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The Hermitage Cat Shelter


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5278 E. 21 Street
Tucson, AZ 85711


For 50 years, The Hermitage has been dedicated to the shelter, protection, and care of homeless cats, especially those that are often not considered adoptable by other organizations. We are both an adoption facility and long-term sanctuary. We were accredited by the American Sanctuary Association in late summer-2013.

At the Hermitage, we adhere to the principle of no-kill in that no cat in our care will ever be euthanized to make room for another, nor will any cat in our care ever be destroyed except in cases of terminal and painful illness or when compassion demands it because there is no reasonable alternative.

The Hermitage Cat Shelter is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, supported entirely by donations. As Arizona’s first no-kill, no-cage sanctuary and adoption facility, we are dedicated to the shelter, protection and care of homeless cats, especially those not considered adoptable by other organizations. We work to find homes for all of our reline residents, especially for those felines considered “adoption-challenged,” including felines who are FIV or FeLV-positive or have other types of chronic health issues. All of our kitties roam free within 9,000 square foot of outdoor/indoor living space.

Every cat is altered, vaccinated and microchipped before they are available for adoption. We also act as a trap depot, supporting TNR in our community through classes, tips-and-tricks and by helping colony managers to feed their community cats with a pet food pantry.

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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
5
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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Volunteers beware! On my first day they don't give you any direction, you are thrown out into a room full of 100+ cats and no one helps you one bit! No one cares. You could be a cat abuser for all they care. No one watches what you are doing on your first day and no one gives you any guidance whatsoever! The orientation Sasha gave me did little to help. I wasn't the only person lost in a sea of cats. A nice woman came in to adopt a cat and literally NO ONE helped her! I tried to help her and asked the 2 women up front (Sasha & Holly) and they acted like I was "bothering" them when I asked about a few different cats this nice lady wanted to adopt. They started giving me sour looks when I was desperately trying to help this adopter who was wondering why no one there was helping her. The poor woman had no help and was very frustrated and confused. They just let people roam around unsupervised and with no help with adopting cats! What the heck?! Then I was leaving my shift, Sasha barely acknowledged that I was there and NO thank you to her volunteers! I saw a handful of volunteers leave with no thank you at all. I've volunteered at many shelters and animal rescues and have never seen a place that completely takes for granted their volunteers. Several days later I phoned a volunteer mentor to ask for clarity and guidance because I was so confused. She was a bit shocked at the situation and said she'd tell Sasha (the volunteer coordinator). I was told Sasha was going to call me back but 5 days later, NO she did not. Sasha told the other volunteer she tried to call me but NO she did not. My cell phone did not show a call from her! I'll volunteer some place that appreciates volunteers and knows that without them they'd be struggling. NOT Hermitage!
posted by [email protected], on 2022-04-07 01:17:06
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Hello! We have found a box of about 6 cats on the side of the road. 2 are somewhat social but the others are really skittish. They all seem to be female. We are currently keeping them at our house but cannot keep them for multiple reasons. Can anyone help?
posted by Lena Young, on 2020-03-27 02:59:22
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