FEATURED PERMANENT CATZJAZZ RESIDENTS
SPECIAL NEEDS CATSSometimes in our work, we will meet some very special cats that have a profound affect on us and remind us so poignantly why we need to keep doing this. Blinky, Seal and Pearl are three of our special needs cats that stay as permanent residents of CatzJazz. You can read their touching stories by clicking on their pics above. Great news to report, Neville has been adopted into a home with another herpes positive feline where he will continue to receive special medical care to ensure a good life. We gladly accept sponsorships of special needs cats in our care. Some special needs cats are adoptable after rehabilitation has taken place. If you are interested in sponsoring, fostering or adopting a special needs cat, please contact us.
❀ Pearl's Hip Surgery ❀
We are still needing some donations towards Pearl's Hip Surgery! She has come into our rescue with complete breaks of both femeral heads of her rear legs. The surgery is rather costly, if you would like to help this cat, please read her story here and ,
contributions can be made via paypal or towards Pearls Fund through her vet c/o Catz Jazz.
Please send non-paypal donations for Pearl to:
Riverside Vet Clinic
2400 E. Oltorf St., Suite 10 A
Austin, Tx. 78741
Make checks out to Pearl/Catz Jazz
Will YOU Make An Impact?
Will you please donate $5 today?
All donations are tax deductable.
As you can probably imagine, animal rescue is very overwhelming, difficult and involves countless hours of doing work that not a lot of people are up to doing. Our goal is to assist as many cats that are in hopeless situations as possible that the money will allow. Our success, for both short-term goals and long-term survival is dependant on the donations of generous people. You CAN really make a difference in the life of an abandoned or abused cat. EVERY DOLLAR IS CRUCIAL TO OUR WORK. So, if your heart tells you that what we do is valuable, we hope that you please consider making a donation.
Donate a Kuranda cat bed to Catz Jazz
Our rescued cats love to sleep on Kuranda cat beds, but we don't have enough for everyone. If you would like to donate a bed at a special wholesale price for a another Austin rescue cat to sleep in comfort, please donate a Kuranda cat bed.
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We hope you understand how much showing your support means to us! We are SO VERY PROUD of all of you for making time to do this!
Get your photo realistic pet portrait and help Catz Jazz!
Thanks to all who Helped
Seal Get Her Cart!
She is a wonderful and amazing feline and we appreciate all of you who generously donated funds for the Seal's Wheels project!
May, 2010
Catz Jazz staff and volunteers proudly participated in the 12th Annual Mighty Texas Dog Walk event that benefited Texas Hearing & Service Dogs!
April, 2010
Buy a Catz Jazz T-shirt and show your support! 100% of Net Proceeds Benefit Catz Jazz!
June 20th, 2009
Dates Announced for Next Grant Challenge!
HELP CATZ JAZZ WIN!!
The Animal Rescue Site and Petfinder have announced the date for the next Animal Rescue Site Shelter+ Challenge.
Catz Jazz again will be participating for the chance to win The Grand Prize of $10,000 in grant money to help abandoned and abused cats in need.
Beginning on Monday, September 20th, 2010, and running through Sunday, December 19th, the Holiday Shelter+ Challenge allows you to vote every single day!
Catz Jazz is very excited to work together with Petfinder and is hoping this time around we can win some much-needed grant money to continue our hard work!
If you can help by voting for us every day and want to be reminded when the challenge begins, please email sydney@catzjazz.org to get signed up!
There will also be a unique opportunity for voters to share their beloved rescue pets in the Shelter Fan Photo Contest to win a grant for their favorite rescue group!
About Catz Jazz
Feline Rescue, Refuge & Home Placement
Our mission is simple; the journey is never easy, but it's always worthwhile. CatzJazz exists to save lives. We advocate compassion towards felines. There is a neverending problem of unwanted or abused animals everywhere that there are people. We do a small part that takes a lot of effort but makes a big difference and we do it with the strong belief that felines are life-long companions. Our goal is to assist as many unfortunate cats as possible. This takes time, energy and money, but the results are beyond price.
We are grateful to not only have the opportunity to give unwanted and abused felines a second chance to have a real go at life, but we are able to show them that they are invaluable, and that not all humans are what they have known. In doing this work, we honour all the cats who have made a difference in our lives. We honour all who have sacrificed and given beyond their means in order to improve the quality of life to a forgotten feline. And we honour all those heroes who have made the choice to give forever homes to the cats that need them the most.
