For the past two years, Jamie Fournier has spent her mornings feeding community cats around West Block in Rockwell, Makati. She knew them by name. Some waited for her at regular feeding spots, while others became familiar faces to students, guards, and residents.
“They were part of our lives every single day,” she says.
For years, volunteers quietly cared for the community cats that lingered around the Ateneo Professional Schools campus in Rockwell. They fed them twice daily, brought sick animals to veterinarians, organized trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR) drives, rescued kittens, and raised funds out of their own pockets to manage the colony.
Now, many of those cats are gone.
Some have been adopted into homes. Others are in the process of being relocated. The feeding stations, shelters, cages, and makeshift safe spaces that once stood near the campus have been dismantled.
