Here are some links to some of the best information on the World Wide Web as well as to other cat welfare groups serving neigboring areas. Please click on the links to an organization's website to find current contact information.
Neighboring groups with whom we collaborate
While groups may serve overlapping geographic areas, competing for financial support and homes for adoptable cats, we believe it is all about the cats. Please make use of all of these resources to help the cats.
Community Cat Rescue A rescue group service cities around Menlo Park
Companions in Waiting Companions in Waiting helps prepare displaced companion animals for new homes, especially those in need of longer term care than can be provided by local animal shelters.
Fat Cat Rescue A rescue group serving the cities around Mountain View.
Homeless Cat Network A feline rescue organization serving the San Francisco Peninsula.
Humanimal Connection Humanimal Connection specializes in outdoor cats (barn cats and yard cats), while most of ours require indoor homes.
Feline Friends Network An organization caring for the homeless cats on the Stanford University campus. Stanford developed the first large-scale TNR program in the US. See their resource page for a number of helpful articles.
Town Cats Town Cats serves Santa Clara County, California. They have a no-kill Feline Adoption Center/Shelter.
Animal Shelters (You can find a list of municipal shelters with contact information and maps here.)
Humane Society Silicon Valley The Humane Society Silicon Valley operates a low-cost spay/neuter clinic in association with its animal shelter. HSSV is an active participant in the Feral Freedom program under which healthy community cats taken to the shelter, who are otherwise not adoptable, are fixed, vaccinated, microchipped and returned to their territory to live out their lives without reproducing further.
Palo Alto Shelter (Pets in Need) Pets in Need now operates the animal shelter for the City of Palo Alto. The Spay/Neuter clinic at the shelter is currently closed with plans to reopen in 2020.
Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA The Peninsula Humane Society serves San Mateo county, providing animal control and a shelter. PHS is not a particpant in Feral Freedom; unadoptable cats taken to PHS will be killed.
Pets In Need Pets In Need is a no-kill adoption shelter serving the Peninsula and Greater Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley Animal Control Authority SVACA is the shelter for Campbell, Monte Sereno, Mountain View & Santa Clara. SVACA is an active participant in the Feral Freedom program (see above under HSSV.)
San Jose Animal Care Center The City of San Jose's Animal Care Center, provides shelter and field services for San Jose residents AND for residents of Cuptertino, Los Gatos, Milpitas and Saratoga. SJACS was the first shelter in the area to adopt the Feral Freedom program (see above under HSSV).
Spay/Neuter Financial Assistance
Spay/neuter financial assistance is usually provided in the form of a voucher which is good for the spay/neuter surgery for one cat, although you may often request more than one voucher at a time. Vouchers typically do not cover vaccinations or other common treatments the cat might need for fleas, worms, ear mites etc. to alleviate the misery caused by these conditions.

The following organizations/agencies provide low-cost spay/neuter vouchers:

Animal Birth Control Assistance Please call (408) 244-8351.
Palo Alto Humane Society The Palo Alto Humane Society has a limited voucher program. Call (650) 424-1901 for further information.
San Mateo County San Mateo County residents, please call (650) 573-3940. This free voucher program can run out of money.
Santa Clara County The Santa Clara County program's fiscal year begins in June and the allotted money for this program does not last the full year.
Low cost spay/neuter clinics
Humane Society Silicon Valley The Humane Society Silicon Valley operates a low-cost spay/neuter clinic in association with its animal shelter. (See above.)
Peninsula Humane Society The Peninsula Humane Society has a spay/neuter clinic. PHS has a feral cat package for San Mateo County residents to support TNR work. Please call them at (650) 340-7022 ext. 393 for details of resources available to county residents for assistance with feral cats.
Pets in Need (Palo Alto) The Pets in Need spay/neuter clinic is currently closed with plans to re-open in 2020.
San Jose Animal Care Center The San Jose Animal Care Center has a low cost spay/neuter clinic that will be ready in mid-to-late 2005.
Silicon Valley Animal Authority Serving the communities of Campbell, Mountain View, Santa Clara and Monte Sereno.
Other valuable information
Alley Cat Allies A national group that helps people help feral cats.
Little Blue Society The Little Blue Society provides Human-Animal Conflict Resolution services.
San Francisco SPCA The San Francsico SPCA offers spay/neuter services, adoption services, a wealth of useful information.