Columbia Gorge Cat Rescue

Covid 19 update

We are pleased to announce the reopening of our Feral Cat and Stray Spay/Neuter Program.

Our check in system will look different, and our clinic capacity will be reduced until restrictions are further lifted. But we are excited to be back to work, serving the cats that need our care and the community that depends on us. Intakes are not available at present.

At this time, we are prioritizing female adults, and those whose appointments were affected by our closure.

Please do not trap prior to an appt.  Make an appt here

Our Mission: To end “cat abandonment” in all of its forms.

Our Methods:  Trap/Neuter/Return Program; Adoption of friendly cats; Early spay/neuter. 

Our Madness: We believe we can reinvent the way people think about cats and reduce cat overpopulation and suffering.

HOW TO HELP DURING COVID 19 Restrictions and KITTEN SEASON 

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• Foster: If you are knowledgeable about cats, fostering orphaned kittens may be needed until we can transfer them to a shelter. 

• Care for Kittens:  At 2-3 weeks, kittens must be bottle-fed every few hours. If you are able to foster small kittens.

• We need our community to partner with us more than ever to help us help cats, since ALL shelters are restricted to not allow intake of community cats.

• Any free roaming cats in need please help as best you can by continuing to feed and shelter them.

• Donations - for supplies of cardboard carriers when we reopen are appreciated as we will be required to use cardboard for any transport.

Columbia Gorge Cat Rescue is a nonprofit volunteer group dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and placing the community’s abandoned, neglected and injured cats and kittens into loving, lifetime homes. We are a group of individuals committed to helping cats in our community.  Our goal is to help with the problem of cat over-population.

We are not a shelter; we are a rescue group that provides spay and neuter services for stray and feral cats in our community. Adoptable cats are placed in foster homes while they await their new home or taken to our Petco adoption partners in Portland. We are 100% privately funded through donations and grants and all of our money is spent on the cats' care. We do pay our vets who offer their services to our clinic.

Because of the number of homeless cats who need our help, we do not intake pets.

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Our service area includes Hood River County, northern Wasco County in OR; part of Skamania County, and western Klickitat County in WA.  

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More specifically - The Columbia River Gorge Corridor from the west end :  The Bridge of the Gods to the Dalles Bridge at the east end and including:

North Bonneville in Skamania Co; the communities along Hwy. 141 -Trout Lake, Snowden, Klickatat  and Glenwood in Klickitat Co.;  and  Dufur in Wasco Co.

Click the arrow to see our adoptable cats and kittens

Barn Homes Needed- 

Barn homes are on hold until we can resume intake.  If you fill out a form we will keep it on file until relocating cats in danger can resume.

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If you can provide a home for feral kittens and cats please fill out our Barn Home Application ... Thank you.

Need Help ?

Our volunteer organization exists to help homeless cats in the Columbia River Gorge.

We are a small group of volunteers, we are not available 24/7. However, we very much want to help.

If you have an emergency Please use our Emergency Link for a quicker response 

The Gorge is a unique area with many small communities and juridictions that politically are not connected.  We have fixed over 6300 cats since 2007 throughout this varied landscape of towns and jurisdictions spanning both sides of the Columbia River.   Our small, dedicated, volunteer forces have made this happen.