Celebrate our 2022 successes!

Last year was busy for SOKS. Our efforts to help Stockton communities by helping cats is becoming better known. We receive more and more calls from people asking us to help spay and neuter cats in their neighborhoods.

We started on University of the Pacific's campus where we trapped-neutered-released 20 cats. With Pacific students' help, we also held a fundraiser at Pacific Trail Coffee and organized a feeding schedule for the campus cats. Then we moved to the nearby neighborhood and further.

We are very proud of our achievements in 2022:

• Spayed and neutered 146 cats

• Held two adoption events

• Adopted out 20 cats and kittens

SOKS depends on support from the community and our wonderful donors. We cannot thank them enough! InSeason Nursery in Stockton and Crane Landing Apartments in Lodi are two local businesses where we held our adoption events in the past year. At Crane Landing, we met Valerie who is now SOKS foster volunteer and is helping us provide a temporary home for the cats.

SOKS volunteers at InSeason Nursery

Of course, we could not have done it without our amazing volunteers: Elizabeth Lira, Barbara Heizer, Dolores Cooper, Asia Salomon, Jennifer Nunez, Lisa Nichols and Valerie Fox. You are the best! We also get help from Stockton residents who get involved and help SOKS help their neighborhoods.

We tip our hats to the ACT team. Miss Eva Kennedy played a very important part in helping us accomplish our goals in 2022. Thank you!

Here is to another successful year!

Entry Level Basic Bottle Feeding

This class on how to properly bottle-feed kittens was organized by Lodi Animal services. This is information may be very helpful when we come across a mama cat unable to nurse her kittens or if the kittens were abandoned.

I am so proud of Lodi Animal Services which took the time to help educate and network with other non-profits volunteers and cat-lovers who share the same passion for rescuing and helping cats in our area.

SOKS Assists with Cat Adoptions

There are two types of cats that SOKS puts up for adoptions on our Adopt-A-Pet page: strays and young feral kittens.

Stray Cats

While tending to feral cat colonies, sometimes our volunteers come across friendly homeless cats. These are strays. They are not afraid of people like feral cats are. A stray will rub against your legs, might enjoy being petted although might not like to be lifted up.

At the same time, feral cats do not want to get close to a human. They are very skittish, very sensitive to sounds and movements. They are not trusting and definitely not friendly.

Feral Kittens

Differently from feral adults, feral kittens can be tamed, and they learn to trust humans very quickly. And so, when we trap kittens during our TNR events, we foster them and put to adoption. This way we don't allow feral colonies to grow. We believe this is the way to go about controlling feral cat populations.

All cats put up for adoption by SOKS are spayed or neutered, vaccinated and dewormed, chipped and ready for new homes.

Visit our adoption page and learn more about cats and kittens looking for a new home.