Cat Life Maine is a 100% volunteer, foster-based, boots-on-the-ground TNR group focused on the cats most people overlook — community cats, colony cats, and kittens with nowhere else to go.

What We Do:

 

We teach neighbors how to handle cat colonies, we help with paper collars and microchip checks, we organize supplies, work with animal control, town officials, communities and we make it easier for people to do the right thing.

We take in and socialize cats and kittens who have no safe place to land — from barn litters to colony kittens. Our cats live in foster homes, not a shelter, so meetings are by appointment only.

 

All cats are spayed/neutered, tested for FIV/FeLV, and given age-appropriate vaccines. No kittens leave our care before they are 12 weeks old when it is medically safe to give the rabies vaccine before adoption. 

 

 

 

We don’t just trap and fix — we go back. We feed, monitor, provide medical care, and support caretakers so fixed cats can stay safely in their colonies.

“Why We Exist”

In our part of Maine, Penobscot County, there is no municipal funding for TNR. In some towns, the shelter they contract with will euthanize feral cats.  

That means if community cats need to be trapped, fixed, fed,

and kept safe — volunteers have to do it. 

 

One unspayed female cat and her offspring can produce up to 370,000 cats in 7 years. When we fix just one cat, we stop thousands more from being born into hunger, winter, and disease.