Our Fiesta Furball occurred on Good Friday, and we are still over the moon about the tremendous success it was. We had a blast with everyone who came out and we just want to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed. Because of your support, our Community Cat Adoption Program profited over $8,000!!

This was our very first spring fundraising event and we plan to make the Fiesta Furball an annual event. We can’t thank everyone enough for coming together to make this event a huge success. Thank you to our sponsors, the incredible talent who danced for us, all the volunteers made the party favors including the center pieces for the tables, and the wonderful photography we have to look back on this first ever Fiesta Furball event forever. It never ceases to amaze us how much our community makes things possible to improve the lives of cats. No one looks after community cats like those who volunteer, TNR, donate, and support our organization whenever and however they can. We feel like a broken record when we say that there’s no community like ours, but it’s just the simple truth.

If you missed it this year, make plans to join us next year for some more fiesta fun! There are still more fiesta events you can catch us at in April!

We asked our community to adopt not shop for PetSmart Charities National Adoption Week that took place March 18th – 24th. Our organization received an adoption prep grant of $5,000 from PetSmart Charities that helped cats rescue and prep cats like Eurydice and Orpheus for adoption in a short amount time. We met both cats through Animal Care Services who explained to us that their owner was discovered deceased in their home. Both of these cats were removed from their home and had no where to go. Our volunteers took them in and discovered that these 3 year old cats were already spayed and neutered, but declawed in their frontal paws. There was no way we were going to release them outdoors and we took a chance on placing them for adoption in the middle of National Adoption Week! Their temporary home was at our PetSmart location on Dove Creek and we shared their story with our community on social media. The right family came along and they went to a new home with 3 kids, and both a cat and dog already at home waiting to meet them.

Eurydice and Orpheus pictured with some of their new family members! Thank you to everyone who adopted, spread the word, and came out to support us. A big part of what we do is education and we took the opportunity to educate the kiddos of this family on why cats should not be declawed. We wanted them to understand that even though they are adopting two declawed cats who may seem completely fine, that they should never do this. Learn more about declawing here.

Our next in-person TNR Class will be held on April 13th from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at 119 E. Turbo Drive, San Antonio, TX, 78216.

We will be giving out a special San Antonio themed prize to our first three new trappers who successfully spay/neuter a cat from their community! These prizes will include our very own Bella The Alamo Cat’s fiesta medal, exclusive plush toy, and a trap cover!

For a chance to win, take our TNR class, trap a cat who needs some help in your neighborhood, get their spay/neuter surgery at one of our subsidized clinics, and let us know when you email: socialmedia@sanantonioferalcats.org

We are looking for volunteers to help man a booth that will be selling food and drinks at NIOSA this year! SAFCC will get a donation for your volunteer hours!

Days: April 23 – 26 Shifts: 5:30 – 7:30 PM and 7:30 – 9:30 PM each day

Please contact Lorraine at 210-471-8462 or crazykattlady67@gmail.com for more info or to volunteer.

If you’ve never been to NIOSA, it is a “must see” Fiesta event!

We want to give special recognition and thanks to Fumiko Fujimoto who served as the ACS Community Cat Program Coordinator since August, 2015. During this time she oversaw almost 35,000 spay/neuter surgeries! To know Fumiko, is to know a huge cat advocate, who always goes above and beyond to help cats and people, and always with a smile.

She steered thousands to our TNR Class and we will certainly miss her as a great TNR partner. Fumiko is staying with the ACS family and we’d like to congratulate her on being selected to be their Volunteer Coordinator! Her positive, upbeat purrsonality is purrfect for that job! AND we know that every new volunteer will know what TNR is, probably, before they learn anything else!

Congratulations, Fumiko! This is not farewell, but see you around…. and we’ll be looking for that big smile!

With Kitten Season in full-bloom, we are needing cat habitat volunteers for our Petco on 410 location. These cats waiting to be adopted need volunteers to clean their space, feed, and play with them.

We also need a volunteer coordinator for Petco store located in Stone Oak. Duties will involve creating volunteer schedules and inventory management.

Please fill out our volunteer form if you can help us foster adoptable cats and kittens.