Maine Coon Adoptions

About SAFE, Saving Animals from Euthanasia
SAFE is our Parent Non-Profit Organization. Donations to Maine Coon Adoptions should be made out to SAFE, but the money will go to MCA. SAFE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, so your donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law; you can save kitties and save on taxes too.

Click Here to learn more about SAFE, and Click Here to learn more about how Maine Coon Adoptions uses your donations.

Mail a check made out to SAFE to:

Nancy Huneke
565 Kenmore Avenue,
Oakland, California 94610

Donate through JustGive.org

To donate to the Maine Coon Adoptions:

Click Here to open the SAFE (our parent organization) donation page.
Enter Maine Coon Adoptions in the Designate my donation box.
Fill out the rest of the form and click Add to Basket.
Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the donation.

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There are over 680 stores (including Home Depot, Sharper Image, Land's End, Office Depot, and Macy's) that will donate a percentage of your online purchases (up to 26%) to MCA when you sign up for iGive. It costs you nothing to help our kitties this way.

To donate through igive.com:

Click Here to open our page on igive.com.
Fill out the online form and follow the onscreen instructions to set up your donations.

Create your own custom postage stamps (YOUR kitty on a stamp!) and support Maine Coon Adoptions at the same time!
	Maine Coon Adoptions receives a portion of the purchase price when you create and purchase your own custom-designed postage stamps or when you purchase the MCA designed stamps shown here. Click on the stamps to begin! Or Download a PDF Flyer.

MCA wants our adopters and donors to know that their adoption fees and donations go directly to help kitties! By far the largest part of our income goes directly to veterinary bills, because we want to make sure all of our kitties are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, tested, and healthy before they go to their new homes. Another large part of our money goes for microchipping expenses. We think microchipping is so important that we microchip all of our kitties before they are adopted.

Please click here to see our Annual Expense & Income Reports.

We typically spend much more on a kitty than the adoption fee the new family pays. Between vet exams, vaccinations, and treatment for illness and other conditions, we often struggle to pay our bills. All funding for our rescue work comes from donations, adoption fees, and fundraising activities. The more money we can raise, the more kitties we can save. As one of our donors said, "You guys do great work, and you need money to do it."

Rescue Costs vs. Adoption Fees: 2007

Every donation, no matter what size, helps. Did you know that:

$12 pays for a rabies vaccination
$44 pays for one kitty being tested for FIV/FELV
$40 - $50 pays for an office visit to a "rescue friendly" vet
$114 pays for a senior screening blood panel to check systemic health for older cats

Beau's Story: Beau appeared healthy when rescued from a shelter, but he developed a serious eye infection and ended up requiring ointments, pills, and surgery to deal with an eye ulcer. When the vet unwrapped his eye after the surgery, he told us we had saved the eye and that he would have lost it without the surgery. It was expensive, but worth it to see Beau completely healed and adopted by a loving family.

MCA "WISH LIST"

In kind donations also help keep our kitties happy and healthy while they're in foster care, and help get them into Forever Homes. We have a continuous need for:

kitty carriers
digital or disposable cameras (for web site photos)
kitty food
kitty toys

If you can donate any of these items, please e-mail or call us at elaineln@pacbell.net or 510-482-6179, and we'll figure out how to get them from you to us.

"Time spent with cats is never wasted." - Colette
"Time spent helping cats is even better." - Elaine (MCA)