This is urgent, friend. Winter poses a grave danger to cats, and they need your help. And the threat isn’t from the temperatures, which community cats are adapted to—it is from shelters without humane, effective policies.

Community cats are generally not socialized to people, are bonded to their outdoor home and feline families, and are therefore not adoptable into indoor homes. As a result, many shelters that lack humane programs will kill community cats.

Friend, if you want to protect cats this winter, then I urge you to make an emergency winter contribution to Alley Cat Allies. Your gift will save the lives of cats and kittens by supporting humane, effective programs and critical education about cats—especially in the cold months.

Alley Cat Allies is confronting and challenging the status quo in communities with outdated policies that kill cats. There is a better way, and we’re fighting for it with our supporters like you.

Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), the only humane and effective approach to community cats, ensures cats are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and returned to their outdoor homes to live out their lives. That is the only lifesaving program for community cats—not impoundment in shelters, where their lives are at risk at worst and they are highly stressed at best. But not every community has embraced lifesaving TNR programs, which is why your support is so critical today.

And, with your support, we can provide more communities with lifesaving education—which includes not bringing community cats to animal shelters during winter, but taking steps to support them in their outdoor homes. Providing insulated outdoor shelters and extra food and water, for example.

When you make an emergency contribution to Alley Cat Allies right now, we can help more communities protect cats this winter. Please, friend, with temperatures dropping, there’s no time to waste.

For the cats,

Alley Cat Allies