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.
The Cat Adoption Team is the largest feline-only, limited admission, non-profit shelter in the Pacific Northwest. CAT saves over 3,300 lives each year.
In addition to taking in many young, healthy cats and finding them homes, CAT also cares for senior cats and cats with special medical needs, ranging from fracture injuries to diabetes. When they are well, CAT finds homes for those cats, too.
Over 73 percent of CAT’s intake comes from other organizations. CAT works closely with shelters, animal control agencies, veterinary offices, and rescue organizations to take in or rehabilitate many cats or kittens who may be running out of options due to medical needs or space constraints.
CAT measures success in the purrs of the cats in our care.
We also measure success through improvements in our work for the cats - how many found homes, how many were saved, how many treated in the hopsital, how many fed.
That is what CAT’s statistic (or CATistics) are. The numbers behind the furry faces we all love.
CAT is pleased to share with you our statistics for the past years as well as our Asilomar Reporting Form.
If you have any questions about the numbers you see, please contact us.
CAT weathered the economic storm pretty well thanks to the dedication and hard work of volunteers and staff. And a huge thank you to CAT’s donors for their continued support.
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It’s getting cold out there.
Snuggle up this winter with some new CAT gear available only at CAT’s in-shelter Boutique.
Warm sweatshirts ($40) and long-sleeved T-shirts ($20) are sure to keep you cozy.
Available in various sizes and colors.
Yes.
CAT’s Hospital is one of a few clinics in the Portland-area that accepts the Oregon Spay/Neuter Fund discounted coupons. By using one of these coupons, you will signficantly reduce the cost of this life-saving surgery. Click here to download a coupon.
From time to time, CAT offers subsidized spay/neuter surgeries to cat owners in financial need. CAT’s Feline Fix-a-Thons will be listed in CAT’s calendar of events.
Also, check out other resources available to pet owners.
Microchips are the best back up for a collar and visible identification tag. All pets, even indoor-cats, should wear an ID tag with a contact number on it, preferably your cell number.
Microchips are a safe, permanent way to identify your cat. Having your pet injected with a microchip greatly increases the chances he or she will be returned to you when lost.
To detect a microchip, which is a small computer chip (about the size of a rice grain) injected between the animal’s shoulder blades, the animal must be scanned and the unique identification number will be read. This number is entered into a database and the owner can easily be contacted.
CAT microchips all cats adopted through our shelter.
The Finding a New Home web page contains information on CAT’s intake policy and links to other resources.
We want to do everything possible to help you keep your pet. However, we know that this is not always the best solution and we are available to help when you need to find a new home for your animal.
When you contact CAT at (503) 925-8903, voicemail box 8, you will be asked several questions about your pet and situation. Our staff will provide you with helpful information on how you might change a behavior difficulty or give you information on other community resources to place your companion animal, as well as the opportunity to schedule an appointment to bring your cat to CAT’s shelter. There are times when CAT’s intake appointments are full and there is no waiting list for future appointment dates. CAT does not take walk-in appointments.
There may be an intake fee requested of $40 or more.
Yes.
We are committed to ending pet overpopulation and consider spaying and neutering the number one solution to this tragic problem.
Many of our cats are already spayed or neutered before coming to CAT. Those who have not been are spayed/neutered while they are at the shelter. One hundred percent of the cats and kittens adopted are already surgically altered before they go home.
Congratulations on deciding to adopt a feline friend.
Click here to read CAT’s adoption policies, process, and fees before you visit CAT’s shelter or one of our Portland-area adoption outreach locations.
Yes.
You can find purebreds when you search through our cats for adoption. You can search by breed.
It is estimated that about 20 percent of the animals you will find in an animal shelter are purebreds.
The Cat Adoption Team is dedicated to providing each cat who comes to our shelter the best possible care and chances for a new family.
A cat who comes to CAT with no real medical issues may spend up to 25 days at the shelter prior to adoption. Some may be here only for a day or two, others a little longer than the average.
