MISSION STATEMENT

We help people These are people

             • who are unable to continue caring for their companion cats, and

• who have been unable to place their cats with friends, relatives or “no-kill”adoption groups.

For these people, we provide a sanctuary where their cats will receive a lifetime of love and care. When possible, we try to adopt these cats into loving homes.

             There are many reasons why people surrender their cats to us: they are moving into housing that doesn’t allow pets, they have a new boy friend or girl friend that doesn’t like cats, a new-born is allergic to cats, etc. Knowing that their cats will continue living (instead of being euthanized) creates an emotional – often tearful – release of joy. The most tearful surrenders are when people are dying – but, before they go, have found us to provide lifetime care for their cats.

We help cats In addition to providing lifetime care for companion cats, we provide lifetime care for the following types of cats.

Feral Cats These un-socialized cats do not like people – and can be dangerous to an untrained person who attempts to handle them. Ferals usually come to us from small colonies (2-8 cats) that were in some sort of danger. We rarely trap them; instead, we loan our traps to the person who has been feeding the colony and show the person how to trap the cats.

     We have individual ferals and many complete colonies at the sanctuary. When possible, we try to keep colony members together.

     Feral cats never have to like us – it’s not a requirement of admission. Once they are sterilized and become acclimated to our environment, they frequently calm down – and some may actually become friendly to people.

FIV and leukemia positive cats: These sick cats are routinely euthanized by veterinarians and shelters because they can infect healthy cats. By keeping these infected cats together in separate areas of our sanctuary– away from our healthy cats – we let these often friendly cats live-out their shortened lives.

Neurological, deaf and blind cats: We also admit cats that have neurological problems – like difficulty walking. Deaf cats and cats that are blind in one eye are also admitted to the sanctuary. These cats do not realize that they have disabilities – and get along fine with our other (normal) cats!

     We do have one totally deaf and totally blind adult male cat that was dumped by the side of the road, rescued by a passerby, and brought to us. This sweetheart lives in a large special cage with one of our deaf and partially blind male cats. He has no trouble finding the food and water bowls and the litter box – and loves the attention given to him by his “buddy.”

Hurricane cats We have also taken lost or unclaimed cats from disaster areas – and will, no doubt, do so in the future.

Doomed cats When necessary, we take cats before Animal Control or other government agencies seize them. Sometimes, we are able to take them from Animal Control after they seize them.

We help shelters and rescue groups become “no-kill” When an animal shelter or rescue group fills up with cats that do not get adopted, they are forced to either kill them (to make room for more adoptable cats) or to continue caring for them (which uses up valuable space and resources).

      We let these shelters give us their unadopted cats. By doing so, we help them free up space and resources – which in turn, allows them to take in new, adoptable, cats. This results in (1) more cat adoptions, and (2) no unadopted cats need to be killed.

      Frequently, we are able to “trade” some of our adoptables for their unadoptables.