Sweet Orange Gentleman seeks home with couch and cuddles. Chandler is a healthy senior boy of 9 years looking for a kind heart. Chandler was abused prior to landing at a high-kill shelter. He is fully vetted including having his teeth taken care of shortly after rescue. The vet says that due to the physical […]
Cats Available for Adoption
Punky Pumpkin Seed – Adult Female
Punky Pumpkin Seed was abandoned, then shifted from one rescue to another, and is desperately seeking that special love that only a forever home can bring her. She absolutely needs to be with someone. She yearns for affection, face rubs, and ear scratches. She enjoys sharing your bed at night and is more than happy […]
Graison – Adult Male
When Graison decides he trusts you, he is all yours to love. But he’s painfully shy when meeting new people and this has made it challenging for him to find his forever person and home. He’s a gentle soul and prefers gentle humans. He’s quiet by nature and would love a home of his own […]
Alle – Adult Female
Adoption Application Status: Alle currently has 2 approved adoption applications. Alle was rescued from Devore Shelter in July of 2019. At the time, she was estimated to be about 2 years old and was very, very pregnant with what was suspected to be her third litter of kittens. The Kitty Devore Rescue team were able […]
Lupine – Adult Female
Momma Lupine and her 7 kittens were rescued from Devore Shelter in July of 2016. The entire family was ill with upper respiratory infections and so stayed a couple of weeks in the ISO area of one of our trusted vets. Gradually, the entire family improved but, still, the road to full recovery was still […]
Sugar Baby – Young Male
Adoption Application Status: Sugar Baby currently has 2 approved adoption applications and 1 adoption application in review. Sugar Baby’s mom, Alle, was rescued from Devore Shelter in July of 2019. At the time was very, very pregnant with what was suspected to be her third litter of kittens. The Kitty Devore Rescue team were able […]
Who We Are
Formed in December, 2011, Kitty Devore Rescue is an all-volunteer Southern California area nonprofit charity and 501(c)(3) foster-based rescue group whose sole mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome the cats admitted to Devore Animal Shelter in San Bernardino, CA, as well as cats who are within Devore Shelter’s jurisdiction and who are at risk of being surrendered there.
When we started, only an average of 8 to 10 cats out of every 100 admitted made it out of Devore Animal Shelter alive. Now, over 7 years 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 have full time jobs, families, homes to manage and other life endeavors that pull at us constantly and yet, every day, we still find the time to devote ourselves to working out rescue plans to save these kitties – because there’s not a day that goes by that another cat – and often several – is admitted to the shelter. No member of the team is paid a single penny. All our fundraising goes directly to the cats we save. It’s not easy work. Every day is a challenge to save these kitties. But for each Kitty Devore Rescue member, it’s truly a labor of love, determination and, for many of us, 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 located 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 there are people willing to help them. We do our best with what we have and have to give. Join us!
We are not Animal Control and are unable to 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]