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A friend of a friend hit me up online and said she’d happily add Kevin to her brood of three cats and six foster kittens — then backed out the day before she was supposed to pick him up. After that, Kevin went to someone’s home for a three-day trial period. This lovely woman elicited warm purrs from him easily, which gave me high hopes. If only Kevin didn’t have a penchant for climbing bare legs with his extended claws, that one might have worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We tried so very hard to get rid of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kevin grew into a bigger cat, we knew his chances of adoption were getting slimmer. It didn’t help that once his legs got longer he started walking with the gait of John Wayne. We had decided early on to keep his mother and one of his well-behaved little sisters. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>This week, as we near the end of 2025, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/one-beautiful-thing\">One Beautiful Thing\u003c/a> from the year.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>here’s a phrase we use in my house when it looks like things aren’t going our way: “Put it on the stairs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These four words stem from a visit I made to City Lights bookstore a few years ago to drop off zines based on my KQED series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/rebelgirls\">Rebel Girls From Bay Area History\u003c/a>. After discovering that City Lights no longer had zine shelves, I asked an employee where I could leave mine. When he told me to “put them on the stairs” to the poetry room, I very nearly didn’t. Off in the quietest corner of the bustling bookstore, I was convinced that no one would ever find them there. I half-heartedly left a half-stack, and went grumbling on my way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13882786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">What I hadn’t realized is that the stairs to the poetry room are also the stairs to the publisher’s office. Putting the zines on the stairs resulted in City Lights contacting me the following week and asking if I’d be interested in turning Rebel Girls into a book. City Lights will release that collection, \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/politics-current-events-history/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/\">\u003cem>Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, in April 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since, when my boyfriend and I say “Put it on the stairs,” we’re reminding each other that momentary disappointments can sometimes lead to opportunities we never saw coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spent a good portion of our summer with a recurring disappointment so panic-inducing, however, we completely forgot to remind each other to put it on the stairs. That disappointment? A seemingly possessed cat we were terrified of getting permanently stuck with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I named him Kevin, after the murderous teenage boy from Lionel Shriver’s disturbing novel, \u003cem>We Need to Talk About Kevin\u003c/em>. “If you were a human,” I told Kevin in a baby voice every time he inflicted a new injury on me, “you’d grow up to be a school shooter, \u003cem>yes you would\u003c/em>!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We did not invite Kevin into our home on purpose. Earlier this year, we took it upon ourselves to take in a pregnant street cat, after seeing her alone for weeks and rapidly increasing in size. A few days after arriving, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13978816/stray-cats-rescue-bay-area-adoption-tnr-feral-cat-town\">Susan birthed seven kittens in my closet\u003c/a> and we proceeded to do all we could to nurture and socialize her babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Once they were old enough, we went about getting the kittens into homes with friends and coworkers. Adopters came and went and took away their picks of the litter. Despite our best efforts to present Kevin as a fun addition to anyone’s family, no one was fooled. He was patently chaos in cat form. As five of his sisters and brothers went off to new homes, Kevin stayed with us, perpetually unchosen, and never not screaming at us for more food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We came close to getting rid of Kevin three times. He was picked by one 12-year-old boy, who was quickly redirected to another (calmer) kitten by his parents. A friend of a friend hit me up online and said she’d happily add Kevin to her brood of three cats and six foster kittens — then backed out the day before she was supposed to pick him up. After that, Kevin went to someone’s home for a three-day trial period. This lovely woman elicited warm purrs from him easily, which gave me high hopes. If only Kevin didn’t have a penchant for climbing bare legs with his extended claws, that one might have worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We tried so very hard to get rid of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kevin grew into a bigger cat, we knew his chances of adoption were getting slimmer. It didn’t help that once his legs got longer he started walking with the gait of John Wayne. We had decided early on to keep his mother and one of his well-behaved little sisters. As time ticked along, we panicked daily about the fact that we might get stuck with three cats, one of whom may be a minion of the Antichrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13984123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1194px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13984123\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-25-at-9.47.43%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A black and white sticker showing the face of a young cat with KEVIN written in block letters underneath.