The Animal Center Reaches

An Adoption Milestone

Just over a year after starting its feline rescue and adoption program, The Animal Center, Inc, a Newtown-based animal welfare charity, has placed its 100th cat into a loving adoptive home.

“We’re very pleased to have reached this milestone in only 13 months,” said Monica Roberto, president of The Animal Center. “This achievement speaks not only to the success of the adoption program we’ve put into place to help homeless cats, but also to the community’s help and support. We trusted that the people of Newtown would respond to the homeless cats of their town with open hearts and open homes — and they did.”

The goal of the center’s feline rescue and adoption program is to dramatically reduce the number of homeless cats in the community. Most of the center’s kittens and cats available for adoption are strays found living in difficult outdoor circumstances that their volunteers help socialize into loving companions.

The center keeps its operating expenses low by running its adoption program through volunteer foster homes, which allows the center to direct more resources toward veterinary care to ensure that each and every animal is examined by a veterinarian, neutered, checked for internal and external parasites, and vaccinated before adoption.

“While this milestone is great news for the many cats and kittens who were helped in the first 13 months of this program, there are still many more homeless animals in need,” says Ms Roberto.

Thinking about adopting a cat? The Animal Center’s zany and wonderful cats can be seen online at TheAnimalCenter.org.

The Animal Center is a Newtown-based nonprofit charity focused on animal welfare. More information about organization can be found on its website.