MEOW Cat Rescue

Mission

With respect and compassion for all animal life, MEOW promotes lifelong relationships between people and companion animals, providing shelter and care for each precious life until adopted into a forever home.

Description

MEOW is a small shelter established in 1997 with a no-holds-barred no-kill promise. We rescue and place between 800 and 1000 animals, primarily cats and kittens, and dogs from our Canine Division, into permanent homes each year.  We rely on donations to provide shelter and medical care. Our application process ensures that every animal is placed into an environment where there is appropriate space, human contact, and a commitment to safeguard and care for the animal for its entire lifetime. The welfare of the animals is paramount in the placement process. Volunteers, the lifeblood of MEOW, serve along with minimal shelter staff. Our volunteers work in the shelter as Adoption Counselors, Kennel Attendants, Animal Buddies or in their homes as Fosters, providing a safe and caring environment. Volunteers also plan and execute special events to raise critical funds, and they educate the public about our work and about responsible pet ownership. MEOW's goal is to help create a "no-kill nation", where people are responsible for their pets, where there are no helpless creatures abandoned to fend for themselves, where there is no longer a need for any healthy companion animal to be euthanized. To that end, since 2011 we have been providing free spay/neuter vouchers, through our Public Spay/Neuter Voucher Program, to low-income pet owners who need help to do the right thing. We believe that spay/neuter is the most effective way to end pet homelessness. 

GiveBIG 2025

This year during GiveBIG we’re asking you to transform your commitment into action!

At MEOW, we live by our motto “all nine lives are precious”. This commitment is at the heart of everything we do, as is our promise to provide a soft place to land for the lifetime of each animal that comes to us. This commitment may mean sleepless nights bottle-feeding motherless kittens, nursing gravely ill cats back to health, or being painstakingly patient to slowly gain the trust of frightened or mistreated felines. Sometimes, it’s the months it might take to find the perfect forever home and other times, it means welcoming back an old friend: our lifelong commitment to MEOW cats and dogs means, if ever things don’t work out, we’ll be right here.  Whether it’s the 18-year-old sisters, returned years after adoption, or the tabby who isn’t adjusting to the new resident puppy – we’ll be there for them. Each and every day, we commit to providing shelter, care, veterinary treatment, and love to the precious ones we serve at MEOW, while they await the families who will hopefully love them for the rest of their lives.

During GiveBig, your commitment and support will become this life-changing and life-saving action. It will provide care and shelter, facilitate adoptions, sustain our no-cost public spay/neuter voucher program for low-income families, provide community outreach and education opportunities, welcome the most vulnerable little ones into our foster care program, offer a loving permanent foster home to our Ninth Life residents, and secure emergency and specialty care for those whose very lives depend on it. With each of us working together, we can transform our commitment into action, helping to end companion animal homelessness and making a wonderful difference in the lives of animals in need, like Sweet Pea, and so many others.

Last year during GiveBIG, you, our amazing supporters raised over $55,000. This year, we, like so many others, are faced with ever increasing expenses. If you gave last year, we'd like to ask you to increase your donation by 10% to help us reach our goal for this year of $60,000. If you are a new donor, thank you so much for joining us,  for believing in what we do, and transforming the compassion and commitment we all feel for the animals into lifesaving action!

Learn About Sweet Pea's Ninth Life Story