We are grateful to be able to stay afloat enough to do our work and are grateful for all of the other cat rescue groups that do this kind of work alongside us day in and day out. Through community support, it is possible to keep up the good work.
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ADOPTION
If you are here to possibly adopt, we are grateful that you have chosen us as one of your considerations. Our residents come primarily from public shelters where they had once been scheduled for euthanasia or from hopeless situations where abuse has taken place. When you adopt, you will in all capacity, have gained a friendship that could have been lost forever.
Click here to see all Catz Jazz cats needing homes
Online Application
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VOLUNTEERING
★ BE A HERO! WE DESPERATELY NEED FOSTERS & OTHER VOLUNTEERS! ★
We need your help! We have a limited amount of volunteers that do the best they can and do a great job at it, but we are hoping to expand our efforts and need more wonderful and dedicated volunteers who can donate their time by fostering cats or collecting items from our wishlist and donating them to us which will directly help the cats. By donating your time, you will be enabling us to further reach our goals. By fostering, you will directly be helping save a life! We have an urgent need for fosters who can care for cats, particularly nursing or pregnant cats and longest stay residents. If you would like to foster or collect items or have another idea of how you can help, we would be grateful to hear from you. If you are at least 18 years of age, have a place in your house to foster, and want to be a champion for cats this summer, sign up as a Catz Jazz volunteer!
To Foster, Please Contact Catz Jazz Director
Cathy Taylor at 512-636-8473 or email her at kitty@catzjazz.org
To Volunteer in other capacities such as fundraising,
cat cuddling, collecting needed items from our wishlist, donating your professional services or assisting our team leaders, please email
Sydney Colvin-Gibbs sydney@catzjazz.org
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Please Help Catz Jazz Raise Funds for Feline Comfort & Recovery Buildings
We have a serious need for donations and fundraiser volunteers to help us get some comfort and recovery buildings for the rescued cats in our care!
We have 8-9 acres of land in Cedar Creek, Texas that we are able to build on, and we are launching a campaign to help us raise funds for quality prefab structures like these to
be able to house the abandoned and abused cats in our care, particularly, incoming, pregnant or nursing, senior and special needs cats. Currently we have nothing like this setup, so we are sending out an urgent plea for
help in providing proper housing such as a building for pregnant/nursing cats, one for isolation/medical treatment to help reduce contagious colds, etc. and keep the other cats healthy, one for new arrivals to spend time recovering from their situation and a hospice for the senior cats that are having a hard time getting adopted and other cats that no one wants. webmaster@catzjazz.org
Each home-style constructed pre-fab building will cost approximately $10,000-$13,000 and will be insulated, have electricity ran in, have windows and proper ventilation and will be temperature controlled. They are actually a lot bigger than they look!
These much-needed buildings will provide our rescued cats spacious room to recover and allow them to be well-cared for and nap comfortably and dream of their future forever home while we diligently care for them until that dream comes true.
Each $300 donation will receive a personalized nameplate inside one of our cat buildings. The big heart sponsor that will donate the entire cost of one of these buildings will have the building named after them with an engraved plaque above the building door.
All donations are tax deductable.
Our rescue work is made possible by generous contributions from the community of people who appreciate what we are doing in saving previously discarded lives and keeping more unwanted animals off the streets. We are limited in resources, but have the WILLPOWER to carry on our work, if only people can help out financially. We are not even close to being as well-funded as some of the other animal rescue groups in our community, nor do we receive anywhere near the amount of donations or public exposure. But we ARE MORE THAN WILLING to keep doing good work all the same. Though, it would truly impact our ability to carry out our work if we had a few more resources. The monthly cost of keeping our rescue operation afloat is mostly funded out of pocket from the central group of volunteers that work daily to ensure the safety, medical needs and recovery of abandoned and abused cats.
If you want to help in some capacity to give abandoned cats a place to reside while waiting for their families to find them, please contact us if you can donate funds, help organise a fundraiser, donate materials or assist in providing professional services! We also will need volunteers to sign up for clearing brush on the property and put up stronger fencing material to help secure the perimeter.
If you are willing to help with the Catz Jazz Rescue Building Projects, please contact us and
let's do something incredible together!
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THANK YOU, FRIEND.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING US. THANK YOU FOR SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT US! YOUR SUPPORT IS VERY APPRECIATED! With your help we can continue to really make a difference in the lives of abused and abandoned cats.
