Q Gardens Cats

We're a small group of neighbors and friends working to convert an abandoned lot behind the Church Ave Q train station into a community garden.

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The space behind the lot is currently occupied by a large cat colony.  While we're happy to share our space with the cats we'd like to ensure the colony is as healthy as possible, so we're trapping the cats to have them neutered and spayed, rid them of parasites, help remediate any other health issues they're experiencing and either finding a new home for the friendly strays, or returning the ferals to their urban home.

While we have a generous neighborhood donor to cover the costs of the neuters and spays we're covering the other vet costs (parasite remediation, infections, open wounds and other illnesses) ourselves.

If you're able to give even a small donation to help our feline community please do so!

In case the above doesn't convince you, here are some faces that might:

Midget was the only cat we trapped on our first day out.  She's teeny tiny and totally feral.  She was spayed, vetted and returned to her colony to give us the stinkeye


Champ had a respiratory infection which the vet helped out when he went to get neutered.  He's a feral so he's back in the wild with his colony and feeling better.



Next came Morris, a super friendly tabby with a respiratory infection and a piece of barbed wire wrapped around his leg.  Morris was neutered, cleaned up by the vet, and because he's such a friendly guy his street-cat days are over! If you'd like to adopt him or other neighborhood cats check out http://barbarathecatlady.org/CatsforAdoption.html 



We're not sure how Dead-Eye got his namesake feature, but he's feral through and through.  After being neutered he was released back into the colony, and one eye is all he needs to give the typical cat glare.



Superfluff is a super feral. She's smart and cautious and thus far she's eluded our traps, but we're hoping to get her sometime soon.



Red is just as feral and hard to impress, hopefully we can trap him and return him after a trip to the vet.




Baby is one of at least 2 pregnant females in the colony.  Unfortunately a colony like this will just continue to grow past its ability to remain healthy unless the cats are spayed and neutered.  If she has her kittens we'll be looking for good homes for them once they're old enough.



There are many more cats in our colony and they need our help!