\" width=\"1194\" height=\"1194\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-25-at-9.47.43 PM.png 1194w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-25-at-9.47.43 PM-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-25-at-9.47.43 PM-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1194px) 100vw, 1194px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">My friend Joe made this Kevin sticker. Because Kevin is basically Glenn Danzig and we all know it. \u003ccite>(Joe Dissolvo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That was months ago now and Kevin is, of course, still with us. It got to the point where it would have been cruel to break up the deep bond he shares with his sister. Kevin is still the strangest cat I’ve ever met. But Kevin is, despite all of my best efforts, unequivocally \u003cem>mine\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our attachment to one another formed slowly. It started with Kevin figuring out that making me bleed every 10 minutes wasn’t something I enjoyed very much. (Now he only does it twice a week!) Then he surmised that indulging in daily cuddlefests (during which he places his paws gently on my face) makes us both very happy indeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I live with a man who smokes two packs of Camel Filters a day. He smokes like it’s the 1950s. He smokes like no one’s ever mentioned it’s bad for him. And I have noticed one particularly life-impacting side effect to all of this tobacco consumption — one I’d never considered before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cats\">cats\u003c/a>. Many, many cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, if you spend a lot of time outside smoking, you end up accidentally meeting a plethora of homeless kitties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At our last house, there was Winter, the skittish black cat who rolled up our driveway every night for a can of Fancy Feast. Before that, there was Jerky, who we found starving in the parking lot of a La Quinta Inn, dumped there by her owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now there’s Susan, a silver cat with striking white eyeliner, who recently waddled into our garden so extraordinarily pregnant she could no longer groom her lower half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Susan-Birth.png\" alt=\"A grey cat lies on its side on a brown towel and yellow blanket, feeding 4 or 5 newborn kittens.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Susan-Birth.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Susan-Birth-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Susan-Birth-768x525.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Susan-Birth-1536x1050.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan, in the process of giving birth to what felt like 57 kittens. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a week of receiving snacks and pettings, Susan opted to come inside the house. It wasn’t long before I noticed the telltale gelatinous bulb emerging. I knew right away: Kittens were coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I let Susan pick a quiet corner and started putting towels and blankets underneath her. I laid down next to her, waited — and within 20 minutes, a tiny kitten slopped into the world, with its amniotic sac tethered to an umbilical cord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan took one look at her new baby and promptly devoured the sac and cord in a manner that made me think of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoqL7DFevc\">Hannibal Lecter and his nice Chianti\u003c/a>.[aside postID=arts_13978519 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/opossum.jpg']I watched in wonder as Susan did this terrible, perfectly natural thing to each kitten as it emerged, then enthusiastically groomed them. Her efficiency was striking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan birthed seven kittens that day. It took me three full days to realize it wasn’t six. Lord only knows when that last one popped out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven kittens are, by anyone’s standards, too many kittens. We responded to the new arrivals by doing what we’d seen on TV and stuck them all in a massive cardboard box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We kept Susan fed but largely left her to it. She gave us little choice, hissing and swatting any time we attempted to put a hand inside her new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching the kittens grow day by day, it was impossible not to think about all the other Susans in the world — cats forced to give birth outside, without a consistent food source, somehow trying to keep their babies alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to multiple rescue organizations KQED contacted, those cats are rapidly increasing in number.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stray cat populations are booming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The exact number of stray cats in the Bay Area is impossible to confirm. The \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayspca.org/\">East Bay SPCA\u003c/a> told me that, as of June, it had already taken in 430 kittens this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization anticipates receiving another 250 kittens in July alone, during what’s known as “kitten season.” The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfanimalcare.org/about-us/shelter-statistics/\">San Francisco Animal Care and Control\u003c/a> (SFACC) reports that the organization takes in around 2,000 cats a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00084_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00084_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00084_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00084_TV_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00084_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cat family of a TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) project sits in their enclosures next to each other at Island Cat Resources & Adoption Board President Merry Bates’ home in the Laurel District in Oakland on July 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rescuers around the Bay Area say those figures reflect a minuscule percentage of the true number of homeless cats in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cat population is unlike anything I have seen in the over 30 years I have been in rescue,” cautions \u003ca href=\"https://toniskittyrescue.org/about/\">Toni Sestak\u003c/a>, who spent more than two decades coordinating neonatal kitten fostering for the SFACC. “I fear it is only going to worsen.” Her position was eliminated in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the only effective ways to control the numbers is via TNR — trapping, neutering and releasing cats back to where they came from. