22/07/2026
🎂 FIVE YEARS! 🎂
Today, Street Cat Alliance Queensland officially turns five years old 🎉 — half a decade of rolling up our sleeves, rescuing cats, and refusing to give up on the ones who needed us most 🐾
This year’s birthday graphic features our current foster girl Bee, along with a visual representation of every life we’ve saved — 456 tiny cat heads and one dog bone (because yes, we rescued one very confused dog along the way 🐶). It’s a snapshot of just how far we’ve come.
Five years ago, I registered our business name and ABN, hit “submit” on our ACNC charity application, and hoped like hell that this little dream would survive. I knew it would be hard. I knew it would be messy. I did not know it would become a community of the most compassionate, generous humans I’ve ever met ❤️
This rescue is my heart and soul — but it’s our volunteers who keep it beating. Our SCA Squad has grown into a family: compassionate, thoughtful, generous, and occasionally dragged in kicking and screaming. You’ve stayed, you’ve cared, you’ve laughed, you’ve cried, and you’ve saved lives. I am so proud of us 💚
To the amazing rescues, vet clinics, and retailers who’ve stood beside us: your support has meant the world. And to our sponsors, donors, adopters, and cheerleaders — your kindness has helped us rescue 456 cats and kittens over these five years. Yes, we’ve said goodbye to some beautiful souls along the way 🌈, but each one crossed the rainbow bridge with a full belly, warm bed, and love — often for the very first time.
Every SCA cat has received vet care, desexing, microchips, vaccinations, parasite treatments, and quality food. We’ve taken on tick paralysis, car strikes, broken bones, amputations, emergency surgeries, disease, dog attacks, snake bites (yes, they do get inside), and dental work that many rescues simply couldn’t take on. And we did it because every life mattered.
And the best part? To date, 386 of those cats are living their happily‑ever‑afters in loving homes 🏡. If you’ve adopted an SCA kitty, please drop a photo in the comments — we’d love to see how they’re going.
To our volunteers, foster carers, supporters, donors, adopters… from the bottom of my heart, thank you 💕
Tracey, Founder & President (and all of the SCA kitties) ###