Program areas at Stray Cat Alliance
Safe at home: (served 468 unweaned kittens) empowers people to save the lives of cats and kittens by fostering, thus reducing their intake at the shelter. Our community engagement counselors intercept the public at the entrance to the south los angeles shelter (in full collaboration with the city and the shelter) before they impound underage kittens or community cats. If the community member agrees, the counselors mentor and support the community member from bottle feeding through adoption. Stray Cat Alliance provides all needed medical care and supplies when needed.
Adoptions: Stray Cat Alliance took in 1,551 cats and kittens into foster care and adopted out 1,460 in 2023. We provided foster and forever homes for cats and kittens impounded at the shelter, found on the street during trap/neuter/return, or from our hotline. We medically care for them, spay/neuter, vaccinate and feed them while they await their forever homes. We use innovative, best practice approaches to adopt kittens and cats, including two Cat cafes in los angeles and santa barbara, via the internet, and at adoption events.
Return to home for community cats: (served 895 cats and kittens in 2023) reduces the death rate of healthy community cats brought into shelters. Stray Cat Alliance's return to home program was the first in southern California and among the first in the united states. Stray Cat Alliance sterilizes healthy community cats that have been impounded at shelters (in full collaboration with the shelter) and returns them to their neighborhoods. In addition, Stray Cat Alliance performs targeted trap/neuter/return to reduce shelter intake and increase live outcomes. Public education and outreach underscore the positive impact of spay/neuter of community and loosely or fully owned cats. Stray Cat Alliance also conducts advocacy, loans traps to community members for trap/neuter/return, and does community outreach.
Care for community cats: served 25,347 cats and kittens and 5,560 people. Stray Cat Alliance empowers community members to directly make a difference in the lives of cats in their neighborhood. The hotline provides education, advocacy and training on trap/neuter/return, adoptions, rescue, medical assistance and resources to people throughout los angeles, the us and around the world. We also provided 25,954 meals to community members caring for cats and spayed/neutered 2,076 cats and kittens.