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfspca.org/resource/tnr/\">San Francisco SPCA website\u003c/a> explains why doing this is so essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stray and feral cats populate an area when there’s food and shelter,” the SPCA states. “If the cats are removed, other cats will find the vacant space and move in … The new cats will have more kittens and repeat the cycle. With TNR, the original cats are returned to their territory, so new cats will not move into the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978732\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00454_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00454_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00454_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00454_TV_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00454_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Island Cat Director Peggy Harding (left) carries the enclosure with a kitten inside as Island Cat Board President Merry Bates chats with a resident about the last cat they are waiting to trap in the Laurel District in Oakland on July 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For TNR volunteers like Sestak and Merry Bates of \u003ca href=\"https://icraeastbay.org/contact-us/\">Island Cat Resources and Adoption\u003c/a>, the boom in homeless cat numbers has made the last few years extra challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The demand is huge,” Bates says. “When it comes to cats, they are so efficient at reproducing. And when they’re semi-feral, it’s not as simple as just picking them up and taking them to get spayed. You have to catch them first. It’s definitely work.”[aside postID=arts_13956635 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/IMG_0056-1020x638.jpeg']Bates helps cats in Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro, while Sestak is based in San Francisco. Both have been involved with rescue, rehoming and spay/neuter efforts since the early 1990s, and tell me that stray cat numbers are currently increasing at a rate that’s impossible to keep up with. This isn’t just bad for the cats — it can wreak havoc on natural ecosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://abcbirds.org/news/outdoor-cats-single-greatest-source-of-human-caused-mortality-for-birds-and-mammals-says-new-study/\">the American Bird Conservancy\u003c/a>, outdoor cats kill roughly 2.4 billion birds every year. This is possible because there are tens of millions of cats in the U.S. that spend at least some of their time outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse, TNR organizations say it’s becoming harder to find affordable veterinary care. Both Sestak and Bates say leadership changes at community shelters on both sides of the Bay have led to fewer annual spay/neuter surgeries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost of veterinary services has gone up ridiculously, too,” Sestak says. “We lost so many veterinarians during COVID. In San Francisco now, we only have three vet offices that are not run by corporations. That’s a giant problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates describes a similar situation in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977809\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Kevin-and-Imogen.png\" alt=\"Two older kittens sleep together, embracing one another.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Kevin-and-Imogen.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Kevin-and-Imogen-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Kevin-and-Imogen-768x768.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Kevin-and-Imogen-1536x1536.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Kevin and Imogen, who reporter Rae Alexandra initially (and ‘foolishly’) considered separating. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are very few resources left,” she says. “What is left is expensive and hard to get to. We’re seeing now that even though people want to help, they can’t make it work with transportation or costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Island Cat typically exceeds 2,000 spays and neuters annually, 75% of which are performed on homeless cats. The nonprofit estimates that it has successfully spayed or neutered 22,000 homeless cats in the past 30 years, despite having only 10 dedicated trappers and 20 foster homes that rotate in and out of use. In addition, Island Cat finds homes for 140 to 160 cats per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a really small number,” Bates notes. “Ideally, we’d love to get more cats off the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How cat lovers can help\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Collectives of good citizens like Sestak — who now runs \u003ca href=\"https://toniskittyrescue.org/\">Toni’s Kitty Rescue\u003c/a> — are scattered across the Bay Area, doing their best to reduce the homeless cat population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such nonprofit is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cattownoakland.org/\">Cat Town\u003c/a>, an adoption center specifically focused on getting sick, senior and skittish cats out of traditional shelters and into foster homes, where they can undergo rehab to become more adoptable. The organization typically houses 30 cats at its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cattownoakland.org/reservations\">Oakland adoption center\u003c/a> and up to 50 in foster homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic, Cat Town Executive Director Andrew Dorman has noticed surging numbers of stray cats in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978807\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1126px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/20250503_135632.jpg\" alt=\"A small kitten on a blue and red leash looks upward while crouching on a redwood tree in a redwood grove\" width=\"1126\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/20250503_135632.jpg 1126w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/20250503_135632-160x284.