Sponsorship and Special Funds
Sponsor A Cat
If you would like to sponsor one of our shelter cats, a one time donation of $30.00 CDN will be contributed towards the cat’s annual vaccinations and daily care including food & litter. Or you could sponsor one of our “Special Needs Cats”. Click on their picture below for more information on them. A picture of your sponsored cat (and new friend!) will be mailed to you, so please include your name and return address and an e-mail address, if you have one. You will also receive a donation tax receipt.
Please send a cheque or money order to:
Cats Anonymous Rescue & Adoption
#063055 Dufferin County Rd. 3
East Garafraxa, ON L9W 7J1
The Feral Cat Fund
In 2007, Cats Anonymous started a feral cat TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) program. This program involves going into colonies of feral cats, trapping them for spaying/neutering and rabies vaccines, and then returning them to the colony. This program allows for controlled cat colonies, reduces the unwanted cat overpopulation and reduces the risk of sick cats from unmanageable environments. Each year on average, Cats Anonymous TNR’s more than 70 adult breeding cats from feral cat colonies. This requires a tremendous amount of volunteer time for planning, scouting, trapping and transporting these cats. It also accumulates veterinary bills very, very quickly.
One breeding pair of cats will easily produce a colony of 430 new offspring by the third year of uncontrolled breeding. Thereby, with the generous help of our supporters, by spaying and neutering these 70 cats, Cats Anonymous has effectively been able to reduce the cat overpopulation by 15,120 every year!
Click here to see our volunteers at work.
The Kitten Fund
It is from our feral cat program that our kitten program was born. Sometimes when we go into feral cat colonies we come across litters of kittens or pregnant cats. Kittens are very impressionable and if taken in before 12 weeks of age, they tame down very readily. All the kittens in our adoption program have come from these feral colonies. We have a group of wonderful foster families who take these kittens into their homes when they first arrive. They teach them how to trust people and everything they need to know about becoming a house cat. By the time the kittens return to the shelter in a few weeks they are very well socialized and ready for adoption. Visitors to the shelter find it hard to believe that our purring, sweet, affectionate kittens were once hissing, spitting wild things who wanted nothing to do with us!
As our feral cat program grew, so did our kitten program. On average, Cats Anonymous removes 100 kittens from the streets each year and places them into loving, family homes.