Kitty Devore Rescue

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Total Kitties Saved Since 2011: 6,183

Kitties Rescued To Date In 2021: 18

KD Kitties Adopted To Date In 2021: 15

 

 

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  • Matilda Wormwood – Young Female

    Matilda Wormwood – Young Female
  • Marco – Young Male – Bonded Pair

    Marco – Young Male – Bonded Pair
  • Graison – Adult Male

    Graison – Adult Male
  • Curious George – Young Male

    Curious George – Young Male
  • Logan – Adult Male

    Logan – Adult Male
  • Layna – Senior Female

    Layna – Senior Female
  • Pouff – Adult Female

    Pouff – Adult Female
  • Lupine – Adult Female

    Lupine – Adult Female
  • Babe – Adult Female

    Babe – Adult Female
  • Emmah – Adult Female

    Emmah – Adult Female
  • Primrose – Adult Female

    Primrose – Adult Female
  • Janie – Adult Female

    Janie – Adult Female
  • Shirla – Adult Female

    Shirla – Adult Female
  • Mr. Mouse – Young Male – Bonded Pair

    Mr. Mouse – Young Male – Bonded Pair
  • Nara – Adult Female

    Nara – Adult Female
  • Madeline – Young Female

    Madeline – Young Female
  • Amelia Bedelia – Young Female

    Amelia Bedelia – Young Female
  • Anthony – Adult Male

    Anthony – Adult Male

ADOPTIONS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19

During this unusual time, people everywhere are taking precautions to safeguard their health, and the Kitty Devore Rescue team is no exception.

Yes, we are still operational! With the addition of new foster parents and rescue partner rescue groups joining our mission and our network, we’re still saving the kitties of Devore Shelter. However, in the interest of safety and precaution, we are observing the governmental social distancing guidelines through May 2020, when it comes to our adoption process. For that reason, we have temporarily amended our adoption procedures.

 
Our standard adoption process involves a lot of personal interaction between prospective adopters and foster parents caring for the kitty they’re interested in adopting – something CoVid-19 dictates we suspend right now for our collective health and well-being. For that reason, we have temporarily amended how we conduct adoptions as follows:
 
OUR AMENDED COVID-19 ADOPTION PROCESS
 
Adoption Applications – The good news is we are still accepting applications for our amazing kitties! Our adoption officers are continuing to review incoming applications daily and are corresponding with prospective adopters. However, in the interest of your safety as well as that of our foster guardian volunteers, interactive Meet and Greets, home checks and all adoption delivery dates will be delayed until after April 30th, 2020. Approved applications are still being forwarded to Kitty Devore Rescue foster parents so they can connect with prospective adopters.
 
Meet and Greets – Once your approved application is received, the foster parent will contact you with photos and videos of the kitty you’re interested in adopting, provided you are the first applicant for the kitty. You’ll receive regular updates from the kitty’s foster parent until the social distancing recommendations are relaxed. You’ll also have the opportunity to experience a more interactive Meet and Greet with them down the line when everyday life resumes normalcy again.
 
Home Checks – We will be conducting preliminary home checks virtually. Through the use of the video option or Facetime on your phone, you can take us on a tour of your home. We will conduct a more comprehensive in-person home check when social safety mandates lift.
 
Application Status – If the kitty has more than one approved application submitted, we will add you to a waiting list for him or her. You can determine whether the kitty you’re interested in adopting has pending applications by visiting their bio listing here on our website. Don’t lose heart if the kitty you’re interested in adopting already has an application submitted by another prospective adopter. We understand when someone decides to adopt a new kitty, they anticipate the process will be relatively quick. When it’s not, they may opt to adopt elsewhere. If that happens, we’ll update the kitty’s bio to reflect the next application in line.
 
Adoption Pending Deposits – If your application is approved, you’ve passed your virtual homecheck pending the in-person check to be done at a later date and patience isn’t an issue for you because you know the kitty you’ve applied to adopt destined to be yours, you are welcome to submit an adoption fee deposit for him or her. When we receive an adoption fee deposit via PayPal, we will adjust their bio here on our website to reflect Adoption Pending. Adoption Pending indicates to other prospective adopters that he or she has a new person or family waiting for them when the current CoVid-19 safety precautions relax, and we will no longer be accepting applications for them. The adoption fee deposit is refundable in full if you change your mind.
 
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We understand you want to welcome a new kitty into your life, and we are committed to helping you make that happen with their safety, your safety, and the safety of the Kitty Devore Rescue team at the forefront of our mission.
 

You can fill out our adoption application here!

