May 2025 Newsletter
Greetings Yogie Fans!
Well, we have always heard that April showers bring May flowers, but in our case May has brought more showers in the first few days and they have been torrential! We have experienced some heavy rain and flooding in our area, but fortunately the sanctuary in Frierson, as well as our Bossier location, are fine. It is wet and messy, but we did not experience any damage. We are grateful for that.
We realize this newsletter is late, but we were waiting on some information we wanted to get into this newsletter before sending it out.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS: May 26th is our twenty-fifth anniversary? We know this would not have been possible without the support of our fans, and we are grateful for you! Thank you for making it possible.
GIVE FOR GOOD: The time is here for the annual Give for Good online giving event. The event begins on Tuesday, May 6th. This is so important for us to raise much needed funds for the cats.
We do not get the attention that other rescues do because we do not do adoption events. We are different because we are a sanctuary, and our cats are permanent residents. That is a big responsibility to car for fifty-five cats for their lifetime.
We are, and always have been, a 100% volunteer driven non-profit organization.
Please consider us with your giving.
Thank you!
https://www.giveforgoodnla.org/organization/yogieandfriends
FINN: Finn’s health has been steadily declining over the past few months. He went to the vet on April 22nd for a follow-up because he was struggling even more. He had lost three pounds since his January visit and when Dr. Daville did an abdominal ultrasound she saw a mass on his liver the size of a grapefruit! There was nothing there in January. Finn has had serious medical issues over the years, and he just turned 18 years old on April 12th. We just could not see putting him through any aggressive treatment at this age and with his current condition. He has survived so much. The difficult, but kindest decision was made to help him gently over the Rainbow Bridge. It was the right thing to do. We will miss him, as we do all the ones we lost.
R.I.P. Finn 12 April 2007 – 22 April 2025
CHLOE’ AND BLACKIE: We had the opportunity to celebrate a happy occasion with Chloe’ turning 21 years old on May 1st and Blackie turning 18 years old on May 2nd. We have some old cats at Yogie and Friends, and it makes us happy that we have given them a good life at the sanctuary.
TILLMON/TILLY: We recently discovered that the kitten Jenny found, and we all thought was a girl, is a boy! So, we named him Tillmon. Tillmon was brought to the Friends of Bossier Animal Control to be adopted. This is the organization that got Honey, and her five kittens adopted in one week. They have a wonderful program, and he will get the exposure he needs for adoption.
VET CARE:
Vet care is always going to be one of our biggest issues. Sometimes it is just prevention, but most times it is a significant issue. But our cats do receive some excellent medical care, and it is one of the contributing factors in why they live so long.
Grayson had his follow-up, and he had some dental inflammation, but he is responding well to the meds. We do have a few of our senior and geriatric cats needing some vet care we are preparing for. One, Binx, is a concern because he is not a cat we can handle and if he requires long term medicine, then it will be problematic. But that is what our veterinarians are for. Their guidance is critical. Hopefully, we can get Binx well.
We have a vet balance of $1651.53 at the vet clinic now. It never seems to end.
You can call the vet clinic directly at 318-747-5747 and donate over the phone.
Or you can PayPal at yogieandfriends@hotmail.com
Or Venmo at YogieCats
VENMO: Several organizations are having their Venmo accounts copied and sadly, donations being sent to thieves. Fortunately, we are told that the QR codes associated with an account cannot be changed, so it may be the best way to use Venmo. If this is true, and we are verifying that, we will start by including the QR code in our newsletter.
FOOD AND SUPPLIES: we always need help with food and litter. We have fifty-five mouths to feed. We need food and litter the most.
PayPal and Venmo are the best, and quickest, ways to help. Then we can immediately go buy the supplies.
PayPal at yogieandfriends@hotmail.com
Or Venmo at YogieCats
Or you can help using our wish lists:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2N8IP4356I948/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Pet Palooza
11 October 2025
Times TBD
Louisiana Boardwalk
Bossier City, LA
Paws in the Park
October 2025
Times and Date TBD
Riverpark Church
3232 E. 70th Street
Shreveport, LA
KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS: Attention Kroger Shoppers. Please consider helping our cats when you shop at Kroger. Our Kroger Community Rewards number is GD567, and you can find us by our name as well, Yogie and Friends FIV Positive Cat Sanctuary. When you log into your Kroger account you can select us as your charity of choice and a part of your purchase will be donated to our rescue sanctuary.
