Cat Town

Cat Town's mission is to transform the approach to saving shelter cats, reducing euthanasia nationwide, and to find great homes for cats who are considered unadoptable in the traditional animal welfare model. Cat Town began operating as a foster-based rescue in 2011. In 2014, Cat Town opened the nation’s first cat cafe to help elderly, under-socialized, sick, and injured cats get adopted, and opened an adoption center for the hardest-to-place cats in 2017. Through this adoption center and our foster program, our work has proven that cats frequently considered to be "unadoptable" make exceptional companions, and helped reduce Oakland’s euthanasia rate for cats by more than 70% since 2011.