News & Updates

WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO MADDIE’S FUND FOR AWARDING US GRANT FUNDING FOR 2022!

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 DONATE THIS GIVING SEASON

December 1, 2022. Our Giving Season fundraiser will go on all through winter. Help us alleviate companion-animal homelessness and suffering by donating to our fundraiser. Any amount helps! All donations are tax-deductible.

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Click to enlarge the kitty-cards

Nov 24, 2022. On Thanksgiving Day, the team at For Animals, Inc. and all our rescue kitties extend a Big Thank you to all of you who’ve given us your love, kindness and support through the years! The four felines featured in these #ThanksgivingDay cards are looking for their forever-homes, four among many other kitties still seeking placement.

We thank  all our fosters, adopters, donors, all our dedicated volunteers, rescuers and every single one who has helped us in this journey. We have been continuing our rescue, TNR and foster/adoption operations and raising awareness on the plight of homeless & abused companion-animals for 21 years now.

Our Giving Season fundraiser continues through Giving Tuesday and through the winter months.The link to donate is right here:  https://www.foranimalsinc.com/current-fundraiser/
This holiday season celebrate Kindness & Compassion by helping the most vulnerable.

THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN!

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OUR GIVING SEASON/ WINTER ’22 FUNDRAISER  [21 Years of For Animals, Inc.]

For 21 years, For Animals’ founder and our small team of dedicated volunteers have tirelessly worked to rescue, save, TNR, provide vet-care and to foster & home thousands of felines (and other animals like dogs, rabbits, birds and many other species.) Without a break – battling exhaustion and often insurmountable odds, despite being a small non-profit consisting of a relatively small group of volunteers – we have worked round the clock in several residential and industrial areas, as well as in abandoned sites (The infamous “Hole” for instance) and places considered quite dangerous – through hurricanes, super-storms, a global pandemic, debilitating financial times (such as during the Great Recession, the current Inflation and just general economic hardship), political and policy upheavals,  personal losses, and much more.

While a fundraiser video will be posted in the coming days, most of you have seen the before-after reels and pictures of the transformations of several of our rescues on our social media (FB and IG) through the years. Those are only a lucky smattering from the many others who are rescued behind-the-scenes, TNR-ed and the innumerable ones who were spayed-neutered/rescued/fostered/adopted over the years before social media sites took -off, or before volunteers even started posting. And many of the stories don’t always make it to social media – as there are too many kitties to count.

For Animals is dedicated to eliminating companion animal homelessness, engaging our larger community as vital and active participants in this shared social and ethical responsibility, and providing that community with the resources and education necessary to achieve these goals together. We have helped cats and dogs not just in the New York City area, but through the years have also occasionally helped directly or indirectly through our volunteers or affiliated rescue-groups in the Ukraine, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Albania, Egypt, India, Nepal. However the major focus is always on our targeted TNR areas within NYC.

Our focus has always been to alleviate companion-animal suffering and to help control the cat (& dog) populations through educating the public and performing spay-neuters to as many cats as possible. Working with partner veterinarians in TNR and restoring health, and creating a shelter, foster, and adoption program to find homes for as many of these cats in need as possible is part of the process. FYI, we also have a working-cat program where the more feral rescues are sent to barn homes.

In the best of times, having the resources to help the animals is a struggle. In the last 3 years this struggle has increased manifold. This has been compounded with massive never-before-seen numbers of cat-dumping across the world in 2021 and 2022, which followed the 2020 increase of pandemic-adoptions. Due to the closures of the ASPCA-run low-cost clinics during the pandemic in economically suppressed areas, the homeless-cat population increased even more. These factors (clinic closures, pet-dumping, people not spaying/neutering cats, economic downturn) contributed even more to the precarious pressures that small  non-profit TNR groups/rescues like ours already face, with shelters filled up to the max, and the crunch to financial resources needed to keep going.   

