Its near the end of the year and soon will start the new. We wish all the kitties and kitty aficionados a safe and Happy New Years!

We stress the importance of gettin your kitty cat chipped and bein sure the microchip is updated and current. As the New Year's holiday approaches, the extra human activity frequently means kitty will find a nice quiet place to take their 12-16 hour naps. However, with the extra guests openin and closin doors, mischievous kitty cats may make a run fer the door and become frantic with the New Years which often has loud fireworks and folks poppin off their guns in celebration.

If you haven't done so already, please update your contact information with the microchip (brand) registry. If you have forgotten which registry, you can contact the vet/ shelter that implanted the microchip to get kitty's registry number. From there, you can use this microchip registry lookup to verify which registry your chip is linked to and update directly with them. If your microchip begins with 991 or 900264, it could have been registered by Save This Life, a company which ceased operation abruptly with no warnin in February, rendering their entire registry inaccessible. If you are affected by this, you can re-register your kitty cat with any of the major microchip registries - leadin to bein reunited with kitty sooner if they go zippy zap out the front door and get lost.

Here are a few posts of past highlights on r/CatRescue in 2025:

• 2 and 1/2 months ago the New Mod Team's first day on r/CatRescue removin and further preventin scammers on the sub: The post here.
• Policy watch of DeClawing made illegal gaining momentum (article link here) and the gainin momentum to outlaw pet sales and instead use adoption from rescues and animal shelters. The post here.
• The launch of our major wiki project of listing free Cat Food Pantries.
• And many posts of folks sharin their rescue kitties - and those same kitties "rescuin" them!
• Also, some mod humor

We have also elaborated on one of the rules and rearranged their order. They are now:

1. Be Respectful
   Be kind, stay respectful, engage with honesty and humility

2. Rescue Cat Focused

3. No spam or karma farming

4. No requests for funding, no surveys, no adoption advertisements
   Do not ask for money or promote fundraisers and wishlists. Do not harass or make solicitations via DM. *Alternative suggestions for adoptions/ rehoming can be found in our wiki by clicking here.

5. No hurting or cruelty of kitty cats or other animals
   This includes promotion of other accounts that associate with and engage with subreddits deemed unsafe

6. Use the correct flairs. Flair pet loss. Use the NSFW flair
   Use the correct flairs. Flair pet loss. Use the NSFW flair for images/ videos of injury, disturbing behavior, etc.

Moderators will use their discretion as to what is a violation of the rules and the degree of enforcement action.

^{Photo Credits: Duke stalkin a toy ornament by mcs385; Oliver loafin wherever he damn well pleases by mcs385; Henry conductin box QA inspection by Cherveny2; Embarrassed fer their human, Hungry Cat by mcs385}

^{Edit: Coincidentally, the mod humor link to a post was the wrong link - a broken link was NOT in fact the mod humor.}