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Atchison Alley Cats Alliance: The Feline Chronicles Foundation, Atchison, KS (2026)

10/24/2026

🐾🎉 25 CATS. ONE MONTH. COUNTLESS FUTURE LITTERS PREVENTED! 🎉🐾

It has been a BUSY few days here at the Alley as we prepare 10 more community cats for their spay and neuter surgeries tomorrow! And that’s after completing 15 surgeries in the previous weeks!

That means tomorrow we will officially be FINISHING OCTOBER STRONG WITH 25 COMMUNITY CATS SPAYED OR NEUTERED! 🐈💪

But the numbers aren’t even the BEST part of this update! We’ve got some BIG victories to celebrate!

🐾 VICTORY #1: AN ENTIRE COLONY COMPLETED!

That’s right! We have officially closed out an ENTIRE colony!

This colony included 2 mama cats who have been caught in the endless cycle of reproducing, their 3 female daughters, and one handsome hunk of a boy affectionately known as KEN! 💙

Those two mamas will NEVER have to raise another litter. Their three daughters will NEVER have to experience that cycle in the first place. And Ken? Well, Ken can officially retire from contributing to the neighborhood population! 😂

But wait… there’s MORE to this story!

One of those mamas also had SIX beautiful kittens — 3 girls and 3 boys! 🐱❤️

And we are happy to share that all SIX have been taken into our care!

These babies will receive their necessary veterinary care, vaccinations, and routine treatments, and every single one will be spayed or neutered before finding their forever homes!

That means we’re not just stopping the reproductive cycle for the adult cats in this colony. We’re making sure the NEXT generation never has to contribute to it either!

SIX ADULT CATS. SIX KITTENS. ONE COLONY. AN ENTIRE CYCLE BROKEN! 🙌

This is what TNVR and rescue working together can accomplish! It’s not just about helping the cats in front of us today. It’s about preventing generations of kittens from being born into an already overwhelming community cat population.

🐾 VICTORY #2: THE MAMA WHO KEPT OUTSMARTING US!

OH, THIS ONE DESERVES A CELEBRATION! 🎉

For MONTHS, we have been trying to trap one particular mama at a public location.

And let us tell you… SHE WAS GOOD. 😅

Every time we thought we were getting close, she would disappear. And just when we thought we might have another opportunity, she’d show back up with another litter of kittens.

Over. And over. And over.

We successfully secured FOUR of her kittens from this location (and just WAIT until you meet these babies because you are going to LOVE them!).

But mama? Mama had other plans.

For THREE DAYS, we worked on getting her comfortable with the trap, leaving food inside and hoping she’d finally decide it wasn’t so suspicious.

And you know what she did?

SHE WATCHED ME. 😂

Several times, I pulled up to swap out food, check the traps, and see whether we’d finally caught her.

And there she would be. Watching. Observing. Probably wondering why this crazy cat lady kept coming back to bother her! 🤣

She knew exactly what was going on, and she was NOT about to make this easy.

But then came the moment I don’t think I’ll forget anytime soon.

I pulled up to check on things and fill the last trapping spot we needed for surgery.

And there she was.

Sitting so beautifully in the alley. Calm. Completely unbothered.

Almost as if she had been waiting for me all along.

I swear, if she could have spoken, I think she would have looked right at me and said:

“Oh, there you are. I’ve been waiting on you.” 🥹❤️

After months of trying, countless trips, three days of patiently baiting the trap, and watching this clever girl outsmart us time and time again…

WE FINALLY CAUGHT MAMA!!!! 🙌🎉

And just like that, another cycle of endless litters is coming to an end.

No more disappearing only to return with another litter. No more pregnancies. No more trying to keep babies safe in a public location.

Just one very clever mama who finally gets to retire from motherhood!

And THAT, friends, is a victory worth celebrating. ❤️

🐾 WHAT’S NEXT FOR TNVR?

As we’ve previously shared, we currently have no additional trapping appointments confirmed for the remainder of 2026.

Between clinic schedules, the holidays, and limited availability, November opportunities are extremely limited. We are working to see whether we can secure a few appointments in December, but nothing has been confirmed.

While we would LOVE to keep this momentum going, responsible rescue also means recognizing our limitations and ensuring we can follow through on the commitments we’ve already made.

And with everything happening at the Alley right now, those commitments are keeping us plenty busy!

❤️ 25 community cat surgeries in October. An entire colony completed. Six kittens given the opportunity for loving forever homes. One elusive mama FINALLY caught, along with four more kittens. And countless future litters prevented!

These are the victories that remind us WHY we do what we do.

