KRAZY FOR KATS IS CURRENTLY
NOT TAKING IN ANY ANIMALS AT THIS TIME.
HERE ARE VALUABLE RESOURCES AND ANIMAL WELFARE GROUPS:
RE-HOMING YOUR PET:
Having a pet is a lifetime responsibility. Please be kind to your furry friends and super seniors! We receive many messages each day from people needing to "re-home" their cats. While we would love to help everyone in the community, if we take in your pet (which already has a home) this means we have one less space for the special needs kitties in the shelters and the baby kittens starving the streets of Los Angeles. Please go to Rehome Your Pet page for services and helpful organizations that can assist you.
LAanimalservices.home-home.org will give City of Los Angeles residents who can no longer keep their pets the opportunity to find new, loving homes without having to surrender them to the shelter. Pets can go from one home right into another, which means less stress for animals and humans alike. In addition, this offers potential new owners the opportunity to communicate directly with the current owners, providing firsthand information about the animals.
You can also check out these helpful FaceBook Groups to foster or rehome cats:
www.facebook.com/groups/767459219970903/
www.facebook.com/groups/600682673657475/
www.facebook.com/groups/rescuecats/
Southern California Cat and Kitten Rescue Network 2.0 | Facebook
CALIFORNIA CATS IN NEED | Groups | Facebook
LA Underground Cat Network - Cat Rescue Wing | Facebook
CAT & KITTEN RESCUE NETWORK 4 Precious Lives Needing Urgent Help | Facebook
Los Angeles Feline Rescue Network | Facebook
SoCal Cat Rescue Network | Facebook
TRAPPING ASSISTANCE (tnr):
All of the rescue groups are overflowing with animals during kitten season which runs from spring to fall. The animal shelters will NOT help you with TNR and any cat/kitten you bring them will be put down in (5) days which is the minimum hold time before euthanasia. They will NOT keep feral cats and there is no such thing as a "no kill shelter" in California. L.A. County shelters are far worse than L.A. City shelters if you must bring an animal there. Agoura Shelter and the Pasadena Humane Society are the best ones with low kill but you must live in their area zone for them to take in cats.
To trap FERAL or STRAY cats/kittens in a colony to spay and neuter them, please contact these TNR groups directly. They also offer FREE & LOW COST Veterinary services.
Here is a great website with tons of resources to help you with TNR. It all depends on your location. Groups will either come help you trap, show you how to do it or trap themselves.
www.karmarescue.org/feral-cats-and-tnr
I recommend FixNation for TNR and they work with all rescue groups. They are in North Hollywood/Burbank area.
www.Fixnation.org.
CAMP (Community Animal Medicine Project) is about community – providing access to affordable veterinary services in historically excluded areas helping to keep pets and their people together, where they belong.
www.campla.org
Best Friends Animal Society NKLA. This is also a great website with lots of resources and other rescues who can help: www.bestfriends.org/nkla
YOU Found a Cat or Baby Kittens
If you find newborn kittens and they are NOT injured or dying, the BEST thing to do is leave them alone and come back in a couple of hours to see if the mother cat is around. Mom cats move their kitten nest every few days. If you find a single kitten, mommy may be in the process of relocating and will be back shortly to fetch the last baby. If the mom cat does not come back or she is injured or dead, please take the kittens to a vet or contact an animal rescue group in YOUR LOCAL CITY.
Go to Found Baby Kittens page for assistance.
If you take the kitties, you can also call your closest Petco or PetSmart to see which rescue groups are holding adoptions on the weekend and go in to talk to them in person. Larger rescue groups have more foster volunteers that may be able to take the kittens. PLEASE OFFER A DONATION TO THE GROUP!
(Insider rescue secret:) There are many legitimate cat rescues in Southern California, and we all work with NKLA (No Kill L.A. Programs) to get as many animals as possible out of shelters. Fosters go there every day to remove the adoptable cats/kittens so if you bring in a cat(s), they may have a chance to get saved if they are social enough to find a new home - but there are NO GUARANTEES they will get on the rescue list.
Also, one last bit of advice. Be VERY careful when contacting someone from social media, an online ad or Craigslist that is offering to take the kitties off your hands for free and “willing to foster immediately”. Once again, there are too many scammers, abusers and animal hoarders out there looking for free kitties! B-Class dealers also look for free animals they can get and then sell to medical labs.
Find out if they are from a real rescue group! Get their name (first and last), location and phone number and ask which group they foster for and the group’s manager. Tell them you will be in touch and then hang up and contact that group to see if the person is legit.