SPONSORSHIP:
You can sponsor a cat for just $15 a month, $45 a quarter, or $180 a year. You can always contribute more. It all helps a great deal.
If you choose to sponsor a cat via PayPal or Venmo, please let us know the name of the cat you would like to sponsor.
WE CURRENTLY CARE FOR 55 CATS, as well as several feral cats we care for:
CATS IN NEED OF SPONSORING
Sunny
Ursula
Brexit
Grayson – Is being sponsored by Phil and Ann, fans in Haughton, Louisiana.
Oskar
Hope
Elsa
Barney
Anna
Duncan – Is being sponsored by Vanessa, a fan in Bossier City, Louisiana.
Grace
Blackie
Penelope
Duckie
Lucy
Squeak
Bandit
Miss Kitty
Miss Kitty Howe
Quinn – Is being sponsored by Denyce, a fan in Houston, Texas.
Theo (Tayo) – Is being sponsored by Denyce, a fan in Houston, Texas.
Ms. Gray
Oscar
Dorian
Bert
Ernie
Kay
Rocket
Ziggy
Layla
Mama – Is being sponsored by Louise, a fan in Australia.
Binx
Domino
Socks
Russell – is being sponsored by Patsy, a fan in Shreveport, Louisiana
April
Tosha
Lucia
Uncle Fester
Yeti
Bonnie
Yakov – is being sponsored by Beverly, a fan in Shreveport, Louisiana
Chloe’
Anastasia
Saphira
Eragon
Draco
Egon
Nick
Enya
Declan
Fiona
Flynn
Fabio
Sylvester
PLEASE EMAIL US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SPONOSORING ANY OF OUR CATS IN NEED OF SPONSORING AND WE CAN SEND YOU PHOTOS OF CATS YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN. THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO HELP SUPPORT OUR ANIMALS.
Our intake is closed until further notice.
Follow us on Facebook!
YOU CAN MAIL YOUR DONATIONS TO US AT:
YOGIE AND FRIENDS
140 FOB LANE (NEW ADDRESS)
FRIERSON, LA 71027
PLEASE spay and neuter your pets. Adopt! Do not Shop!
Thank You!
The Yogie Cats and their Volunteer Staff!
Posted in Monthly Newsletter, The News
April 2025 Newsleter
Happy April Yogie Fans!
We hope our fans have made it safely through some of the crazy weather we have been experiencing, and not just the dangerous storms here in the south. It seems like everyone is having some crazy weather.
BAKE SALE: We want to thank you to those who came and supported our Spring Bake Sale on March 22nd. There py April Yogie Fans!
were so many events going on in our community that it is always difficult to find the best day and time to do these and have the best outcome of visitors. So, thank you again for being there for us.
TILLY: Tilly is a new kitten our director found, and successfully, safely trapped outside her home. We suspected she was about three months old, which is pushing the window of socialization. She is currently in the sanctuary medical condo while we socialize her. She went to the vet on the 29th and she tested negative for FIV/FeLV/HW, which thrills us to death. She is a healthy kitten. She is a semi-long haired Torbie, which is a mix of tortoiseshell and tabby. We already have an adopter waiting for her. We just want to give her more socialization before we do so to have the best outcome.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS: May 26th we will be celebrating our twenty-fifth anniversary? We don’t have any special events planned for the month, but we will be sending out a list, and hopefully, biographies and photos, of our current population of cats who are available for sponsorship that we hope you will consider sponsoring.
SABER: On Saturday morning, March 15th, during the morning rounds, the Director found Saber dead in his room. Although he had liver disease, his death still caught us by surprise. We just never know how much time we have with our animals.
Saber was one of four kittens our director trapped back in June and July of 2009. She caught them, and their mother, Mama. Mama and two of her boys, Binx and Domino, remain from the group. Mama is a very tame and sweet cat.
Saber was a shy, but sweet boy. He joins his brother, Pete, at the Rainbow bridge. We miss him.
