Cats' Angels, Inc.
Featured Pet: Super-mom Isabelle !!
Isabelle is a beautiful Siamese mix who is between a year and a year-and-a-half old. On Memorial Day weekend, this sweet nursing mama and two others-- plus their 11 small kittens!-- were dumped in a parking lot in sealed styrofoam coolers. Thanks to the quick action of a rescuing angel, they all survived and are now healthy & happy. Most of the kittens have been adopted, and now it's the mamas' turn! Isabelle has a "twin" sister named Sandrine who is also available for adoption. The three mamas all shared nursing responsibilities, and the babies would go from mama to mama, so it was quite a family affair! Isabelle is incredibly loving and affectionate and wants to be with you all the time. She makes biscuits and rubs against your head. She would prefer to be the only female kitty in the household. Isabelle is healthy and has been tested for FIV/leukemia, vaccinated, spayed and microchipped . For information about adopting this amazing girl, please contact Brenda at baharriso1@gmail.com
Who We Are
Cats' Angels, Inc. is a group of several Austin area foster homes. We do not have a facility to keep the cats and we have very limited space and therefore limited ability to accept cats from the public. We foster out of our homes, and care for and find homes for abandoned or neglected cats. Most kittens and cats come to us as sick, injured or orphaned animals. In many cases they must still be fed from a bottle.
Cats’ Angels volunteers also trap/neuter/release feral or stray cats in order to reduce overpopulation and decrease euthanasia at city “pounds”. It is the also the purpose of our organization to increase public awareness of the pet overpopulation crisis and encourage early spaying and neutering.
The Adoption Process
All of our adoptable cats are healthy and up-to-date on vaccinations, spayed or neutered (if old enough), micro-chipped, and litter box trained.
Cats' Angels has an adoption application that we can e-mail upon request. Contact cats_angels @sbcglobal.net. We deliver the cat to you so that we can see the home environment and ensure the best match between the cat and the family. It also helps us make suggestions about acclimating the kitty to this new environment. All of our adoptions are on a trial basis for one month or until both the adopter and foster parent are satisfied with the placement. We refund the adoption fee for up to one month. We require the return of all adopted cats if adopter’s situation changes and the cat must be re-homed. Our guarantee to adopters is that we will either take back our foster kitties or help you find a good home for it. We require the promise from the adopter to NEVER surrender the cat to a shelter.
Special Needs Cats
Consider adopting a special needs cat (Pictured: Miashu). Some people want to help those animals that are the most in need of love and care. If you are one of them, consider our special needs kitties. Those include cats and kittens that are shy with new people and cats that have a terminal disease like feline leukemia or FIV. Skittish cats require a little patience at first, but can be very affectionate, and can strongly bond to their owner, even more so than well-socialized cats. Feline Leukemia and FIV positive cats have tested positive for the virus, but it may take years for the signs of the disease to show, and meanwhile, they can live a perfectly normal and happy life. In the case of FIV, many cats never succumb to the disease and can live well into their teens, like any other cat that is kept 100% indoors. However, the disease is contagious to other cats (but not to dogs or humans,) so they have to be kept separate. We also have two cats that are blind in one eye. These cats don't have any disability, but people tend to pass them because of their bad eye, yet they are extremely sweet and would make wonderful friends to the person who would open their heart to them.
How to Donate
We are a 503(c)(3) charitable organization and your donations to Cats' Angels are tax deductible. We accept PayPal (see the Donate button at the bottom left of this page). You can mail donations to Cats’ Angels, PO Box 12684, Austin, TX 78711-2684. For any questions, please email cats_angels@sbcglobal.net.
Most wanted on our wish list:
• Cat food (Purina ProPlan kitten/cat, Natural Balance canned and dry)
• Clumping cat litter
• Gently used or new cat beds
• Cat carriers
• Large dog crates or cages (for recovering feral cats after spay surgery)
• Cat toys
Fostering & Volunteering
Foster homes are always urgently needed, especially in the spring and summer months when kittens are born. Having enough foster homes is literally the difference between life and death for many kittens, because we must turn down requests from people who have found litters, veterinarians who’ve had litters left on their doorstep, or Town Lake Animal Center, which is forced to euthanized if they cannot find placement for kittens under 6 weeks.
Cats’ Angels pays all vet expenses. You provide the food, and the love! (Any supplies and food you pay for is tax-deductible and we will provide you with a receipt.) When the kittens are old enough for adoption at 8-9 weeks, you either bring them to our weekend adoption events and continue to foster until permanent homes are found, or you return them to us when you can no longer foster them.
Volunteers are also needed to visit and play with shy kittens and cats, as we work to socialize them and help them overcome their fears to make them more adoptable.
If you are interested in fostering kittens or volunteering with Cats Angels, please contact us at cats_angels@sbcglobal.net.
Our Regular Adoption Events
Through the generosity of PetCo at the Arboretum (located at 183 and Great Hills next to La Madeleine Bakery), Cats Angels is able to hold weekend adoption events. Our adoptions are from Noon to 4:00 p.m. with the following schedule:
1st and 2nd Sunday of each month
3rd and 4th Saturday of each month
Click to see our events!
Cats' Angels, Inc.
Email:
cats_angels@sbcglobal.net
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