Notice: We are not taking any new cats at this time
We know there is an overwhelming need for help in the Philadelphia and surrounding areas. Please look at http://www.petfinder.com/to see the local groups in your area that maybe able to assist you in finding placement for your pets.
What do to if your cat has gone missing
Make up flyers and post them on every street corner, call the local shelter and Animal Control. Be sure to give them recent pictures; visit them everyday.
Go door to door, the cat most likley did not stray far from home.
Place flyers at the local WAWA, supermarkets etc.
If your cat is mMicrochipped call the company and report the cat missing.
Get your rescue involved if you adopted. Place ads on craigslist
Try http://www.petfinder.com/ - classifieds AND LOOK at the shelter animals that are available for adoption since your pet might show up there.
Alleviate the financial stress associated with your pet’s unexpected medical expenses and generate funds for our shelter at the same time! Simply apply for a ShelterCare Pet Insurance Program by using the ShelterCare banner-link (above and at left). ShelterCare Pet Insurance Programs cover you when your pet needs essential veterinary care from an illness or injury. Also, every time a completed application for a ShelterCare program is generated through our shelter’s Web site, we automatically receive a $25 donation to help cover common needs like blankets, litter and food. This donation is of no cost to you and provides us with essential funds. Make the right move and enroll today!
Low cost spay/neuter programs
Forgotten Cats, a 501C3 organization, has opened a second spay/neuter clinic in Willow Grove, PA minutes from the Willow Grove Mall.Forgotten Cats accepts stray and feral cats for low-cost spay/neuter.Cost per cat is $25 inclusive of vaccines and parasite treatment. Owned cats are $50 for a male and $70 for a female. FIV/FeLV testing IS available for $15.Volunteers need for various tasks.For information and scheduling, please contact 215-219-8148.
Forgotten Cats also runs a spay/neuter clinic in Claymont, DE, right off 95 over the PA-DE border convenient to South & Southeast Philly and Delaware County.For info on this clinic, please contact 302-429-0124 or e-mail info@forgottencats.org.
Philadelphia area
Info@phillycats.org — PSPCA (located on Erie Ave) clinics, fourth Sunday of every month
The Spayed Club: P.O. Box 1145, Frazer, PA; 19355 (610) 275-7486; http://www.thespayedclub.org; New low cast spay/neuter clinic located at 800 Chester Pike, Sharon Hill, PA. The following prices are for Ferals Only (cash at drop-off time — no checks, no credit cards): — $20 includes spay/neuter, eartip, pain meds, rabies vax, distemper vax (FVRCP), ear mite treatment (Ivermectin) if necessary. — FeLV/FIV test is $25 extra — FeLV vax is $10 extra — Flea treatment (Revolution) is $10 extra — Ferals must be in traps, not carriers. — All ferals will be eartipped. — This price is for true ferals who will be returned to the colony, NOT for tame strays or cats being fostered. — There is no extra charge for heat, pregnancy or cryptorchidism. — Pregnancies will be terminated during surgery.
This clinic is closed on weekends. In the future, ferals will be accepted without appointments from registered trappers only, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Pick-up will be the day after surgery, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. No feral dropoffs on Fridays! At this time they are accepting trapped ferals immediately. Anyone interested in more info, please e-mail appointments@thespayedclub.org or call 484-540-8436.
Alley Cat Allies - Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) - is a full management plan in which stray and feral cats already living outdoors in cities, towns, and rural areas are humanely trapped, then evaluated, vaccinated, and sterilized by veterinarians. Kittens and tame cats are adopted into good homes. Healthy adult cats too wild to be adopted are returned to their familiar habitat under the lifelong care of volunteers.Visit their Web site
