Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread December 1st through December 31st 2025

[Dotta]

This is a subject near and dear to my heart. I love both cats and dogs. But there is a problem with strays in my town. My friend and I have been able to get a lot of cats to local rescues where they’re vetted and fixed, then adopted to good homes. But there are so many more. My husband used to tell me that I can’t save them all, and I always replied that I can try. Right now I have ten indoor cats. They’re all happy and healthy and fixed. Yes, I’m a crazy cat lady!

My friend’s outdoor cat, Copper, is over here a lot, so I got him an insulated house with a heating pad (like you did, Tricia). He’s never been indoors and we can’t coax him in. He’s 12 now, but healthy and fixed and he loves his house. Here’s a picture of the little man.View attachment 628062

Cats are very important
in ecosystem,
and their presence in buildings decisively and naturally prevents the presence and reproduction of rodents (mice and rats).

 

[Gators North]

Hope everyone has a wonderful day today.
This summer, someone abandoned a mama cat and her four tiny kittens at the end of my driveway. Now only three kittens remain, and I have no idea what happened to their mother or the missing sibling.


Every night, the three survivors come to my porch. I can’t let them starve or freeze, but I also can’t just let them run wild. The little calico is going to end up pregnant any moment, and the cycle will keep repeating.

On Sunday, I put out an outdoor pet heating pad, and all three curled up together on it. They were so sweet it broke my heart. Here is a picture of them on Sunday night. View attachment 628017

Yesterday, I set up a cat house with a heater too. They couldn’t quite figure it out, so I put the heating pad inside the box the house came in—and that’s where they’re sleeping now.
Here is the empty cat houseView attachment 628018

I’ve reached out to Texas Paw Prints and am waiting for a response. If anyone knows of an organization in or near the Dallas area that can help, please let me know. I can’t bear the thought of taking them to a kill shelter.

I’m even considering trying to trap them and get them all fixed myself—pretty sure the calico is a girl, but I’m not sure about the two black kittens.

I may have posted about them before, but I’m honestly really worried. I can’t keep doing this alone. They’re either going to get pregnant or end up impregnating other cats, and I can't let that happen.
WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS?

Here’s one that sounds promising too.

Dallas Cat Lady |

dallascatlady.org

 

[tlcya]

I wish we could have cats. We used to have cats. But we also love and rescue dogs. One of our dogs is a cat murderer. He has killed four that we know of. If they manage to get into our fenced yard they are goners. So we cannot have cats in our household so long as that dog lives. He is a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix. His prey drive is very very strong.

 

[Gators North]

First real snowfall of the season here today.