Welcome to Animal Posse, the podcast dedicated to the people and rescues making a difference in the lives of animals. Today's guest is Jonathan with Rescue Alliance. hi Jonathan. How are you

doing Good, Ms. Dixie, how are you doing?

I'm good. Thanks for coming on the show. I appreciate it.

It's no problem.

So tell me a little bit about yourself.

I'm the director of Rescue Alliance. We started the rescue back in 2019 after realizing that there's very few cat Rescue in the state of Louisiana.

And what is your background? What drew you to animal welfare and specifically cat rescue to begin with?

I was actually working for Walmart and I witnessed firsthand somebody throwing a kitten out of a moving vehicle in the parking lot. At that point I started volunteering at the animal shelters and then decided to actually start a rescue from there after seeing, how full the shelters were. And there just wasn't enough space or help for the cats.

And did you have cats as pets before this?

Yes, I did. I. And, I saw just how wonderful cats are. They're lovable. And they deserve the best life and have an opportunity to find their forever home.

I love your social media. I think you have some really good posts that you put out on social media. So that's actually how I found you. I do cat rescue as well, and you're right, there are few people that speak up for the cat, so I'm definitely glad to see that you're around. Speaking up for the cats. So what kind of programs do you offer with Rescue Alliance?

With Rescue Alliance We we have the Louisiana Pet Food Bank, we do disaster animal response and we've got a Cats for Vets program, which helps veterans find a companion to help 'em through a lot of the ones that we placed and everything. We've got veterans who are suffer from PTSD and that companion animal just, it makes their life a lot more amazing.

So you said too that you started this in 2019 and were all these programs something that you started with or how did they come into fruition?

We started off in 2020 doing the disaster animal response team at the same time as when we started the pet Food bank. The Cats Vets Program is a program we started last year. Through the pandemic we realized that, there was a need for pet food and supplies and that the pandemic is actually what brought the start to the Louisiana Pet Food Bank.

That's awesome. So tell me about the pet food bank.

Our pet food bank. We provide cat food, dog food, and other supplies that are donated. Our whole purpose is to give people an option to where, if they're having to consider, to surrender their companion animal, if we can provide them with pet food or supplies to keep their pet at home, then. It's a win, not only for the pet overpopulation problem, but it keeps that pet out of a shelter.

Yeah, I totally agree with that. So how do you secure your donations for the pet food and the supplies?

We actually, we do Facebook fundraisers. We actually accept donations from anyone, they're able to drop off donations at the Pet Smart Gonzales or the PetSmart on South Mall Drive in Baton Rouge. And from there, when people submit an application we've got one of our board members that actually reviews applications and then from there they schedule the appointment for the person to meet, to get the pet food and supplies. We also get a lot of calls from the Council on Aging with a lot of their senior citizens that are actually. Just in desperate need and a lot of the, through the Council of Aging, the Council of Aging will actually do the applications on their behalf.

And do you normally have a good stock of food for your pet food bank?

This year has been very low. This year, donations altogether are very low, so we make do with what we can. We get torn bags from Walmart. And, we try to do as best we can. We're not able to help everybody that we'd like to, we do the best that we can.

So you also mentioned that you do the disaster response. So how is it that you got started in the disaster response and what disasters have you worked?

We start, we started with Hurricane Harvey when Hurricane Harvey hit we went to the hurricane. We had the hurricane that hit Texas where we actually were right in the middle of that hurricane. We've had. A couple of hurricanes that hit Louisiana and we've been to Florida every year since 2020.

And how is it that you got involved doing that?

I actually got involved with that because, I partner with a bunch of organizations in, one of the organizations that we had partnered with actually got us started was the Animal Disaster Relief Coalition. They'd come down here to Louisiana and we partner with them, and then we'd go and we'd meet up with them to, and going into the disaster areas along with a couple of other organizations. Is how we got involved in going and doing disaster relief. Helping not only just rescue, but also bring pet food and supplies to disaster stricken areas.

And does that require that you have any kind of certifications to work with them or train specific training? I guess

we've actually, we have gone through the FEMA training. We've also gone through a training that's available through the A-S-P-C-A along with Code three. So through all the different organizations we've taken in to where we even have volunteers that are certified in Swift Water Rescue, along with animal cruelty and, so we even partnered with the Cajun Navys to where whenever there's a need, we're there to help.

