Saving Lives Together
Cat's Best Friend is a nonprofit organization providing cat placement, fostering, and medical care services for rescued kittens and cats. We believe in taking action with urgency and care to serve those who need us most. Please join us by supporting our efforts to make a measurable difference in the lives of others.
🌟 Join us in Creating Change! 🌟
At Cat's Best Friend, we know that change starts with people like you. Every act of kindness, every dollar, and every moment of your time brings us closer to achieving our mission. Together, we can create a brighter, more compassionate world for all.
How you can help power our mission:
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Donate: Every dollar counts. Contribute now to help us reach our goal. Each dollar goes towards feeding, vetting & socializing the cats in our care now and the many cats that will follow them.
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Share: Share our campaign with your friends, family, and on social media. Your advocacy can amplify our impact. Our goal is to Save the Strays and educate the community on how we can put an end to the suffering of these loving creatures. The over population has to stop, constantly euthanizing healthy loving cats and kittens simply because they were born cannot continue to be the answer.
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Volunteer: Your time and skills can make an impact too. We are desperate for help. Help by fostering, driving cats to and from vet appointments, changing litter, feeding, spending time with the less social and teach them how to love and be loved. There are so many volunteer opportunities for you, just give me a call and let’s see what fits your schedule.
Thank you for supporting our mission, your support is invaluable.
Rescue, Foster & Adopt
Cat's Best Friend serves the community by helping control over population in our neighborhoods by collecting and treating abused and unwanted kittens and cats, then we foster them out to good homes while they await adoption.
Joyce McKulka
Founder of Cat's Best Friend
Our Story
Every Cat Deserves a Chance. Every Life Matters.
I have always helped rescue cats whenever I could, but in February 2021, one experience changed my life and set me on a path I never could have imagined.
That month, I agreed to help a woman whose deep love for her cats had, through limited resources and a lack of support, grown into a hoarding situation. She loved every cat in her home. Each one had a name, a personality, and a story. Sadly, despite her love for them, her situation had become unmanageable. Facing eviction, she was left with heartbreaking advice from her local animal control office: euthanize the cats or open the door and let them go.
I couldn’t turn away.
That Saturday night, I took in 21 cats. What began as an urgent effort to save their lives became a journey that would change mine forever.
Along the way, I met incredible people in our community who stepped forward to help feed, care for, and socialize these cats. Through that experience, I discovered a much greater need—one that extended far beyond those 21 lives. Our community needed education, affordable veterinary care, accessible spay and neuter services, and Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) programs to help prevent the cycle of unwanted litters and overcrowded shelters. And so, Cat’s Best Friend began to grow.
What started with one desperate situation has grown into a compassionate community of volunteers, foster families, TNR specialists, and loving adopters working together to make a difference. Over the years, our team has helped save hundreds of cats and kittens, giving them opportunities for safety, medical care, and loving homes.
Today, we continue to receive calls from shelters seeking help for cats at risk of euthanasia, homeowners struggling with growing populations of stray cats, and families trying to care for outdoor cat colonies that have multiplied beyond what they can afford to support. Every call represents a life that matters. Every rescue is an opportunity to make a difference.
Our work brings tremendous joy to the Cat’s Best Friend family, but it also brings heartbreak. We celebrate every life saved, every kitten adopted, and every colony stabilized through TNR. Yet we carry the sadness of knowing that we cannot save them all and that this mission is never-ending.
Our greatest hope is that one day, communities will have the education, resources, affordable veterinary care, and effective spay and neuter programs needed to prevent so many cats from suffering in the first place.
Until that day comes, Cat’s Best Friend will continue to do what we can, one cat at a time, with compassion, dedication, and the support of people who believe that every life is worth saving.
Because every cat deserves a chance, and every cat deserves a friend.
Joyce has been operating Cat's Best Friend while working full time to fund these efforts, and she has given over the majority of her home to house the rescues and supplies. She humbly feels that the success of her program is due to the caring volunteers that tirelessly help her.
"My volunteers are the real heroes".
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Trap-Neuter-Return Program
We partner with local Trap-Neuter-Return programs to help control cat overpopulation in neighborhoods. We work with local communities to humanely trap, sterilize, and return cats to their outdoor homes, reducing the impact of cats on local wildlife.
Foster Program
Through our Foster program, we provide temporary homes for rescued kittens and cats until they are ready for adoption. Our foster families provide love, care, and socialization to help these cats thrive.
Medical Care Program
Cat's Best Friend - Rescue and Foster Organization provides medical care services for rescued kittens and cats. We work with local veterinarians to ensure that each cat receives the care they need to thrive.