Community Cat Advocacy Team Springfield

09/02/2026

Some wonderful adoptions this week!!!
Congrats to:
Simon & Garfield
Grace & Iggy
Spud
Venti
Dempsey
Exlplorer
Boots & Gracie
Buttercup

08/31/2026

THANK YOU!!!! We feel your love and support!!! 💜🐾

08/28/2026

YOU MET THE MATCH! ♥️♥️

THANK YOU to everyone who has come on board to help us continue helping the cats who need us! 💜🐾

Today, one of our longtime supporters has given us an incredible MATCH CHALLENGE! 🎉

She will match donations up to $1,500, which means your donation today can be DOUBLED!

$5 becomes $10
$25 becomes $50
$50 becomes $100
$100 becomes $200

Every dollar gets us closer to unlocking the full $1,500 match and gives us $3,000 total to continue helping cats and kittens in need!

We are so incredibly grateful for our village. Let’s do this and make every donation count DOUBLE today! 💜🐾

Thank you for believing in us, supporting us, and helping us keep saying YES to the cats who need us most!

08/27/2026

I don’t really know how to say this.

Truthfully, there is a lump in my throat knowing that I have to.

CCATS is closing intakes.

August has absolutely drowned us in kittens, spay & neuter expenses, medical needs, and supply costs. Add to that the shortage of fosters and adoptions, and I have reached a point where I simply cannot continue taking in more cats and kittens without putting the ones already in our care at risk.

This is not a decision I wanted to make.

For the past 14 years, my heart and my passion have been helping the cats and kittens in need in our community. I am incredibly proud of the work CCATS has done, the lives we have changed, and the cats we have been able to give a second chance.

I am not ready to quit.

But unless things change—unless donations come in, fosters step up, and cats and kittens find homes—I am stuck in neutral.

And that is an incredibly hard place to be.

My heart is heavy.
The tears are real.
And this is where we are.

If you can be part of the solution by fostering or adopting, please visit ccatsrescue.org.

If you can donate, you can donate directly to our veterinary accounts at East Lane Veterinary Hospital or Main Street Spay Neuter Clinic or through one of the donation apps listed below.

We have never been a rescue that does this halfway. We show up. We keep going. We help whenever we possibly can.

But right now, we need our village to show up for us.

If you’ve ever loved a CCATS cat, supported our work, shared one of our posts, donated, fostered, adopted, or simply cheered us on…

We need you now more than ever.

It takes a village to rescue.

And right now, ours is being asked to help carry us through. ❤️🐾

To donate through apps:

PayPal
(You will see our logo)

Venmo https://venmo.com/u/Toni-Ray-11

Cash App https://cash.app/$rescuegirl1968

08/27/2026

08/25/2026

Thank you Dolly.

08/24/2026

August has been HOT and absolutely CRAZY here at rescue!! 🔥🐾

So. Many. Kittens.
So. Many. Requests for TNR assistance.
And we are doing everything we possibly can to help fight the overpopulation crisis.

So far this month, we have spayed/neutered and vaccinated 71 cats!! And today, we’re adding 8 more to that number! 🙌

That means that by the end of today, we will have spent $9,980 on spay/neuter and vaccines alone. 😳

And that $9,980 doesn’t include the other medical appointments, medications, food, litter, supplies, or the countless hours of daily care required for every cat and kitten currently in foster.

This is why I say, “It takes a village to rescue.”

Rescue is expensive.
Really, really expensive.

But every spay matters.
Every neuter matters.
Every kitten who never has to be born into an already overwhelmed system matters.
Every cat who gets a chance at a safe, loving home matters.

And behind every one of those numbers is a life. ❤️

So today, we need our village.

Even $5 makes a difference. Every donation, no matter the amount, is deeply appreciated and goes directly toward caring for the cats in our community. 💜

You can call Main Street Spay Neuter Clinic directly and donate toward our account, or you can donate through CCATS Rescue.

It truly takes a village. And we are so grateful for ours. 🐾💜

Donation Apps:

Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/Toni-Ray-11

PayPal:
(You will see our logo.)

Cash App: https://cash.app/$rescuegirl1968

08/24/2026

Tonight as we continued our search for the deceased mom cats kittens, apparently this love was looking for a safe space or some help. When I made it back to my car after an hour of searching, they were sitting pretty as you please on the seat. They meowed softly at me and came for pets. They are very sweet.
Are they lost? Are they abandoned?? I don’t know but what I did know was, there aren’t houses close and I wasn’t driving away from this sweetie only to find a post they’d been hit in the morning!!

We have them safe with a foster while we seek an owner. They are not microchipped.
We found a post from a month ago by someone else of this cat in same location.

Where are their people???

08/23/2026

Final update: after 2 days of searching wrecked out cars at the yards on both sides of Main St. where mom was hit, Sara and I found her kittens!!! They are about 4 wks old. Safe now and will be up for adoption in about 6 weeks. 😊
Rest easy now Mama girl. ♥️

UDATE #3: THANK YOU Ray Bloom for connecting us with Randy!!
After a foot search, the area is vast that these littles might be so, Randy has agreed to meet us after dark so we can use thermal imaging in our efforts!

UPDATE #2: huge shout out to Richard w/B & R for coming in on his day off to let us search for kittens.
Sara, Richard, & I searched the yard. No luck. We did find an animal opening in their fence that leads to a cat feeding station on the other side.
I think mom may have been coming from there and headed back to her kittens behind auto zone.
We are on the hunt to contact Randy Kuhl who owns that location. So community, if you know him, tell him to check fb messenger, I left my phone number!! 🙏🏻🤞🏻

UPDATE: thanks to my amazing friend Tara Nagelhout we have reached someone who works for B & R! Help is on the way.

PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Mom cat hit on Main St in front of Autozone!!

She just has kittens according to Emergency vet!

NEED ACCESS TO B & R!!! Who works there???