How many volunteers do you have that do the disaster response?

On average we have anywhere between 10 and 40.

Oh, wow. That's wonderful.

So it's all about partnership for the pets. Is the more that we can come together, the more help we can provide.

Absolutely. Yeah. And I saw on your Facebook that you just did a collection of supplies to go to Kerrville, correct?

Yes. We had partnered with Kerrville Pets Alive and because of Brucey Animal Rescue to do a donation drive to get more supplies out to Kerrville pets live after the flood. To where we even had Sunbelt rentals, actually volunteered their services to transport supplies for us.

Do you also take any animals from the affected area?

A lot of times we do for Kerrville we did not, for this recent flooding in Kerrville, we did not they actually had a lot of resources set up to handle and so they transported out at the same time as they, they transported out all the animals they had in house. That way they could actually take in strays and animals found.

And how did you make all these connections with all these other animal rescues?

Honestly, a lot of it was done through Facebook. Whenever there was a disaster, we would reach out. We're actually currently, are Florida sarc. Responders. So whenever Florida actually needs a response, they actually send us emails along with, we get emails from the A-S-P-C-A and along with a lot of the other big organizations they send us requests for volunteers and for services.

If anyone is interested in getting involved with this, can they contact you and you can help walk 'em through the whole process?

Yes, they can. They actually, can even sign up by going to our website, animal recovery.org. And clicking on the volunteer tab or they can message us through Facebook or reach out to us directly. But we're always looking for volunteers. We're always looking for people to do donation drives. We've actually got one teenage child right now who's her summer mission is, to collect as much pet food and supplies to help pets across the state of Louisiana.

Oh, that's wonderful.

It is, anytime we can get the youth involved in helping with animals, it's a big accomplishment.

So for volunteers, what is your biggest need for volunteers in which program?

Right now our biggest need for volunteers, because currently we're not working in active disaster, is we're looking for volunteers in our cat care centers, which is gonna be at the PetSmart in Gonzales and the PetSmart on South Mall Drive in Baton Rouge. To where they come in, they clean, give the cats food and water, and they socialize with the cats. The other thing that we are also looking for currently right now is adoption of volunteers to come and help with doing adoption events.

So how many volunteers do you currently have that help with that, with the cleaning and also your adoption events?

Right now our volunteers are low, so right now we've got about five volunteers for that. And we do need many more.

Yeah. I see with a lot of rescues, that seems to be the hardest thing is finding the people to go do the cleaning and to actually go do the adoptions. People like going to play with the animals, but they don't like necessarily doing the cleaning.

Oh, yeah. Cleaning is the part that it is the hardest to find volunteers for. The great thing about when people do the volunteers to do the adoption events. Is, adoption events are only from 10 o'clock in the morning till two, three o'clock in the afternoon on Saturdays. And if we got the volunteers to do it, it would be on Sundays also. But it just very rewarding because you not only get to go there and love on the cats the whole time, but you also get the accomplishment of knowing that you helped find this cat at home.

So can you walk us through the process of you actually intaking cats and then getting them into the petmarts for adoption?

From the point of the intake, all of our cats before they even go to PetSmart, they're gonna be spayed or neutered. They're gonna be age appropriate vaccinated and microchip. They're completely they are completely vetted. And, in order for 'em to go with PetSmart it is required that they are completely vetted. They undergo, all the testing and that's needed to make sure that they're healthy and thriving to where when they get in the home, it's a lot easier for them to become comfortable.

I saw on your website that Rescue Alliance, you champion feline welfare through rescue adoption and support programs giving every cat the chance to thrive. Can you elaborate on what that truly means for a cat?

Thriving is, we work with the adopters not only up until the time of adoption, but we remain a resource to where if the adopter has questions or concerns, they're able to call us and we'll do whatever we can to answer their questions. And provide the best resource to help, the cat adapt to being happy and healthy in their new home. So even at the time of adoption, we even provide a week's worth of food to every adopter. That way they're able to be weaned onto a different type of food, whether if the adopter doesn't wanna keep 'em on hill signs diet.

