Lubbock alley cats live harder, faster, and with more attitude than most people I\u2019ve dated. They roam the neighborhoods at night like tiny, furry outlaws, slipping between dumpsters, patrolling the alleys, eating your plants, and running whatever underground feline operation they\u2019ve got going on out there.<\/p>\n
Photo by gibblesmash asdf<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>Meet the Furry Outlaws of the 806<\/p>\n You think you know these cats, but trust me: they\u2019ve seen things.\u00a0They\u2019ve fought things.\u00a0They\u2019ve eaten things that would absolutely send the rest of us to the ER.<\/p>\n Photo by Wayne Low<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>The Real Problem: Humans, Not Cats<\/p>\n And while we all love to joke about the feral cat gangs of West Texas, the truth is\u2026it\u2019s actually a real problem. These cats didn\u2019t choose this life. People in Lubbock keep choosing it for them by not spaying and neutering them. Somehow, we\u2019re a city full of grown adults who can remember the Schlotsky\u2019s drive-thru order from 1998 but can\u2019t remember to fix their animals. It\u2019s wild, y’all.<\/p>\n Read More:\u00a0REVEALED: Top Lubbock Expert Tips to Avoid Frozen Pipe Damage<\/a><\/p>\n Photo by Frolicsome Fairy<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>My Mom: Lubbock\u2019s One-Woman Cat SWAT Team<\/p>\n Thank God for people like my mom, who has made it her life\u2019s mission to trap, fix, and release every single stray in her neighborhood like she\u2019s running the CIA\u2019s secret cat division. This woman has single-handedly decreased the stray population by hundreds, if not thousands, over the years. She\u2019s basically the Marvel superhero of cat birth control. These animals don\u2019t stand a chance against her dedication.<\/p>\n Photo by JOGsplash<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>No More Kittens in This Chaos, Please<\/p>\n And honestly? The cats are better off for it. Because Lubbock alleys already have enough drama: windstorms, raccoons with questionable intentions, teenagers trying to film TikToks, that one neighbor who runs his leaf blower at 6 a.m. on Saturdays. The last thing these cats need is another generation of kittens trying to grow up in this mess.<\/p>\n Photo by Deniz Y\u0131lmaz<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>Spay, Neuter, Repeat! Lubbock Needs It<\/p>\n So while we\u2019re laughing about the nighttime alley cat mafia, here\u2019s the serious part: please spay and neuter your pets. It\u2019s cheaper than raising a litter, it keeps animals healthier, and it keeps my mom from having to run a one-woman feline SWAT team into her seventies.<\/p>\n Photo by JOGsplash<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>The Alley Cat Mafia Lives On<\/p>\n In the meantime, the Lubbock alley cats will keep living their truth, lurking in the shadows, surviving off lizards, and watching us from the darkness like the tiny, dusty cryptids they are.<\/p>\n And somewhere out there, my mom is already plotting their next appointment.<\/p>\n Lubbock Lawn Fads You’ll Find in Every Neighborhood <\/p>\n Let’s talk Lubbock lawns and the people responsible. <\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Chrissy<\/p>\n Tumbleweed Botanicals Is Lubbock’s Most Magical Shopping Experience<\/p>\n Take a peek at the magical shopping experience that is Lubbock’s new location of Tumbleweed Botanicals, located at 2319 34th St. <\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Renee Raven<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lubbock alley cats live harder, faster, and with more attitude than most people I\u2019ve dated. They roam the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-82136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}