Spay/neuter surgery costs are an essential expense, even with a rescue discount. Vaccines for FVRCP and rabies for each rescue are other important essential expenses. We also have daily expenditure of food, litter, and medicines for the shelter cats and for feeding community cat colonies, where we already perform TNR. Treatment of injured, suffering or maimed cats, sick ones who stand a chance to a better life if treated successfully, as well as those requiring dental procedures (if those are needed) or FIP medication, increase the amounts even more. Every year several hundreds cats and kittens receive our care be they TNR-ed or intakes – the latter housed in the shelter space and in our network of foster homes before they can be adopted into forever-homes. Our annual TNR + intake numbers can vary anywhere from 350+ to 550 cats every year. This is quite a lot taken in by a small group (and a no-kill rescue) which has nowhere near the funding that large organizations (which also run kill shelters) receive.

Throughout the world, the ultimate suffering imparted through human cruelty, apathy and destructive activity is always borne by innocent animals. In our own way, in the time we have on this planet, we choose compassion and action to help better the lives of as many innocents as we can.

Your Kindness is essential to this. While our Giving-Tuesday donation drives will occur all through the month of November, and we dearly hope you will contribute in our quest to reach this fundraiser’s goal, we will be continuing it all through the winter months, as every dollar helps. 

SAVE THE DATE!

IN-PERSON ADOPTION EVENT: SUNDAY – September 18, 2022 from 12 pm – 5pm 

September 2022: Please join us for another in-person adoption event in Park Slope! Our kittens and cats are super excited to get out and meet their furever-hoomans.

Location: Outside NYC Pet on 5th Ave, 218 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11215 on  September 18 from 12-5pm

 

 

 

 

 

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SAVE THE DATE!

IN-PERSON ADOPTION EVENT: SUNDAY – AUGUST 28, 2022 from 12 pm – 5pm 

August 2022: Please join us for another in-person adoption event in Park Slope! Our kittens and cats are super excited to get out and meet their furever-hoomans.

Location: Outside NYC Pet on 5th Ave, 218 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11215 on  August 28 from 12-5pm

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SAVE THE DATE!

IN-PERSON ADOPTION EVENT: SUNDAY – AUGUST 21, 2022 from 12 pm – 4pm 

August 2022: Please join us for another in-person adoption event in Park Slope! Our kittens and cats are super excited to get out and meet their furever-hoomans.

Location: Outside NYC Pet on 5th Ave, 218 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11215 on  August 21 from 12-4pm

See you there! Drop by and say hello!

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SAVE THE DATE!

IN-PERSON ADOPTION EVENT: SUNDAY – JULY 31, 2022 from 12 pm – 5pm 

July 2022: Please join us for another in-person adoption event in Park Slope! Our kittens and cats are super excited to get out and meet their furever-hoomans.

We’ll have an Adoption Table with some adorable kitties, raffle & other prizes outside NYC Pet on 5th Ave, 218 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11215 on  July 31 from 12-5pm

SAVE THE DATE!

IN-PERSON ADOPTION EVENT: SUNDAY – JULY 17, 2022 from 12 pm – 5pm 

July 2022: Please join us for our  in-person adoption event and the first in Brooklyn in quite some time! Our kittens and cats are super excited to get out and meet their furever-hoomans.

We’ll have an Adoption Table with some adorable kitties, raffle & other prizes outside NYC Pet on 5th Ave, 218 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11215 on  July 17 from 12-5pm

 

SAVE THE DATE!

IN-PERSON ADOPTION EVENT: SUNDAY – JUNE 26, 2022 from 12pm – 5pm 

[Note: Sadly, due to excessive heat, the outdoor/in-person component of this event was cancelled.  We are so sorry to have disappointed many who showed up. But we had to prioritize the well-being of the kitties. The virtual one carried on.]

June 2022: Yay!! It’s our first Park Slope, Brooklyn, outdoor Adoption Event since the pandemic! Please join us for our second in-person adoption event this June and the first in Brooklyn in quite some time! Our kittens and cats are super excited to get out and meet their furever humans.

We will be having an Adoption Table with some adorable kitties, raffle & other prizes outside NYC Pet on 5th Ave, 218 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11215 on  June 26th from 12-5pm

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SAVE THE DATE!