Do you find that all of the post adoptive support that you do helps from, say, having a cat returned to your organization?

We do still have. Every now and then we do still have, an adoption that, the adopter has to return. We had one just last week to where the person was actually gonna be moving outside of the United States for work and was told that they couldn't take their pet with them. So we did accept the cat back into our care to help find the cat a new home. So it's not a true science, but any way that we can to help. We do.

And where do you get your cats and kittens from?

We actually we pull from across the entire state of Louisiana. We get cats from as far as away as Shreveport and Bastrop up in north Louisiana, we get cats from down in Morgan City, Patterson. We get cats from Companion Animal Alliance. We even get cats from Crowley in Lake Charles.

How many come into your program in a given year?

On average we bring in anywhere between five and 700 a year.

Wow. All spayed and neutered. So imagine how many that number would be if they weren't spayed or neutered, right?

Oh, yes. When you sit back and you think about it on average for each litter, that they have, it can be anywhere between four on average, between four and nine kittens. And with that being said, we actually had one mom that we took in who actually came with her three litters of kittens So in all actuality that one mom had 26 babies. Wow. Who came with her

three litters. Wow. And what were the ages of 'em?

They were all the way from 1-year-old down to newborn.

Of course I'm in cat rescue, so I know how fast they reproduce and how young they are when they reproduce, but that's amazing. That many from one mom. I've never seen that before.

It gets worse when you sit back and think about. Those 26, what would happen if those 26 had already started to reproduce it? They wouldn't come to us when they did. Those 26 would've turned into hundreds,

right exactly. Yeah. And they can do it as young as four months.

Yes. And we've taken in a few cats this month, this year that are like four or five months old and already pregnant.

And at that point do you do the pregnant spays?

It depends on how far along they are. A lot of times if they're four months old, we're not gonna risk it. So unfortunately we do. But a lot of it all goes down to how far along they are. And how we make that decision on, because we try not to, but at the same time, if they're four months old, their coping mechanism to become a productive parent is limited because they're still babies themselves.

That's absolutely true. And a lot of people don't realize that when they'll get a cat. Throw it out on the street. They don't think it can get pregnant until it's six months old. Or some people even think maybe a year and they don't realize that it's babies, having babies. And a lot of the times they don't know what to do.

We actually, get a lot of cats that come to us that are having a baby right at a year old. And even at a year old, we see a lot of times they still even struggle understanding I'm not supposed to lay on top of my babies or, it's very traumatic work.

You have the issue too, where a lot of people will contact you that they just found newborn kittens? And want you to take all the kittens to be bottle raised.

We get, probably, on average, between five and 10 calls a day.

So what is the advice that you give them? Do you normally tell 'em to put the kittens back outside first to see if the mom returns?

We do. We always do recommend setting up a box with a blanket in an area which that's covered in shade with food and water. To where it would give the mom an opportunity to come back and see that there's food and water there. That way they don't have to go off hunting. And at least give about 24 hours to see if the mom even comes back before pulling them inside. Because a lot of times when the mom leaves the babies in a spot, it's because she's going to look for food.

Exactly. Yeah, there's this misconception that the moms stay with them 24 hours a day, which isn't the case. 'cause the moms have to eat too.

Exactly. And that's one of the reasons why in a lot of our cat colonies, we've actually we buy houses that have feeding systems. To where we'll go and we can actually pull, pour in about a quarter of a bag of food and it's in a little chute and then it's got the water hooked up to it. We find that a lot of times when we show up to go check on our colonies, that a mama cat's moved into these houses just because everything is provided right there.

Yeah. I'd love to see your setup for that.

I can get you some pictures for that. And one of the other things that we also do is we actually also have an ultrasound machine. We're one of The small rescues that we've got access to a portable not x-ray machine, a portable ultrasound machine to where we can actually go and look at the moms to and check on the babies even while in the field.

Oh, that's pretty cool.

It's been a lot of work. We have two ICU units that also have, that we would have the oxygen and everything for, to where it really helps with, helping them get over having upper respiratory infections.

Yeah. And I can see where that definitely would help. I'm actually working on that myself 'cause I do a lot of bottle feeding. And it's hard to find bottle feeders that's over here anyway, that's for sure.

