Ivy and Friends

Ivy and Friends We are a small group located in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, focused on maintaining cat colonies in commercial areas. We are not currently a 501(c)(3).

We all started as volunteers with different rescues and shelters with backgrounds in colony set up and maintenance, TNR (Trap/Neuter/Release), socialization and special needs foster care. We are not a typical “rescue” as we do not take in and adopt out cats. Rather, if there are friendly cats, we rely on and have received support from local rescues and shelters who are set up to find homes for hom

eless cats. Our goal is to educate people how to set up housing and feeding in a safe, clean, controlled way in commercial locations. We also provide information on how to conduct TNR and utilize the resources available to insure that these cats are not adding to the cat population. In many of these settings, the cats are seen as the problem when the fact is they are very likely there because the location has a rodent problem. In exchange for housing and food, these cats will be healthy and will provide a service as rodent patrol while they remain out of sight for their sake and the sake of the business.

We may not be changing the world in big ways but we are changing the lives of the community cats we care for.
11/20/2025

We may not be changing the world in big ways but we are changing the lives of the community cats we care for.

On this our panty shelves are critically low of dry food. For those who don’t know we care for 3 colonies totaling abo...
11/19/2025

On this our panty shelves are critically low of dry food. For those who don’t know we care for 3 colonies totaling about 150 cats. We are just a small group of 4 ladies. Winter is upon us. The cats eat more in the winter to help keep their body’s warm. When we are able we like to mix in kitten chow to give them more calories and nutritional value. We’ve included our Walmart and Amazon wishlists below.

Walmart Link ⬇️

https://www.walmart.com/registry/ER/6c923501-dd46-4e35-a7df-0c26cbe58ba9

Amazon Link⬇️

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3FBO9LD3Z31PU/?ref_=lol_ov_le&fbclid=IwAR0tn0gtc0IBKzMTAkjmzZ-oJlDFFkFUbgg_OL3Ajr9dbp5lpK-L68EMUsw

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Sometimes they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Use a word that you think describes this photo of Honey Bun.
11/19/2025

Sometimes they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Use a word that you think describes this photo of Honey Bun.

That’s one way to keep hydrated. Silly kitties.
11/17/2025

That’s one way to keep hydrated. Silly kitties.

🚨Update on Honey BunShe has been adopted! She went to her forever home yesterday. She’s a very well adjusted kitty. She ...
11/16/2025

🚨Update on Honey Bun
She has been adopted! She went to her forever home yesterday. She’s a very well adjusted kitty. She spent Thursday night with our team member who absolutely fell head over heals in love with her.
Vet appointments for spay and shots are in the works. We wish Honey and her new family years of happiness. The photos below were sent from Honeys mom.

Raven is the one who helped our team member find Honey Bun yesterday. People never give cats enough credit they are so s...
11/14/2025

Raven is the one who helped our team member find Honey Bun yesterday. People never give cats enough credit they are so smart. Thank you Raven. Send this girl some love.

Meet Honey Bun. She is the kitten that got dumped last night. She is sweet as pie just scared after all the chaos she’s ...
11/13/2025

Meet Honey Bun. She is the kitten that got dumped last night. She is sweet as pie just scared after all the chaos she’s endured. I don’t know how anyone could just dump her. After several hours of searching, watching and waiting Raven one of our black cats came out and kept sniffing around. I kept taking to her as she’s one of our friendly’s and all of a sudden I started hearing tiny meows then I saw her sticking her head out of the shelter. Now I had checked all of the shelters when I arrived and didn’t see her. Thankfully she trusted my voice and left me know she was there. My arms weren’t long enough to reach all the way in the back of the shelter to try to scruff her to get her out. So I put my carrier in front of the hole but I need a second set of hands it was to hard to maneuver around and I didn’t want to take any chances on her getting out. Our other team members had deadlines, caring for family and one not feeling well. Thankfully we are good friends with Return 2 Home Lost Pet Resources they came over right away and gave me the extra hands I needed. We will continue to watch our cams for the tabby. Also would like to add that a report has been filed with animal control. Please continue to share the post from this morning so we can find the guy who dumped her.

We are so very angry this morning! Our cams caught this low life dumping what a appears to be a young calico cat. The t...
11/13/2025

We are so very angry this morning! Our cams caught this low life dumping what a appears to be a young calico cat. The tabby we can’t say 100 percent because the cams didn’t catch that and we can’t see the face of the tabby. The box looks pretty big for just one cat. We do have a few tabby’s that show up randomly but this doesn’t look like one of them.
We are not a dumping ground for your unwanted animals. We work tirelessly to maintain the colonies we care for. We are no different than you. We all have responsibilities, jobs, animals of our own, family that we care for. By you dumping your responsibility on us now we will spend hours trying to find your cat that is probably scared to death, afraid to come and eat and will have to contend with the other cats in the colony. That’s another mouth for us to feed plus having her spayed. She seem friendly as he was petting her. If she was an inside cat she’s gonna have a hard time if we can’t trap her. If she’s friendly we have to find a place for her to go. Do you know how hard that’s going to be ? Shelters and rescues are over flowing. We have no fosters as we don’t normally have cats that need a foster.
If anyone knows this low life please send us a message. He has a tattoo on his fingers but we can’t make out what it says.
Please help us spread the word by sharing this post. We would love to talk to him.

Luckily Toby and all his colony friends are well taken care of, but so many out their don’t have caretakers and struggle...
11/13/2025

Luckily Toby and all his colony friends are well taken care of, but so many out their don’t have caretakers and struggle every day. Please show them kindness. Food, water, shelter and spay/neuter. Your generosity could change that cats life.

Sometimes the cats like to play hide and seek. Spot was no exception yesterday but I ended up getting this get photo of ...
11/11/2025

Sometimes the cats like to play hide and seek. Spot was no exception yesterday but I ended up getting this get photo of him.

Yesterday while out feeding our team member captured this stunning photo of Tilly. She’s just hanging out in a tree livi...
11/10/2025

Yesterday while out feeding our team member captured this stunning photo of Tilly. She’s just hanging out in a tree living her best life.

11/08/2025

Sweet chunky boy Toby. He’s such a handsome guy. He even meowed at me before the video. He was patiently waiting for his breakfast.

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