With great sadness and heartfelt loss, Adobe Animal
Hospital will be closing it's doors March 1st 2010.

For the past 20 years, Craig Evans, DVM, and the entire staff at Adobe Animal Hospital, together with Project Purr, have held a safety net under the feral cats and kittens of Santa Cruz County by offering discounted quality care and a low cost Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program. Through decades of love for our community and dedicated compassionate care for its cats, and believing in a feral cat's unconditional right to life, Adobe Animal Hospital and Project Purr enlightened the public to the plight of feral cats and offered a humane solution. We improved the lives of thousands of free-roaming cats and kittens, busted myths and elevated their status, helped the environment, worked diligently to keep feral cats out of the shelter, reduced the number of all cats coming into the shelter, and by humanely reducing cat overpopulation helped all cats by opening more lifelong loving homes. 

Project Purr's path now is unclear. This loss of our main stray and feral cat low-cost spay/neuter provider means we will have to regroup, and look for other solutions.

We find ourselves at a crossroads... is this the threshold of new beginnings... or the winding down of many years of sharing and caring for the cats of our community?

Either way, we have grown to love and appreciate the people in our community and are thankful for your generosity, love and support. Thankfully, at this difficult time, Soquel Creek Animal Hospital (476-1515) has offered Project Purr and Santa Cruz County residents discounted feral cat Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) pricing.

To continue in the coming years, Project Purr needs our animal-loving community to step up and assist us in our committed goals. There are so many tasks that need doing. For a long time Project Purr has operated by relying on a small core group of people. Project Purr now finds itself in the position of needing to ask for more people to participate in our day-to-day activities. If you value the work of Project Purr, please consider joining us to help share and shoulder some of the responsibilities it takes to run a Trap-Neuter-Return program. We need a larger group of people with a love for cats to volunteer time, abilities, energy, and enthusiasm to keep our program going and growing. Without this assistance, Project Purr will not be able to continue caring for our community cats.

We welcome your ideas/suggestions for fundraising, grant writing, and volunteer time.

Please call 423-MEOW... if YOU can help!

Through education and action, we hope to eliminate the trapping-surrendering and killing of healthy feral cats, and further enhance human/animal relationships which, we believe, reflects the ethics of our community.

Purrr... and the World Purrs with You!

Heart-warming Stretching!  Benefit Yoga Class with Donations to Support Project Purr!  All levels are welcome.  Please join us Saturday March 6th ~ 2-3pm.  Kindly offered at eco-friendly "yoga within" in Aptos.   Purrrr... and the World Purrs with You!

Click here to see their flyer with more information!

Peet's and Project Purr -- Successful Match!

Peet's Coffee and Tea on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz recognized Project Purr as their 2009 Charity of Choice for our contributions to the community. We exceeded our challenge goal, generously matched by Peet's, and received over $2,265. to help us fulfill our mission!

Thank You to all the friendly hardworking Peet's baristas and animal-loving Peetniks for your wonderful support!

Donate and Follow us Online

Project Purr on
Best Friends Network

Nickels for Nonprofits
at Whole Foods Market

Good News!
Project Purr has been selected to participate in the "Nickels for Nonprofits" at Whole Foods Market located at 1710 41st Avenue in Capitola! As a community giving program, each time a customer reuses a grocery bag, five cents will be donated to one of three featured local nonprofits. From January 18 through April 11 don't forget to BYOB ... bring your own bag(s)... and select Project Purr as your nonprofit of choice when shopping at Whole Foods!

Thank you Whole Foods Market in Capitola!!

Support Project Purr on Facebook
or when you shop on eBay

Project Purr has a Facebook Cause, which you can see here. It gives us an easy way to send out messages or alerts to people who care about helping community cats in our county.

Friends of Project Purr that sell on ebay can donate a portion of the sales price to Project Purr. See the current auctions here.

Project Purr Fundraising FALL Rummage Sale 2009

Fall 2009 Fundraising Rummage Sale Nets $19,000?
and anonymous, last-minute donor takes it over the top to $20,000!!

Whew! Another successful fundraiser despite the bleak and stormy economic forecast and predicted thunderstorms, donations poured in, sunny hardworking volunteers appeared, shoppers shopped, the rain stayed away and we breezed through it! One might say, "The Cat Gods were with us!"

Many heartfelt thank-you's to our local community volunteers for their efforts setting up and managing the rummage sale, and to local businesses for their thoughtful contributions. Thanks to Kitty Hill Resort for Cats, Ocean Honda, Severino's Grill, Shopper's Corner, Staff of Life, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Shampooches, Aptos Village Rattan, Gayle's Bakery & Rosticceria, Paws for a Cause, City of Paris, Fleur, The Purrfect Girl, The Buttery, Live Oak Cafe, Far West Nursery, Darrell Burns Photography, Starbuck's Coffee, and Denise Broadwell Photography.

Thanks also to the many individuals that generously give such a wonderful array of useful items and fun and unique treasures for others to discover.

