Women’s Animal Center, America’s First Animal Shelter welcomed donors, board members, and supporters for a ribbon cutting and dedication of the organization’s New Cat Adoption Housing.

The upgrade of the outdated cat adoption housing with new state-of-the-art habitats aligns with current best practices in feline animal welfare and improves the health and well-being of the beautiful shelter cats waiting for adoption into loving forever homes.

Living in a group setting in a shelter is stressful for animals and Women’s Animal Center aims to reduce that stress through their habitats and socialization so the shelter animals can remain healthy.

Providing nutritious meals, and medical and compassionate care to shelter pets, the center also strives to provide health-supporting housing.

Women’s Animal Center launched its fundraising efforts in the spring of 2023, raising nearly $50,000 to purchase the new cat habitats by year’s end.

For many years, the organization has received support from the Bucks County Foundation including the Foundation’s most recent and generous $10,000 grant to support the upgrade and purchase of the new cat housing.

The Irving and Phyllis Millstein Foundation for Animal Welfare has also joined the organization’s mission. The Foundation’s generous $10,000 matching grant created an incentive for individual giving to support the fundraising efforts for the new housing.

“Women’s Animal Center assists thousands of animals and people in need throughout the county and region each and every year, but receives no federal, state or local funding to do so,” noted Cathy Malkemes, Chief Executive Officer of the Center.

“We rely upon the generosity of our community to support our work, so to have individual donors and funding partners like the Bucks County Foundation and The Irving and Phyllis Millstein Foundation is truly invaluable to us, and to our animals.”

Funding of important projects and programs to support animal health and well-being benefits pets as well as pet owners. The new cat adoption housing will improve the overall well-being for the shelter cats, and benefits pets and people alike as they come face to face in Women’s Animal Center’s Adoption Center and new forever families are created.

To view photos of adoptable shelter pets and/or to make a lifesaving monetary donation, visit the Women’s Animal Center’s website.

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