IN-PERSON ADOPTION EVENT: SATURDAY – JUNE 11, 2022 from 1pm – 5pm 

June 2022: The time has come! Please join us for our first in-person adoption event in quite some time! Our kittens and cats are super excited to get out and meet their furever humans .

We will be hosted by our pawsome furriends at Modern Pet in Bayside, Queens on Saturday June 11th from 1-5pm

Modern Pet is located at 212-77 26th Ave in Bayside Queens, 11360, NY

We will be with some adorable kitties, as well as pictures and information of our other adoptable cats! You can contact us at ForAnimalsNYC@gmail.com for any further queries.

You can also attend the event virtually on Zoom by following this link: https://zoom.us/j/98130239542?pwd=STYzRmcwUnRDNm9hL0l1MUhOTjZIQT09

Meeting ID: 981 3023 9542

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Bruno desperately needs your help for his life-saving treatment

Bruno’s fundraiser

April 12, 2022

Please watch the video above for Bruno’s story. To donate, follow the link: https://www.foranimalsinc.com/current-fundraiser/

Little Bruno was rescued as a kitten in September ’21 from a rough parking lot on Jamaica Ave, Queens, NYC, where he’d kept sadly crying loudly all day, but would keep hiding in some bushes when approached. One of our core volunteers finally got him at 10 pm that night. He had been rescued along with another little cat Maria who had been dumped on the Belt Parkway and was limping and scared. Both kittens bonded immediately at their rescuer’s, the outgoing Bruno being a comfort to shy Maria and were placed for adoption together that December.

Warm, gregarious Bruno won many hearts at the adoption alcove inside NYC Pet in Park Slope, and much to their joy, finally got into a nice foster-to-adopt situation just two days before New Year 2022. They were so happy to be with their new human who doted on them. Their human recently lost their dad too early this year and the kitten-duo have been a great comfort to them.

Tragically, this March-end, hitherto active, playful Bruno started showing signs of sickness and weakness. His adopter took him to the emergency vet clinic VERG – which ran a series of tests, and after ruling out other possibilities, diagnosed poor Bruno with FIP (Feline Infectious Peritonitis). Just Bruno’s VERG bills alone came to around $ 4,500 which his foster-t0-adopter footed.

Bruno is now on the new FIP medication that has proven promising for other similar cats. Should the treatment prove successful he will live a healthy, fulfilling life. We are hopeful and have our paws crossed, as he has responded favorably to the very first dose itself. 

In addition to the amount ($4,500) his human has already spent, his FIP treatment and follow-up blood tests will cost another $5,500.
It is a lot for one person and while they adore Bruno and will do everything to help him survive and thrive, For Animals would like to help out Bruno’s foster/adopter with the big cost of the treatment. And we are hoping you can help us and help innocent Bruno – who was so full of life before he fell sick, and deserves every chance to be back to his full health and big personality again.

So we would like to raise at least half of Bruno’s vet and treatment costs.

Please help Bruno is any way you can! Any amount helps!

You can check out Bruno’s diagnoses and costs in the documents as well as visit his fundraiser page to support him here: https://www.foranimalsinc.com/current-fundraiser/

 

 

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March 1, 2022. For Animals, Inc.’s in-person adoption events gave way to online e-meets during the pandemic. And now, with a mix of in-person-plus-virtual foster e-meets, we have launched Zoom Adoption Events.  Stay tuned on this page for our Virtual Adoption Events!

SAVE THE DATE!

VIRTUAL ADOPTION EVENT: SATURDAY – MARCH 26, 2022 from 11 am – 1 pm 

Schedule:

11 am-11:30/11:45 am: Intro/shelter tour and foster introductions (all fosters will have the opportunity to briefly introduce themselves and the cats in the main room first)

11:45 am-1 pm: Breakout rooms for individual meet and greets, general q and a in main room

This is a Zoom event. We will send the Zoom link the day before.
To register, email ksobel@gmail.com

UPDATE: Join the Zoom Meeting here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82690183346?pwd=cUQ0NmFqdlNxNXhQSVhUb2RWMll4Zz09

Meeting ID: 826 9018 3346
Passcode: 741573

Save a life, and get kitty-therapy! 💕

Remember, it’s Saturday, March 26, 2022. Here are many of the attendees (Click on pic to enlarge)

If you’d like to place a poster in your neighborhood click here to download a PDF flyer.

