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Alley Cat Rescue's Inspiring Feral Fix Challenge

Alley Cat Rescue (ACR) has achieved remarkable success through its 2025 Feral Fix Challenge, with a stunning total of approximately 120,000 feral cats sterilized across the United States and abroad. This groundbreaking initiative aims to save feral cats from potential euthanasia in shelters by promoting humane population management, which alleviates suffering, improves health outcomes for cats, and stabilizes outdoor cat populations, ultimately benefiting both the animals and their communities.

Participants and Global Reach

The challenge saw participation from veterinarians and clinics spanning 34 U.S. states, Southern Africa, and Europe, working collaboratively to manage their local outdoor cat populations humanely. Since the inception of this campaign in 2010, veterinarians from all 50 U.S. states and 13 countries—including Antigua, Canada, Croatia, England, Greece, Israel, India, Japan, Nicaragua, and the United Arab Emirates—have been instrumental in this global effort.

Through their collective actions, more than 600,000 cats have been successfully spayed or neutered, demonstrating the effectiveness and scalability of the initiative. With all of ACR's spay/neuter programs combined, the organization has now reached the impressive milestone of sterilizing over one million community cats worldwide.

According to Louise Holton, the founder and president of Alley Cat Rescue,