16,000!

Imagine Open Access Chip Scanning!

Chicago Animal Care and Control has a microchip scanner for the public! No taking that found pet to the vet or the asking the police department to scan. Faster pet returns! Wouldn’t it be great if we could have this in the ‘burbs?!!

Working Cat Programs – “Creative Placements”

Feral Fixers relocates cats thru our Working Cat Program. If cats cannot go back where they came from – and we try to keep that at a minimum – we are contacted by farms, industrial businesses, a huge variety of locations. The option is getting more and more publicity - read this article about a Working Cats program in Florida.

#16,000!!!

We have neutered 16,005 cats since 2007! Can you image the hundreds of thousands of cats that otherwise would be filling our neighborhoods? The number of cats that would require euthanasia as there simply is nowhere to put them! We’re still hard at work, hoping to run out of feral cats at some point 😊!

  • 5/13 - DCAS – 1 male feral. With a severe neck wound, he healed quickly with injectable antibiotics and was able to go back to his location in a few days
  • 5/15 – DCAS – 15 ferals, 5 female, 10 male, one already neutered.
  • 5/20 – DCAS – 3 ferals, 1 friendly, 1 male, 3 female – one already spayed.
  • 5/29 – DCAS – 4 friendlies, 34 ferals, 24 female, 10 male, one already neutered. 2 females had pyometra – life threatening infection, one male has fractured molars – we’ll hold onto him and get him a dental, his caretakers are very fond of him.

Total: May 84, year-to-date 271, since 2007 16,005!

Female feral Pleasant is our 16,000th cat!!! Pre and post op. Thank you Dr. Turner! "#16,000 was spayed on the DCAS mobile vehicle.

 

5/15 cats and crates of kittens!

05/29/25 - 38 cats for surgery and crates of kittens!

As Many As Possible As Soon As Possible

Adoption Event – 6/8/25

There's a Crisis - Can You Help?

Have you seen the posts and news segments about the volume of owner surrenders at Cook County? There is a crisis.

Pet owners are experiencing a financial and housing emergency and many times owner surrender is their only option. This link is about Cook County but there are no real boundaries for these animals. What affects Cook County affects DuPage, a tsunami of animals is happening. DuPage County Animal Services is doing their best to keep animals moving on to adoptive homes, rescues have to be worried that the numbers will continue growing with the current state of financial uncertainty. The picture, below, of the line at Animal Control is very scary (last Wednesday). We've done everything we can by doing as many s/n surgeries as we can.

As Many As Possible, As Soon As Possible 

Feral Fixers has had so many cats become friendly - soon after being trapped, weeks or months later, resulting in many older kittens and adults on hand. Adoptions are down. Kittens are coming - we have sooo many in foster already, due for spay/neuter in the next month and then they will be available for adoption. If we could find homes for the adults it would make such a difference in their lives. And yours.

Our next adoption event is Sunday, June 8th 1-4pm at Feral Fixers. We will have many of our loving fosters there - cats that we know so much about. We are constantly getting positive feedback from our adopters. Fill out an application in advance, look at our Adoptables page, think long and hard about bringing one of these fabulous cats to your home and family - it is worth it!


So Many Kittens
So many kittens! These guys are coming to the building today. Mom was TNR'd Thursday and they've been on their own for awhile, caretakers found them last night. First step – make sure they are eating on their own!

In actual fact kittens may only be 2 weeks old and hopefully putting with mom will work for them.

Discovered Kittens
Kittens were discovered in the bushes on Thursday when Kliome was having surgery. They were without mom for about 72 hours. We are so happy she has taken them back and seems to be nursing them well – even post op!

We Need Newspapers!

We use so many newspapers! Recently someone cleared out their stockpile of newspapers from 1996! Interesting to see just how much larger those were compared to current size. Yeah, they were a little aged, but still absorbent! Please try to sift out the sale papers before donating, they just are not absorbent and we end up taking bags home to put in our own recycling – not quite enough items to merit a recycling dumpster at the building. We have a bin at the front door, please try to bag up the papers so they don’t blow away. Newspapers are an absolute necessity to what we do, no way ‘round it and we appreciate everyone who is sending them our way! Even tho they don’t say so, the feral cats appreciate it as well!!!

We Could Not Do What We Do Without YOU!