Meow Cat Rescue

I think MEOW is great. What they do for the cat population is wonderful. I think it is great that they have the screening that they do for potential adoptive homes. In this day and age you can never be to safe. Keep up the good work

Posted 05/15/09 | Report Abuse

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The person who wrote the horrible review is not being honest. The huge majority of fosters for MEOW love being part of this effort. I have fostered and volunteered at MEOW for 8 years. Foster kittens are carefully matched to the abilities of the foster home. Foster homes are responsible for caring for the kittens until they weigh enough to be spayed or neutered. Foster homes are expected to provide high-quality food, litter, and love and socialization. Depending on the kittens, the socialization can require no effort at all, or might require some extra hands-on time. MEOW provides support in the form of advice and vet care, and someone is available for emergency questions all day, every day. MEOW does NOT ask their foster homes to place kittens in adoptive homes; they require that anyone adopting visit the shelter to go through the application/questionnaire process. The person who claims MEOW has consistently given her/him "feral" kittens, refused to return phone calls, and in general feels mistreated, should provide some specific examples. None of the claims rings true for anyone who has experienced fostering for MEOW.

Posted 09/24/08 | Report Abuse

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My family had some bad experiences fostering for MEOW. Their staff take in some feral cats in addition to socialized ones. We told them that we were uncomfortable fostering ferals, but would be happy to foster socialized ones.

Aware of this, they kept giving us cats to foster that they knew were ferals and telling us they weren't. The way it would work is they would hand over the cats to us to foster, already in kennels when we arrived, assuring us they were fully socialized. We'd take their word for it. By the time we got home, there was a message from MEOW on our answering machine telling us not to return the cats until they were socialized. And, what do you know, we'd let the cats out of the kennels and they were completely feral. Then we had the choice of a) trying to socialize a feral cat, not an easy task, b) trying to return the cat to MEOW, also not an easy task, c) trying on our own to find an adoptive family or sanctuary for a feral cat, again, not an easy task. Unfortunately, this happened more than once. Granted, we should have learned our lesson the first time with them, but it didn't give them a right to bait-and-switch, either.

The final time we fostered for them, when we let the foster cat out of the kennel, we noticed that there was fresh blood on the towel in the kennel (towels are sometimes put in the kennel because it's more comfortable for the cat). The cat didn't appear to be bleeding--not that we could get very close to her-- so we called MEOW to ask about it. We learned that the blood was probably a MEOW volunteer's; before we had arrived the cat had seriously attacked her while she was putting the cat in the kennel and she had to have her hands and arms bandaged. The volunteer was conveniently out of view when we showed up to pick up the cat. This was the same cat they told us was "socialized".

There appeared to be a haughty attitude among some of the management that fosters and volunteers who didn't want to work with the special-needs cases were lightweights, not truly committed to animal rescue. We quit fostering for them, which meant they lost a foster home that probably would have been a good fit for their non-feral cats. We have since met others who had similar experiences with MEOW.

Posted 08/29/08 | Report Abuse

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I adopted two cats from MEOW and found them to be very pleasant and easy to work with. More importantly though, they took really nice care of the cats.

The cats are kept either in foster homes or at the Mercer Island Pet Grocery, rather than a shelter. Its a nice set up for the cats and they get all they need.

Our cats were clean and healthy when we got them, which was really a plus. Usually if you adopt a cat through a shelter they come with fleas and a cold.

Posted 03/30/06 | Report Abuse

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I love this place. They adopt cats that are not wanted and KEEP them until they find a home for them. No danger of putting them "to sleep". They are very well cared for and loved here.

Posted 06/08/05 | Report Abuse

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