Why no intakes?

To put it simply: we can’t take intakes and be effective at helping our community as a whole, long-term.

We have no physical facility in which to house the cats. Although we initially discussed creating a foster network, we’ve found that there are many of them already available in Eastern Idaho, and that adding ourselves to that pile isn’t really addressing the underlying issue: a lack of resources empowering owners to keep their pets themselves. So, in order to preserve our bandwidth and address the root of the problem, we have to say no to bringing cats into our own homes, and coordinating a foster network. It is VERY HARD for us (especially Karley and Alek) to make this choice, and even harder to say no, so please help us out: don’t ask us to break this rule, not even for a certain special case. Connect us with people who are looking for help to keep their pets, of course, but if someone has made up their mind to surrender their pet, we cannot take the pet in, and we cannot help look for a new home at this time. Post in Facebook groups and we can share the post, but there are only a few of us working on this in our spare time, and we need to devote our energy to sourcing supplies and coordinating low-cost medical care.

Yes: we do have a few cats available for adoption - because we took them in in 2022, before we re-evaluated our organization. We want to get those cats adopted out, and then shift our focus away from fostering, adoptions, and intakes.