The Cat Collaborative

10/26/2026

🐾 A special evening. A meaningful tribute. A chance to help more cats.

Planning is underway in earnest for The Cat Collaborative’s 2027 Gala, taking place Friday evening, April 30, 2027, at Fitler Club in Philadelphia!

We’re especially excited that our new venue will allow us to nearly quadruple attendance—from 75 guests to almost 300! We’re committed to making this a truly special evening, and we hope so many of you will be part of it. ❤️

One of our most meaningful sponsorship opportunities allows you to honor a beloved pet, past or present. Introduced last year, this tribute was such a hit that we’re delighted to offer it again.

This $1,750 sponsorship includes:

🐾 Two VIP gala tickets, with early access and admission to Fitler Club’s very special Trophy Room.
🐾 The opportunity to submit three photos and a tribute of up to 250 characters honoring your special pet.

Whether you’re celebrating a companion by your side or remembering one who will always hold a place in your heart, this is a beautiful way to honor their love while helping TCC provide sterilization and veterinary care to cats who need it.

📩 For more information, please email [email protected].

Check out all sponsorship levels via the below link:

https://www.thecatcollaborative.org/tcc2027springgalasponsorshiplevels

10/18/2026

🐾 Celebrating a new partnership between EMANCIPET and TCC - already resulting in 172 more pet cats sterilized and vaccinated—and this is only the beginning!

The Cat Collaborative (TCC) is incredibly excited to share our new partnership with , helping us make meaningful progress on our extremely long waiting list for owned cats who need care 😻😻.

Since early September, this partnership has provided approximately 30 completely FREE spay/neuter and vaccine appointments EVERY WEEK for community members who desperately need help getting their cats vetted. Already, 172 additional pet cats have received these essential services! 🧡

There are so many people trying to do right by their cats who simply cannot afford veterinary care 😢😢. Sadly, there are far too few resources in Philadelphia to meet that need. For these families, access to a free appointment makes an enormous difference—and every cat sterilized helps prevent more unwanted litters.

Emancipet has also helped subsidize the cost of these appointments, which allows TCC to expand access to care while staying within our existing budget.

We are so proud to partner with such a compassionate, innovative organization that understands both the need and the importance of making this care accessible.

Thank you, Emancipet, for helping us turn a long waiting list into more cats cared for, more families supported, and fewer kittens born into an already overwhelmed system. 🐈🧡

10/15/2026

UPDATE: link to participate remotely— https://meet.google.com/sci-cwbc-arw?hs=224

Don’t forget — tomorrow night is our first committee meeting for the 2027 TCC Gala!!

🐾✨ SAVE THE DATE! ✨🐾

New date!! New location!!

The Cat Collaborative’s 2027 Gala is heading to the incredible FITLER CLUB in Philadelphia, and we can’t wait to celebrate with you!

🗓️ Friday night, April 30, 2027
📍 Fitler Club | 24 S. 24th Street Philadelphia, PA

Get ready for a memorable evening with fellow cat lovers, celebrating our work and raising much-needed funds to help even more cats. ❤️

Mark your calendars NOW—and spread the word! More details, ticket information, and sponsorship opportunities are coming soon. 🥂🐈

10/14/2026

❄️🐾 The Cat Collaborative is starting to plan our winter shelter-building workshops!

We haven’t finalized our dates yet, but we will announce them as soon as we do! These workshops help provide outdoor cats with warm, dry shelters to protect them through the cold winter months.

We give these shelters away FREE to colony caretakers, with priority given to those who come help build them. This reflects a principle behind our work: we want to help people who are willing to step up and be part of the effort. You don’t need experience—just a willingness to pitch in for the cats! 🧡

Our goal is to build even more shelters this year than we did last year—but we can only do that with more donations and helping hands. If you’d like to help us get a head start, please consider sending supplies from our Walmart wish list.

If it’s easier to donate cold hard cash 💰 💰, that’s great too! Use the donate button on this post, and we’ll put your contribution toward the supplies we need.

🛒 Shop our shelter supply wish list:
https://www.walmart.com/lists/wishlist/eec59d22-6a56-4043-9e17-739cc66a8c7a

Donate supplies, contribute funds, or come help build—every bit of support helps us protect more outdoor cats this winter. ❄️🐈

Thank you in advance for all your support!!

