We welcomed Clyde into KD foster care in February 2024. At eight years old, we considered Clyde a senior upon entering our foster program. The very first thing on the agenda was a visit to our vet for a comprehensive check-up, snap testing, booster vaccines, spay/neuter confirmation, and a senior blood panel. The last is […]
Cats Available for Adoption
Pancake and Waffles – Brother/Sister Bonded Pair
Adoption Application Status: Pancake and Waffles currently have 0 approved adoption applicants. Mmm mmm mmm! What better way to start your day than with a generous helping of Pancake and Waffles!?! This savory little sister and brother sibling duo found their way to Kitty Devore Rescue in late March 2023 when they were approximately two […]
Dina – Young Female
Adoption Application Status: Dina currently has 0 approved adoption applicants. Sweet little Dina was admitted with her brother to Devore Animal Shelter in San Bernardino in September 2023 when they were approximately four months old. Both suffered a case of the sniffles. Her brother was adopted, but Dina continued to wait for an adopter. When […]
Charles “Charlie” Dickens – Young Male
Charlie and his three siblings – Jannie, Bootz, and Ace – were an unexpected surprise. Rosy, their mother, patiently awaited rescue or adoption at Devore Animal Shelter in late July 2023. After being passed over time and again, by early August, her time was running out. The Kitty Devore Rescue team knew we couldn’t let […]
Jorge Lucas and Jordan Ares – Bonded Pair
A resident of San Bernardino surrendered five adorable 4-month-old siblings to Devore Animal Shelter in September 2023. Luck shone on three when visitors seeking a new kitten chose to adopt them. But the two remaining brothers, Jordan Ares and Jorge Lucas, caught the virulent kitty cold while in shelter care, and because the shelter euthanizes […]
Ailbert – Adult Male
Adoption Application Status: Ailbert currently has 0 approved adoption applicants. Ailbert was in such poor condition when he first showed up at the Devore Shelter in late March 2023 that everyone thought he was on his 9th life. Finally ending up on the euth list with no takers, his situation looked grim. Luckily, Kitty Devore […]
Who We Are
Kitty Devore Rescue was formed in December 2011 as an all-volunteer Southern California area nonprofit charity and 501(c)(3) foster-based rescue group. Rescuing, rehabilitating, and rehoming the cats and kittens admitted to Devore Animal Shelter in San Bernardino, CA, and cats within Devore Shelter’s jurisdiction at risk of surrender to the shelter endures as our sole mission.
Only an average of 8 to 10 cats out of every 100 admitted to Devore Animal Shelter made it out alive when we began our mission. Now, over a decade later, and thanks to our efforts, the efforts of our rescue partners and other non-affiliated rescue groups who joined the mission, the save rate for cats admitted to Devore is approximately 90%.
Most Kitty Devore Rescue members work full-time jobs, care for families, manage homes, attend school as students, and pursue other life endeavors. These responsibilities pull at us constantly, and yet, every day, we devote time and energy to constructing rescue plans to save these kitties. We direct all adoption and donation funding to our rescue and rehabilitation efforts. Not a day passes that another cat, and often several, find themselves admitted to the shelter. Rescue work poses numerous challenges, but we consider ourselves up to the task on behalf of the fantastic feline lives saved. Our work endures as a labor of love, determination, and, for many Kitty Devore Rescue members, a vocation.
We do not have a facility. All the cats taken into Kitty Devore Rescue’s foster care program reside in the homes of our foster guardian members in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties, as well as Seattle, WA until they are adopted. The number of foster homes is limited as there are always more animals in need than people are willing to help them. We do our best with what we have and have to give. Join us!
We are not Animal Control and cannot visit homes to round up or trap stray cats.
Resources
Understanding Feline Language
You and your cat might speak different languages, but you can still communicate with each other. Here are some tips to understand what they’re saying to you by means of vocalizing, body language and other key behavioral clues. Vocalizing You’ll learn a lot when you can interpret your cat’s wide vocabulary of chirps and meows. […]
Bathing Your Cat
Cats are notoriously associated with a very strong dislike for water, which may lead us to believe that they can care for all of their grooming needs on their own, but that’s a MYTH! Sometimes cats need baths, too! As we all know, cats come in all shapes and sizes and with different personalities and […]
Meeting New Canine Friends
Despite what some believe, some cats and dogs really can get along very well. In fact, sometimes they can become the best of friends. However, if your kitty has never been around dogs before or if your dog has never been around cats before or if your dog is a terrier, retriever or breed known […]
Keep the Cat – Lose the Allergies
You may be surprised to learn one of the most common reasons why kitties come back to Kitty Devore Rescue’s foster care program after being adopted is due to someone in the adoptive family discovering they have an allergic reaction to cats that they weren’t aware of previously. It’s also the number one reason why […]
Multi-Cat Households and the Kitty Totem Pole
Cats are territorial creatures. In the wild, a cat will determine his home base – the place he eats and sleeps – and then project outward from this space to encompass a range around it that he’ll consider as belonging to him. All within that territory – especially all food sources – he considers his […]
Meeting Your Kids
A swipe of a paw or pull of a tail can set a bad tone between your children and their new friend. Here are a few tips for introducing your kitty to your kids that will help make the transition for the newest addition to your family stress-free. Sure, your new kitty will be furry […]
Help! – I Found A Litter Of Kittens
We’re contacted regularly by people who have found a kitten or a litter of kittens and want us to take them. While it’s a little less challenging to find placements for kittens who are 4 weeks and older, trying to find a foster parent who can care for kittens 0 to 4 weeks old is […]
FIV – Feline Immunodeficiency Virus
WHAT IS FIV? FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus) should NOT be confused with FeLV (Feline Leukemia) – they are two very different viruses. They are often mentioned together due to the ‘snap’ tests carried out by vets, but they differ greatly in how they affect a cat, and it’s expected lifespan. FeLV is a serious risk […]
Meeting the Established Pride
Whether you realize it or not, if you have multiple cats in your home already, they have established their own “kitty hierarchy”. There is one cat who is the boss of the pride and every other cat falls in line somewhere below them on the kitty totem pole. When a new cat is introduced into […]