See you there! Meow!

 

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SAVE THE DATE!

VIRTUAL ADOPTION EVENT: SUNDAY – JANUARY 30, 2022 from 11 am – 1 pm 

This is a Zoom event. We will send the Zoom link the day before.
To register, email ksobel@gmail.com

See you there! Meow!

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Maddie needs your help for her life-saving treatment

August 8, 2021

Maddie’s fundraiser

We rely on donations such as yours to continue our life-saving work 365 days a year done by our small group of dedicated volunteers. Please help us help the innocent and the defenseless. Your help and compassion are needed now more than ever. 

Maddie desperately needs your help!

Maddie the cat has a very sad backstory and deserves every chance to live a fulfilling life for the rest of her remaining life where her love is returned fully and without her having to face abandonment.

Maddie was rescued from one of the meanest areas in Queens, NYC, in mid-April. She had lived a sad, hard, unloved  life on the streets for some 6+ years, found in a severely emaciated state, scrounging unsuccessfully for food and shelter, and abused by cruel humans and picked on by other strays.

She was grateful to be rescued. And even more happy to be adopted in late May. But sadly, through no fault of her own, her adopter – who vouches that she is “a total bundle of love,” and that she is “cuddly, loving, affectionate, playful” – decided to return her due to her work schedule, just days before her very crucial vet treatment and stay. So currently, besides her upcoming treatment, Maddie is also desperately looking for a foster home where she can recuperate.

 

For Animals has been committed to take care of Maddie’s medical issues from the start, which ranged from needing dental but more importantly curing her heart condition which was a result of hyperthyroidism and needs an expensive iodine treatment, which we are in the process of providing. Please check details HERE.

All in all, it has been a rough ride for Maddie, but also for For Animals – which has had one of its most trying years since its inception due to rising costs, several expensive cat emergencies and the humongous workload that tripled during the pandemic year.

You can check out Maddie’s treatment diagnoses and estimates in the documents as well as visit her fundraiser page to support her here: https://www.foranimalsinc.com/current-fundraiser/

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Rena needs help with her life-saving surgery/ UPDATED to Rena’s Fund for Feline Friends

 

 

Rena’s Fund for Feline-Friends

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Happy Summer from For Animals!

June 22, 2021

Happy Summer from @foranimslinc ?⛈Check out our many adoptables on this link on our Companion Cats and Dogs page

Many more cuties on that link.

Meet the kitties at foster homes and inside our Adoption Alcove at NYC Pet on 218 5th ave, Brooklyn 11215 . There’s Windsor (looking urgently for a home), Bruce, Minerva, Mickey+Minnie, Sebastian+Olive, Simba and others…

The cats are our rescues, the dogs are courtesy posts for Keep Me Warm Doghouses who handles their adoption. These adorable dogs were rescued from a Korean dog-meat market and we so hope they get loving homes, as opposed to the horrific end they’d have faced otherwise. All inquiries for the dogs should go to Sue at suekmwdadoptions@gmail.com and Deserie at kmwdoghouses@gmail.com  For adopting our cats head to our Adoption Process Page 
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#adoptdontshop #rescuedogs #rescuecats #stopdogmeattrade #rescuecatsrock? #brooklyncatadoptions  #summer #summervibes☀️ #fosteringsaveslives

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Diego needs help with recovery of his surgery costs

May 3, 2021

Diego’s fundraiser

We rely on donations such as yours to continue our life-saving work 365 days a year done by our small group of dedicated volunteers. Please help us help the innocent and the defenseless. Your help and compassion are needed now more than ever. 

Any amount helps! Thank you for your support! 

Fundraiser for Dice to save his life

March 17, 2021

Our current fundraiser

We rely on donations such as yours to continue our life-saving work 365 days a year done by our small group of dedicated volunteers. Please help us help the innocent and the defenseless. Your help and compassion are needed now more than ever. 

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The Adoption Space in Brooklyn is open once again!