If a cat comes to the shelter with an injury or treatable condition, the Hospital staff will provide appropriate care before that cat is placed into the shelter for adoption. This increases the average time before adoption to 34 days.
CAT has over 185 volunteer foster families who care for newborns, pregnant cats, and recuperating cats until they are ready to be placed up for adoption. In addition, foster families will shelter and care for animals when the shelter is full or if an individual animal needs a break from the stress of staying in the shelter and the other cats. Our foster families directly saved the lives of over 1,371 animals in 2009 alone.
Remain calm and start looking right away.
Please click here for helpful advice, tips, and resources that will help you find your cat.
There are several ways you can help this kitty:
Thank you
Volunteers are extremely essential to CAT’s success in helping all the felines possible.
If you love cats, are a people-person, and can make a commitment to provide at least eight hours of service a month to CAT for at least six months, please click here for more details on all the volunteer opportunities offered at the Cat Adoption Team.
There are several ways to reach someone at the Cat Adoption Team:
By Phone: (503) 925-8903
By e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The Cat Adoption Team seeks out and cultivates partnerships with other shelters and organizations in the Portland-area and Willamette Valley. Through these partnerships, CAT helps them reduce their feline euthasia rates by transferring cats and kittens to CAT’s shelter for adoption.
CAT encourages anyone who finds a lost cat to first take the cat to their local animal control. Please read CAT’s lost & found information for more details.
The Cat Adoption Team finds homes for thousands of cats and kittens.
In 1998, when CAT was founded, 219 felines found homes. Since then CAT’s adoption rates increased dramatically.
In 2009, 3,298 cats and kittens became family members through CAT’s adoption program; this represents a 1,406% INCREASE since our founding. Almost 73% of the cats and kittens we find homes for came to CAT from other shelters, such as animal control. And, amazingly enough, kitten adoptions are only slightly more on average than adult cat adoptions.
Check out CAT’s annual shelter statistics.
This year, CAT hopes to find homes for over 3,300 cats.
Yes.
CAT’s website has a search feature.
Look at the upper right corner of the web page you are on, above the kitten photo, and you will see our search box.
Type in a word or phrase and hit your enter button.
The Cat Adoption Team is open:
Please note that we stop processing adoptions 30 minutes prior to closing.
As a responsible sheltering organization, CAT freely discloses its shelter statistics to make you aware of the number of cats coming to the shelter, the treatment they receive, and how many are successfully placed in loving homes.
The Cat Adoption Team uses the nationally recognized shelter statistic gathering and reporting methods as set forth in the Asilomar Accords. Click here to review CAT’s 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006 shelter statistics in the Asilomar reporting format (all pdfs). The collection and publication of this data is sponsored by Maddie’s Fund.
CAT collects shelter statistics as a member of the Animal Shelter Alliance of Portland, or ASAP.
2008 was a good year for CAT despite the year ending with a snow storm and a recession.
These year-end statistics tell a hopeful tale.
CAT’s adoption program is quite successful this year even with more cats and kittens coming to the shelter for assistance. And CAT’s 11 adoption outreach locations are really having an impact. CAT brings felines right to your neighborhood and more are finding their new families through these off-site locations.
Spay/neuter programs across the city seem to be making a dent in the overpopulation of cats as we see a slight decrease in the number of kittens and pregnant mom cats coming into the foster care program.
Adoptions:
Intake:
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CAT’s street and mailing address is:
14175 SW Galbreath Drive
Sherwood, OR 97140
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Phone: (503) 925-8903 (operator answers during shelter hours)
CAT’s Sherwood Shelter hours are:
Monday - Friday: 11 am until 7 pm
Saturday - Sunday: 10 am until 6 pm
Please note that adoptions end 30 minutes prior to closing.
CAT closes at 2 pm on December 24 and at 5 pm on December 31.
CAT’s Sherwood shelter is only closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.
Check out CAT’s Portland-area offsite adoption locations.
CAT is located in Sherwood, Oregon.
Click here for hours, location, contact information, and directions.
CAT also has several offsite adoption locations across the Portland area.
