What Do We Need This Week?
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Everything! Okay, what we don’t need are sheets, towels, and cat beds. We’ve got plenty.
We need people to work here. Do you or someone you know have a passion for cats and need a part-time job? We need Animal Care Workers. The job entails feeding and medicating the many kitties, two dogs, and one bunny at the sanctuary; assessing the health and happiness of the animals here; scooping litter boxes, sweeping, and cleaning if we have no volunteers for that particular shift. We are offering a competitive wage, and we’ll pay you while you’re being trained. Interested people, please submit a resume to info@thunderingpaws.org. We are far better than just an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to treat our people as well as we treat our animals.
We always need ProPlan and Fancy Feast dry and canned kitten food. These little folks eat a lot! Take a look at our Wish Lists:
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We need Tru-Catch traps. We use them constantly! Check them out here.
We need money to pay our high vet bills. Lots and LOTS of money for that. Here are the ways you can give: Website, Facebook, PayPal, or Venmo (@Thundering-Paws).
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Erik is the perfect indoor cat with a sweet, loving personality.
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Last week we offered you a great indoor/outdoor cat, Erik. Erik has had absolutely no desire to go outside. He knows where the doors are and he has no interest in them. He’s happy sitting on the bed in the air conditioning with the other kitties, eating like a piggy, and getting lots of pets and attention from humans. He has had issues with no other kitties except Ariel and Marigold, but they don’t like anybody. Well, Ariel likes guys Bob and Bijoux, but not Erik. He’s an indoor cat now. 
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Erik loves special attention and is looking for his furever home.
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We’re having an in-person adoption event on Saturday, August 27th from 1 pm to 4 pm at Petsmart in Bee Cave.
We will bring kittens, kittens, kittens!
Come meet your next baby!
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Managed cat colonies have a caretaker and feeder to keep watch over them.
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When we go to a location to trap cats, we sometimes get kittens. During a recent trapping, we got three kittens in one trap! If the kittens are too young to be spayed/neutered, as these three are, we hold them. We don’t release ANYONE without getting them spayed/neutered! (The exception to that rule is a nursing mother.)
Kittens usually gain a pound a month. They must be three months old to get a “legal” rabies shot. That means that if a kitten is at least three months, which means three pounds if we don’t know their exact birthday, their rabies certificate is a legal document. If the kitten is younger, the rabies certificate isn’t a legal document, and cannot be used as proof that the kitten doesn’t have rabies. This could be disastrous in a shelter that has not obtained no-kill status.
 Since the kittens we’re currently housing don’t have a rabies shot, and they are pretty scared, we ask our volunteers not to handle them. All of them have a home to which they can return once they are spayed/neutered and vaccinated. It’s an outdoor home. It’s not ideal. But it’s a managed colony with a caretaker and feeder.
Once in a while, we will trap a kitten or cat who is completely tame. These kitties are assessed for their adoptability. One of the tests judges whether or not the cat or kitten can be handled. When the feet come off the ground, the kitty either curls into the person, freaks out, or displays something along that spectrum. The closer to “freak out,” the more likely we are to return the cat to his/her colony.
We don’t assess every trapped cat that comes to us. Most are feral and/or petrified. Some are tame but their owner wants them back. Sometimes we just do not have a foster person or the funds to take the kitty through the adoption process. That is a sad scenario, but it’s the reality.
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Phoenix's leg had to be amputated and is currently enjoying a peaceful, safe life at Thundering Paws.
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We are happy to put most feral cats back in their home. Some cats are compromised—one-eyed, three-legged—and some situations are far less than ideal. Phoenix’s case is a good example. Trapped dragging a hind leg while living behind a building on Highway 290, she underwent an amputation. She now lives here. We assume she was hit by a car. We don’t want that happening again!
We would love to have a safe, managed colony somewhere near Thundering Paws. The ideal would be no more than 25 cats per acre, with a cat-proof fence, food and water stations, climate-controlled buildings where a kitty could escape foul weather, and, of course, kind-hearted humans to care for them.
Thundering Paws has dreams! We want more space to help cats. While we know that we’ll just fill it up, we also hope that someday there will be an end to the overpopulation and suffering of these delightful beings.
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Thank you for everything you do for us, and for animals!
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