Homeless Cat Network is a feline rescue organization working to humanely reduce the homeless cat population through spay/neuter, adoption, public education and responsible feral cat colony management. We believe all cats, both feral and domestic, deserve healthy, happy lives. All year long, our volunteers work toward humanely reducing the homeless cat population, and thanks to our volunteers and supporters, the number of abandoned, stray and feral cats/kittens shrinks every day. While it is overwhelming at times, we remind ourselves that we're making a huge difference, one cat at a time. Every cent of your donations goes directly to helping homeless cats. We are entirely run by volunteers, and also entirely donations-based.

The Homeless Cat Network is a feline rescue organization working to humanely reduce the homeless cat population through spay/neuter, adoption, public education and responsible colony management. We believe all cats, both feral and domestic, deserve healthy, happy lives. All year long, our volunteers work toward reducing the homeless cat population, and thanks to our volunteers and supporters, the number of lost, abandoned and feral cats/kittens shrinks every day. While it is overwhelming at times-especially during kitten season-we remind ourselves that we're making a huge difference, one cat at a time. Every cent of your donations goes directly to helping homeless cats. We are entirely run by volunteers, and also entirely donations-based.

The Homeless Cat Network is a volunteer, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, feline rescue organization working to humanely reduce the homeless cat population through spay/neuter, adoption, public education and responsible colony management.

We provide advice, assistance and mentoring to individuals, public agencies and businesses. We offer training in humane trapping, socialization, foster care, colony management and adoption procedures. We offer a variety of rewarding volunteer opportunities for reliable, caring people, including supervised activities for high school students earning community service credit.

The cats, people and communities of the San Francisco Peninsula Bay Area. We also offer advice, inspiration and education to thousands of people around the US to help homeless and feral cats.

We have created a number of programs to humanely reduce the number of homeless, stray, abandoned and feral cats and kittens on the street. Through our Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) efforts, feral cats are sterilized to stop the cycle of homelessness and since by nature they are not adopotable, they are then returned to where they were trapped so that they can live out their lives in peace - we feed them every day and provide ongoing veterinary care. For the kittens and friendly adult cats that we rescue, our foster program helps socialize kittens and finds them homes (no matter how long it takes) after they have been sterilized and vaccinated; our Socialization Center helps turn around hard-luck adult cats and find them homes;our PetSmart Adoption Center and adoption fairs find homes for our rescued kitties. Every day our volunteer feral cat feeders provide food and water to nearly 1000 fixed feral cats.

While we have TNR'd thousands of cats and have rescued and found homes for thousands more kittens and adult cats that have been abused, abandoned or neglected, our most notable program is Project Bay Cat, which you can read more about below in the "What Sets Us Apart" section."

We've inspired the public to become part of the humane solution and help cats in need by training them to do this important work themselves. It's not enough for us to just save one cat - it's equally important to stop the cycle of cat homelessness by educating people about the need to spay/neuter their pets and free-roaming cats in their neighborhoods, and then give them the tools and support they'll need to do this work. We are on a mission of love and helping cats every day of the week.

Cimeron Morrissey - Animal Planet's Cat Hero of the Year; Director of Project Bay Cat; award-winning writer and columnist for Cat Fancy; Homeless Cat Network board member

Patricia McCambridge - Socialization Center coordinator; Homeless Cat Network board member

Rose Shubin - Trap-Neuter-Return director and educator; recognized by Congressman Tom Lantos for outstanding public service for her work with homeless cats; Homeless Cat Network board member

James Lynch - Socialization Center coordinator; Treasurer of Homeless Cat Network; unofficial webmaster; Homeless Cat Network board member

Melissa Riofrio - Foster Program director and also a foster parent; Secretary of Homeless Cat Network; Homeless Cat Network board member

Patricia McCambridge Chairperson
James Lynch Treasurer
Melissa Riofrio Secretary
George Chisholm
Cimeron Morrissey
Rose Shubin
Maria Alioto

As an entirely donations-based organization, Homeless Cat Network relies on the support of individual donors and some supplimentary donations from PetSmart Charities, Genentech and corporate donation-matching programs.

Project Bay Cat is a program that sets us apart. Project Bay Cat is a unique, highly successful collaborative effort between Homeless Cat Network, the City of Foster City and Sequoia Audubon Society to humanely manage the feral cats living along the Foster City's Bay Trail while also protecting birds. Working together in a precedent-setting partnership, the three organizations joined forces to humanely address the growth of feral cat populations common to many communities, and to develop solutions to reduce their impact on the environment. Volunteers from Homeless Cat Network run the program, which has successfully curbed the homeless cat population growth through aggressive spay/neuter and adoption programs, as well as protected bird habitats.

With over 170 cats living along the popular trail in 2004, one of the program’s primary goals has been to stop the homeless cat population from growing. To this end, Homeless Cat Network volunteers have diligently trapped the cats to have them spayed/neutered and vaccinated. Today, 95% of the cats that live along the trail have now been altered. This has successfully stabilized the population’s growth, and has actually reduced it! Homeless Cat Network also created an aggressive fostering and adoption program and found homes for over 67 kittens and friendly adult cats, which coupled with spay/neuter efforts, has resulted in a 30% reduction in the cat population.

The program's success has inspired communities around the country, and even the world, to follow our lead and implement humane programs to control feral cat populations. To help them, we developed the Project Bay Cat Tool Kit, a free step-by-step guide to humane feral cat population control. The Tool Kit is available for free by contacting Homeless Cat Network.

The program is so unique that it has been recognized by several international magazines, and most recently, Animal Planet chose Project Bay Cat's co-founder and director, Cimeron Morrissey (also a Homeless Cat Network board member) as the Animal Planet Cat Hero of the Year!

Homeless Cat Network and Peninsula Humane Society teamed up with local residents to hold a special event to sterilize a large number of the feral cats in the PHS/SPCA moibile spay/neuter van. The primary goal of the program is to spay/neuter feral cats and pets at no charge for low-income residents who would otherwise not alter their pets due to financial constraints. Homeless Cat Network volunteers helped trap feral cats for the clinic, and also taught residents how to trap the cats themselves and loaned them all the equipment. The event was a huge success, so much so that we have held several more of these special events, which has resulted the spay/neuter of nearly 100 cats.

Our quarterly newsletter, "Cat Tales", won the "2006 Apex Award of Excellence" as well as the Cat Writers' Association "Muse Medallion" (their highest award) for the publication.