R.I.P. Saber 19 March 2009 – 15 March 2025
PIA: We also had to sadly say goodbye to Pia. The Director brought her in for a follow-up ultrasound. The machine was down at the vet, and they called to let her know it was back up. She was on thyroid and liver medication. The vet was concerned that her liver values increased despite being on Denamarin for her liver. She wanted to do an ultrasound to check for blockages or stones around the gallbladder. Upon ultrasound the results were even more disturbing and disappointing. Pia was loaded with cancer. It was very advanced. Pia had also lost too much weight in that brief time span. The difficult, but kind, decision was made to let Pia go gently.
Pia was a neighborhood cat that had the TNR ear tip. One day in May of 2017, two stray dogs attacked Pia and when the Director opened the front door of her house to run and help Pia, she ran into her house and the rest is history. Pia never had to deal with that kind of thing again and spent the rest of her life loved and living in the lap of luxury. We were not going to put her through any cancer treatment since we saw how advanced her cancer was.
R.I.P. Pia 10 April 2010 – 29 March 2025
VET CARE:
Vet care is one, if not, our biggest costs in running the sanctuary. We have a large population of permanent residents, which is also why we have decided not to take in anymore cats for the near future. We want to be able to afford what we have. It is still difficult, but we make it because of some incredibly special people.
We are seeing some specific age-related issues, which is expected, but we sure would love a break. For instance, we are taking Grayson to the vet tomorrow afternoon because he is losing weight. He is eating, drinking, and seems otherwise fine, but he does have FIV and stomatitis, which resulted in almost a complete dental extraction. We wish there were grants out there for this kind of thing. But, we have some very special, amazing, people, who have made this possible for us to keep going. We cannot express our gratitude to them for their generosity.
We have a vet balance of $2039.41 at the vet clinic now. It never seems to end.
You can call the vet clinic directly at 318-747-5747 and donate over the phone.
Or you can PayPal at yogieandfriends@hotmail.com
Or Venmo at YogieCats
FOOD AND SUPPLIES: we desperately need help with food and litter. We have sixty-four mouths to feed. We need food and litter the most. We are down to one box of litter and one box of sixty count canned food.
PayPal and Venmo are the best, and quickest, ways to help. Then we can immediately go buy the supplies.
PayPal at yogieandfriends@hotmail.com
Or Venmo at YogieCats
Or you can help using our wish lists:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2N8IP4356I948/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Pet Palooza
11 October 2025
Times TBD
Louisiana Boardwalk
Bossier City, LA
Paws in the Park
October 2025
Times and Date TBD
Riverpark Church
3232 E. 70th Street
Shreveport, LA
KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS: Attention Kroger Shoppers. Please consider helping our cats when you shop at Kroger. Our Kroger Community Rewards number is GD567, and you can find us by our name as well, Yogie and Friends FIV Positive Cat Sanctuary. When you log into your Kroger account you can select us as your charity of choice and a part of your purchase will be donated to our rescue sanctuary.
SPONSORSHIP:
You can sponsor a cat for just $15 a month, $45 a quarter, or $180 a year. You can always contribute more. It all helps a great deal.
If you choose to sponsor a cat via PayPal or Venmo, please let us know the name of the cat you would like to sponsor.
WE CURRENTLY CARE FOR 57 CATS, as well as several feral cats we care for:
CATS IN NEED OF SPONSORING
Sunny
Ursula
Brexit
Grayson – Is being sponsored by Phil and Ann, fans in Haughton, Louisiana.
Oskar
Hope
Elsa
Barney
Anna
Duncan – Is being sponsored by Vanessa, a fan in Bossier City, Louisiana.
Grace
Blackie
Penelope
Duckie
Lucy
Squeak
Bandit
Miss Kitty
Quinn – Is being sponsored by Denyce, a fan in Houston, Texas.
Theo (Tayo) – Is being sponsored by Denyce, a fan in Houston, Texas.
Ms. Gray
Oscar
Dorian
Bert
Ernie
Kay
Rocket
Ziggy
Layla
Mama – Is being sponsored by Louise, a fan in Australia.