10/13/2026

🐾✨ SAVE THE DATE! ✨🐾

New date!! New location!!

The Cat Collaborative’s 2027 Gala is heading to the incredible FITLER CLUB in Philadelphia, and we can’t wait to celebrate with you!

🗓️ Friday night, April 30, 2027
📍 Fitler Club | 24 S. 24th Street Philadelphia, PA

Get ready for a memorable evening with fellow cat lovers, celebrating our work and raising much-needed funds to help even more cats. ❤️

Mark your calendars NOW—and spread the word! More details, ticket information, and sponsorship opportunities are coming soon. 🥂🐈

10/12/2026

🐾 Thousands of cats. Thousands of lives changed 😻😻😻!!

With so much happening every day, it feels like a good time to pause and share what The Cat Collaborative has accomplished so far in 2026.

3,206 cats have been sterilized and vaccinated—including 1,011 through our owned pet program. We have seen how important it is to help people who love their cats but cannot afford veterinary care. We realize that making sterilization accessible to those families is every bit as essential as helping cats living outdoors.

We have also helped 1,562 friendly cats and kittens get into rescue or forever homes, sparing them a return to life outside. Most of these were surely once been someone’s pet—abandoned or left behind, and desperate for human affection. They never chose the circumstances they found themselves in and they deserve safety, love, and people who will stand by them.

We keep chugging along, determined to make a real difference. But the need can feel overwhelming. Every time we complete a project or respond to a request for help, it seems 20 more have been submitted 😢😢😢.

We desperately need more volunteers and financial donations to keep this work going. More hands mean more cats we can help. More funding means more appointments, more care, and more opportunities to change a cat’s future.

This work is mentally, emotionally, and financially draining. We try our best to stay positive by remembering the cats behind these numbers: the unwanted litters prevented, the families supported, and the friendly cats now safe and loved.

If you’ve been considering volunteering or donating, please take that step. These results show what we can accomplish—and your support helps us keep going. ❤️

10/09/2026

Here at TCC we are passionate about all animals, including the ones of the “ canine” persuasion🐶

So when we found ourselves with this adorable Pomeranian in need of help, we immediately reached out to our friends Philly Bully Team they jumped right in to help and now this pup is safe and sound!

10/09/2026

🐾 Kitten season is still here—and preventing the next litter starts with all of us.

It is October, and we are still seeing tiny kittens born outside 😢😢😢. We care deeply about helping them, but these babies should never have had to face such an uncertain start.

If you feed cats, getting them spayed or neutered is a responsibility that comes with feeding them. It cannot be something to address after kittens arrive. Feeding and sterilization must go hand in hand, because caring for cats includes preventing the suffering of future litters.

TNR organizations have extensive waiting lists and far more requests than they can meet. Please be willing to participate: learn to trap, help with transportation, coordinate with neighbors, and follow through on appointments. The more you can help with the process, the more likely an organization will be able to assist you. These efforts depend on people working together.

And if you find kittens, please do not forget their mother.

A mother cat may be away finding food when someone takes her babies. When she returns, she may desperately search for them. Removing her nursing kittens can also leave her with painful milk buildup, and she can develop mastitis—a serious infection that can become life-threatening.

Her wellbeing matters just as much as theirs.

If kittens are safe and appear healthy, watch from a distance to give Mom a chance to return. If they need immediate help, get them to safety while continuing to locate her. Please do everything possible to keep the family together and arrange for Mom to be spayed when appropriate.

Without their mother, tiny kittens need frequent feedings throughout the day and night, help eliminating, warmth, and careful monitoring. Even with dedicated care, they may struggle to survive. Finding Mom can make an enormous difference for everyone.

Those of us involved in helping cats—including organizations, volunteers, and colony caregivers—must make sterilization a clear expectation and work together to ensure it happens.

Please don’t wait for kittens to make getting a cat fixed urgent. If you are feeding an unfixed cat, the time to act is now!!!!!

Pics below of kittens that came to us this week. Unfortunately, we have been told the mother cat was hit by a car 😢😢😢.