To every trapper, transporter, veterinary partner, volunteer, donor, and community member who has helped make this possible: THANK YOU!

We aren’t just changing individual lives.

We’re changing the future of community cats, one colony at a time. 🐾❤️

10/23/2026

🍿🐾 POPPIN’ FOR A PAWSOME CAUSE! 🐾🍿

📣 HUGE SHOUTOUT TO ATCHISON WALMART STORE #1054!!! ❤️

Want to support the Alley but prefer to do it in person? Well, Walmart has something POPPIN’ just for you! 🍿😻

Our friends at Atchison Walmart are selling FRESH-POPPED POPCORN for just $1 A BAG to help support the cats and kittens in our care! 🐈💕

They’re also accepting donations for the Alley!

🛒 Out and about shopping today? Make a quick stop at the Walmart Service Desk, grab yourself a delicious bag of popcorn, and help us continue making a difference for community cats!

💵 JUST $1! That’s it!

Imagine if everyone who walked through those doors today gave just ONE dollar! Those dollars add up FAST, and every single one helps us provide food, medical care, supplies, and second chances for the cats and kittens who need us most. 🐾

🎨 AND CAN WE TALK ABOUT THAT ARTWORK?! 😍 Whoever created that masterpiece deserves a HUGE round of a-PAWS! 👏🐱 Seriously, it is FABULOUS!! We absolutely LOVE it!

❤️ THANK YOU, ATCHISON WALMART #1054, for showing up for our community cats and helping us turn something as simple as a bag of popcorn into something truly meaningful!

🍿 POP IN. POP SOME CORN. HELP SOME PAWS! 🐾

Can’t make it to the store today? It’s okay! We also have:

Venmo:
Cashap: $atchisonalleycats

10/23/2026

🐾💵 IT’S $5 FRI-YAY AT THE ALLEY! 💵🐾

🚨 FIVE DOLLARS. ONE BIG MISSION. SO MANY LITTLE LIVES! 🐱❤️

Whew, friends! The Alley has been BUSY, and our wallets are feeling it! 😅 Between our massive kitten intake, ongoing medical needs, and keeping all these precious babies healthy, we NEED a little $5 Fri-YAY magic! ✨

Here’s what we’re working to cover:

💊 Replenishing medical supplies! Deworming medications, syringes, needles, vaccines, and all those little essentials that add up FAST when you’re caring for this many cats and kittens!

🩺 $340 in SURPRISE vet bills! Because apparently our kitties didn’t get the memo that we have a budget! 🤦‍♀️🐾

👁️ Our sweet boy Kano! This handsome fella is officially scheduled for his eye removal surgery on November 2nd! We’re so thankful he’s getting the care he needs, but we need your help making it happen! ❤️

💕 SO HERE’S OUR FRI-YAY CHALLENGE! 💕

Can you spare $5 today?

Can’t do $5? Can you send $1?

Seriously! ONE DOLLAR makes a difference when our community comes together! 🐈

✨ 5 friends giving $1 = $5!

✨ 10 friends giving $5 = $50!

✨ 20 friends giving $5 = $100!

And just like that, we’re turning pocket change into lifesaving care! 🐾

💰 WAYS TO GIVE:

🐾 Givebutter: https://www.givebutter.com/alleytoadvocate

💙 Venmo:

💚 Cash App: $atchisonalleycats

❤️ CAN’T DONATE TODAY? You can still help! SHARE this post, TAG a fellow cat lover, or drop a 🐾 in the comments to help us reach more people!

We’ve got a whole lot of whiskers depending on us, and we couldn’t do any of this without YOU!

Let’s turn this $5 FRI-YAY into a whole lot of happy tails! 🐈‍⬛🐾💕

With love, whiskers, and a whole lot of gratitude,

Atchison Alley Cats Alliance: The Feline Chronicles Foundation ❤️

10/21/2026

🐾💕 A HUGE Alley Cat Shoutout to Nancy Gregory! 💕🐾

We want to send a great big THANK YOU to Nancy Gregory for her generous donation of Science Diet kitten dry food AND wet food! 🐱❤️

With so many beautiful babies currently in our care, proper nutrition is such an important part of helping them grow, gain strength, and get healthy! Every full belly makes a difference, especially for our littlest and most vulnerable Alley residents. 🍼🐾

Nancy, your kindness and continued support mean so much to all of us here at Atchison Alley Cats Alliance, but especially to the precious babies who get to enjoy these meals because of you!

From our Alley family to yours, THANK YOU for helping us fill little bellies and change little lives! 🐈💕🐾

10/21/2026

🐾 Transparency Tuesday— UPDATE! 🐾

Did we say 20 kittens with 6 more incoming? Well, those 6 are officially safe tonight! And our numbers have grown again!

