10/01/2026
September was brutal.
114 cats and kittens have come through Uvalde AC since September 1st. 114 cats. In one month. September has officially broken every intake record Uvalde Animal Control has ever had.
The previous all time record was 93, set just a few months ago, in May of this year. And that number was already completely overwhelming.
Look at the faces in this collage. Every single one of them represents an intake, a body that needed somewhere to go, a problem that needed solving, and a life that needed someone to give a damn.
Most importantly, not one of these 114 cats and kittens was euthanized for space. Not a single damn one.
Do you understand how hard that was to accomplish? The coordination, the pleas, the networking, the transports, the fosters, the rescue partners, the constant scrambling to find somewhere for one more cat to go. The hours spent trying to make the impossible work because the alternative was a life ending simply because there was nowhere left to put them.
Somehow, we pulled it off. But it took an incredible amount of work, and it is not a sustainable way to operate. Uvalde has never seen an intake rate this high in its history; not for cats, not for dogs, not for anything.
I’m tired, burned out, frustrated, and scared of what the next record is going to look like if we don’t start addressing the source of this problem. Because we cannot rescue our way out of this. We have to spay and neuter. We have to TNR. We have to stop the cycle before these cats ever end up at the shelter.
I am incredibly grateful to every rescue partner, transporter, foster, donor, and person who helped make it possible for these 114 cats to have a chance. It takes a village to pull off what we did this month, and I will never minimize the work that went into keeping these cats alive.
114 is not just a number. It is 114 lives that needed help, a record we should never have had to break, and a warning that we cannot afford to ignore.