Animal Welfare League of Montgomery County, Inc.

1 To find homes for adoptable Montgomery County, Maryland homeless cats and kittens that would otherwise fill county shelters and be subject to possible euthanasia.

2. To provide services, enrichment and socialization as needed to our shelter cats and kittens to enhance their adoptability.

3. To decrease the overall population of shelter relinquished cats and kittens in our county.

4. To decrease the likelihood that an economically disadvantaged person in our county would not have to relinquish their companion pet to a shelter due to inability to afford pet food.

5. To decrease the likelihood that an economically disadvantaged person in our county would forgo food or medicine in order to feed their pet.

1. AWLMC picks up cats and kittens that are deemed adoptable (non-feral strays and abandoned animals) from high-kill shelters. All cats and kittens are treated by certified veterinarians, given all appropriate shots for their ages, treated for endemic parasites and other common ailments, spayed or neutered and microchipped prior to adoption. Short term fostering by volunteers allows a thorough evaluation of each animal and advances the animals ability to live with other animals so that they are more adoptable when shown in our unique free-range shelter. Potential adopters are vetted carefully so that cats and kittens successfully remain in their new homes, are well treated and are rarely returned to the shelter.
2. AWLMC is constantly recruiting and training new volunteers to replace the number of people who retire from fostering and/or work at the Shelter or behind the scenes.
3. AWLMC provides spay/neuter certificates to economically disadvantaged people in our county with dogs or cats.
4. AWLMC runs CHOMPERS pet food bank which provides pet food to economically disadvantaged people in our county so they can keep their pets rather than having to relinquish them to a shelter.
5. AWLMC runs CHOMPERS pet food bank which provides pet food to economically disadvantaged people in our county so they don't have to decide between taking care of themselves or their pets.

1. AWLMC maintains a strictly no-kill cat and kitten shelter in a house where 20 animals at a time are given free-range in five large, airy rooms.

2.AWLMC is an all volunteer organization with approximately 150 members working in teams to provide fostering support as well as adoption counseling, cat and kitten enrichment and socialization support, health checks, intake selection, outreach work, spay/neuter vouchers and pet food.

3. AWLMC contracts with county veterinarians who provide low cost spay/neuter and other medical services to enhance the adoptability of AWLMC feline residents.

4. AWLMC provides economically disadvantaged county residents spay/neuter vouchers which can be taken to any one of our contracted veterinarians for dog or cat spay/neuter services.

5. AWLMC accepts donations of pet food to the self-sustaining CHOMPERS Pet Food Bank which offers economically disadvantaged county residents access to wet and dry pet food for their dogs and cats.

1. AWLMC has been able to take in and have approximately 175 cats and kittens adopted yearly reaching a cumulative total of adoptions of approximately 3000 cats since its launching.

2. AWLMC has attracted approximately 150 exceptionally dedicated volunteers that allow us to continue running our programs.

3. AWLMC awarded economically disadvantaged people approximately 229 Spay/Neuter certificates last year.

4. AWLMC via our CHOMPERS Pet Food Bank gave economically disadvantaged people 9550 pounds of food for their pets last year.

5. AWLMC is working to increase the geographic area from which it takes in cats and kittens.


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