🚨 27 KITTENS. ONE MASSIVE INTAKE. SO MANY LIVES CHANGED. 🚨

Tonight, we successfully secured the remaining six kittens we had been working to bring into care.

Our original plan was to leave these babies with their mama for as long as safely possible. However, during a developmental check to determine whether they were ready to be separated, we discovered that 4 of the 6 kittens had developed goopy eyes.

Even more concerning, these babies have started venturing toward a VERY busy street. Between their developing eye issues and the immediate safety risks, we made the decision that bringing them into care tonight was in their best interest.

And that’s not all!

🐾 MEET OPAWSSUM! 🐾

Before officially closing our intake, we also welcomed one little singleton kitten into the Alley family.

Opawssum is the perfect combination of sweet and spicy! He might have a little attitude, but give him some love and he melts like butter. ❤️

With his arrival and tonight’s six babies, our total for this large kitten intake is now 27!

But here’s something we really want everyone to understand…

🌟 WE AREN’T JUST CHANGING 27 LITTLE LIVES. WE’RE WORKING TO BREAK THE CYCLE! 🌟

While these kittens are receiving the nutrition, medical care, and stability they desperately need, we are also working behind the scenes to make sure their mamas aren’t continuing the cycle of unwanted litters.

Here’s where we stand:

🐈 1 mama has already been successfully spayed!

🐈 2 more mamas will be completing their surgeries soon!

🐈 2 additional mamas have been secured and are awaiting their surgery dates!

🐈 1 mama is currently in our care with her babies. We had initially hoped to move forward with separating them, but the babies weren’t eating enough independently. We decided the best course of action was to extend mama’s stay so they could continue nursing while we support their transition to food. We’ll reassess at the end of the week.

🐈 1 additional female we are actively working to secure. (Last in her colony to be completed && we already spayed 4 other females from this group!)

🐈 2 females have already been returned.

This is why our work goes beyond simply taking in kittens.

Every mama we successfully spay means fewer kittens being born into uncertain circumstances. Every kitten we stabilize, vaccinate, sterilize, and eventually place into a loving home represents another life given a better opportunity.

And every time we can intervene before another litter is born, we are making a difference that extends far beyond the cats currently in our care.

❤️ 27 kittens are now part of this intake. Every single one will require food, parasite treatment, vaccinations, veterinary care, and eventually spay/neuter surgery. Several are already facing substantial medical challenges, including serious eye conditions that may require surgery.

These kittens are NOT available for adoption, and we are not accepting applications for them at this time. Our priority is getting them healthy, stabilized, and through their necessary care.

We also have wonderful, healthy older kittens waiting for their forever families. Helping those babies find homes is one of the biggest ways you can help us continue caring for the newest members of our Alley family!

As previously announced, our intake is now closed for the remainder of 2026 and potentially into early 2027. We have reached our capacity, and our responsibility now is to the animals already depending on us.

🐾 Want to help us change these lives?

Every donation helps provide food, medical treatment, supplies, and the veterinary care these babies deserve.

💚 Venmo:
💚 Cash App: $atchisonalleycats
💚 Givebutter: https://www.givebutter.com/alleytoadvocate

27 kittens. Multiple mamas. Countless future litters prevented.

This is rescue. This is prevention. This is what happens when a community comes together to make a difference.

Thank you for standing beside us through one of our largest and most challenging intakes yet.

🐈‍⬛ Atchison Alley Cats Alliance: The Feline Chronicles Foundation 🐾

10/20/2026

🐾🎬 NOBODY PUTS CATRICK IN A CORNER! 🎬🐾

Do you guys remember our handsome baby, Catrick Swayze?! 😻

Well, he’s finally ready to make his debut… ON YOUR LAP! ❤️

That’s right! Our little Hollywood heartthrob is ready to dance his way right into his forever home!

💃 Dirty Dancing? Oh, he’s got the moves! Especially when he’s weaving between your feet looking for attention. And unlike Baby, Catrick has absolutely NO problem being picked up!

👻 Ghost? You won’t need a pottery wheel to experience true love with this handsome boy! He’s ready to make some purr-anormal connections with his forever family!

🏄 Point Break? More like Purr Break! This little heartbreaker is ready to trade the waves for a warm lap and some serious snuggle sessions.

🐾 Road House? The only bouncing Catrick plans on doing is bouncing right into your lap!

Catrick is genuinely one of the sweetest little guys! We believe he’s going to have a beautiful medium-to-long coat, which means even MORE fluff to love! 🥹❤️

He’s got the looks, the charm, and the personality of a leading man. All he’s missing is his happily ever after!