Oh, yeah. That's actually one of the things that I actually do a lot of personally is, I've got my one little bottle feeder, now he's just a brown little brat. And his name's Hashbrown, but he was dropped off and had no mom. And, we took him in and, we syringe fed him and now he's just a hyper little ball of energy.

Yeah. It's rewarding to feed him. It's a little bit of a pain sometimes, but it is very rewarding.

Oh yeah. And we use the foster care. We use a little bit more expensive milk, but to us it's a better quality milk.

With all the kittens that you intake, how do you keep all of their records and stuff like that straight before they go into PetSmart for adoptions.

We use a software called PET Established. And with PET established, we can record all their records and we we even do their adoptions through PET established. So even after adoption, all their digital records are emailed and controlled through their microchip.

And do you let your fosters be involved in recording their records or is that something that you have a specific person set up to do?

We actually do let all of our fosters, are given access to go input medical records. They can go in there and we allow our fosters to go and even write their biography because who's better to say, to tell us more about a cat than the foster who was taking care of it?

The Fosters always know the personality, the behavior. So they're also the ones that are, best to say when their animals would do well, say with another cat or dog or small children or anything like that too.

Yes. And we do have a lot of fosters that do also have dogs. So it, with operating over the fosters. It allows us to put cats in homes with dogs to where if somebody wants to adopt a cat and they have a dog, then we can speak more towards that. This cat was fostered with dogs and was okay with it, or if they were not okay with it, we can even speak towards that.

Can you explain a little bit about your Cats for Vets program and how that works?

The Cats for Vets Program basically what that program is it's a free program to veterans who served. They come to us and they're like, I'm interested in a cat. And what we do is we waive the adoption fee. There is no adoption fee for a veteran. Because a lot of times, they're coming to us. They're on disability or, they need that extra love and we just wanna be able to help our veterans by providing them, a companion animal. We help 'em with pet food and supplies just to give them the opportunity to. I had a fully thriving companion to help them through a lot of time, was one of our clients suffers from PTSD and the cat that we helped him find was a love magnet. So the cat required a lot of attention, so it went to him, and because of that they perfectly bonded, which his in intern helped him with his PTSD.

Are they requesting more adult cats or kittens or is it just depend a lot?

A lot of times with our cats vets program, it's been more of the adult cats. 'Cause they're not looking for too much hyperactivity. They want a well established cat. One who you know is okay with using the litter box we have one who actually got one of our special needs cats who actually only had one eye and they bonded and they're best friends now.

When they select a cat, do they tend to select like a single cat or do they ever do 'em in pairs or to put with an existing cat that they might have?

We do have a few that have already had one cat and they're just looking for more love. We actually did have a veteran couple who actually ended up getting three cats at one time. And they're just the happiest. We checked with them. We make sure that that they don't struggle with pet food or, we help 'em out their vaccinations, just to make sure that you know that everything the cat needs, they have the opportunity to have.

That's great. And three cats in one home. That's amazing too, to have them all adopted at the same time.

And it's a lot of fun to have. We make the joke and everything. We can't even call you a cat lover and everything, so you got five cats and everything. But it's all about one, knowing what you can handle, but for two, knowing that by providing a cat a home. You're taking on a best friend.

Absolutely, and I always say to add in pairs, I try to promote that because honestly I find that it's no more work to have a pair. If you add in even numbers, it doesn't seem to make a difference.

We've noticed is it's actually a lot easier to take care of the cats when you take them in pairs, because whereas the average person goes to work eight to 12 hours a day, and what happens when you're at work? The cats can get lonely. The cats can get bored. When they get bored, they become mischievous. So if you adopt 'em out to where your cat's got more than one cat in the house. You're in turn giving them somebody to have fun and play with Chase around and keep them company.

Yeah, absolutely. Do you support any kind of educational initiatives as well to promote responsible pet ownership and feline wellbeing?

We actually, do have what's called the CAT Club. And the cat club, it's a classroom course that we actually have that is the first Tuesday of every month at the Haven of Ascension here in Gonzales. And it's about an hour and a half. But, we teach everything from bottle feeding to, the proper care and grooming of cats. We actually have one of our, board members actually leads that the CAT club.