And now, thankfully, Project Purr's feral cat Trap-Neuter-Return program at Adobe Animal Hospital in Santa Cruz can continue on!

Thank You Everyone!

Watch spring rummage sale opening on YouTube.

Rescued kittens--watch video

These kittens were rescued in summer, 2009. All have been adopted! Watch on YouTube
See adoption page
Email info@projectpurr.org for adoption information!

"Fix & Feed Pets in Need"

Project Purr has started and runs a new program for our community which delivers much needed dog and cat food to animals of those in need within Santa Cruz County. We deliver pet food to helpful organizations such as Loaves & Fishes and the Potter's House in Watsonville, Valley Churches United in Ben Lomond, and the Homeless Persons Health Project in Harvey West Park. They have well-established pantries and, by partnering with them, Project Purr easily reaches the animals of those in need. In 2009, Project Purr collected and delivered over 9,000 pounds of dog and cat food valued at approximately $13,500. Project Purr also supplies the pantries with bi-lingual informational flyers about the low cost and free spay/neuter opportunities throughout Santa Cruz County... that's why the program is called "Fix and Feed Pets in Need"!

Donated food is collected in big bright blue plastic barrels with the Fix and Feed logo on them in the front lobbies of the two county animal shelters.

Thank you for your donations and for helping "Fix & Feed Pets in Need"!

Spay/Neuter Program Updates

NEW! Project Purr
offers a low-cost Trap/Neuter/Return spay/neuter program for FERAL cats and kittens over 4 months of age to ALL residents of Santa Cruz County, regardless of income, at  Soquel Creek Animal Hospital. A $25.00 fee from YOU is required and the balance for each feral cat/kitten is paid for by Project Purr!

• Adopt a kitten or cat!
• Learn about Feral cats and Trap/Neuter/Return programs!
• Low Cost Spay/Neuter Program
• Donate Directly to Project Purr
• Help with our biggest fundraising activity: twice a year yard sales!
• News and Events
• See our latest newsletter!
• Or check our previous newsletters below:
• Winter/Spring of 2009 newsletter!
• Spring of 2008 newsletter!
• Winter of 2007 newsletter!
• Summer of 2007 newsletter!
• Winter of 2006 newsletter!
• Spring of 2006 newsletter!
• Fall of 2005 newsletter!
• Spring of 2005 newsletter!
• Fall of 2004 newsletter!
• Spring of 2004 newsletter!

Project Purr is an all volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit feral cat advocate organization dedicated to humanely decreasing the feral cat population and controlling the spread of disease in Santa Cruz county, California. Our goal is accomplished through a No-Kill Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) program.

Project Purr administers a low-cost, feral cat spay/neuter program which is available to the public, with surgeries performed solely at Adobe Animal Hospital, and largely funded by Project Purr.

Project Purr receives no federal, state or local government funding. Project Purr is supported by many generous individuals and successful creative fundraising which assures on-going feral cat spay/neuter.

YOU can make a difference to cats and kittens who need help and care. Contact Project Purr today to find out how you can help! Spay a Stray! Fix a Feral!

As part of our belief in respect and compassion for all living creatures, Project Purr was established as a means of changing the way that stray and feral (wild) cats have been traditionally viewed and dealt with in our communities. We live in a culture where, for some, the value of an animal's life has no strong meaning of it's own - only a contingent one, based on the animal's use to people. Some people consider stray/feral cats as pests, dangerous, or a nuisance, and, as a result, they think it is acceptable to harm them, ignore them by "letting nature take its course" or kill them. Some people believe that feral cats lead short, miserable lives and therefore should be killed "for their own good" in order to protect them from any future hardships they may suffer.

Project Purr holds these views as cruel, inhumane and unacceptable.

Project Purr believes that every cat should have a caring and loving home. TNR is an integral part of reaching a day when there are no more homeless pets.

In keeping with our mission, Project Purr believes that all living creatures, including feral and stray cats, have an intrinsic value. They deserve compassion, care and protection for their entire lives. All living creatures have a basic instinct to live and have the best life they can. Acting as their advocate or "voice," Project Purr will strive to improve their lives and promote ideals that are more reflective of a caring and humane community.

In addition to stray and feral cats, caring for any neglected, abused, injured, or abandoned animal builds a better world. It teaches us kindness, tolerance, unconditional love and much in the way of reverence for all life. By caring for them, you improve their lives and let them live it however long that may be. The reward is simply knowing you have done good for them!

TNR is not only cost-effective and humane, but it is scientifically proven as the most effective means of controlling the free-roaming cat population. TNR has been successfully implemented in several cities around the country, as well as worldwide, and is endorsed by many well-respected institutions and organizations as an alternative to trapping and killing stray and feral cats. Some of the many groups endorsing TNR include:

• AVMA (American Veterinary Medical Association)
• HSUS (Humane Society of the United States)
• AHA (American Humane Association)
• ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
• Cat Fancier's Association