🎥 He’s had the time of his life… but he hasn’t had it with YOU yet!

Are you ready to give Catrick Swayze the starring role in your home? 🐈‍⬛❤️

🐾 Atchison Alley Cats Alliance: The Feline Chronicles Foundation

10/19/2026

🐾 MISSION IN MOTION MONDAY! 🐾

Did we say 13 kittens? Well… let’s scratch that. 😳

We are officially at **20 KITTENS, with 6 MORE we are actively working to secure! That escalated quickly. **

That’s 26 little lives needing our help, and every single one comes with a story, a set of needs, and a journey ahead.

Before we introduce our newest little faces, we need to talk about some important realities here at Atchison Alley Cats Alliance.

🚨 FIRST AND FOREMOST: THESE BABIES ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION! 🚨

We know you’re going to fall in love with them. We already have! ❤️ But these kittens have significant health and nutritional needs, and our priority is getting them healthy, stable, and eventually adoption-ready.

We are NOT accepting adoption applications for these kittens at this time.

We WILL share updates as they progress through their individual health journeys.

In the meantime, we have older, healthy, wonderful kittens who are READY and WAITING for their forever homes!

One of the greatest ways you can help our newest babies is by adopting or sharing the kittens who are already ready to go home. Every adoption opens up valuable space, resources, and time for those still recovering.

🐈 THE HARD REALITY: WE HAVE REACHED OUR CAPACITY.

These will be the last kittens and cats we can accept for the remainder of 2026, and potentially into early 2027.

We will not be adding new kittens, cats, or TNVR colonies to our current list.

We have 10 TNVR appointments scheduled for this Saturday, but currently have NONE secured for November and potentially none for December. We are still waiting to hear back.

Between holiday scheduling, limited clinic availability, and second kitten season hitting rescues and TNVR organizations incredibly hard, appointments have become increasingly difficult to secure.

Unfortunately, we may not even make it through our existing TNVR list before our work is forced to pause due to appointment availability.

This isn’t because the need has stopped. It’s because the resources haven’t kept up with the need.

We will share more information about our intake limitations and the pause in TNVR services at a later time.

Over the next few months, our focus will be on finding homes for the cats and kittens already in our care, meeting their daily needs, addressing special medical concerns, and raising the funds necessary to get these 26 newest babies healthy and adoption-ready.

💰 LET’S TALK ABOUT WHAT 26 KITTENS REALLY COST.

We don’t typically discuss the individual medical expenses associated with an otherwise healthy kitten, but we want our supporters to understand what goes into preparing each little life for adoption.

Even without significant illness or emergency care, routine medical preparation generally costs us $126–$200 PER KITTEN.

That includes:

* Appropriate deworming and parasite treatment
* Spay/neuter surgery
* Age-appropriate vaccinations
* Rabies vaccination
* Flea and mite prevention/treatment

Depending on a kitten’s age at intake, length of stay, and medical needs, those costs can climb significantly higher.

At our absolute lowest baseline, preparing just 20 kittens for adoption will cost $2,520.

For all 26 kittens, that baseline increases to $3,276!

And that does NOT include food, litter, cleaning supplies, daily care, emergency veterinary visits, medications for illness, or specialized medical treatment.

❤️ NOW, LET’S TALK ABOUT THE BABIES BEHIND THOSE NUMBERS.

Most of these kittens came from the same general area and arrived with extensive nutritional and medical needs.

15 kittens came from the same block-radius area as part of an emergency intervention.

10 additional kittens came from other active colonies where we had already been working.

And 1 tiny surprise guest, estimated to be only about a week old, joined the Alley family!

Sadly, there had already been losses among the kittens from the emergency intervention area before we could get there.

The majority of these babies arrived with heavy intestinal parasite loads, significant flea burdens, and weights well below what we would expect for their estimated ages.

Many have already begun receiving appropriate medical care, including parasite treatment, nutritional support, and other health interventions when safe for their age and condition.

Some require considerably more attention than others.

Two kittens have especially serious eye conditions requiring emergency veterinary attention. We are concerned that one may lose an eye, while another could potentially lose both. We are awaiting veterinary assessment and recommendations.

And perhaps one of the hardest parts of rescue?

We couldn’t take them all. 💔

There are still several babies in that area that we simply did not have the capacity to bring into care during this intervention.

We had to make incredibly difficult decisions, prioritizing the kittens with the most urgent needs while hoping that, with adoptions and additional space, we can return for the others before winter weather arrives.

These are the decisions that happen behind the scenes. The ones that don’t fit neatly into a cute kitten photo.