Yeah. I just started teaching a bottle feeding class and it was, I was very happy to see the amount of people that showed up and the engagement in the class.

Oh yeah. When we had our bottle of feeding class, we had three teenage girls come, and that's, this is when we had just taken in hash Brown and Hash Brown was still on the bottle, could fit in your hand. And so we got to teach these girls that were between the age of, what was it, 11 and 14. On how to properly bottle feed a baby. And they absolutely loved it to where they come to volunteer and, and even when I was bringing Hash Brown to our adoption events, because Hash Brown was being bottle fed they'd show up and they were sitting there in PetSmart bottle feeding this baby.

That's great to get them involved that young. I know when I had my class. Believe it or not, we couldn't find any bottle babies to bring. And I'm like it's not really a problem. I'm not gonna complain about that, but I had to bring a stuffed animal 'cause we couldn't find any bottle babies. But that's a good problem to have, right?

Yeah. It's always a good problem to have when you can't find bottle babies. 'cause if you don't have bottle babies, that means that they've all got a mom.

So in, so that's

a very good problem.

Yeah, I was very surprised. I reached out to three different rescues and I couldn't find bottle babies anywhere, and I said, I'm not complaining.

Oh, yes. One of the other things that we also do is, actually, me and my wife, also sit on the board for the Louisiana Pet Overpopulation Advisory Council, and we actually meet at the state capitol in the legislative room, and that's how we help provide the animal friendly Louisiana license plates goes towards issuing grants to help with spaying and neutering.

That's great.

We've got a meeting coming up next month at the state capitol.

Okay. I didn't know that they had that going towards grants for spay neuter.

Oh yes. We've been, a part of it now for I think almost two years. I've been going and we meet at state capital like three, two to three times a year. And there's a new pet stamp that's coming out that is also gonna help go towards cost the with spaying and neutering.

And how does that work? Like how do they determine where it goes? Does it go to like parish shelters or does it go to individual groups?

Basically when the application process is opened then from there for shelters and rescues across the entire state of Louisiana, they'll submit an application with the financials and then we actually go and we vote on the groups that are gonna get awarded grants like last year, I think. It was 19 grants to rescues and shelters across the state.

Oh, that's wonderful.

And it's all with makes the animal friendly license plate so vitally important that the more people they can go, they go to the DMV and get their animal friendly license plate that is. Revenue that actually helps with pet overpopulation in our state.

Yeah, that's fantastic. I've always seen them, but I never knew, really where the funds went for that.

Oh, yes. That's one of them. And that's what we're a part of. And, we're steadily trying to grow it because I think last year we had, I think it was almost $20,000 worth of grants that actually went out.

Yeah, that's great. In your experience, what are some of the most pressing challenges facing feline welfare today?

I think our the most challenging is when you have individuals who they feel that spaying and neutering is wrong. They don't understand that by not spay and neutering, you're making an overall critical issue that we deal with in the state. It makes it even worse, it leads to cat hoarding situations where we actually took in 64 cats from one house in a course of two days because that's actually how long it took us to catch all the cats.

Wow. And were, they weren't spayed or neutered.

None of them. They had ne they had never even been to a vet, never had a vaccine or anything.

That's a lot of work right there.

When going unchecked, not only does it become a big problem, it becomes a big expensive problem. they tried, of course, this lady was in her sixties. She was trying her best to provide the best care, that one little small problem that started off as just a few exploded into an even bigger problem. And then it got to the point to where she was steadily setting up more litter boxes, but she was unable to properly clean all the litter boxes that she was setting up.

Working in cat rescue can be incredibly rewarding, but also emotionally challenging. What keeps you motivated?

Coffee. Oh,

coffee and cats, right?

Yes. What keeps me motivated to do it is just seeing that like last year we did 550 adoptions as a small rescue, doing 550 adoptions in one year, knowing that all those cats are no longer on the street and reproducing it makes you wanna keep going. When you got people from the community who do their monthly sponsorships that you know every little bit that we can come together knowing that we're helping, it's also motivating to keep going.

Looking ahead, what are your long-term aspirations?

