Town Cats
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Town Cats
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Want to find out more about us and see all of our adoptable cats and kittens? Come check out our website at http://www.towncats.org, and you'll see all the sweethearts looking for good homes. Visit our cats at numerous locations every week in the San Jose area! Every Saturday and Sunday, at the Pet Food Express on Capital on San Jose; Every Saturday, at the Pet Food Express on Stevens Creek in San Jose; and other locations varying by the week. Check out the site at http://www.towncats.org/meet.html!
Our adoption fees have been reduced to $75 for one teen or one adult and to $120 for a pair of teens or a pair of adults; $100 for one kitten or $170 for a pair of kittens!!!!
Click here to see pictures of the cats/kittens; email us at towncats@garlic.com or call 408-710-4081 to adopt today!
Town Cats has been asked to help with a huge emergency cat rescue project in San Jose. A long-time horse boarding ranch closed on August 10, 2008. The ranch was in operation for over 30 years. During that time people have used the land as a dumping ground for their unwanted cats. Without first being neutered or spayed, breeding has produced multiple colonies that numbered over 200.
The ranch property is owned by the City of San Jose. The City of San Jose Attorney's office notified Town Cats on August 9, 2008, that the cats need to removed from the property when the lease expires in October. However, the city of San Jose Animal Control does not have the room to house this many cats and many are wild/feral, not adoptable, so Town Cats is leading the drive to save these cats and relocate them to new ranch/outdoor type homes. If you have property and need some cats for rodent control, we please consider saving these cats! We will trap, spay/neuter, vaccinated, deflea, deworm and health check them prior to taking to their new outdoor homes.
We need your help to save these cats today! We need food, litter, equipment and monetary support for to help with the vet bills and aftercare for these cats. Use our donation button and the PayPal feature to donate money with your credit card.
UPDATE as of 9/29/08:
Town Cats now has a temporary location in San Jose to hold cats waiting for spay/neuter or foster homes or relocation! Also, a couple of foster homes have signed up as well as a couple of feral relocation properties. We still need lots more feral relocation properties and monetary donations for medical costs. A Big THANKS to the volunteers who offered to help in this project.
Update on the number of cats: SO FAR Town Cats has pulled and placed 50 cats, horse boarders took 50 cats with them when they moved their horses and there's about 100 left.
Some of the friendlies rescued from the ranch have already been vetted and are up for adoption.
You can find out more at the volunteers web site dedicated to this project:
http://67.155.107.232/AlvisoRanch/AlvisoRanch.htm
See what aired on the various media sources below:
CBS:
http://cbs5.com/pets/sj.abandoned.cats.2.794766.html
Mercury News:
http://www.mercurynews.com/petsheadlines/ci_10229693?nclick_check=1
ABC:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6335826
KTVU:
http://www.ktvu.com/video/17227226/index.html
This project is likely to continue for the next several months! Please email us at towncats@garlic.com to see how you can help! You can donate for this project by clicking the Paypal account on our Donations page (http://www.towncats.org/donations.html). Thank you!
Town Cats has partnered with PetSmart in Gilroy and PetSmart in San Jose on Curtner to have some kittens and cats always available in their adoptions areas. Town Cats volunteers visit once or twice a day, at a minimum, to check on the health and well-being of the kitties, make sure the areas are clean, and fill up food and water. Cats are rotated in and out from the shelter and from foster homes, so that no cat is left there for too long. This is in addition to our many fairs we have every weekend! But, if you want to check out some of our kitties during the week, these PetSmart locations are a good place to start!
Don't forget, if you see a particular cat or kitten you'd like to meet, you can email us and we can arrange a meeting. If you would like to adopt an adult kitty but aren't sure who, ask to arrange a visit to the no-kill shelter, where 90 cats reside while waiting for homes! Make sure you bring the primary residents of your household, and think out all specific requirements (must like other cats, etc.). We even had one person bring their puppy to check the reaction of her new kitty to the puppy! We look forward to seeing you!
