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Humane Education
Rehoming Your Cat
Take My Cat, Please!
We often get asked to take in peoples pets that they either no longer want, or have rescued themselves, but had difficulty placing. Please understand, that while we are a rescue group, we cannot take in every pet. Our goal is to save lives. We try to limit the number of "owned" pets we take in, and focus instead on feral cats and cats in kill shelters who, were it not for rescue groups such as us and others, would not have a chance of survival.
He's a perfectly wonderful cat, I'm sure someone will adopt him.
First of all, please be advised that if you take a stray animal to a center that kills, by law, they are only obligated to hold the animal for three days, and then it could be killed. But with an "owner released" animal, there is no holding period, and your pet can, and likely will, be immediately euthanised (killed), without ever reaching the adoption area of the shelter.
Releasing your pet should be the absolute last option you consider.
With the severe overcrowding that shelters face, most of the animals turned in to shelters will never make it out. Litters of adoptable puppies and kittens are killed every day, simply because people do not get their animals spayed or neutered and there are just not enough homes for all of the animals being born. Older dogs and cats turned in to the shelter, have little to no chance at survival, unless a rescue groups steps in to save them.
But my pet is ill and suffering. I don't know what else to do!
If you are relinquishing your pet because he is very old or ill and suffering, then please be advised that there is a much more humane and loving thing you can do for your pet than taking him to a shelter for the purpose of ending his life. Take him to your veterinarian. Your pets illness could be treatable! However, if it is determined that euthanising your pet is absolutely necessary, then your veterinarian should be able to do this for you.
Your pets last hours should be spent with you, not in a shelter. Have the courage and the compassion to take him to your veterinarian. To hold him in your arms, stroke his fur, and tell him you love him, as he closes his eyes, takes his last breath, and passes to a better place.
If you are intent on finding a home for the animal, here are some suggestions for you:
- Post notices (with pictures if possible) at vet offices, as well as PetsMart and Petco. Post notices at any local business that will allow you to do so.
- Be sure to put the word out to your friends. Ask them to ask their friends. If you belong to a church or any clubs/organizations, post noticed, and put out the word there too.
- Put an ad in the newspaper offering your cat for adoption — CHARGE AN ADOPTION FEE.
Please do not give any animal away for free!
Free animals often attract the wrong kind of people, including people who would use your animal to: train fighting dogs or racing greyhounds, feed their pet snake, sell to a research lab, sacrifice for satanic rituals, sexually abuse, mutilate, set on fire or "explode" by inserting a firecracker into it's body, and for un-altered pets, to breed indiscriminately, so that they will have more animals to torture and abuse! So for the safety of the animal, please always ask for a small adoption fee and/or a deposit that can be refunded only after the adopter has spayed or neutered the pet.
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