CAT’s mission is to work with our community to save the lives of homeless, sick and injured cats and kittens by offering shelter, adoption, foster, hospice, and veterinary services to end needless feline euthanasia in our community.
CAT takes in cats and kittens in a limited capacity – meaning there is a maximum number of cats we can take in and there is a criteria for what felines our animal shelter can take in, care for, and find homes for. As a private nonprofit, we must balance the needs of the community and the needs of the cats in our care, while being good stewards of the money voluntarily donated to us.
In order to provide quality care and optimal chances at adoption, CAT does have guidelines on how many FIV+, senior, and special care cats we can have in the shelter. To that end, we limited those admissions to keep the shelter population balanced and healthy.
There is also a limit to the number of cats and kittens our organization can care for. CAT does not want to bring in more felines than we can manage in a healthy, respectful, loving way.
CAT is an adoption guarantee shelter that saves the lives all the healthy and treatable animals in our care.
CAT does not euthanize for space and is able to provide medical care for cats other animal shelters may not have the resources to care for. This does not mean that CAT never euthanizes. When a medically fragile (terminal) cat can no longer be kept pain-free and the quality of life is severely diminished, CAT’s medical team may elect to humanely euthanize the cat.
Our goal is to provide each cat with the best possible chance of finding a loving home. A home is truly the best place for any domestic cat.
CAT partners with shelters in the Portland area to make sure no healthy, adoptable cat is ever euthanized. In fact close to 73 percent of the cats in our care come to us through this network. Through our transfer program, CAT is able to be part of a community-wide effort to end needless feline euthanasia. We also provide re-homing tips for cat owners to use to avoid relinquishing their pet to an animal shelter.
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