Friday's Fund For Ferals

The Quest

Since our inception in 1999, we have always spayed and neutered feral and community cats; however, we have never expressly had funds set aside for them. That meant that the colony caretaker was responsible for the surgery, and since these cats aren't technically “owned” by anyone, we thought it was only fair to help these cats and their caretakers by offering spay and neuter free of charge.

In 2017, Prevent A Litter had its first ever fundraiser explicitly geared towards helping feral and community cats.

From March 1st to May 31st, we held an online photo contest called “Picture Pawfect.” The donations made from this contest went towards creating our first-ever spay/neuter fund for community cats. We managed to raise over $1700 towards our new fund and even had the donation matched by the Community Cats Grant program via the Community Cats Podcast.

While we didn’t quite reach our goal of $5000, this was indeed a start! We managed to expand these funds even further by dedicating our next newsletter towards the cause, and in return raised another $4000 for our newly anointed feral cat fund!

*REQUIREMENTS TO QUALIFY FOR FRIDAY'S FUND:

*Due to financial constraints, all cats must be feral (unable to be handled by humans )

All cats MUST get an eartip and MUST be in a trap upon arrival.

You must have an appointment.

We only provide free surgery to caretakers that follow these requirements, when funding is available.

WHAT FRIDAY'S FUND COVERS

All cats will receive free spay/neuter surgery and free ear mite check, when funds are available.

**Friday's Fund is for individual caretakers only**

***The Feral Fund is run on donations, and is currently unavailable due to depleted funds. When Feral Fund is unavailable, all feral spay/neuters are PAID APPOINTMENTS. Payment for ferals is due at pick up on surgery day.***

When funds are depleted, feral prices are as follows:

CAT SPAY: $75 CAT NEUTER: $60 RABIES VACCINE: $15 DISTEMPER: $15 FELINE LEUKEMIA: $25

*** PLEASE DO NOT TRAP A CAT WITHOUT AN APPOINTMENT. This is inhumane to the cat who has to sit in a trap for days at a time until an appointment date is found. Feral cats are not used to being confined! To be scheduled for a feral surgery appointment, you will beed to submit a cat surgery request on our website . ***

If you are interested in setting up an appointment, please see the link on the main page of our website for the cat surgery request form. The form is open for submissions the 2nd and 4th Monday of every month at 10 AM on our website.

How You Can Help

We are so excited to finally have a program like this available to the public and hope in the future to include more services for even more cats free of charge as our funds grow.

If you would like to donate to the Friday's Fund for Ferals Program, please do so below!

Make sure to specify that this donation is for Friday's Fund.

You can also send a check the old fashioned way via snail mail to

3421 W Cary St. Richmond, VA 23221.

Thank you for helping us help the feral cats of Richmond and beyond!

Donate to help more ferals!

Meet Friday!

Friday is a beautiful long-haired black-and- brown tabby that was found roaming in the alley behind Prevent A Litter in 2011. We quickly trapped her to spay her but found out she had already been eartipped, which indicated she was already spayed. For years, we took care of Friday as an outdoor community cat, and even named our Feral Fund after her in 2018. Of course she was brought in for routine vaccines and health checks, but was always eager to go right back outside.

Then, in December of 2022 our hospital manager Erica and former staff member Dana brought Friday inside due to the extreme cold. The plan was to keep her indoors for the duration of the biting cold of winter, but when release back to the outside was offered, Friday politely declined. Everyone at PAL was delighted, and since then Friday has been our indoor office kitty!

Since she was first brought inside, Friday has truly blossomed into a social butterfly and absolutely loves attention and all the pets. In spring of 2024,we amputated her back, left leg due to a very large tumor extremely high up. She recovered extremely well, and wasted no time in becoming faster even than our 4 legged office kitty going up and down the stairs! Now approximately 15 years old, Friday enjoys spending her day napping in a cozy cat bed, but still loves a good play session and adores her churu treats!