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 2026

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

At MEOW, we live by our motto “all nine lives are precious”. The promise of perseverance 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 whether newborn or senior, healthy, ill or injured.

Each and every day we commit to seeing them through. This commitment may mean sleepless nights bottle-feeding motherless kittens, providing intensive, round-the-clock administration of medication and special diets, or being painstakingly patient to slowly gain the trust of frightened or mistreated felines. Their stamina, patience and endurance amazes us every day. Whether it’s a litter of kittens battling upper-respiratory infections or a senior's diagnosis of osteoarthritis - we’ll be there for them. We are patient and loving to the precious ones we have the honor to take under our wings at MEOW, while they await the families who will love them for the rest of their lives.

Learn About Geena's Story of Fortitude and Perseverance

At just two years old, slleck black Geena should have been enjoying life as a House Panther, instead of being abandoned at a homeless camp, letf to fend for herself. Even worse, she had suffered a devastating injury. One of her front legs was severly wounded, with exposed bone and infection setting in. Alone, cold, hungry, and painful, her days may have been numbered.

Everything changed when a compassionate rescuer stepped in. Geena received urgent medical care, including the lifesaving amputation of her injured leg. Once gently settled in at MEOW, she experienced comfort-relief from pain, regular meals, a warm bed, and the steady care she had been needing for so long.

Geena grew stronger each day and she quickly became a shelter favorite. When volunteer Leigh visited with Geena, she had no idea that the grief in her heart from the recent loss of her own beloved cat might be soothed by this very special soul. Something in her shifted. They went home together the very next day.  Perhaps the pain and adversity they both had experienced helped create that special bond.

Geena, now renamed Lenore Nevermore, has truly found her place. Despite everything she endured, she is gentle, trusting, and full of love. As Leigh shares, “We love her so much—and judging by her constant requests for belly rubs, she loves us too.”

During GiveBIG your generous support will give us the ability to persevere - for them. 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. By joining 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 Geena, and so many others.