How We Got Started

Turning sadness into action.

Our founder Brenda used to walk the trail along the river and pass by about eighty cats at the fairgrounds.

Each day the nagging feeling in her heart grew stronger.

Something needed to be done.

She founded the Friends of Forgotten Felines.

The cats Brenda committed to helping under the care of Friends of Forgotten Felines were spayed and neutered and many were adopted out.

We are strictly a volunteer-run organization. Our volunteers help us fundraise and are wonderful advocates for all feline friends. We rely soley on donations and grants to continue our critical work of providing low cost spay and neuter services to the Mid-Ohio Valley. In addition, our volunteers feed our colony cats twice a day, assist with veterinary after-care and host our low cost spay and neuter clinics to the community to further reduce the area's pet population.

We are always looking to gain volunteers and would love to get our mission out to as many people as possible. For more information on how you can help make a difference for the cats, visit our Sponsor and Donate tabs!

What We Do

Do we feed the cats at the fairgrounds? Yes.

But we do so much more than that!

For several years, Friends of Forgotten Felines made dozens of trips to the Fix 'Em Clinic in Charleston, WV. With their help we were able to spay and neuter not only our colony cats, but many cats from the community as well. Our current clinic partners Mercy Now Veterinary Clinic and Ritchie County Humane Society have made have made access to affordable low cost spay and neuter services much easier, and less stressful on the cats than those long trips to Charleston. With their partnerships, we have been able to expand our services to weekly clinics, providing more opportunites for owners and colony caretakers alike to save feline lives by reducing the pet population.

It is a sad truth that people dump unwanted pets every day. Not only is this illegal, but it causes undo stress and harm to the animal by placing it in an unfamiliar territory where they are unable to safely locate shelter, food and water. Most cats that are dumped have been domesticated, which can makes living in the wild very difficult. Many pets that have been dumped do not survive long without human intervention. By spaying and neutering your own pets, this prevents pregnancies, drasticallay reduces unwanted behaviours such as territory marking and excessive vocalizations, and keeps the pet population under control. Establised outdoor cat colonies especially benefit from TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) services, by trapping and fixing, it ensures the safety and health of our areas existing colonies by reducing roaming, fighting and reduces the spread of disease by keeping outdoor populations stable.

Friends of Forgotten Feline is dedicated to continuing this work in order to keep all of our cats, the cats in the community, and the community itself as safe as possible.