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Adoption Agreement for rescuers to use in screening  and adopting out fosters and rescued cats and kittens.  Available as an Adobe Acrobat file or as a Microsoft Word file. 

Adopting out your own rescues? Here is a pamphlet of basic cat knowledge that all adopters should know, “Adopting a New Cat”.  Included in the pamphlet are articles on “Bringing Home a New Cat,”  “The Litterbox - How to Make Sure Your Cat Uses It,” and “Tips for Keeping Your Indoor Cat Happy.” Perfect for shelters, rescue groups, or individual rescuers.  Articles used with permission, ©www.thecatsite.com You will need Adobe Acrobat/Reader 5.0 or higher to view this article.

Meowhoo.com is all about cats... Strays and ferals have a special place in our hearts... For more information on the subject we encourage you to visit our feral cats and rescue categories.

All too often, rescuers encounter neglected and abused animals, and beyond caring for the animal don’t know what else can be done.  Stray Pet Advocacy has compiled summaries and links to every US State’s Animal Cruelty Law.  Find out exactly what you can do to bring animal abusers to justice!

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Best Friends Sanctuary - No More Homeless Pets

Mission Statement: To help bring about a time when no homeless, unwanted animals are being destroyed in shelters, and when every dog and cat that’s ever born can be guaranteed a good life with a loving family.

Hugs for Homeless Animals offers many resources for animal rescue. They have a comprehensive Worldwide Shelter Directory and a Worldwide Lost and Found Pet service, including a downloadable Lost Pet Poster.

The Animal Spirit provides tips for Finding a New Home for a Companion Animal, a sample Adoption Application, a sample Homecheck Evaluation, and a sample Adoption Agreement.  Also, a good article on Why Free To Good Homes Are a Bad Idea.

Congratulations!  You’re the Proud Owner of a (Formerly) Feral Cat – And She’s Hiding Under the Bed. A guide to preparing adoptees of socialized ferals, and what they can expect from a “tame” feral by Alley Cat Allies.

A comprehensive site on hand raising abandoned and orphaned kittens, Kitten-Rescue.com contains all the information you need to get you started through adopting out the little ones.  Includes information on feeding, stimulating, keeping warm, and what to expect at what age.

Handrearing Kittens - Article on raising orphaned kittens by Cat Action Trust 1977.

Comprehensive article on Orphaned Kittens by Sue Freeman’s Rescue Guide

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The Cat Site welcomed Dusty Rainbolt, author of Kittens for Dummies, as a two week guest to answer forum members’ questions about hand raising “Bottle Babies”.  The forum is now closed, but the information is invaluable when you find a kitten in need.

Kitten Rescue Handbook: “Thousands of abandoned kittens are rescued and hand-raised by animal lovers every spring. We've written this guide to help you out! If you find a kitten or litter of newborns and would like to care for them yourself, here are some tips on proper care!”

Caring for Newborns at Safe Haven for Cats, ©Jeri Dopp Primer in caring for newborn, orphaned kittens.  First link on this page after the Main Page link.

Raising Orphaned Kittens by Feral Cat Coalition. All the basics of raising orphaned kittens.

TLC Online’s Kitten Care and Socialization An extensive guide to fostering and raising pregnant cats, mothers and kittens, and orphaned kittens.

Pets 911 provides a searchable database for Lost and Found Pets, search for your next pet from those Available for Adoption, find local Animal Shelters and Rescue Groups,  search for Emergency Veterinary Hospitals by Zip Code, and more for the USA and Canada.

Click every day to feed an animal in a shelter or sanctuary. Their sponsors donate .6 bowls of food for every click

Visit Pet Finder to find that perfect dog or cat that’s waiting for you at a shelter near you.  Petfinder works with both shelters and rescue groups to make saving a life easy.

IMOM.org’s Mission Statement is: “Helping people help pets. To better the lives of sick, injured and abused companion animals. We are dedicated to insure that no companion animal has to be euthanized simply because their caretaker is financially challenged.”   A place to ask for assistance with your sick or injured pet/rescue and a place to make tax deductible donations.  Money is sent directly to veterinarians.

Rescue Guide provides extensive rescue resources for Los Angeles County, California.  Also has an extensive Links Page covering many rescue issues with resources in the United States.

The Poop offers a search feature for dog rescue groups and specific breed rescue groups by location in the United States.

Adopt an Animal Canada is a national Canadian directory of shelters, rescues, pounds and sanctuaries where website users can search for their dream companion by species, breed, and province or zip code.

Diabella Loves Cats - Retirement Homes for Cats.  Lists organizations by state that allow for pre-arrangement of care for a pet if you can no longer care for it.

Hugs for Homeless Animals offers many resources for animal rescue. They have a comprehensive Worldwide Shelter Directory and a Worldwide Lost and Found Pet service, including a downloadable Lost Pet Poster.

World Animal Net is the world's largest network of animal protection societies.  World Animal Net Directory - The world's largest database of animal protection societies, with over 13,000 listings and more than 6,000 links to Web Sites. To start a search, select a geographical region in the sidebar for listings by country or enter text in the boxes.

Cat Welfare Society of Israel is the only cat rescue group in the entire country of Israel.  Please click here to find out about their desperate situation and how you can help.

Caring For Cats is a small registered charity which rescues, neuters and rehomes feral, stray and unwanted domestic cats. Caring For Cats has two rescue and rehoming centres - Carol's "Cat House" in Purfleet, Essex and one in St Albans, Hertfordshire, run by Diana Williams. We also have a charity shop in South Ockendon, Essex.”

The Cinnamon Trust - The National (UK) Charity For The Elderly and Their Pets. “We have an established national network of some 4,500 registered volunteers. All volunteers are tasked from our headquarters in Cornwall and all help in the ways that are most appropriate to them. Teams take it in turn to visit housebound owners, to take dogs for daily walks; volunteers foster pets as one of their  family when owners face a spell in hospital, they take pets to the vet, they go and buy the cat food, clean the budgie's cage out. We have established a national register of  nursing homes, residential homes, sheltered housing for the elderly that will  accept residents and their pets.”

Scottish SPCA caring for over 17,000 animals at 13 Animal Welfare Centres (AWC) in Scotland.

Torre Argentina is a cat sanctuary and adoption center in Rome. Website available in Italian, English, German, and Scandinavian.

I Gatti della Piramide is a cat shelter in Rome, Italy. “The purpose of the cat shelter is to provide much more than a place of refuge for the many cats and kittens that are abandoned here. In fact, various ways and means are used to find new homes, to get adoptions at a distance, and to have them neutered, since this is the only method of limiting the number of stray cats, that are still a widespread problem. Moreover, the cats are vaccinated and given medical care, since often they have been abandoned precisely because they are sick of pregnant.” The site is available in English, Italian, and German languages.