Shelters are often inundated with pet surrenders, and do not want to provide a simple outlet that takes away the obligation of responsible pet ownership. Therefore, they would prefer that people try hard to find a solution before resorting to surrendering their pet to a shelter. If you must find a new home for a pet, please try posting to our adoption portal before placing the burden on the shelter. Direct adoptions work well and allow everyone to share in the accountability of their community!
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.
If you are interested in creating a better quality of life for, both the people, and homeless cats in your neighborhood, please contact the Hermitage at:
520.571.7839, or at [email protected]
IMPORTANT: This form is only for public comments about the shelter. To contact The Hermitage Cat Shelter, please go directly to their website (link on previous page), this form will not send your comment to them.
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!
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?