One out of every 10 Americans spend an average of $3,000 a year on therapy trying to figure out how to get a parent, spouse, or their children to love them.  Pet owners spend nothing to get their cat or dog to love them. They just do, no matter what. Yet a growing number of people are abandoning their pets like yesterday's newspaper. Think before you get rid of your cat. You may be throwing away the only being that will ever love you the way you wish everyone else would.

 

        
Foster homes needed. A home office, sewing room, spare bedroom, or your entire apartment -- that's all you need to help us expand our rescue mission. Contact Saint Meows for details.

Remembering My Pet
A national treasure penned by Boston native Molly Baskette, Senior Minister, First Church of Somerville.

Leave it to a person with great compassion for humans to find a way to help those of us who have suffered the loss of a pet. (Click on the book for more info and/or to order. www.aplb.org

In Loving Memory of my beautiful, sweet, overly patient girl Carly
"I'll never let you go from my heart"

 

Welcome to Saint Meows - A federally recognized 501c3 non-profit, strictly no-kill cat shelter

 What's a playdate? Visit our Adoption Page and learn about play dates and other ways to meet the kitties at our shelter.

 

St. Meows has found itself caring for an unprecedented number of abandoned animals, particularly those with special needs. In one week's time, a very sweet cat was surrended by its owners because they didn't want to "deal" with treating her kidney stones. Another cat surrendered by its owner due to the arrival of a baby, came down with hepatic lipidosis, a liver condition brought on my depression. And we took in a cat slated for euthanasia at another shelter after it was determined it would need critical wound care. They joined a league of other long-term residents here, among them, two cancer cats, a 14-year old diabetic cat, and of course beautiful bLatte, who has been at St. Meows since 2002. Like many of our residents, she is a true feral, doesn't want to be touched, but does want to eat, be warm, bat a jingle ball now and then, and hang out with other kitties.

Sadly, we are also seeing an especially sharp rise in dumped house cats, indoor pets who have suddenly found themselves outside fending for food and shelter amidst plenty of competition. Sometimes, we literally peel away layers of filth and blood before we discover we have a house cat. Take Lollipop, he came in spitting, hissing and biting. Surely we had another hard core feral on her hands. But, as it turned out, underneath all that matting and dried sludge, was a severely injured and very painful leg, so badly abcessed at the shoulder, it was causing him, not only acute cardiac pain, but, also severe respiratory distress. After getting his leg fixed up, our feral turned into a sweet, young Maine Coon.

St. Meows is among only a handful of shelters in the U.S. that do this kind of work. Unfortunately,during this economic crisis, it has taken a financial toll on us.

Meanwhile, we continue with the rescues we are best known for pulling cats from sewer drains, houses of squalor and unearthing litters of kittens from beneath junk cars.

We know money is tight for all of us. We are not asking you to give what you don't have. But, we are asking for whatever help you may extend to us. As the saying goes "every little bit counts". And right now, we could use all the help we can get.

Please use the Donate button on our donation page or if you prefer, send a check made payable to St. Meows to: St. Meows c/o First Church of Somerville, 89 College Avenue, Somerville, MA 02144.

   

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***please note there will no hour this Thursday, July 23rd.  Hours will resume on January 30th. Happy 4th!  ADOPTION HOURS:  THURSDAY NIGHTS (UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED) 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.  Chapel at First Church of Somerville, 89 College Avenue, Davis Sq.  Entrance is from Francesca Street (right side of the church facing it). Email us for an adoption application or pick one up.

VOLUNTEERS DESPERATELY NEEDED. WE NEEDED MAJOR HELP WITH ADOPTION NIGHTS INCLUDING SET UP, AND SOMETIMES TRANSPORT. I AM ALSO LOOKING TO RECRUIT ADOPTION COUNSELORS. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BECOMING ONE, COME SEE ME (ALICE OR EMAIL ME AT ALICE@SAINTMEOWS>COM)

***ST. MEOWS IS ACCEPTING SURRENDERS FOR ITS WAITING LIST ONLY.  DO NOT BRING YOUR CAT TO ADOPTION HOURS UNLESS YOU HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH ST. MEOWS TO DO SO!!!!****

Interested in volunteering? If you are over the age of 18 and would like to volunteer with St. Meows, please stop by any of our adoption days and ask for Alice. Hope to meet you soon! We especially need help with setup and breakdown for our Thursday and Sunday adoption days. This would require arrival at hours by 5:30. For help packing up, we would need someone at hours by 8pm.

 


(Pictured here Sinatra, slated for euthanasia prior to coming to St. Meows due to behavorial problems and Kelly, also slated for euthanasia before coming to St. Meows after being deemed feral.)

Thank you to our longtime supporter, The Garment District, the source for the coolest and cheapest threads in New England, run by a young man with a big heart and obviously cat lover. Visit their online store at 

www.thegarmentdistrict.com. (And their company trademark is a cat!!!)

Copyright 2008-2010 by Saint Meows. All Rights Reserved.

For more information about Saint Meows, to inquire about adopting a cat,
or to report cats in need of rescuing in the Boston area, please contact us
via email or telephone 617-767-6294.

Saint Meows, 89 College Avenue, Somerville, MA 02144