In 2025, we took in more than 400
lost or abandoned cats and dogs.
A challenge when the shelter was full all year.
275 pets were adopted!
Sincere thanks to everyone who adopted an animal,
giving them a home and love.
More than 430 pets were spayed and neutered
to prevent pet overpopulation.
Did you know…
it costs $669 on average to care for each pet, each month.
That’s over $8,000 a year per animal!
Please spay or neuter your pet.
How We Helped the Community
- Issued 270 free and low-cost vouchers to assist with spay and neuter costs, for local families that qualified.
- Provided emergency medical care assistance ensuring pets got the life saving vet care they needed.
- Distributed food through our pet food bank for those in need. We want to support animals staying in their loving homes whenever possible.
- Provided shelter for pets under our ‘safekeeping program’ when their owners needed time to find a safe, healthy environment for themselves and their animals.
- Provided TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) support, spaying or neutering dozens of stray cats and ensuring they received medical care when needed, reducing the number of homeless cats and overpopulation.
- Recycled thousands of pounds of throwaway textiles at our thrift store, keeping it out of our local landfill.
How The Community Helped Us
- You volunteered more than 6,941 hours to help in the shelter and thrift store.
- Thank you for your many hours spent walking dogs, fostering animals, sorting clothing at the thrift store, participating in the bag toss, helping with events, socializing cats, washing and drying laundry, and everything else you did for the animals in 2025. Our volunteers are rock stars and we can never thank you enough for what you do!
- You were generous with your donations during a difficult year.
- The highway work dramatically affected our thrift store sales which provides support for the shelter and will happen again in 2026. Thank you for helping us keep the shelter animals fed and receiving medical care when necessary. We truly can’t do this without you.
- You shared our social media posts, spread the word, and helped us find our precious animal residents their new homes
Thank You for Your Patience With 160’s Construction
Even with the challenges of road construction, detours, and heavier traffic, you’ve continued to show up for our thrift store—and that means more than you know. Every donation dropped off and every purchase made is a direct act of kindness that helps support the animals who rely on us every day. We know it hasn’t been convenient, and that makes your commitment all the more meaningful.
Your patience, generosity, and willingness to go the extra mile (sometimes quite literally) do not go unnoticed. Thank you for sticking with us and for being such an important part of our mission.
The Long Wait of a Bonded Pair
Riley Culligan
Months after my cat Misko had passed, I decided it was time to get another companion. I was overwhelmed by the amount of cats that were at the shelter. I wasn’t sure how I was going to choose from all of them!
Then I saw two pure white cats lying together. They were a bonded pair, inseparable in the way only animals who’ve weathered life together can be. If one shifted, the other shifted. If one curled up, the other followed. Their chart said they had been at the shelter for a year and a half. A year and a half of being overlooked.
I remember kneeling down in front of their space. One of them, the braver of the two, walked toward me first. The other stayed slightly behind, cautious but loyal, as if standing guard. When I reached my hand in, they didn’t rush me. They leaned in slowly, pressing their heads into my palm like they had been waiting for that exact moment.
I couldn’t just adopt one and leave the other. They loved each other too much. So, we decided to get both.
Bringing them home felt like opening a door they had been standing outside of for a very long time.
The first night, they explored carefully, staying close to each other. They mapped the corners of my room side by side. When one jumped onto my bed, the other followed. When one discovered the window, the other claimed the sunny patch next to it.
Over time, their personalities bloomed. Remi, the bolder cat, became the greeter, meeting me at the door every day as if I had been gone for years instead of hours.
The gentle one, Goku, became my quiet shadow, always nearby, always watching with soft, knowing eyes.
And every night, without fail, they curl up together. Still the same bonded pair but now wrapped in safety instead of uncertainty.
Adopting them didn’t just give them a home. They gave me one too.
We sincerely appreciate your support in 2025 and look
forward to saving more lives with you in 2026.