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Cats Haven


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Adoptable Pets in Indiana
PO Box 30206
Indianapolis, IN 46230

Cats Haven is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing many services for our feline friends. It is a no-kill shelter for cats and kittens who are in transition and need a home of their own. It is also a non-institutional shelter so as a rule, cats are not kept in cages. Cats Haven is a hospice for cats whose injuries need attention before they can be adopted, and a final home for cats who have outlived their owners and are in their golden years themselves.

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No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.

Feral Cat TNR Program
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
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Rescue Groups
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Foster Care
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Comprehensive Adoption Programs
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Pet Retention
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Medical and Behavior Programs
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Public Relations/Community Involvement
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Volunteers
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Proactive Redemptions
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A Compassionate Director
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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I have called perhaps thirty places just today for help and I know this is such a common please but I have to post this. I am almost 70 along with my husband and we are new to Richmond. Two weeks ago I notiiced a very young tabby girl with a chewed up and missing tail on my back porch eating a slie of stale bread I threw out for the birds. KNowing she was desperate I went out and bough wet food and sat it out for her- she ate two fulls cans. On Sunday night after Mothers Day a son found her huddled against the shrubs in back of our home with three wee kittens. This cat needs medical attention and they all four need someone to take them in the name of God as human beings who care for animals. I am in tears as I write this sicne nobody will help us. I dont know what to do so I posted here. If you can offer any help for this little family please message me at [email protected]
posted by [email protected], on 2023-05-16 16:49:11
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INDIANA CAT LOVERS PLEASE HELP!!! We desperately begging anyone associated with this human society to take five minutes to snap a picture and help us determine if our beloved Tom is at the Hamilton Humane Society. We are over seven hours away in Tennessee but may have had a neighbor travel to Fairmont Indiana around the time Tom disappeared. Tom could have been unknowingly in the car as he is extremely friendly and actually enjoys car rides. We now believe our cat Tom was found in Fishers then surrendered to them at the end of November. I saw a shared post from Paw Boost and the similarities are too great to ignore. PawBoost post and pictures in comments. I spoke with someone at the humane society this morning but was told because Tom is not micro chipped we would have to come in to identify him. At the time was not willing to walk through their cat rooms to see if it was the same cat. (Tom is not micro chipped because he originally came from our county’s feral cat program that does not microchip upon releasing) He does have a tipped left ear, as does the cat in the PawBoost post. PLEASE, help us! I know this sounds completely crazy but we’ve lived this kitty over 13 years. **Tom is a neutered male with gorgeous green us. He is missing few teeth due to his age and probably on the thin side now as he eats 3-4 portions of canned food daily. He has a chipped canine tooth and is extremely friendly. He is amazing with the children, not afraid of dogs, and is loved by all that meet him. We ready willing to drive 700 hrs away, if someone could give us the smallest hope it was really him. At this point we would be so appreciative of any suggestions or leads to help bring our boy home. Thank you.
posted by [email protected], on 2021-12-06 15:44:03
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Did anyone help you? I live in Carmel Indiana and will go look. I see this post is a bit old though... let me know if you still need someone to go look
posted by Jenni Beesley, on 2022-01-04 00:57:50
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I have 2 adult female cats that have kittens each and I can’t keep them all due to my cats had ran away for a while and then came back home pregnant…I don’t want to just place them in a shelter but I also can’t keep them…is there a way or a place they can be taken to? I live in Hammond in
posted by Lillian Lira, on 2021-10-21 18:46:56
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Saved 9 cats from being used a chew toys from fighter dogs. I rent, cannot keep them much longer. Could lose my home. Please if anyone knows of a safe place for them, let me know.
posted by KipraReneeFaulkner, on 2018-09-20 02:49:58
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I have three short-haired domestic cats. They 3 years old. They are incredibly loving and social and very responsive. They love to be pet and will regularly meow at you to pet them. They spend most times indoors, however, if they do get out, they always have come back. Each has their own sweet, distinctive personality, but all three love to be loved on. They are also litter mates. Cat carriers will come with them and two nice scratching posts as well, if wanted. Everything would be free.
posted by mikefarr12345, on 2018-04-02 17:04:58
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I have an older neutered front-declawed male cate. Black and beautiful, sweet disposition but shy. I need to rehome him. He would do well in a quiet home, no children, maybe with an older person who needs a companion. Contact me at [email protected]. Thanks!
posted by KarenElaineChambers, on 2018-03-05 00:47:39
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I have a female tortoiseshell cat that needs a home she will be a year old in April I am going to get her spayed in about a week but we need a home for her you can call me at 317-6422 8451
posted by BonnieSmith, on 2018-03-03 00:04:12
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Found, or cat found me Sat., Jan. 6, 2018 inside crawl space of my New Palestine home. Beautiful Tortieshell cat, I wasd informed it is a female. Cat NO micro-chip per New Palestine Vet office. Has its claws will purr when pet Placed signs around New Palestine area for original owners. No luck yet. (317) 446-2396, Lisa of New Palestine, IN
posted by LisaCourt, on 2018-01-20 02:56:13
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Found mamma cat & 4 kittens. Trying to find shelter that would take them. 317-413-2141
posted by PhyllisCrabbBeaman, on 2017-07-25 11:51:29
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