Katie's Place

Katie's Place is moving. See: The Home Stretch! for the details.

Just the Rabbits

Click here for our Adoption Application Form
Then you can email the completed application to katies.place@shaw.ca or bring it with you when you come.

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Our Featured Pet...

Kate is our featured cat right now because she's become depressed. She never seems to leave her own small corner of the communal room. We put food there for her and she has a litter pan there. She just seems too uneasy among the other cats (some of whom can be boisterous) to mingle with them. When she sees someone who looks like they might give her a few pets, she stands up hopefully. But this quiet girl doesn't leave her safe spot and doesn't make a sound. If the person leaves without noticing her, Kate is disappointed but resigned and she just returns to her bed with a sad face. She needs a real home.
To find out more about Kate, see her Petfinder page

Another Featured Pet...

Kate isn't the only cat who misses having a real home. We've noticed that Glitter seems depressed too. She doesn't move far from her own small corner of her communal room either. It's been a long, hard summer with lots of desperate cats needing shelter and few adopters coming in. Kate and Glitter have to contend with the crowd in their communal room, some of whom are intimidating to these two. And few people have had the time to spend with them that they need so badly. Please have a look at these two. Zesty Glitter and tender Kate must be the right cat for someone.
To find out more about Glitter, see her Petfinder page

News

(See Our Events and Fund Raisers Calendar page for event details.)

We're doing a Jersey Joe's Sport Bar-sponsored 'Meat Draw' at Jersey Joe's, 19267 Lougheed Hwy, Pitt Meadows, between 3:15pm and 5:15pm every Saturday.

You can find our newsletters at Katie’s Place Archives. If you would like to receive our newsletter via email, contact us at katies.place@shaw.ca about getting on our mailing list. Our newsletter comes out three times a year. We do not trade or sell email addresses, and you can cancel at any time.

Katie's Place Open Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, from 12:00 to 2:00

If you can't make it during our Open Hours, call 604-463-7917 to arrange for someone to meet you there.

You'll find our shelter at 11530 240th Street in Maple Ridge, BC, right behind a house. (Don't go all the way to the end of the drive, we're a few yards down on your right.)

Who We Are

Katie's Place is a volunteer-run nonprofit animal shelter in Maple Ridge B.C. We rescue and nurture small animals, adopting out those that we can and providing permanent sanctuary for the rest. The shelter is named after the cat who was its first resident and rightful owner. Katie's Place houses up to 75 cats with separate enclosures for new or convalescent cats and for the FIV/FeLV+ residents -- who still hope for loving homes of their own. There are also outdoor areas for rabbits.

Two principals guide us: all life is valuable, and we are responsible for improving the quality of life for all those in our care. We make no judgment on whose life is worth rescuing. The sick, elderly and homely are as precious to us as the healthy, young and attractive.

Katie's Place began in January 2001 under the auspices of the West Coast Spay and Neuter Society of Mission B.C. We became a registered charity in our own right in 2005. We ensure that all cats and kittens are spayed or neutered, tattooed, and have their basic inoculations prior to adoption.

We receive no funding other than donations. These go directly to animal care. Less than a fraction of 1 percent is spent on maintenance (eg. bank charges, insurance). Administration costs are donated by the volunteers. We are grateful for the generous support of our vets who treat our animals on faith that we will pay them when we can. We are grateful for the support of donors whose generosity allows us to keep going. We are grateful to adopters who come out to meet our animals and take them into their hearts.

Adopting a friend

All our cats and kittens are spayed/neutered and tattooed (or microchipped if they came to us altered but not tattooed), and they have their first inoculations. Our adult cats are also tested for Feline Leukemia and FIV. There is an adoption contract stating that you will care for the animal appropriately and that if you are unable to keep the animal you will return it to Katie's Place. If you'd like to meet one of our animals, please call us at 604-463-7917, or email us at katies.place@shaw.ca, or drop by our shelter during our open hours on Saturdays and Sundays between noon and 2:00.

We ask $120 for cats and kittens and a donation for 'special needs' pets. Pairs of cats can be adopted for $195 total.

Our volunteers take turns checking the messages when they get home from work, so your call will be returned as soon as a volunteer has a chance to check for calls.
If a foster parent's phone number is given in the pet's write up, you can call the foster parent and set up a time to meet the pet at their home. If the foster parent is also one of our adoption counselors, they can complete the adoption in their home. Otherwise you will need to drop by the shelter. (Our foster homes are all within a 10-minute or less drive from the shelter.) Check with the foster parent when you phone.

Come Visit Us!

Katie's Place has open hours on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 2:00 when people can drop in. If we have enough volunteers, and if enough people are interested in visiting, we hope eventually to be open several days a week. If you'd like to drop by, look around, ask questions and maybe meet a new feline friend to take home, you can come to the shelter at 11530 240th Street in Maple Ridge.

We're down a driveway beside a horse pasture, just behind a house. Don't go all the way to the end of the drive. We're a short way down the drive on your right.

Map to our shelter

If you can't make it during our Open Hours, call 604-463-7917, or email katies.place@shaw.ca and set up a time to meet us there.

Katies Place
between 114th and 116th Ave. on 240th St.
East side of the road
Maple Ridge, BC V2W 1A4
Phone: 604-463-7917

Katie's Place's mailing address:
20803 Camwood Avenue,
Maple Ridge, B.C.
Canada
V2X 2N9

If you are searching for your lost cat, please be advised that due to the volume of calls for Katie's Place and the limited hours we can devote to it over and above our regular jobs, we are unable to return every call and would contact you only if there is a possibility that a found cat may be your cat. We do notify the SPCA of strays that we receive and we advise you to contact your local SPCA if searching for your cat.

We’ve put together a little basic advice for anyone who has a pet they can’t keep and that we don’t have space for. See Rehoming Your Pet.
We’ve also put together all the advice we have for anyone who has lost their pet. See Finding Your Lost Pet. We hope with all our hearts that you are successful.
Here's our advice for people taking a new pet home which we hope will help ease your new family member happily into your family: A New Pet in your Home.
The No. 1 reason cats lose their homes is failure to use the litter pan or marking their territory. Here's some advice we put together to help families solve these problems: Failure to use the Litter Pan
Here's advice on how to plan for a disaster such as a flood in your neighbourhood: Preparing for a Disaster.

Email: katies.place@shaw.ca

Click here for a list of pets at this shelter

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