March 14, 2021. Meow & Happy Pi Day! Just a note to say that our storefront adoption space inside NYC Pet at 218 5th Ave, Brooklyn, is open again. Cats arrived there – and seems even by the time we’re placing this post – are already getting adopted!
Adoptions are continuing and carrying on as usual online & through foster homes of course, as usual.

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A small Winter Break at our Brooklyn Adoption Center

February 16, 2021. Meow & Hello! Just a note to say that our storefront adoption center inside NYC Pet at 218 5th Ave, Brooklyn, is on a small winter break. Cats will be back in March there.
Adoptions are continuing and carrying on as usual online & through foster homes.

For those wanting to adopt, check our website at https://www.foranimalsinc.com/adopt/companion-cats/, and also our Facebook and Instagram feeds @foranimalsinc. If you see a kitty you would like to meet, or you want to discuss options, please visit our Adoption Process page and follow the instructions to complete and return our application. https://www.foranimalsinc.com/adopt/our-adoption-process/. Thank you

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Be My Kitty-Valentine!

February 14, 2021. There’s no love more innocent or unconditional than that given by a devoted companion-animal. Here are a few of our kitties seeking #furverhomes who are sending you their love on Valentine’s Day!

 

If you’d like to adopt any of these kitties – please check out our adoption process! #loveisloveislove

 

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2021 Marks 20 Years since For Animals’ Inception!

February 3, 2021.

2021 marks 20 (that’s right TWENTY!!!) YEARS since forming “For Animals” and today, Feb 3 is For Animals’ founder Theresa’s birthday! Happy Birthday Theresa @theresabachu and Happy 20th Anniversary from all of us – humans and animals alike – at @foranimalsinc! Your courage and fortitude truly made a difference to the lives of thousands of innocents. Here’s to more empathy, compassion and fighting for the voiceless. 

#bekindtoeverykind????❤️

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Happy New Year 2021!

January 1, 2021. Dear friends and supporters, Wishing you all a Healthy, Safe, Hopeful New Year.

For those who have believed in us, adopted from us, fostered for us, supported and helped us, and have always wished us well, we thank you with all our hearts as do ALL the thousands of kittens and cats and other random animals that @foranimalsinc has rescued, sheltered and saved through the years. Here’s to 2021!

Greetings from a few of our shelter old-timers and regulars – including Griffin, Summer and Creamsicle – who’d love to find their #fureverhome and are up for adoption. Thank you all – dear supporters, volunteers, friends and your families. We love you! [Video shot by our wonderful volunteer Feargal Halligan. Edited by our dedicated volunteer Maddy who has worked extra-hard & with no break this and last year with all its continued challenges. Music usage – thanks to regular foster-parent/adopter/musician/scientist Dave Johnson]

#adoptdontshop #rescuedismyfavoritebreed  #rescuecatsrock #goodbye2020hello2021 #newyearseve #newyork

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Remember Me Thursday

September 24, 2020. For Animals is joining some 650 animal organizations from around 200 countries again for #remembermethursday. In memorium to the ones who passed away at FA. ?
Remember – we are a no-kill shelter and do everything in our capacity to make sure our rescues find good homes. But every year in America’s shelters, over a million cats are killed simply because they don’t have safe places to call home.

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Find out more about #remembermethursday by visiting the organization’s page at https://remembermethursday.org/

Now going into its eighth year, Remember Me Thursday® aims to unite individuals and animal adoption organizations around the world to be an unstoppable, integrated voice for orphan pets in need of forever homes. 

Support us directly: https://www.foranimalsinc.com/current-fundraiser/

#adoptdontshop? #nyccatadoptions #brooklyncatadoption #queenscatadoption #fosteringsaveslives #remembermethursday #rememberme #seethelight

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Our Tribute to RBG

September 18, 2020. #Restinpower Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”

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Feargal’s Felines

September 9, 2020. FEARGAL’S FELINES: Starting today 9/9 as a play on the proverbial 9 lives of cats, we will feature a photo on the second or third Wednesday of every month – taken by one of our dedicated volunteers, Feargal Halligan – who’d moved to Brooklyn from Ireland a decade back and is a visual artist & designer. You may have seen several of FH’s cat close-ups & portraits on our website & in some of our videos and we’re grateful for all his help at FA’s shelter. He has a very distinctive style and we believe he is able to capture a cat’s “personality” like no other.

