9 Lives Rescue, Inc.

The mission of 9 Lives Rescue Inc is to identify cats that are homeless, unwanted, abused, or otherwise in need of aid, and to bring those cats to safety; to provide the best individualized outcomes for the cats in our care, ideally finding appropriate, loving, permanent homes for them, thereby enriching the lives of both people and cats through personalized adoptions.

9 Lives Rescue Inc is an all-volunteer, foster-based, nonprofit cat rescue serving South Central Wisconsin. Our rescue was founded in 2016 and became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit a few years later. Since then, 9 Lives has adopted out hundreds of cats and kittens per year to wonderful individuals and families.

We are based in Middleton, Wisconsin, and our area of focus is local cats in need. There are countless cats in Madison and Dane County that are unwanted where they are – and yet there are many people in the area who are looking to adopt a lifetime feline friend. We do our best to bring cats out of danger, bring them to full health, and then connect them with adopters.

Our organization is foster based, which means that the cats we rescue are placed with individuals and families who volunteer to care for them until they are adopted to permanent homes. We don’t have a building or central location. We believe cats are better off in a home environment whenever possible and not confined in enclosures. Our foster homes are distributed around Madison and in surrounding communities.

We depend on volunteers to foster cats, and also to accomplish all other aspect of our program; we have no paid staff. We have teams for every job such as processing adoption applications, coordinating adoptions, providing medical care to cats in need, hosting adoption fairs and marketing on social media.