Cat Adoption Team

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Nov 12, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$1,316,597

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Public service programs - subsidized spay and neuter program and cat food bankthe cat adoption team has continued to expand our services to families with cats who are in financial need. The two key programs offered currently are designed to reduce the cat overpopulation problem within our service area through spay and neuter and the other program is focused to keep the human animal bond by providing food and litter assistance to families in need. The subsidized spay and neuter program is open to the public four days a week, during which time our onsite veterinary hospital will perform up to 20 surgeries per day. In 2009 cat completed just over 600 subsidized surgeries, in 2011 that number grew to over 1,800. The increases has begun to show a direct impact on the percentage of cats and kittens who are saved through all local area shelters by more than 8% during that same time period. The second program, our cat food bank, was established in 2008 during the very beginning of the recession. That first year we handed out just over 3,000 pounds of food to families who were in need of help. In 2011, we handed out more than 37,000 pounds of food, helping on average 154 families and 480 cats each month. In december 2011, the cat food bank passed a milestone, by handing out our 100,000th lb. Of food. All of the food for this program is generated by individual donations of food.

Activity 3

Kitten foster program - in 2002 cat embarked on developing a kitten foster program which would not only enhance the quality of life of the kittens in our care, but increase the number of kittens adopted and saved who could not be safely housed in a shelter setting. Starting with just a handful of foster homes and very little structure, cat worked to create a program which provided not only the medical support to the kittens, but physical and emotional support to the foster families. Our goal was to create a program which would excite foster parents about coming back year after year. The kitten foster program is overseen by 1 1/4 fte, and those individuals support up to 150 foster homes and up to 250 kittens at any given point in time during the year. The structure of the program has enabled cat to have the long term success which was set out to achieve. Each foster parent who comes into the program is given the tools and support for success. From basic medical supplies and a procedure manual to walk them through what they may experience to having an assigned foster mentor (a volunteer who has years of foster experience and had training from our medical team) who can be there no matter the time of day or night to support them during any situation which may arise. By providing this support, cat has seen an increased retention rate of foster families and increased number of kittens being saved because of it. In 2011, cat adopted more than 680 kittens through our kitten foster program. In 2012, cat is anticipating more than 1,000 kittens to go through this critical program, and only increasing the number of kittens saved in the community.

Filer

EIN

20-0773189