SUN CITIES 4 PAWS RESCUE

We intake from the public cats and kittens that are either 'owner surrenders' or found cats and kittens based on available space or foster availability at our facilities.
All cats that we intake are veterinarian checked, tested for feline leukemia and feline immuno virus, appropriately vaccinated and sterilized prior to being available for adoption.
We have a large network for foster homes for neonatal and very young kittens to be cared for until they are old enough to start the adoption preparation process.
We also have a 'senior foster' program for older cats (8 years and up) that have not been adopted or come back to us for various reasons, to go into foster homes to be cared for by seniors while we continue to take care of any medical needs.
We work to educate the public about the importance of spay and neuter to help prevent unwanted kittens and refer many people to the available low cost clinics in the area.

We work hard to fundraise and grant write to fund all of our programs: adoption preparation, senior foster/special needs, sponsor a shelter resident and the Lucky Fund. We use social media to raise funds when an urgent or high dollar medical case comes in (the Lucky Fund was started for medical care above and beyond our regular adoption preparation costs)
Each year there seems to be more unwanted kittens or found kittens and we are always working to grow our foster base in order to save as many as possible.
We have various fundraisers each year to both raise funds for our various programs and to bring awareness to the public about our needs, the needs of the cats both in our care and still on the streets and how they can help.

In the last two years, we have increased our grant funding and also increased our general donations and corporate sponsorships.
We recently added an addition to our Peoria Shelter location to better serve the needs of the sick and/or injured cats and kittens we intake. This addition will help lessen the spread of the common diseases that happen in every shelter environment and we will be better able to treat those that need it. In turn, this will help free up space for additional intake of cats/kittens.
We have worked hard towards streamlining our processes for adoption preparation and sterilization so that we can have more kittens and cats ready for adoption sooner (as long as they are healthy and deemed adoption ready by our veterinarian).
We regularly send groups of kittens to our PetSmart location for adoption and they get adopted very quickly. This in turn again allows more space at the shelter for additional intake.
Although we have a good donor base, the need is always greater than the available funds. Our yearly events, a golf tournament, bowling, fashion show and casino night help to spread awareness of our shelter and raise funds at the same time. We have also been successful in being awarded grant funding for our various programs.

In the last eight years we have worked hard to gain and maintain a good reputation in the community for the quality of care we provide our cats and kittens, and to also be transparent with our incoming, outgoing and death rates by publishing them on our website and Facebook pages yearly. We have increased our lifesaving strategies and work hard to always give the best care available.
After many years of needing to expand our facilities, we were finally able to add an addition in 2020, which contains two separate isolation wards for sick cats and kittens, all of which happened during the pandemic, which stretched our staff and volunteers tremendously. Yet we persevere and continue to work towards saving as many as we possibly can. Both our fundraising and grant funding has increased in the last two to three years and we hope to continue this. Our events are usually sold out and we raise a good amount of money to go back towards the care of the cats.