We cannot save every kitten at once. But we are doing everything we can for the ones we’ve committed to.

🐾 INTRODUCING OUR SPOTLIGHT 20! 🐾

Take a look at these beautiful little faces! Names are included under their photos.

Each one has a different journey ahead. Some are already beginning to perk up, while others have a much longer road to recovery.

And we have 6 MORE joining them soon!

✨ SO HOW CAN YOU HELP? ✨

💚 1. SPONSOR A SPECIFIC KITTEN!

See a little face that speaks to you?

You can help sponsor that kitten’s medical journey!

Choose the kitten you’d like to support, select an amount that works for you, and we’ll send you updates as your sponsored baby progresses toward adoption day.

💚 2. SPONSOR A WHOLE LITTER!

Maybe you’d rather support a group of siblings!

You can sponsor an entire litter, and we’ll provide weekly updates and photos as they grow, recover, and prepare for their forever homes.

The best part? YOU choose your sponsorship amount!

You can contribute all at once or in smaller increments along the way.

There is no requirement to cover an entire kitten’s medical expenses. Every contribution helps!

💚 3. MAKE A GENERAL DONATION!

Monetary donations are incredibly valuable because they allow us to direct resources exactly where they’re needed, when they’re needed.

You can make a one-time donation or become a recurring supporter through Givebutter.

🐾 Our Spotlight 26 Medical Fund:
givebutter.com/26LittleLives

💚 4. DONATE THROUGH VENMO OR CASH APP!

Venmo:

Cash App: $atchisonalleycats

💚 5. DONATE SUPPLIES!

Food, litter, paper towels, cleaning products, and other everyday necessities make an enormous difference!

So many of you have already stepped up to help us provide for these babies, and we are incredibly grateful.

Every bag of food, every can of kitten food, and every package of supplies means resources we can put toward medical care.

💚 6. WE NEED FOSTERS!

Could you foster a litter of kittens? We will keep littermates together until they are developmentally ready to be separated. We also have older litters with not as many medical needs currently.

Maybe you’d prefer an older, more independent kitten? Or even an adult cat?

Moving healthy, adoption-ready cats into foster homes opens up precious space and time for our medically vulnerable kittens while allowing our older kittens to continue building their social skills in a home environment.

Fostering doesn’t just help the cat you take home. It helps the next cat who needs that space.

💚 7. HELP OUR ADOPTION-READY CATS FIND HOMES!

Share their pictures. Tell your friends. Talk about adoption. Help us connect these wonderful cats with the families waiting for them.

Every successful adoption creates an opportunity for another life.

🐈 OUR MISSION IS STILL IN MOTION… EVEN WHEN OUR INTAKE HAS TO STOP.

We know there are more kittens out there. We know there are more colonies that need assistance. We know the calls and messages won’t stop coming.

But responsible rescue means recognizing when we have reached our limits and honoring the commitments we’ve already made.

These 26 babies deserve every opportunity to survive, recover, grow, and eventually find their forever families.

And the cats who have already been waiting patiently in our care deserve that same opportunity.

We cannot continue taking in more lives at the expense of those who are already depending on us.

❤️ NOW WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

Drop a comment below!

🐾 Is there a specific kitten you’d like to sponsor?

🐾 Want to help an entire litter?

🐾 Interested in fostering?

🐾 Want to help us find homes for our adoption-ready cats?

Message us or comment below! We would love to connect you with a way to make a difference.

To everyone who has donated, shared our posts, provided supplies, transported cats, opened their homes, or simply cheered us on…

THANK YOU for helping us turn an overwhelming situation into an opportunity for these little lives.

Because here in the Alley, every little life matters. 🐾❤️

⚠️ IMPORTANT REMINDER: These newest kittens are NOT available for adoption, and we are NOT accepting applications for them. Sponsoring a kitten or litter does NOT reserve, guarantee, or provide priority for adoption.

Our goal right now isn’t to find these babies adopters. It’s to make sure they survive, recover, and grow healthy enough to see adoption day. ❤️

10/19/2026

🐾💕 HUGE SHOUTOUT TO JANET ENZBRENNER! 💕

A heartfelt thank you to Janet for her continued support and generous donation of kitten food for some of our most vulnerable little babies! 🐱🍼

With so many tiny mouths to feed and little bodies needing extra nutritional support, donations like these make such a difference in helping our babies grow stronger and healthier every day!

Janet, thank you for continuing to show up for the Alley and the precious lives in our care. Your kindness and generosity mean so much!

With love and gratitude from all of us here at Atchison Alley Cats Alliance! 🐾❤️

10/18/2026

We assure you the kitties love all of the deliveries… one way or another. 😅😂

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