To view his cat-portraits – visit our Facebook or Instagram pages and look for the hashtag #FeargalsFelines

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Our Autumn 2020 Fundraiser kicks off today!

Our current fundraiser  September 3, 2020. Please help us save the innocent. We have not let the pandemic stop us from rescuing the most disenfranchised, the abandoned and the defenseless. Despite great challenges we continue our rescue and TNR work. Your help today can save lives. 

Please watch the video to see Sage’s sad saga…and a few other examples of how your kindness transforms lives.

Our Autumn fundraiser: https://www.foranimalsinc.com/current-fundraiser/

We rely on donations such as yours to continue our life-saving work 365 days a year. Any amount helps! Please feel free to enter a custom amount. Thank you for your support! 

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Sage had surgery today!

August 20, 2020. Sage is one brave mom-cat who put everything at stake for her little surviving baby. A dedicated For Animals’ volunteer helped her with a harrowing rescue, first saving her and then her baby. FA’s founder took her in for her surgery on August 20, 2020 for her broken and damaged front paw, which she used to walk on painfully during her life on the streets.

Please join in wishing Sage a speedy recovery!

If you’d like to help us cover the costs of Sage’s surgery and many others like her, please click the blue button:

Sage’s fundraiser

<<  Your kindness makes this possible.

 

 

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A free webinar on August 5, 2020, on Community Cats

Please register here through this link:

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W6mCD7KeT4GN4-NPuQvYzA

It’s free, and you’ll learn a lot!

Earlier this year, the NYC Feral Cat Initiative, a program of Bideawee, moved its Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) specialty training workshops online.  On August 5, 2020, they will debut a brand new webinar designed not for experienced Certified TNR Caretakers, but for TNR “mewbies” who may be interested in learning how they can help feral and stray community cats. Please spread the word to your friends and neighbors about our next webinar! Community Cats 101 Wednesday, August 5, 2020 5:00–6:00 p.m. ET Do you want to help stray and feral cats in your community but don’t know where to begin? This webinar will give you an insider’s tour of the world of TNR and community cats, discussing common questions like: Why are there so many cats living outside? What do I do if I find kittens? What do I do if I find a sick or injured community cat? What does a TNR project look like? What is colony care? How can I become part of the TNR/rescue community?

Learn More & Register

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Our August-September fund-raiser is coming soon…. 

The sad saga of Sage and her babies. Coming soon! Any support helps!

 

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Our adoption center at NYC Pet in Park Slope (Brooklyn) re-opens by the end of June 

June 21, 2020. With the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in NYC and the phased re-openings of many services, we’re happy to announce that our adoption center at NYC Pet in Park Slope at 218 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215 will re-open shortly.

For Animals is joining a Virtual Super Adoption Event

May 20, 2020. During these uncertain times, we’ve been working hard to keep moving full speed ahead and continue to save as many lives as possible. That’s why we’ve partnered with Best Friends Animal Society to participate in their Virtual Super Adoption Event, happening May 27-31. For Animals, Inc will have its adoption link at the event.
 
This event is the first of its kind, bringing together organizations from across the country with one goal in mind: to help you Find Love Online! 
To apply to adopt one (or two!) of our kitties, please complete our  Application to Adopt or Foster and email it to adoptions@foranimalsinc.com.

P.S. You can ALWAYS find your furry love on our site on our Adoptions page and don’t have to be dependent on third party events.

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Our Working Cats Program

Please check out our working cats page for more info: https://www.foranimalsinc.com/adopt/working-cats/

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Brooklyn Collaborative Portraits 

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#FridayFeline Featured For Animals Alumni Fellow series

May 1, 2020. We often get wonderful heartfelt messages even from years past from cat-parents who’ve adopted from us. ? We’ve posted those intermittently through the years – and today, on May 1 – we’ll start our series #FridayFeline Featured #FAA Fellow, where FAA = For Animals Alumni. ? 