We are in the process of trying to reopen another cat rescue center. We had one, but the building that we had just had too many problems with it. So we are actively trying to raise the funds to where we can go ahead and open up a new cat rescue center, which would at the same time allow us to take in more and help more, but. It's just to expand our services to be able to offer more resources to those in need.

Before we end, do you have any happy adoption stories that you would like to share?

Yes. We had one cat that came to us and it was a Scottish fold. Scottish folds are very sweet, very, expensive cats to if you were to try to buy one. And the great thing about this is we brought this baby in. It, it actually it came to us infested with fleas. All of its neck, its body was all scabbed up. So we put this baby into foster home and the amazing foster fell in love. And decided, you know what, this baby needs to stay here with me. So she decided that she was going to adopt that beautiful Scottish fold.

That's great. You gotta love when you have the foster failures, right?

Yes. That's what's happened to me. I've got some of the most amazing cats of my own.

Yeah, me too.. I've got a lot of them actually that were returned. For various reasons and they ended up living their life with me now.

Oh yes. I took in one of, one of my personals we took from the shelter that actually had a drainage tube in his leg. And Carlos came to us and he was very sick and he wasn't thriving in the animal shelter. And what ended up happening over the course of the past year is he is gotten better. He still suffers from on and off pneumonia, but from where he was to where he is now, he is still much more healthier and happier.

Yeah, and I think that's an amazing thing too, when you can always see the before and afters to see what an impact you make.

And then we love when we get the wobbly cats. And, because people think that, oh, wobbly cats, we took in one, his name was Buddy. And we took him in and everybody thought he was neurological, so we pulled him out of PetSmart because we were getting out there there's a neurological cat, and he just had cerebral hypoplasia, but he turned out to be the most sweet loving. Outstanding cat you could ever find. He was very demanding for time and attention. It just goes to show that even in their imperfection sometimes they're still the best companions.

Absolutely. I have one, and she was born without any eyes. And she is absolutely amazing the things that this cat does. It's amazing to watch her.

Oh yeah. At one of our adopter's house. She had actually adopted out a cat from us. A cat that has no eyes. At all completely blind. And the amazing thing is when I was over by their house to see that this cat maneuvered through that house as if it had eyes.

Yeah. It's amazing to watch 'em. That's like mine. What she does is she'll go walk into my bedroom and jump on the bed, and I'm like, how do you know the bed's there? It's amazing. We've seen her chasing flies. She does everything.

Oh yeah. Now that's like with the blind cat and everything. It has not a lack vision, but yet they came running across the room, jumped and landed on the cat tree.

Cause it,

it memorized exactly where that tree was.

Before we end, for listeners who are passionate about feline welfare, what is the single most important action they can take right now to contribute to a more compassionate world for cats?

If you can't foster, donate, cat rescue, it's rewarding. And if you're not able to foster or adopt, the best way to help is just to donate.

Thank you so much, Jonathan. I enjoyed our conversation and I liked learning about all the programs and the great work that you do for cats. There's not enough pioneers for cats in the world, so we need to get some more of them. So I'm glad that you're out there working for the cats.

Oh, yes. And we're willing to, if there's somebody who is interested in starting up and everything, we are always, up for partnering and mentoring to help guide on, helping from how to get the 5 0 1 C3 and the processes to go to help become more productive and making sure that not only are you taking in cats, but you're taking 'em into a healthy environment that continues to help 'em thrive.

And I'm so glad that you offered the help like that too, because I know that, sometimes some groups are a little bit reluctant to share information, so it's good that you're out there willing to be a mentor.

Oh yes. You know the reason why we named it Rescue Alliance because as a rescue, if we can come together and work together, we can save more cats. And for those that do dogs, they can save more dogs just by working together than fighting one against each other. Because that energy can be saved towards getting animals homes.

Absolutely. And I hope that this podcast actually can accomplish that and bring rescues together in, in some kind of way. If I help one animal, I find that I'd at least be doing my job.

Oh, yes. And it all boils down to is as you get to thinking about, even if you help one person become an advocate towards animals. But you still gotta always think about as far as with the litters, that one animal can reproduce and become 20,000 over time. So every cat we can save is an accomplishment.

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it talking to you this evening.

Thank you so much for having me.

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