What sorts of programs does your shelter have to focus attention on cats?

We offer adoption fee discounts for those who adopt senior cats, as well as those who adopt siblings or former cage mates. We feature the less adoptables in the paper with a "pet personal" and we have a special volunteer who works mainly with the less socialized cats.

Our shelter often has two for one days and encourages people to adopt two cats or kittens. They also have special "Caturdays" when cats are $20 or $25.

PAAWS is a shelter and spay/neuter clinic. We are only equipped to keep cats at our facility. Our cats are not kept in cages. We have different rooms for different personalities of cats. We also have foster homes for kittens and some of our cats. One of our cat rooms has a cat walk and cupboards for them to be in. Our volunteers come in to socialize the cats as well as take care of and clean the facility. We now have a new room to socialize the cats that just haven't tamed up so they can be adopted. I think that all the cats have potential to be good pets, so we just need to keep working with them.

We have awesome foster families that will take nursing moms,bottle babies and semi feral kittens.We also have the Feline Friends Program that socialize and give some one on one time to the cats in the cattery.

In home fostering with our various foster families. Sometimes just allowing them to be out of the cages after hours and before we open. Some we allow to lounge out in the office area during the day.

As Joanne said below, we have a Feline Friends program, they are wonderful. We also allow our adoptable cats free roam of the cattery to play and socialize. Then there's the Meet Your Match program. It is a wonderful color coded system which assigns a personality to the cat. The potential adopters are also coded and when they choose a kitty it is their "Match". Look for it on the ASPSC site. It's great, even helps to place black cats.

The shelter I work at has to deal with this all the time. We have volunteers who choose to be a specific animals "buddy" and spend additional time outside of their regular shift to get the cat more time with human contact, playing, brushing etc. We also use an extensive list of foster homes to assist with this as well. Then we try to adopt them out of the foster home.

St. Hubert's Animal Shelter has a program called Feline Friends. They are a group of volunteers who come in for about an hour and split that time for 4 cats. They take them out of their cage play with them, brush them, clip their nails. Cats can turn so fast in the shelter setting,this program helps to make sure that doesn't happen.

We have special programs like a Senior program for older cats to be placed with senior citizens at a reduced adoption fee. It's a win-win situation.

We put a lot of effort into socialising the cats and giving them lots of love and affection. Our shelter is set up like a home, for those cats we may have for life. And we work extra hard to pushing those cats who might be considered unadoptable by other groups.