Saber
Binx
Domino
Socks
Russell – is being sponsored by Patsy, a fan in Shreveport, Louisiana
April
Tosha
Lucia
Uncle Fester
Yeti
Bonnie
Yakov – is being sponsored by Beverly, a fan in Shreveport, Louisiana
Finn
Chloe
Anastasia
Saphira
Eragon
Draco
Egon
Nick
Enya
Declan
Fiona
Flynn
Fabio
Sylvester
Mistletoe
PLEASE EMAIL US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SPONOSORING ANY OF OUR CATS IN NEED OF SPONSORING AND WE CAN SEND YOU PHOTOS OF CATS YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN. THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO HELP SUPPORT OUR ANIMALS.
Our intake is closed until further notice.
Follow us on Facebook!
YOU CAN MAIL YOUR DONATIONS TO US AT:
YOGIE AND FRIENDS
140 FOB LANE (NEW ADDRESS)
FRIERSON, LA 71027
PLEASE spay and neuter your pets. Adopt! Do not Shop!
Thank You!
The Yogie Cats and their Volunteer Staff!
Posted in Monthly Newsletter
March 2025 Newsletter
Greetings Yogie Fans!
We are a little late with our newsletter, but we were waiting for some confirmation of dates, having major email issues, as well as vet issues taking us away from the office.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS: May 26th we will be celebrating our twenty-fifth anniversary? We would like to do a huge fundraiser to raise lots of cash for our rescue. Most of our needs end up being vet care, food, and cat litter. We would love to raise $25,000 for our rescue. We have over 21,000 facebook fans and followers and you would think that would be easy to do under the circumstances, but it is not.
One thing we can do is to get sponsors for all our cats. That would be a wonderful, and easy, thing to do for our cats. The easiest and fastest way to do that would be via PayPal. You do not have to have a PayPal account to do this and can do so through auto draft. You can also choose the friends and family option that allows you to pay the fees, which is not a lot, but would give us 100% of the donation. Just think. If we got monthly sponsors for all fifty-eight cats at $25 per month, that would give us $1450 per month. In the overall scheme of things in rescue that is not an extraordinary amount, but it does add up. And you can make your sponsorship even more than that.
Please consider sponsoring one, or more, of our cats. It would mess us our website, which is currently experiencing issues, so we don’t want to overwhelm it with photos and descriptions of each cat, but we can give you those if you would like it on cats, you are interested in. It is a very easy way to help our cats.
HONEY AND KITTENS: Excellent News! Honey and ALL five of her kittens have been adopted. We could not be happier. We want to thank Bossier City Animal Control and their Buddies of Bossier City Animal Control for helping us with these kittens. Their cat program is great, and we could not be happier. We are so glad we decided to partner with them to find homes for this sweet family. We recommend people check out this facility when looking for a pet. They have made some fabulous changes to their program, and we thank them for their help!
WEBSITE AND EMAIL ISSUES: Our webmaster said that there is an issue happening with our website that us non-tech savvy people don’t really understand what it is. Hopefully we can still continue to have a website. We hate to solely rely on Facebook.
As far as our email, we have no clue why things are not working properly and we are looking at trying to use Constant Contact for our newsletters as soon as Jenny figures out what we need to do to use it.
VET CARE:
Thanks to wonderful donors our vet bill gets cleared, then we get smacked with more issues. But, this is to be expected in rescue and we have fifty-eight permanent residents, so it is not a surprise.
Theo went to have a dental cleaning and our vets now do a dental CT of their mouth prior. Well, that unfortunately showed some more dental issues that anyone expected and resulted in nine teeth needing to be extracted. He is doing much better as a result.
Brexit. Our Director noticed over a few days that every time Brexit would go to the litter box and appeared to be attempting to urinate that nothing was not in the box after. He would make far too many trips into the box, so he went to the vet and the ultrasound showed his bladder was huge and filled with urine. He required sedation and a catheter. He has a history of urinary tract infections, that have done well with his special diet, but his urethra was blocked by inflammation. The vet added Gabapentin to his care and hopefully this issue will not repeat. He is feeling a whole lot better.
Unfortunately we have a remaining balance of $2485.14 at the vet clinic now. It never seems to end.
