Thank you for helping community cats!
This list has been curated by Pink Paws for the Cause volunteers using publicly available information and will be updated as we become aware of changes. We hope these rescources help you assist the cats in your community.
The focus of our work at Pink Paws for the Cause is caring for community cats at our specific and managed colony sites throughout the Bay Area. We provide medical care, remove friendly cats and kittens for foster placement and adotion, and provide ongoing support to cats living in our colonies. When space and resources allow, we also pull at-risk cats from local open-intake shelters to prevent unnecessary euthanasia.
- Pink Paws for the Cause is a volunteer-run rescue with no paid staff. Much of our work is funded directly by our volunteers and supporters. Because our time, foster space, and financial resources are limited, we are not able to personally respond to every request for trapping, transportation, medical care, or colony management assistance.
- We encourage community members to use the resources in this guide to become active particiants in helping the cats in their neighborhoods. We are often happy to offer guidance, education, and referrals when our volunteers are available, but we cannot assume responsibilty for every cat or colony brought to our attention.
- Please also note that the above is true for other rescues listed in this resource guide. We have inlcuded a few location-specific rescues as they have expertise on local resources not because they are guaranteed to have volunteers to come out or space to intake cats or kittens.
Thank you for caring about community cats and for taking the time to be part of the solution.
With that, if you need additional support, such as advice, assistance planning a TNR project, borrowing a trap, or hlep covering the cost of an urgent TNR appointment, please reach back out. In many cases, we are better able to support community members who are willing to participate in the process than to take over an entire project ourselves.
Bay Area Resource List - By City / Region
Alameda County
Alameda, Oakland, San Leandro / San Lorenzo
Hayward
- Hayward Shelter – $80 per cat, grants sometimes available
- Hayward Animal Services Bureau
Fremont, Union City, Newark
- Tri-City Animal Shelter
The Tri-City Shelter is currently working on solutions for feral cats in the area. There are occasional spay/neuter clinics provided at low or no cost as their funding allows. We are excited to see this program continue to develop. It is worth reaching out and asking for up to date resources. - You should contact Tri-City Animal Shelter immediately if you have an injured or sic or pregnant feral cat within the areas serviced.
- Ohlone Human Society (Volunteer-Run Charity)
Excellent resource for advice, price reducing vouchers, and POSSIBLE physical assistance dependting ontheir volunteer availability. Faster help available for those who can get involved and trap.
San Jose/Santa Clara County
San Francisco & San Mateo County
- SFSPCA (San Franscico)
- SFSPCA Feral Cats (SF Feral trapping)
- Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA (San Mateo)
What else can you do?
There are hundreds of groups on Facebvook dedicated to cat and kitten rescue. Join them ALL and post photos, details, of what you need. There are large rescue groups in these groups who may see your plea and have the bandwidth to help. There are thousands of people in these groups. We have done this oursleves with relatively good luck. To find all the gfroups, use generic search terms in differentr combinations… SouthBay kitten rescue, San Francisco cat rescue, Cat rehoming San Jose, Bay Area kitten rescue, California kitten rehoming, etc.
This is a link to one of the groups you should join: FB Cat Connect SF Bay Area
If you are able to foster the cat yourself that will help make it easy for a rescue to hlep you.
Thank you for caring for the kittens or cat that you have found. We wish we could do more!