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Cat Adoption Team

Founded in May 1998, the Cat Adoption Team (CAT) is the Pacific Northwest’s largest nonprofit, limited admission/adoption guarantee cat shelter (we are able to take in cats as we find homes for the cats in the shelter).

CAT has its own full-service veterinary Hospital onsite. In fact, CAT was the first animal shelter in Oregon to have an in-shelter veterinary hospital (built in 2002).

In June 2008, CAT opened the first pet food bank in the Portland area. Today, that food bank provides hundreds of struggling cat owners with food to feed their pet cat. About 3,000 pounds of dry cat food is handed out every month.

A leader in the shelter community with its extensive shelter medicine, adoption, and foster care programs, CAT cares for 400 to 600 cats and kittens on a daily basis with the help of a dedicated team of staff and volunteers at CAT’s shelter in Sherwood, foster homes, and various offsite adoption locations throughout the Portland metro area.

Our mission is to work with the community to save the lives of unwanted, homeless, sick, and injured cats and kittens by offering shelter, adoption, foster, low-cost spay/neuter, and veterinary services to end needless feline euthanasia.

As a nonprofit organization (501(c)3), CAT receives no government funding and relies on the generous support of the public and volunteers.

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