You Can Change a Life
The help we provide is limited by available funding, volunteers and other resources.
Learn how YOU can help kitties and the humans that care about them.
Helping Cats and Their Caretakers
As an animal welfare organization specializing in felines, we’re committed to saving lives and fostering quality of life for animals in Southern California. We do this through our Community and Foster Care programs.
Community Care
Our Community Care program provides aid with spay/neuter for community cats (stray and feral) and for pet cats whose humans cannot afford to fix them. In some circumstances, we may temporarily provide pet food, vet care, or other aid.
While spay/neuter programs and pet food banks have expanded around Southern California, we continue to find areas with high needs coupled with a lack of aid for animals and their humans. From rural parts of the desert to area cities, animals are often unfixed and frequently are malnourished and/or need medical care.
This program helps animals as well as the humans that care about them. Spay/neuter reduces the number of animals in the community and in shelters as reproduction decreases. We urgently need donations to pay for spay/neuter and other aid.
The Ear Tip
When an outdoor cat has been humanely trapped to be spayed or neutered, the cat is also vaccinated and may be given other medical care if needed. At that time, the veterinarian also removes the tip of one ear (resulting in a tipped ear, or eartip). When recovered, the cat is released back outside.
The ear tip tells trappers that this cat has been fixed. If a cat with an eartip enters a trap, the trapper knows the cat does not need to be taken to the vet to be fixed, and the cat can simply be released.
We would prefer that every cat be able to live indoors, but for those that cannot and are accustomed to living outside, we strive to make their lives as safe and well as is possible.
Foster Care
Due to high needs in underserved communities, we’re currently working to build our Community Care program . However, we take kitties into foster care on an exception basis generally to provide urgent medical care or socialization to get them ready for adoption.
Because they have special needs, we incur higher expenses per cat. To maintain this program, we need donations for medical care and foster supplies.
Ways to Help
We can’t do it without YOU!
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Donate Funds
Cats that we aid are often malnourished and need medical treatment. Nearly all need to be fixed.
Funding pays for the most important needs: spay/neuter, veterinary care, medical and other supplies and cat food.
We urgently need funding for spay/neuter. Animal overpopulation has led to widespread suffering, as animals populate often outdoors.
Spay/neuter reduces the number of new litters that are born into suffering and reduces shelter intake numbers. It also helps prevent certain diseases in cats and curbs undesired behavior (such as fighting, spraying and yowling).
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Donate Goods
For fundraising, we need some cool stuff for auction or drawing or such as:
Tickets to popular events, including sportings, concerts and theater.
New, unused electronics such as bluetooth devices, cameras, cell phones and headsets.
Pet products.
For use in our programs, we need canned cat food and feral cat shelters. If you can donate any of the above items, please reach out via our contact form.
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Donate Services or Volunteer
From time to time, we need assistance with fundraising, bookkeeping, photography, videography, and video editing.
Volunteers are needed to help trap cats for spay/neuter and to transport animals and supplies.
These services can be slated around your schedule, and the are limited in time.
Please notify us via our contact form if you can donate any of the above assistance.
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Donate Wish List Items
Click links below to purchase items from our wish lists and they will be shipped directly to us.
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What we do helps people too!
“This [cat] is Penny. She is my girls’ best friend as you can see (LOL). I appreciate you and your program. This helps keep our baby safe and healthy. We love her so much and don’t need any unplanned babies when so many cats need homes already. It is organizations and programs like this that help stop overpopulation and unnecessary euthanization when we can stop the problem at the source.”
-- Penny’s guardian
Under our Community Care program, we funded spay/neuter and vaccines for a group of cats that included this family’s cat, Penny. The family had kept Penny away from other cats so she would not get pregnant, but they could not afford to fix her. Photos published with permission.
