Exciting News! Also, let's talk about food for a minute.

Since the inception of our rescue's formation, we have fed our cats & kittens Royal Canin food. Even prior to that, the founder of our rescue has been a staunch supporter of and advocate for the feeding of Royal Canin. As of today, we are officially a Royal Canin shelter partner. That means that any time you adopt one of our companion cats or dogs, you get a sample of their food, plus some wicked coupons. It also means that your companion animal is coming to you with a balanced nutritional foundation.

I've been asked more than once why we don't feed a cheaper food. After all, it's a shelter (or in my own case, we have a lot of permanent residents) so funds are tight. And it's true, they really are tight. However experience with other foods has proven to me that with a few exceptions, Royal Canin has led to healthier coats, healthier GI systems, fewer instances of UT crystals recurring (our George got them terribly for a year or two, until one of our vets told us to try the RC Urinary S/O to prevent the formation of them. We haven't looked back from RC since then, and have used the range of foods to help sort out any issues our kitties were having (here's looking at you, CALM). That said, if you feed a higher quality food, you have fewer health issues which saves on vet bills. You also put a little more money up front for the higher quality food, but you're spending less on litter and food because the food is packed with more nutrients and fewer fillers than a lot of your lower end foods. Transitioning is fairly simple, by mixing 75/25 current food with new, then 50/50, then 25/75. This allows for the digestive flora to respond to the new food slowly rather than do a rapid truffle shuffle in order to "recognize" the new chemical makeup of the nutrient delivery vehicle. (Don't let "chemical makeup" scare you though; those words apply to literally everything in our world. Meat, vegetables, even your skin has a chemical makeup, and it doesn't mean it's been altered or is dangerous.) Transitioning slowly reduces the instances of diarrhea or vomiting, or of the food being rejected entirely by the animal.

That said, there are a lot of families struggling to make ends meet right now, and can't even afford to feed a lower end food let alone a really good one. No animal should ever have to go hungry, and with that in mind we still collect food donations. Those donations go back into the community by helping to feed the companion animals of families who need that leg up, for as long as they need it and for as long as we have the food to give. If you or someone you know is in need of food for their companion animal, please feel free to drop us a line.