You can call the vet clinic directly at 318-747-5747 and donate over the phone.
Or you can PayPal at yogieandfriends@hotmail.com
Or Venmo at YogieCats
FOOD AND SUPPLIES: we desperately need help with food and litter. We have sixty-four mouths to feed. We need food and litter the most. We are down to one box of litter and one box of sixty count canned food.
PayPal and Venmo are the best, and quickest, ways to help. Then we can immediately go buy the supplies.
PayPal at yogieandfriends@hotmail.com
Or Venmo at YogieCats
Or you can help using our wish lists:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2N8IP4356I948/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Spring Bake Sale
22 March 2025
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Petco, 6596 Youree Drive
Shreveport, LA
Pet Palooza
11 October 2025
Times TBD
Louisiana Boardwalk
Bossier City, LA
Paws in the Park
October 2025
Times and Date TBD
Riverpark Church
3232 E. 70th Street
Shreveport, LA
KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS: Attention Kroger Shoppers. Please consider helping our cats when you shop at Kroger. Our Kroger Community Rewards number is GD567, and you can find us by our name as well, Yogie and Friends FIV Positive Cat Sanctuary. When you log into your Kroger account you can select us as your charity of choice and a part of your purchase will be donated to our rescue sanctuary.
SPONSORSHIP: We often speak of our sponsorship program and right now we are really trying hard to get all our cats sponsored. Sponsorship is a wonderful way to help support our cats. By sponsoring one of our Yogie cats, you will be providing food, limited medical care (we know that medical bills can get extremely high and do not expect a sponsor to cover it. Unless they can, and want to), and their basic care and support. 100% of the sponsorship goes to the care of these animals. If each cat had a regular, monthly, sponsor, it would help ease the financial burden of care for the animals we provide sanctuary for.
Please note that more than one person may sponsor a cat but rest assured that all sponsored funds are used for the ongoing care of our cats.
You can sponsor a cat for just $15 a month, $45 a quarter, or $180 a year. You can always contribute more. It all helps a great deal.
If you choose to sponsor a cat via PayPal or Venmo, please let us know the name of the cat you would like to sponsor.
WE CURRENTLY CARE FOR 58 CATS, as well as several feral cats we care for:
CATS IN NEED OF SPONSORING
Sunny
Ursula
Brexit
Grayson – Is being sponsored by Phil and Ann, fans in Haughton, Louisiana.
Oskar
Hope
Elsa
Barney
Anna
Duncan – Is being sponsored by Vanessa, a fan in Bossier City, Louisiana.
Grace
Blackie
Penelope
Duckie
Lucy
Squeak
Bandit
Miss Kitty
Quinn – Is being sponsored by Denyce, a fan in Houston, Texas.
Theo (Tayo) – Is being sponsored by Denyce, a fan in Houston, Texas.
Ms. Gray
Oscar
Dorian
Bert
Ernie
Kay
Rocket
Ziggy
Layla
Pia
Mama – Is being sponsored by Louise, a fan in Australia.
Saber
Binx
Domino
Socks
Russell – is being sponsored by Patsy, a fan in Shreveport, Louisiana
April
Tosha
Lucia
Uncle Fester
Yeti
Bonnie
Yakov – is being sponsored by Beverly, a fan in Shreveport, Louisiana
Finn
Chloe
Anastasia
Saphira
Eragon
Draco
Egon
Nick
Enya
Declan
Fiona
Flynn
Fabio
Sylvester
Mistletoe
PLEASE EMAIL US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SPONSORING ANY OF OUR CATS IN NEED OF SPONSORING AND WE CAN SEND YOU PHOTOS OF CATS YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN. THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO HELP SUPPORT OUR ANIMALS.
Our intake is closed until further notice.
Follow us on Facebook!
YOU CAN MAIL YOUR DONATIONS TO US AT:
YOGIE AND FRIENDS
140 FOB LANE (NEW ADDRESS)
FRIERSON, LA 71027
PLEASE spay and neuter your pets. Adopt! Do not Shop!
Thank You!
The Yogie Cats and their Volunteer Staff!
Posted in Monthly Newsletter, The News