Our Impact
We're Not Hissing Around....
One day in 2012, KPOH founder and philanthropist, The Meow Matriarch, rescued 19 homeless, emaciated, and injured cats from the streets. What began as an impulsive act of compassion became a journey neither she nor her husband could have ever imagined.
Within that first clowder was a little black kitten named Jagger, born with radial hypoplasia, full of fight, and destined to change everything. When Jagger tragically lost his life to Wet FIP, Shelley made a promise that she would do everything in her power to help animals. And she has kept that promise every single day since.
Shelley has personally helped more than 5,000 cats. KPOH has impacted thousands more. Jagger lives on as our logo, a reminder that his life mattered and that millions of innocent animals continue to suffer needlessly.
The cats who come to us are not easy cases. Approximately 95% arrive with chronic illness, PTSD, or traumatic injuries, vehicular head and spinal trauma, broken jaws, amputations, and gunshot wounds. Some are FeLV positive, FIV+, blind, deaf, or terminal. We also maintain several distant feral colonies while actively networking to secure safer accommodations for the cats within them.
Every cat in our care is spayed or neutered, tested for FIV and FeLV, vaccinated, and receives every medical and surgical intervention they need, no exceptions, no compromises.
Our rescue vehicle is stocked with an animal stretcher, first aid supplies, pet-specific oxygen masks, and emergency equipment. It has carried cats across state lines for emergency intervention and for the happy occasion of an adoption transport.
We are not breed-specific. We do not turn our backs on need. We have been known to network for other species as well ,and on occasion, for the human kind too.
This is KPOH. Every life counts here.
There is great pride in sharing how donations are used for utmost best possible care of the kitties. KPOH also helps SEVERAL independent rescuers and has several wonderful adopters and volunteers from various states & even countries over the years who have visited.
KPOH.org also did a fundraising campaign to assist an associate who was in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua when World Vets conducted a traveling spay/neuter clinic.
It was extremely rewarding to help locals who do not have the financial means and very limited opportunity to prevent pet overpopulation. Homemade crates, boxes, carried on foot in their arms, whatever means available were used to bring as many cats (and dogs) to this epic spay/neuter event!
Also, several epic large volume rescues which have included the personal involvement of feline celebrities such as Kelley Lawrence Peters from “Justin, Fire Survivor” appearing on “The View,” and Gwen Cooper, a New York Times best selling author of several books including “Homer’s Odyssey” a memoir of a heroic blind cat during 911. It’s an amazing triumph to save and relocate 119 sick kitties from dying against the clock of short 3 weeks.
We are certified and affiliated in Pet Emergency CPR and First Aid, as well take numerous courses on-line and in person to be on the cutting edge on the latest education, advancements, research and resources to provide the best care in all avenues of animal welfare, care, and rehabilitation.