If you’d like to share your kitty-tale – email us at fornamimalsincnyc@gmail.com or message us here. We’d love to hear from you! ? As well, please note – prior stories of this nature already e-mailed in the past will be featured as well. 

For submissions – limit your photos to a max of 6 photos preferably all square or all rectangular in the same orientation. We will feature these on both our Facebook and Instagram pages – as well as on our blog. While FB doesn’t have a word limit, for Instagram, please limit your “story” to around 250-300 words max. We look forward to your cat-tales!

 

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COVID-19 News

April 28,2020. NYC EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ANNOUNCES NYC COVID-19 COMPANION ANIMAL HOTLINE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR ANIMALS OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY CORONAVIRUS. Link: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/em/about/press-releases/20200428_pr_nycem_announces-covid-pet-hotline-to-provide-support.page

The New York City Emergency Management Department and the Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare today announced the launch of the NYC COVID-19 Pet Hotline. The Pet Hotline will serve as an information, planning, referral and service coordination hub for NYC residents who need support for their pets during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pet Hotline operators can be reached directly at 877-204-8821, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

The Pet Hotline and supportive services are being provided by the City’s Animal Planning Task Force, which is coordinated by NYC Emergency Management. The Task Force is a collaboration between City agencies and nonprofits. These include the Humane Society of the United States, the ASPCA, Animal Haven, Animal Care Centers of NYC, Bideawee, American Red Cross, Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, NYC VERT, New York State Animal Protection Federation, Best Friends Animal Society, and PAWS NY.

“Pets and service animals are a part of our family, and we want to alleviate any concern associated with having to take care of these family members during these trying times,” said NYC Emergency Management Commissioner Deanne Criswell. “We are thankful to our task force members who have stepped up to help New Yorkers who need this service.”

“This Administration has always understood that animals share our homes, our lives, and are sometimes our closest companions,” said Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit Commissioner Marco A. Carrión. “We must support and plan for all New Yorkers, including four-legged ones, during these times, and we are grateful to all of the animal welfare partners who have stepped up to create the Pet Hotline and provide lifesaving services to animals.”

“During this time of uncertainty and fear, we understand people need the comfort of their companion animals more than ever,” said Christine Kim, Senior Community Liaison for the Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare. “In order to keep people and their animals together, we have ensured that animals are included in the safety net we have created for all New Yorkers. I thank all of our partners within NYC Emergency Management’s Animal Planning Task Force for stepping up during the COVID-19 crisis to support pets and the people who love them.”

The Pet Hotline will help mitigate people’s questions and concerns about keeping their pets during the COVID-19 crisis, as well as connect callers to pet relief resources such as subsidized emergency veterinary care and food and supply distribution services. For NYC residents with pets requiring a higher level of care, cases will be escalated for coordination of temporary placement or supplemental care of animals. NYC’s COVID-19 pet response plan is the first of its kind in the country.

Please check the link posted above for more.

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Our April-May 2020 fund-raiser

For Animals hasn’t let COVID-19 stop our rescue & TNR work despite closure of the ASPCA clinics. Your help today can save lives and keep cats safe & healthy! Please donate and please share. Thank you for your kindness.

UPDATE June 2020: While our Chuffed fund-raiser has ended, we always need help. You can support us through this link: https://www.foranimalsinc.com/donate/

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Upcoming Adoption Events

Update: March 2020 – Changes due to COVID-19: Due to social distancing and other safety guidelines, we are currently not planning on any outdoor or indoor adoption events until the lock-down order is over; and until it is medically safe to hold such events. In the meantime all ‘meetings” with cats are virtual.

Thank you for your understanding.

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If you are interested in one of our friendly cats or kittens on our adoption page but are unable to visit our shelter, please contact us and we will arrange how to go about it, whether virtually or in person.

Visit our Facebook page or Instagram for the most up to date news and events.

Or come to our Park Slope location at NYC Pet – 218 5th Ave., Brooklyn, NY anytime to see some of our available cats (Update March 2020 – cats and kittens are not currently housed in this location due to Covid-19 restrictions until further notice.

UPDATE: June 27, 2020 – cats and kittens are back in this location after easing of Covid-19 restrictions)