There are no current job openings at CAT.
Please consider volunteering your time and skills to help homeless cats.
CAT’s street and mailing address is:
14175 SW Galbreath Drive
Sherwood, OR 97140
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Phone: (503) 925-8903 (operator answers during shelter hours)
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CAT’s Sherwood Shelter hours are:
Monday - Friday: 11 am until 7 pm
Saturday - Sunday: 10 am until 6 pm
Please note that adoptions end 30 minutes prior to closing.
CAT closes at 2 pm on December 24.
CAT closes at 5 pm on December 31.
CAT’s Sherwood shelter is closed only on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.
Directions to CAT:
Be sure to check for a CAT offsite adoption location near you.
Because of your support
In 2007:
Adoption Program
Volunteer Program
Feline Foster Care Program
Full Service Veterinary Hospital
In May 1998, Evan Kalik opened a safe haven for abandoned, sick, and injured cats and kittens. He called it the Cat Adoption Team (CAT).
In 1999, CAT began its very successful, life-saving cat foster program. CAT provides all foster volunteers with “baby” bags fully stocked to give litters of kittens a healthy start to a long life.
In 2002, CAT became the first animal shelter in Oregon to install a full-service veterinary hospital, opening the CAT Hospital onsite.
In 2004, CAT’s Mature Companions Program began to encourage seniors to adopt cats for companionship.
In 2005, CAT saved 41 cats from the Hurricane Katrina affected area in 2005.
By 2008, CAT experienced 1,328 percent adoption growth, finding homes for 16,220 cats in that time span.
In 2008, CAT opened the first Cat Food Bank to provide cat food directly to cat owners in financial need and began offering subsidized spay/neuter services through Feline Fix-a-Thons.
In 2008, CAT found homes for five feline refugees from war-torn Beirut.
In 2008, CAT opened the doors on the very first organized pet food bank in the Portland area.
In 2008, CAT launched the Meet Your Match adoption program.
In 2009, a rare male tortoiseshell cat came to the shelter for adoption.
In 2009, cats from the shelter picked the winner of the Super Bowl and were correct (picking the Steelers).
In 2009, CAT opened its very first discount microchip clinic for dogs and cats to celebrate National Tag Day.
In 2009, the first CATnip Friday 5k & Mouse Miler took place.
In 2009, CAT dedicated the Sherwood shelter building to its founder, Evan Kalik.
In 2009, the Cat Food Bank joined with the Beaverton Meals on Wheels program to deliver cat food to home-bound seniors.
In 2010, cats from the shelter picked the winner of the Super Bowl and were correct again (picking the Saints)!
In 2010, the Cat Food Bank started delivering cat food to the Forest Grove Meals on Wheels program.
We continue to grow and innovate as we pursue our mission.
Board of Directors
Evan Kalik, Founder
Ken Hick
Ardyth Kalik
Dr. Marla McGeorge, DVM
Mark Reed
Robin Russell
Management Team
Executive Director: Aaron Asmus (ext. 224)
Operations Manager: Kristi Brooks (ext. 227)
Shelter Manager: Rhonda Weiss (ext. 234)
Chief of Staff: Dr. Chicory Eddy, DVM
Development Manager: Kim Christiansen (ext. 257)
Volunteer Services Manager: Sarah Oberg (ext. 226)
PR Manager/Cat Food Bank Manager: Kathy Covey (ext. 228)
Foster Coordinator: Rebecca Griebel (ext. 231)
To work with our community to save the lives of homeless, unwanted, sick, and injured cats and kittens by offering shelter, adoption, foster, hospice, and veterinary services to end needless feline euthanasia.
CAT helps cats land on their feet in so many ways.
The Cat Adoption Team (CAT) is the Pacific Northwest’s largest nonprofit, limited admission 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.
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.
As a nonprofit organization, CAT receives no government funding and relies on the generous support of the public and volunteers.
When you visit CAT’s Sherwood shelter you will find:
14175 SW Galbreath Drive.Sherwood, OR 97140.(503) 925-8903..(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