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/20250503_135632-768x1364.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/20250503_135632-865x1536.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1126px) 100vw, 1126px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED reporter Carlos Cabrera-Lomeleí adopted one of Susan‘s kittens, named Tlalolin, and often takes it out on walks. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomeleí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We work really closely with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandanimalservices.org/\">municipal shelter here in Oakland\u003c/a>, and their cat intake is up 42% in 2024, compared to 2019,” Dorman tells KQED. “During the pandemic, there was a huge scaling back of spay/neuter services. My sense is that the explosion of the population we’re seeing now is directly attributable to that. Our partners are being overwhelmed by the demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorman says there are many ways for the public to help stray cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are blessed in this region with a really amazing network of animal welfare organizations,” Dorman says. “Every community, every city has a good shelter and at least a few good cat rescues. Get involved with the one that’s closest to you, whose work is aligned with your values as a volunteer, as a foster and hopefully as a donor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spay and neuter your pets. And people who feed outdoor cats? We always say you should fix every cat that you feed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Town is actively seeking \u003ca href=\"https://www.cattownoakland.org/foster\">experienced foster homes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cattownoakland.org/volunteer\">volunteers\u003c/a> for its adoption center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For TNR, Bates suggests watching and reading as many tutorials as possible before volunteering as a trapper — essential, she says, for the safety of both cats and volunteers. The Island Cat website has \u003ca href=\"https://icraeastbay.org/resources/cat-education/\">extensive tutorials\u003c/a> on cat care, including \u003ca href=\"https://icraeastbay.org/resources/cat-education/community-cat-management/\">how to get started in TNR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fullcirclecats.org/\">Full Circle Cats\u003c/a>, an East Bay nonprofit that has fixed 4,144 cats and housed an additional 1,459 over the past five years, holds \u003ca href=\"https://www.fullcirclecats.org/workshops\">regular workshops\u003c/a> to better educate the public on TNR. The organization also trains volunteers on how to care for neonatal kittens and socialize young cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://animalfixclinic.org/\">Animal Fix Clinic\u003c/a> in Pinole is one of the few clinics left in the Bay that still offers very low-cost services for homeless cats. One $45 fee covers a spay or neuter surgery, vaccinations, a parasite treatment and a microchip. The nonprofit fixed 2,224 community cats in the first seven months of 2025 — 400 more than the same period last year. \u003ca href=\"https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/animalfixclinic\">Animal Fix is reliant on donations\u003c/a> from the public to cover its costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for my personal cat rescue operation, we opted to provide Susan a permanent home — and wound up keeping two of her kittens, too. All three cats have now been fixed and microchipped at low cost, courtesy of Stockton’s \u003ca href=\"https://apl209.org/\">Animal Protection League\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We rehomed the other five kittens to friends and coworkers, including KQED Community Reporter \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>, who even takes his little one out on a leash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, we never intended for simple cigarette breaks to bring so many cats into our lives. But now? We’re in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At our last house, there was Winter, the skittish black cat who rolled up our driveway every night for a can of Fancy Feast. Before that, there was Jerky, who we found starving in the parking lot of a La Quinta Inn, dumped there by her owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now there’s Susan, a silver cat with striking white eyeliner, who recently waddled into our garden so extraordinarily pregnant she could no longer groom her lower half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Susan-Birth.png\" alt=\"A grey cat lies on its side on a brown towel and yellow blanket, feeding 4 or 5 newborn kittens.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Susan-Birth.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Susan-Birth-160x109.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Susan-Birth-768x525.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Susan-Birth-1536x1050.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan, in the process of giving birth to what felt like 57 kittens. