How Your Donation Helps Cats AND Kittens!
Before I started volunteering at the Oakland shelter, I didn’t know that it is really challenging to socialize kittens once they are three months old or older. Around this time of year, the shelter starts to fill up with these older kittens. Try as they might, shelter volunteers usually make little progress since the kittens are so scared in that environment. Add to that the fact that kittens are really vulnerable to illness, because their immune systems aren’t fully developed. That means they often get sick and are super difficult to treat. Taking these guys in, often means extra vet bills as well.
Saving Pets Challenge - Week 1 Update!
Help us win a $10K bonus
The organization that raises the most money by July 12 (11 am PT) wins a $10,000 bonus prize. We're in second place as of today. Donate today!
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Please join us by going to our Saving Pets Challenge team page and signing up! From there, you’ll get to create your own page. (We’ll give you any help you need!)
Your donations and support are helping create more happy adoption stories like Monty's below!
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Saving Pets Challenge - Day 1!
12 hours into the Saving Pets Challenge and we have raised almost $10,000! Thank you to all our amazing donors!!
EDIT: WE'VE SURPASSED 10K!! THANK YOU! GOOOO CAT TOWN!
Your donations are supporting adoption stories like Griffin's below!
Cat Town Artwork Feature!
Recently, some of our volunteers were coming up with ideas as to how we might expand our promotion of foster cats in the Cat Town Cafe space. Inspired by Oakland Animal Services', Home is Where the HeART Is project, one volunteer suggested an art show at the Cafe as a fun way to showcase the cats who have been in our foster care program for more than a year. We put out the call to our network of volunteers and were met with such great enthusiasm and even greater art! Soon enough the show was underway.
These pieces so kindly donated by the artists are so appreciated because the work, time, and effort, translates to a greater chance of these cats being adopted. Promoting foster cats in the cafe is one of the best ways to increase their visibility and that of the foster program in general.
These cats have made such tremendous strides while in the care of their foster families and are true testaments to the Cat Town mission to find all East Bay shelter cats loving homes.
Please click on their pictures below to learn more about each of these great cats!