Love cats but can't have any where you are? Volunteer at our no-kill adoption center! We always need help there, both in the mornings and in the evenings. Volunteers do everything from socialize and play with the kitties, to cleaning litter boxes, to feeding them snacks and even participating in the giving of medicines, if so desired. We will accept younger volunteers too - teens are fine, although they need a guardian's permission, and younger children are acceptable so long as an adult is with them.
We also always need foster homes, so if you have a spare room in your house you aren't using, why not consider allowing a mom cat with kittens, rescued from death, to stay there while her kittens get big enough to adopt out? Or perhaps allow room for some kittens that just need a couple of weeks to stay? We have every variety of kitty that needs a foster home: tiny, pre-wean kittens that need lots of care and love; scared kittens that need reassurance and socialization; happy kittens that only need a place to stay for a brief time; and even older kitties that are doing very poorly in our shelter. Email and inquire about becoming a foster home - you'll be glad you did!
We also can use assistance at our many adoption fairs every weekend. The more people we have to help, the more fairs we can hold, and the more kitties find new homes! Duties usually include playing with and cuddling the kitties, talking with potential adopters, and anything else that comes up. Actual adoptions are handled by a volunteer who has been trained in doing adoptions. Why not help to make sure kitties find good homes?
We often have many other needs, such as special fundraising or community education opportunities, newsletter production, web site maintenance, etc. Feel free to email with what you are interested in, and maybe we can get you hooked up!
Barn/Ranch/Outdoor Homes needed for 30 Feral Cats!!!
Got allergies but love cats? Already have a couple of indoor cats and don't really want another but love cats and want to help them? Have an indoor cat who dislikes other cats but you still want more? You've come to the right place!!!! You'll love being the guardian of a couple of feral cats! They are so easy to care for, independent, not needy (like adorable little Fluffy)! These guys are smart survivors and once they know you and decide to trust you, it's a wonderful feeling to be part of their world!
Here's why we're so desperate for good outdoor type homes right now: In addition to our shelter which houses 90 residents (cats), we are always working on feral trap/neuter/release/relocation projects. For these cats - some who may be willing to interact on a limited basis, some who might not - we are seeking outdoor type homes for these kitties where they can live out the rest of their lives in peace. They are neutered/spayed and healthy. We only place ferals in groups of 2 or more depending on your needs - be it in your garden, as a barn or ranch cat - as long as you'll feed and water them, have adequate shelter from predators, cars and the like. You will find that these cats are very easy to care for and they really appreciate you. In time, they will trust you and some will become friendlier, letting you pet them and even pick them up. It just depends what you want, they let you set the pace - some are happy to just eat and run (literally)...You do need to hold them in a pen for one or two months to imprint their new territory (just like their cousins, lions and tigers in Africa, cats bond with their territory, so they must imprint)...We can loan you a pen if you don't have one, it just needs to be in a shaded area protected from the elements.
(Any individuals who have extra land in the Morgan Hill or rural San Jose area, and who would like to donate space for us to create an enclosure for feral cats, which WE will maintain, please also let us know.... We used to have an outdoor feral facility, but the land was sold to somebody else and we had to close it down.)
If this sounds like something you'd like to do this year and the rest of your and/or the cats' life, call or email us today! Thank you!
Our mission at Town Cats is to maintain a No-Kill Adoption Center/Shelter and foster home network for friendly homeless cats and kittens awaiting adoption; to bring attention to and alleviate the suffering of homeless and feral cats in Santa Clara county; to educate the public about the pet overpopulation problem and provide the public with the tools to become part of the solution to assist homeless and feral cats through Trap, Neuter and Return programs; and to find permanent, loving, and safe homes for all the homeless house cats and kittens in our care.
Fast Facts About Us
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We have a shelter facility that is open by appointment only where you can see some of our adoptable cats. Call the office at 408-779-5761 or email towncats@garlic.com to schedule an appointment. We also have adoption fairs at local pet stores on certain days; our web site lists days and times under the Adoptions tab.
Town Cats
PO Box 1828
Morgan Hill, CA 95038
Phone: 408-779-5761
Email: towncats@garlic.com
