The Cat Connection: Cat Enrichment Grant Report

How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?

Thank you for your support. Through your generous grant, we were able to curate 80 enrichment kits that we donate to adoptive parents and families of our shelter cats and kittens. These kits help ease the stress of placing a new animal in a home with which they are not familiar and help to acclimate the new owner and cat to the environment and each other. The flyers we were able to print with the money from your grant shares important information and tips to good cat health care, grooming, and behavior. Again, we very much appreciate your support for the shared passions we have in caring for cats and placing them in loving, forever homes.

How many pets did this grant help?

Up to 80 cats or kittens

Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.

Tupac’s (first three photos) owner has a 5-year-old boy with autism and they recently had to move out of their apartment and to a shelter for survivors of domestic violence.

Tupac is a young cat with lots of energy and his owner didn’t have many toys for him because of surviving disability check-to-disability check. We help her with cat food and litter, but she really also needed something for Tupac’s energy levels. We provided a cat enrichment kit and he immediately used the scratcher and toys!

Kity Kity (fourth photo) is one of the cats who benefitted from the enrichment kits. Her owner is in her 90s and on a fixed income, so it was great to be able to provide her with an enrichment kit that included this catnip banana toy. Kity Kity wholeheartedly approved of the new toy!

Our kits go to adopters and to low-income pet owners, and Kity Kity’s owner was pleased to have the toys and scratcher, as well as the flyers with cat-behavior tips.