During the pandemic, several SPVAR volunteers partnered up with the Community Cat Coalition, Loudoun County, and Dakota's Dream volunteers to rescue a small community of cats and kittens behind a nearby hotel and holiday's drainage ditch. Momma cat was caught first, and taken through Community Cats to be fixed and re-homed. Over several days they sat and baited humane traps, placed food, played mother cat sounds and called kittens, hoping they would come up and out of the gully and get some food. After a two day stakeout, 6 kittens were caught!  Peaches, Tux, Shadow, Hobbs, Stud and Willow!

They went from very scared feral hissy babies to loving sweet kittens within a few weeks of being in foster care. Shadow ended up being adopted by one of the vet techs that helped him when they first came in and she realized the huge improvement he made within a few weeks.