Adopt

Giving a rescued cat or kitten a safe and loving home enriches their life and yours. It also allows rescuers to continue their work and save more cats and kittens from the mean streets. If you are interested in adopting a Cat or Kitten, please visit the Petfinder website
https://www.petfinder.com/cats-and-kittens/adoption/

Donate

If you are unable to adopt due to housing dynamics or medical reasons, donating funds or supplies is a universally appreciated way to assist with rescue efforts.

• You can save a life

PET FOOD ASSISTANCE

From time-to-time money is tight and we may need assistance feeding our furry friends. These organizations may be able to help with food donations for your pets.

LA County Animal Control
www.laanimalservices.com/petfoodpantry
Pet Food Pantry:
https://www.needhelppayingbills.com/html/ californiafreepetfoodpantry.html
The humane Society:
https://humanesociety.org/resources/are-you-having-trouble-affording-your-pet
ASPCA:
https://aspca.org/los-angeles
US Pet Food Pantries & Assistance:
https://www.beingstray.com
Nationwide Assistance Program:
https://www.dogingtonpost.com
Pets of the Homeless:
https://www.petsofthehomeless.org
Pety Pantry:
https://www.starelief.org
The Pet Food Bank:
(714) 379-1456
https://[email protected]
K9 of Mine:
https://www.k9ofmine.com
Pipers Helping Paws Corp:
(661) 575-5742
Community Effort Animal Rescue:
(661) 839-2200
Facebook: SCV & AV Pet Food Pantry
https://www.findhelp.org

Fixing Your Pet

It’s important to have your Dog or CAT fixed not only to prevent disease but unwanted litters of puppies or kittens.The Lange Foundation:
Langefoundationsafetynet.gmail.com
(661) 341-1916Karma Rescue:
www.Karmarescue.org/Palmdale
(310) 512-7833LA County:
www.animalcare.lacounty.govSimi Valley Non-Profit:
www.simivalleynonprofitspayandneuter.com
(805) 584-3823Fix Your Pet:
(888) 452-7381Spay California:
www.SpayCalifornia.orgSpay Neuter Project LA:
(323) 643-4504ASPCA – Los Angeles:
(844) 692-7722Pet Orphans of So Cal:
www.petorphans.org
(818) 901-0190

Financial assistance

There are several groups willing to help pet parents that are struggling with medical issues. Please search for options before deciding to surrender or abandon your companions.

• Search available aid

Placing Unwanted Animals

If you’re planning on re-homing your pet, consider all other options first. Moving, allergies, not getting along with other pet issues can usually be solved. Rescue groups are usually overwhelmed with requests for help and surrendering an animal at the shelter can result in the animal being euthanized.Reach out to your veterinarian or local rescue groups for advice before giving up your furry friend.If you do need to rehome your pet or a stray that you have you can find a comprehensive listing of rescue groups in your area by going to www.petfinder.com Do your homework! Not All rescue groups are created equally.Something to consider - rescue organizations receive little to no donations from the public and no county or state funding like local shelters. So, before you decide to give up your pet, please ask about options to keep your animal instead or ask for other options.Reminder - the first thing with any stray animal is to have it scanned for a microchip. Any veterinarian office or shelter can do this for free. If the animal is chipped it could help reunite them with their rightful family.PLEASE DO NOT advertise animals on social media or give them away for FREE. There are bad people looking for FREE animals.

STRAY VS. FERAL

STRAY: cats once had a family and positive human contact. Some may have wandered away from home, and some have been abandoned but they did have human interaction at some point. Stray cats are usually more vocal than a feral cat that wants to hide and be invisible.The first thing with any stray animal is to have it checked for a microchip. Any veterinary office or shelter can do this for FREE and if the animal is chipped it could be reunited with its family.FERAL: cats were born outside and have probably never had any positive interactions with humans; thus, they are afraid of humans and will avoid us at all costs.FEEDING COMMUNITY CATS?
If you’re feeding stray and feral cats you’re
probably feeling overwhelmed but help is waiting.If the cats are feral, they need to be a part of
a TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) project…. Trap
and euthanize is not humane and will not
solve the over-population problem. Trap and relocate is also not a humane option since not all cats are natural hunters and relocating a feral or stray cat will make it susceptible to predators as well as starvation.

Since 2006, our volunteers have trapped and transported thousands of stray and feral cats to high volume spay/neuter clinics such as Fix Nation, Catnippers & Stray Cat Alliance. Beginning in 2008, the free “Trap Loaner” program was established and has been a huge success in providing a much needed resource to the community. The program serves to educate the public on the importance of T-N-R vs. Trap-Neuter-Kill. Throughout the process, people have been trained on the safe and humane way to trap. Humane way to trap and the program have empowered caregivers to become active members in the trapping community.

