All of our cats are special and we would like you to see their profiles, pictures and decide for yourself, who would be best suited to become your life time companion.
News
We have many kittens of different ages and colors. We need to find homes for all of them before they become too old for adoption. If you would like to see them, please check out our calender of events for dates, times and locations of our adoption days sponsored by our adoption partners, Petco, Pet Smart and Super Petz.
We now offer low cost spay/neuter through the Amazing Grace Spay Neuter Program. If you live in Carbon County and adjoining municipalities North and West, please ask for an application to this program. We will be happy to provide one to you and help you through the process. Every year 500,000 cats are euthanized simply because there are no homes for them. Help make sure you are part of the solution to this problem by having all the pets in your home spayed/neutered. If you don't live in the Amazing Grace coverage area, we will be more then happy to provide you with information on programs in your area. Protect their futures, spay and neuter.
Who We Are
We are a small, non-profit organization and we care for our rescues in foster homes rather then shelters. We have limited space and accept only abandon and orphaned kittens who need to be bottle fed & have no feline mother. We provide warm, dry and secure foster placements for our rescues. We also test them for Feline Leukemia & FIV. We vaccinate for Distemper and Rabies (through our vet). Our veterinary partner, Mahoning Valley Animal Hospital (570-386-3088) helps up spay and neuter our rescues when they are old enough and they also provide, prompt, quality medical care for them and we micro-chip all our adoptees. We would not be able to do what we do without the help of Dr. Mary Lombardo, Dr. Chris Carpenter, Dr. Lori Milot & Dr. Amber Bauer and the fine techs and support staff at Mahoning. They assist us in taking excellent care of our rescues as well as our own animals and they have done this consistently since 1990. If you are looking for a good vet, we highly recommend you contact them at 570-386-3088. Lastly, please remember that 2 cats + their offspring = 420,000 in as little as 7 years. So, protect their futures, spay and neuter.
Adopting a friend
Adopting a rescued pet from us is easy and painless. We ask a few questions of you and we require a driver's license or state issued id, a copy of your lease stating pets are allowed or a letter from your landlord stating pets are allowed if you are a renter. If you own your own home and intend for a cat to be indoor and outdoor, we ask you select from our list of cats that have been outdoors and we also ask you to provide safe outdoor areas for any that you may adopt. Some of our rescues are used to going outdoors and we don't have a problem with that provided you live in a rural area, away from busy streets and have some sort of shelter for the cats to retreat. We will request that you not allow a cat outdoors in bad weather, at night time or in extreme tempuratures. Your outdoor shelter and area must have water readily available and a dry, clean place for the cat to be should it rain before the cat can come into your home. We will also require the name, address and phone number of your vetrinarian. If you do not currently have pets in your home, you will need to select a vet and make an appointment for your new friend within 2 weeks of adoption. Our aim is to be able to allow you to adopt easily while making sure our rescues are being adopted by responsible pet owners. We will ask you to fill out a short questionaire and if that looks good to us, we will ask you to review and sign our adoption contract. If you have any questions, please feel free to call, email or visit us at an adoption day event.
If you already have a cat or more that is Feline Leukemia or FIV or FIP positive and have room for another in your home, or if you are interested in providing a home for such cats, there are many available for adoption throughout the area. These cats are often hard to place and many are currently living in shelters for long periods of time. If you would consider adopting one or more, please go to www.pacrn.webs.com for a full list along with pictures of those available for adoption.
Come Visit Us!
We have adoption day events scheduled throughout each month at various locations and we invite you to come see our rescues at any one or more of them. If it is not possible to do that, please contact us to arrainge a private visit at one of our foster homes in Schuylkill or Lehigh Counties.
After Adoption
We want you to have the best experience possible with you new family member. Sometimes behavior problems will occur down the road. If behavior problems occur, talk to your vet immediately and feel free to contact us also. We want to help resolve any behavior problems in the beginning, before you get frustrated enough to give the cat back to us. NEVER surrendrer a cat you have adopted from us to another shelter. We will work with you to resolve any behavior problems that may develop through educating you on possible causes of the behaviors. Some behaviors can be resolved quickly, others may require medications, vet visits and a few weeks of dealing with the problem. It is our goal to help you through these times so that you and your pet will remain together for a lifetime. Pets are a huge, life long responsibility and the decision to bring a new pet into your home needs to have careful consideration. Ask yourself questions like, who will care for the pet when we go on vacation? What will we do if any family members develop allergies? Can we afford vet care if one of us looses our job? Can we afford vet care if the cat becomes very ill? These are important questions you will need to consider because if you cannot handle such situations, chances are you should not consider adopting a pet. We do not answer these questions for you, it will be up to you. So, please take time to consider a possible adoption and then take some extra time to consider which kitten will fit best into your family.
Our TNR Program
In July of 2008 we instituted our TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) program to help individuals feeding feral cats on their property. This program has expanded to working with area businesses and local township and borough officials. We have networked with several trappers throughout Eastern PA. and have developed relationships with several spay/neuter clinics in the area as well. We have the ability to guide and train communities who wish to institute a TNR program. Please call us if you would like more information on this program.
WHY TNR?
Several reasons, first and foremost, because that is what works. Individuals and communities have experienced problems with feral/stray cats for decades. 95% of these cats are not sterilized and have the ability to reproduce 4 times per year. A female can produce up to 15 kittens per litter. However, 4 to 7 seems to be typical for most females. In addition to the vast reproduction, mating behaviors can be very annoying and downright intolerable to many people. Then there is the spreading of disease amoung cats and in some cases, rabies is contracted by the cats and can be passed to humans. For many people, seeing a cat outside in various types of weather is not acceptable. However, moving those cats indoors isn't pratical so they feed the cats outside in order to make sure they are at least getting food. Once you start feeding cats in your neighborhood, more and more of them will begin to come to your home for food. Naturally, they will also reproduce. Removing these cats from the area does not stop the process, it simply allows more stray/feral cats to come into the area. If you remove them and have them euthanized you will still be leaving the area open for more to come in, the same goes for removing them and taking them to shelters. However, the latter produces another sort of problem. Trapping and taking these feral/stray cats to shelters is much of the reason the shelters are always so full. The public feels they are doing a humane thing by taking these cats to no kill shelters. In fact what is happening is this; you bring a feral cat to a no kill shelter and that cat must be placed in a cage where it will be forced to live out the rest of it's life because no one is going to adopt a cat that doesn't want anything to do with them. The shelter cannot euthanize unless the cat is severely sick and that cat is occupying the cage for the term of it's life thereby taking a space that could be utilized by another cat who would be more adoptable. Shelters should never be utilized for feral cat placement. They need to be available for those that can no longer take care of their own cats for whatever reason and have to give them up. They should be utilized for kittens who are young enough to be made people friendly. When a feral cat is taken to the shelter and takes up the cages needed for people friendly cats, the owners who can no longer care for their cats have no place to go with them. They have 2 choices in that case, euthanize their cat or let it out to fend for itself. The second choice is the one most people will make, thereby adding to the free roaming cat population and most likely reproducing more kittens. We need to start taking care of this problem with much more common sense then we have been applying in years past. That is why our organization supports and promotes TNR. By sterilizing the free roamers, we are preventing reproduction. By returning them to their original out door homes we are preventing them from taking up permanent residence in a shelter. Eventually, natural selection will begin to take hold and the free roaming population will decrease naturally. This is the most sensible way to address the problem. Do nothing and all that happens is the problem will become worse. There are many communities throughout the country that have adopted the TNR concept and it is working for them. For more information on TNR visit www.alleycat.org
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