 

Cats Available for Adoption

Nara – Adult Female

Adoption Application Status: Nara currently has 1 prospective adoption applicant. Meet Nara! This sweet and spicy, tabby girl was rescued from Devore shelter in July of 2018 when she was about 4.5 months old. She has gobs of energy, but not having other kittens to play with when she was really little meant that she […]

Primrose – Adult Female

Adoption Application Status: Primrose currently has 0 adoption applicants. When we rescue kitties from Devore Shelter, their past is often a mystery. Primrose, a stunning torbie beauty, was no exception. All we knew about her after she was admitted in July of 2020 was that she was a polydactyl (extra thumb on her paws), she […]

Emmah – Adult Female

Application Status: Emmah currently has 1 prospective adoption applicants. Emmah found her way into Kitty Devore Rescue’s care back in October of 2019 when a former rescue partner rescue group of ours had to close their doors. They still had many kitties in their foster care program. We took over 20 of them into our […]

Matilda Wormwood – Young Female

Adoption Application Status: Matilda Wormwood currently has 0 adoption applicants. Meet Matilda Wormwood! Matlida and her large family (momma and her SEVEN kittens – Momma Babe, Amelia Bedelia, Ramona Quimby (adopted), Curious George, Paddington Bear (adopted), Madeline, and Corduroy (adopted) – were rescued from Devore Shelter in San Bernardino at the end of June when she and her siblings were barely 8 weeks […]

Logan – Adult Male

Application Status: Logan currently has 2 prospective adoption applicant. Meet Logan! This handsome house panther, originally rescuers d from Devore Shelter with his mom and siblings back in May of 2014, is all love. He’s big lug of plush fur to cuddle.  Logan would enjoy a home where he can lounge, receive pets and mainly […]

Wellesley – Adult Female

Adoption Application Status: Wellesley currently has 0 approved adoption applicants. Meet Wellesley! This stunning little Bombay mix was rescued from Devore Shelter back in August of 2014 and, at the time, was estimated to be about 2 years old. Welles, as her foster mom calls her, was also pregnant and gave birth to six adorable […]

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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 8 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. Our fundraising goes directly toward helping the cats we take into our care. 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!

 

If you’re SoCal local and you’d like to join us in our mission, become a foster by reading about our foster program and filling out a foster application.

 

If you live in Orange County or San Diego and would like to volunteer at our Petsmart Santa Ana or our Petco Santee adoption venue stores, fill out a volunteer application.

 

If you are a SoCal based 501c3 rescue group and would like to join the Kitty Devore Rescue Network to help save the Devore cats, fill out a rescue partner application with us! We help with pulling, transport and temporary fostering.

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We are not directly affiliated with Devore Animal Shelter and have no authority as to shelter policies or decisions.

We are not Animal Control and are unable to visit homes to round up or trap stray cats.

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“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” ~ Terry Pratchett, Novelist

Resources

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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What’s Included In Our $175.00 Adoption Fee?

Kitty Devore Rescue is committed to rescuing responsibly. 

This commitment means we hold ourselves to a high standard of care when it comes to the kitties in our foster care program. It also means each Kitty Devore Rescue kitty has undergone a comprehensive vetting and post-shelter rehabilitation process before we consider them ready for adoption.

Some rescue groups and shelters offer kitties for adoption for a fee less than ours – but their fee may include fewer vetting procedures that we consider necessary to ensure a kitty’s optimal health. Some offer kitties for adoption who have had no vetting procedures at all.

If you were to adopt a kitty for less or one “free to a good home” and, as a responsible pet parent, opted to have all the vital and necessary health procedures done that every cat in Kitty Devore Rescue care receives, this is what that “free” kitty is likely to cost you:

Spay/Neuter – $60.00 to $150.00

FeLV and FIV Testing – $40.00 to $80.00

FVRCP Vaccine(s) – $10.00 to $25.00 per vaccine (kittens need a series of 3 for optimal immunization)

Rabies Vaccine – $10.00 to $25.00

Microchip – $25.00 to $50.00

Flea/Earmite Treatment – $15.00 to $30.00 per monthly dose

Deworming – $15.00 to 25.00

Exam fee each vet visit – $30.00 to $75.00

Total: $195.00 to $455.00

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These are just the basics.

Most veterinarians charge somewhere within these price ranges for these basic procedures.

Kitty Devore Rescue kitties undergo basics and, in some cases, even more! Kitties in Kitty Devore Rescue foster care who are in need of dental, medical or surgical intervention receive immediate and quality veterinary attention and treatment. We address all observable and discoverable health issues – both internal and external. If there is an issue, we address it – even if that issue costs us thousands to treat and correct.

Once adopted, we provide all our adopters with full veterinary records and history of their newly adopted KD kitty, information about the microchip transfer* and an adoption box containing toys and treats for their new feline family member by USPS mail within 3 weeks of the official adoption date.

^ Take a peek inside our adoption box! ^

Additionally, the adoption fee is refundable in full if things don’t work out within the first 30 days. Even after 30 days, if for any reason you need to return your adopted KD kitty, we will always welcome them back into Kitty Devore Rescue foster care. We will always be their safety net for the duration of their lifetime.

And yet, our adoption fee is still $175.00 for every cat and kitten. Or $325.00 for two!

So, if you’re looking to adopt a new feline family member and friend, what are you waiting for? Apply to adopt a KD Kitty today!

* Microchips are transferred from KD’s microchip registry to the adopter 30 days from the official adoption date

Need To Rehome Your Kitty?

Rehome by Adopt-a-Pet.com and The Petco Foundation will enable you to create a pet profile for your kitty so that he can be seen by prospective adopters who visit the Adopt-A-Pet website. It will give you the control of reviewing online applications that come in when someone expresses interest in adopting him. The service also provides guidance on how to review applications, set up and carry out Meet and Greets with prospective adopters and finalize the adoption process.

Placement with Rehome isn’t instantaneous or guaranteed – but it can help you in your effort to find a new home for your kitty. To utilize this option click on the Adopt-A-Pet Rehome banner below:

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