At Forgotten Angels Cat Rescue, our hearts go out to the thousands of abandoned and homeless cats and kittens within our community and the millions across the country.Through our Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) efforts, we are seeing a reduction in the number of cats living on the streets and the number being turned in at local shelters.Ultimately, our goal is to see every feral cat spayed/neutered, immunized and when possible, taken off the streets and placed into loving homes of their own.Obviously this is an ambitious goal, one that we can’t do alone. In order to make our dream a reality, we need your help. As you can imagine, monetary donations are of the most immediate need. These donations immediately go towards spay/neuter costs for ferals as well as to provide food, shelter and any medical needs for rescued cats and kittens that are awaiting adoption.

For cats with cancer

For cats with diabetes

Moving?

If you are moving, whether cross-country or just next door, you do have options for keeping your pet, if you want to. For information on pet friendly housing in your area, please visit: Apartmentlist.com, PeopleWithPets.com, Rent.com, and Zumper.com. These are just a few of the many websites that offer guidance to people that are looking for “pet friendly” housing.

If you decide that all of this is too much work and you’re simply going to take your pet the local shelter, please consider:

As I mentioned before, I got the two kennels of yours from KG's and took them to Britty's for another big dousing of Rescue. We loaded up all the supplies I had gathered from mine and Brittany's and KG's houses and set off to get the PetSmart order. We double checked it before we left the store. All good.

Claire and I got out there about 11:45. Before we unloaded everything we took a "tour" of the grounds with Teresa. The first one I spotted was a tortie with a half brown/half gold face. I'm unsure of her name, there was a lot of information coming at us ><

She was not interested in getting to know us better at that time and I'm not 100% certain if she is pregnant, but I would not be the slightest bit surprised if she were. She was curious about us and sniffed me and my glasses up later from her "hatch" but a TNR candidate for now, I think.

Then we came across Mr. Cool, a grey/blue and white tuxedo. He was not scared of us, per se, but he was not really interested in approaching us either. He showed up periodically throughout the day and Claire tried encouraging him to come closer as I was getting a general overview shot for you.I'd say you can currently put Mr. Cool down for TNR as well.

About this time, Claire looped around back of the cat motor home and found another room/work area with a dilute calico/tortie. I believe she was shorthair and I thought I got a picture of her but I cannot find one on my roll.Teresa met us back there but I can't remember now exactly what she said about her (but I would probably presume that any female out there is pregnant). This girl peeked at us for a bit but when Teresa showed up she high-tailed it. TNR.

Then we met, Lucky. The young black girl who appears to be possibly "a little bit pregnant." She only appeared about 7-9 months old to me and she has a green snotty nose. Her eyes didn't look too bad though.Teresa was able to get ahold of her easily but she didn't want to hang out long at that time. I understand because even some of my indoor guys don't want to be carried over to someone they don't know, or even just carried, period.I got more time to look at Lucky later when we were feeding everyone. She got more comfortable around me after that.Obviously, she needs to be spayed ASAP regardless of anything but I don't want to count her out as an adoption candidate. She is very young and I think still has a decent to good chance to be adoptable.

This is Little Ricky (after the Yoda spotting). She or he (there seems to be a bit of confusion. Teresa said she initially thought it was a boy but since then, for some reason, thinks it's a girl now. I'm not exactly sure how she has confirmed this but she also said she believed this cat was now 1 to 2 weeks pregnant. How she can tell if a cat is 1-2 weeks pregnant, I do not know.) anyway... she or he is grey/blue & white with a notable grey/blue spot on the chin and was very curious about us and followed us around but to my recollection, they never got too close to me.There were a few times we (the three humans) got separated or focused on different cats and it got a little jumbled and chaotic to keep track of who was where after the food came out, so I could double check with Claire and see if this cat got friendly with her or Teresa at any point but my gut feeling is, no. I would, for now, recommend Little Ricky, who looks to be adult size, is TNR'd ASAP (after the mamas who are showing, of course).

Speaking of random guys who popped up. The black tom was following us around and peeking in on us. But he is definitely elusive and most definitely in need of TNR.As we approached this big white motor home, the "cat" motor home, a white & black gentleman approached us. I can't remember for certain but I want to say his name is Sylvester but I believe there was also a black tuxedo that showed up at the time and it would make more sense that his name was Sylvester. >< This was when we started putting food out and things got a bit chaotic and i didn't;t have enough hands to hold me phone to take pictures and to dish out food.Basically

I was starting to think the whole place was going to be just one big TNR project, and then we met, Socks. She's a grey/blue girl who immediately approached me and asked for pets.She is definitely pregnant (one of "the mamas"), and definitely a good candidate for San Diego along with Tammy and Yoda, I think.