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a week of receiving snacks and pettings, Susan opted to come inside the house. It wasn’t long before I noticed the telltale gelatinous bulb emerging. I knew right away: Kittens were coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I let Susan pick a quiet corner and started putting towels and blankets underneath her. I laid down next to her, waited — and within 20 minutes, a tiny kitten slopped into the world, with its amniotic sac tethered to an umbilical cord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan took one look at her new baby and promptly devoured the sac and cord in a manner that made me think of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoqL7DFevc\">Hannibal Lecter and his nice Chianti\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I watched in wonder as Susan did this terrible, perfectly natural thing to each kitten as it emerged, then enthusiastically groomed them. Her efficiency was striking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan birthed seven kittens that day. It took me three full days to realize it wasn’t six. Lord only knows when that last one popped out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven kittens are, by anyone’s standards, too many kittens. We responded to the new arrivals by doing what we’d seen on TV and stuck them all in a massive cardboard box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We kept Susan fed but largely left her to it. She gave us little choice, hissing and swatting any time we attempted to put a hand inside her new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching the kittens grow day by day, it was impossible not to think about all the other Susans in the world — cats forced to give birth outside, without a consistent food source, somehow trying to keep their babies alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to multiple rescue organizations KQED contacted, those cats are rapidly increasing in number.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Stray cat populations are booming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The exact number of stray cats in the Bay Area is impossible to confirm. The \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayspca.org/\">East Bay SPCA\u003c/a> told me that, as of June, it had already taken in 430 kittens this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization anticipates receiving another 250 kittens in July alone, during what’s known as “kitten season.” The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfanimalcare.org/about-us/shelter-statistics/\">San Francisco Animal Care and Control\u003c/a> (SFACC) reports that the organization takes in around 2,000 cats a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00084_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00084_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00084_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00084_TV_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00084_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cat family of a TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) project sits in their enclosures next to each other at Island Cat Resources & Adoption Board President Merry Bates’ home in the Laurel District in Oakland on July 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rescuers around the Bay Area say those figures reflect a minuscule percentage of the true number of homeless cats in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cat population is unlike anything I have seen in the over 30 years I have been in rescue,” cautions \u003ca href=\"https://toniskittyrescue.org/about/\">Toni Sestak\u003c/a>, who spent more than two decades coordinating neonatal kitten fostering for the SFACC. “I fear it is only going to worsen.” Her position was eliminated in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the only effective ways to control the numbers is via TNR — trapping, neutering and releasing cats back to where they came from. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfspca.org/resource/tnr/\">San Francisco SPCA website\u003c/a> explains why doing this is so essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stray and feral cats populate an area when there’s food and shelter,” the SPCA states. “If the cats are removed, other cats will find the vacant space and move in … The new cats will have more kittens and repeat the cycle. With TNR, the original cats are returned to their territory, so new cats will not move into the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978732\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00454_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00454_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00454_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00454_TV_qed-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/250713-streetcats_00454_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Island Cat Director Peggy Harding (left) carries the enclosure with a kitten inside as Island Cat Board President Merry Bates chats with a resident about the last cat they are waiting to trap in the Laurel District in Oakland on July 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For TNR volunteers like Sestak and Merry Bates of \u003ca href=\"https://icraeastbay.org/contact-us/\">Island Cat Resources and Adoption\u003c/a>, the boom in homeless cat numbers has made the last few years extra challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The demand is huge,” Bates says. “When it comes to cats, they are so efficient at reproducing. And when they’re semi-feral, it’s not as simple as just picking them up and taking them to get spayed. You have to catch them first. It’s definitely work.