orange tabby) and Troi (tortoisehell), two of the sweetest kittens you'll ever meet!

I'm excited to tell y'all that they are going to their first-ever adoption event tomorrow (Sat, 8/24)! It will be at the Howell Mill, Atlanta Petco from 11am-4pm. Even better, an anonymous donor has chipped in to take a lot of money off of the adoptions, so they'll be discounted!

If anyone is looking for kittens, please feel free to check them out tomorrow. They are incredibly friendly, snuggly, and love to play! They were born outside and had to battle a hard viral illness at a young age, but they've stayed sweet and loving through all of that. I'm so proud of them and I really hope they find their furever homes tomorrow!

07/01/2024

Hi everybody! I know it's been a while - doing social media for a page is an experience I'm still learning. ^.^'

The past few months have had their ups and downs. For the downs, some of my neighbors have suddenly started letting their dogs free-roam my neighborhood, and at least one has been attacking the cats in my colony. While I'm working with Animal Control for a solution, at least three of my cats have been killed in the past few weeks, and one of them - Tamara - suffered a bad enough wound that I had to catch him and take him to a surgical vet.

Fortunately he's ok now, but it did wind up costing over $700. I've launched a gofundme and am blown away by the amazing response (you raised $285!), but if anyone else would like to donate or share, the link is here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/my-cat-has-a-hole-in-his-neck-promenade-special-edition?attribution_id=sl:96a0f8d2-2bd2-4df9-8e45-a0b3635aa1f2&utm_campaign=man_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

In much better news, I might need to change my profile picture because Ezri has officially been adopted! She's enjoying her new home and family, and I couldn't be happier for her.

I also have Luka in a hopefully-forever home! Luka was shy but really became social over the past few months, even coming inside a few times. Unfortunately, due to the danger of the dog attacks, I couldn't do my normal slow introduction to the indoors. As such, she's still painfully shy at her new home, but fortunately she has a very patient cat dad, so I'll try to keep y'all updated on her progress.

Finally, I've started doing something I've been curious about for a few years now: I'm fostering kittens for a rescue!

Brought to you by Pounce De Leon rescue, we have adventurous orange boi Riker, calm tortie Troi, and energetic grey tuxedo Worf (yes, I also got the honor of naming them).

04/23/2024

Hello lovely people! The Promenade has our first official listing on Petfinder!

Ezri is a beautiful fluffy sweetheart and, after getting her yearly shots and the all-clear from the vet yesterday, is ready for her furrever home! https://www.petfinder.com/cat/ezri-71430842/ga/acworth/the-promenade-ga1104/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2y8spD3sIOQjIoSx4hckuUgo_UD_ZW_KYDfIXBzzl3psBW14B-EPzVoi8_aem_AeKubJtWwyJKBulAzLlwj_TRHI96kChSzcge9Ovuclko3g-_KMGyzbonotf0RB7M_1I8ua99St-aKdHgJEaXYiVw

Ezri is an adoptable Cat - Dilute Tortoiseshell searching for a forever family near Acworth, GA. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area.

03/26/2024

Hello lovely people! Long time no talk. ^.^' My neighbor has finally finished renovating her new house and wants to come back down to pick up Dukat, who she has cared for since before I ever met him. However, both her SIL and daughter have run into medical problems - with her SIL being out of work for at least the past three months - so she has been in a rough financial spot supporting them.

As such, I want to give Dukat a full medical check-up and microchip before she comes down so as to help alleviate some of the stress on her. She's a good person who's just trying her best.

However, I'm also not in the best financial straits atm, so any monetary help with covering the exam costs would be amazingly appreciated.

Dukat is an incredibly sweet potato of a cat with one brain cell and I love him to death. I'm going to miss him, but he knew my neighbor and her partner first, and she loves him with her whole heart. And I think having him around will help with her mental health. Goodbye is the goal with fostering, so let's make his goodbye the best it can be!

Hello! My name's Ginger and I run an outdoor cat colony named The Promen… Ginger Probst needs your support for Promenade Special Edition: Dukat's Farwell Tour

07/19/2023

Everyone, meet Twilight! Twilight was given to me just today by a 12-yr-old boy outside a gas station near my house. He was trying to do the right thing - his friend's family wasn't taking care of the kitten right, so he offered to take him home, only for his grandmother to tell him that they couldn't keep the kitten with them and their three large dogs, and to get rid of the kitten tonight. He was the one who gave Twilight his name.

After determining there were no more kittens at his or his friend's place, I agreed to take Twilight home. He's the sweetest little boy - he's spent all evening snuggling with me and purring up a storm. I'm thinking he's male, and he's already used the litterbox correctly right out of the gate, did very well for his first flea bath, and got a big meal of wet food.

Twilight has a neuter appointment set up for July 26th, and will be available for adoption immediately afterwards. Please message me or comment here if you're interested in adding this snuggly boy to your home!

07/18/2023

Leia's asleep and hopefully dreaming of her favorite things - cuddling with her human and playing with toys!

Leia is still growing at 7 months old and is gentle-natured and VERY curious. She's spayed, has had her rabies and FVRCP vaccines, and is available for adoption!

06/26/2023

Our third success story is Kira! Kira, along with her siblings Dax and Molly, was born in 2020 in a woodpile on my neighbor's property and first met me when the three of them followed their mother, Keiko, onto my porch so she could eat from my food bowls.

Unlike her brother, Kira was not so trusting of me. She put up the most resistance to me (hence her being named after a resistance fighter), even going so far as to leap dramatically off my porch and run for my neighbor's yard when I came out one day to feed everybody.

Fortunately I got her to come around the way I get most cats to come around - providing plenty of tasty food, sitting calmly around her, and eventually petting her while she ate. She warmed up pretty quickly after that and even started inviting herself into my house when I would open the door to enter or leave.

Since she was already making herself at home, I decided to make it official and adopted her and Dax. She now loves snuggling up against my legs and making the world's best biscuits on my comforter.

06/26/2023

Our second success story is Dax! Dax, along with his sisters Kira and Molly, was born in 2020 in a woodpile on my neighbor's property and first met me when the three of them followed their mother, Keiko, onto my porch so she could eat from one of my food bowls.

Dax was an interesting kitten - he was never afraid of me! The first time he ever saw me, sitting on my porch reading a book, he walked up, lay down right outside of arm's-reach, and went to sleep.

Now, three years later, he is the biggest cuddlebug, always purring up a storm around me and sleeping on my chest every night. Like his namesake, he's bold, kind, and always ready for an adventure.

He has already found his forever home - my home - and my world is so much brighter for having him in it.

06/26/2023

Our first-ever success story, from back in 2020, was Miles! Miles is a very sweet, gentle giant of a cat. He had clearly been around humans before - quite possibly an owned cat at one point - and his favorite thing to do was to come over and chill on mine or my neighbor's porches. If he was a human, I think he'd just want to kick back quietly at the bar with a beer (hence his name).

Outside life wasn't agreeing with Miles - he began losing weight, and got a nasty ear infection that was treated with help from a generous donor.

Fortunately we were able to get him neutered, get him safely inside a foster home, and get him adopted! The kind woman who adopted him actually clicked on his foster home profile because her adult son is also named Miles.

Miles is now living a happy, healthy, safe life in a loving home, and he still gets to play outside on walks!