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Bates helps cats in Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro, while Sestak is based in San Francisco. Both have been involved with rescue, rehoming and spay/neuter efforts since the early 1990s, and tell me that stray cat numbers are currently increasing at a rate that’s impossible to keep up with. This isn’t just bad for the cats — it can wreak havoc on natural ecosystems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://abcbirds.org/news/outdoor-cats-single-greatest-source-of-human-caused-mortality-for-birds-and-mammals-says-new-study/\">the American Bird Conservancy\u003c/a>, outdoor cats kill roughly 2.4 billion birds every year. This is possible because there are tens of millions of cats in the U.S. that spend at least some of their time outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making matters worse, TNR organizations say it’s becoming harder to find affordable veterinary care. Both Sestak and Bates say leadership changes at community shelters on both sides of the Bay have led to fewer annual spay/neuter surgeries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cost of veterinary services has gone up ridiculously, too,” Sestak says. “We lost so many veterinarians during COVID. In San Francisco now, we only have three vet offices that are not run by corporations. That’s a giant problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates describes a similar situation in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13977809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13977809\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Kevin-and-Imogen.png\" alt=\"Two older kittens sleep together, embracing one another.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Kevin-and-Imogen.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Kevin-and-Imogen-160x160.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Kevin-and-Imogen-768x768.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/Kevin-and-Imogen-1536x1536.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Kevin and Imogen, who reporter Rae Alexandra initially (and ‘foolishly’) considered separating. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are very few resources left,” she says. “What is left is expensive and hard to get to. We’re seeing now that even though people want to help, they can’t make it work with transportation or costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Island Cat typically exceeds 2,000 spays and neuters annually, 75% of which are performed on homeless cats. The nonprofit estimates that it has successfully spayed or neutered 22,000 homeless cats in the past 30 years, despite having only 10 dedicated trappers and 20 foster homes that rotate in and out of use. In addition, Island Cat finds homes for 140 to 160 cats per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a really small number,” Bates notes. “Ideally, we’d love to get more cats off the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How cat lovers can help\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Collectives of good citizens like Sestak — who now runs \u003ca href=\"https://toniskittyrescue.org/\">Toni’s Kitty Rescue\u003c/a> — are scattered across the Bay Area, doing their best to reduce the homeless cat population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such nonprofit is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cattownoakland.org/\">Cat Town\u003c/a>, an adoption center specifically focused on getting sick, senior and skittish cats out of traditional shelters and into foster homes, where they can undergo rehab to become more adoptable. The organization typically houses 30 cats at its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cattownoakland.org/reservations\">Oakland adoption center\u003c/a> and up to 50 in foster homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic, Cat Town Executive Director Andrew Dorman has noticed surging numbers of stray cats in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978807\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1126px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/20250503_135632.jpg\" alt=\"A small kitten on a blue and red leash looks upward while crouching on a redwood tree in a redwood grove\" width=\"1126\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/20250503_135632.jpg 1126w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/20250503_135632-160x284.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/20250503_135632-768x1364.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/20250503_135632-865x1536.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1126px) 100vw, 1126px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED reporter Carlos Cabrera-Lomeleí adopted one of Susan‘s kittens, named Tlalolin, and often takes it out on walks. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomeleí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We work really closely with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandanimalservices.org/\">municipal shelter here in Oakland\u003c/a>, and their cat intake is up 42% in 2024, compared to 2019,” Dorman tells KQED. “During the pandemic, there was a huge scaling back of spay/neuter services. My sense is that the explosion of the population we’re seeing now is directly attributable to that. Our partners are being overwhelmed by the demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorman says there are many ways for the public to help stray cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are blessed in this region with a really amazing network of animal welfare organizations,” Dorman says. “Every community, every city has a good shelter and at least a few good cat rescues. Get involved with the one that’s closest to you, whose work is aligned with your values as a volunteer, as a foster and hopefully as a donor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Spay and neuter your pets. And people who feed outdoor cats? We always say you should fix every cat that you feed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Town is actively seeking \u003ca href=\"https://www.cattownoakland.org/foster\">experienced foster homes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cattownoakland.org/volunteer\">volunteers\u003c/a> for its adoption center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For TNR, Bates suggests watching and reading as many tutorials as possible before volunteering as a trapper — essential, she says, for the safety of both cats and volunteers. 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The Four Seasons Total Landscaping debacle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Minutes after Joe Biden was declared president-elect on Saturday, Rudy Giuliani held a press conference in the dilapidated parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia, after a White House staffer mistook it for the luxury hotel. That the location was directly next to a sex shop named Fantasy Island and a crematorium did not deter Giuliani from moving forward with the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, people assumed headlines about the event were made up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hargreaves_s/status/1325306060479975424\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once reality set in, though, the internet exploded with jokes, commentary, a fake \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TotalSeasons/status/1326210367161331714\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Four Seasons Total Landscaping Twitter\u003c/a> account, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MrMichaelSpicer/status/1325786971915038723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">parody commercials\u003c/a> and even a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fstl1992.com/fstlmerch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">line of merch\u003c/a> direct from Four Seasons Total Landscaping. (Orders for the “Make America Rake Again” and “Lawn and Order” T-shirts have since \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=4075392709142797&id=168655773149863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overwhelmed\u003c/a> the company.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003cb>The most unbelievable hole-in-one … ever?!\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The “Can that possibly be real?” party continued during the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. It’s tradition during practice rounds at the golf tournament for players to skip a ball across the pond at the par-3 16th hole. When Spanish golfer Jon Rahm attempted the impossible shot, he got a hole-in-one that in no way looked real at all. OH. And it happened on his 26th birthday because of course it did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TheMasters/status/1326232433373704194\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. The virtual reality furry party (a.k.a. the Four Seasons Total Landscaping debacle part two)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It took furries just over 24 hours after Giuliani’s weird press conference to come through and make the situation even more surreal. A tom cat named Cooper went about building Four Seasons Total Landscaping as a virtual reality chat world, and promptly invited all his furry friends in for a hangout. Probably knowing the event sounded too ridiculous to be true, Cooper did the world the kindness of sharing some footage. (The background music really pushes this thing over the edge.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/thecoopertom/status/1325710953305026560\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. THAT Spanish restoration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mid-week, word began to spread about an attempted restoration of a statue in Palencia, Spain that had gone terribly wrong. The results reminded the internet of both \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/human-interest/spanish-statue-draws-potato-head-comparisons-after-failed-restoration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mr. Potato Head\u003c/a> and what 2020 has wrought upon us all collectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/russellbrandom/status/1326605388951728129\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. The cat translator app\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While you were busy worrying about the end of the world as we know it, a former Amazon engineer was building a cat translation app called Meow Talk. “[Cats] have a vocabulary that they use consistently,” Javier Sanchez told NBC’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/former-amazon-engineer-creates-app-that-reportedly-translates-your-cats-meows/281-f8aed66a-75f0-45e0-94fa-250a4e9e6818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King 5\u003c/a> with a straight face. “It’s not a language. They don’t share words and they don’t communicate with each other… But they can tell you what they want you to do.” Translated phrases on the prototype Meow Talk app include: “I’m in pain,” “I’m hungry,” “I’m happy,” “I’m gonna fight,” and “Where’s my mommy?” (I am not making this up, I swear.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. The Dean Browning/Dan Purdy Fiasco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, a straight, white, former Republican commissioner from Pennsylvania \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BarkleyYarg/status/1326925736414904320/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted\u003c/a>: “I’m a black gay guy and I can personally say that Obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better under Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet quickly concluded, after hours of social media sleuthing, that Browning had a fake Twitter account where he posed as a gay Black Republican named Dan Purdy, and that he’d accidentally tweeted from the wrong account. First, Browning offered this explanation that nobody believed at all:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DeanBrowningPA/status/1326270188682178560?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a video emerged of a man claiming to be Dan Purdy. (I would post it, but his \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DanPurdy322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">account has since been suspended\u003c/a>.) In the clip, “Purdy” says, amid a number of pro-Donald Trump messages, “I sent that message to Dean, Dean accidentally posted it somehow, and that’s the end of the story. No, he’s not a sock puppet. 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