Dallas Cat Rescue

We urge you to exhaust all other resources and alternatives before surrendering your cat to an open-intake shelter. This helps shelters ensure resources are available for the pets that need it most — those who are lost, displaced, homeless, injured, or sick. Also, depending on the time of year and the capacity of the shelter, they may have to make the difficult decision to euthanize your cat. Older cats and shy cats tend to not do well in the shelter environment.

Cat Matchers is not a municipal intake shelter! We can only take in cats/kittens when we have space in our all-volunteer powered foster homes.

Did you adopt from Cat Matchers?

If you adopted your pet from Cat Matchers, we will always take our cats back. Please reach out to us at catmatchers@yahoo.com, contact us on social media or call us at 972-458-7877. We will need your name and approximate date/year you adopted, and reason for the return so that we can locate the adoption information. Please do not wait until the last minute on this, as we are an all-volunteer powered organization, and we must create room in our always full foster homes for any cat(s) returned.

If you didn’t adopt from Cat Matchers, here are some options:

• Did you adopt from any other rescue? Most take their animals back. Contact them.
• Ask family, friends, neighbors, etc.
• Ask your vet if they know of a client that may be looking for a cat(s).
• Post on www.nextdoor.com
• Post on https://rehome.adoptapet.com/rehome-my-cat/texas/dallas. 
• Post on all of your social media sites.
• Contact many different rescue organizations.
• If you are short on time, we suggest making a shelter appointment so you will have it in case re-homing does not work.

Best practices:

• https://resources.bestfriends.org/article/rehoming-pet-finding-good-new-home

Make sure you are giving all of the pertinent information. If you just send a generic “need to re-home my pet” your email or post may be missed. The more information you give, the better for all involved. Rescue groups tend to be staffed by volunteers who don’t have a lot of time to dig through the many requests for help and those requests without much information may be skipped over entirely. Information to include:

• The appearance, size, and age of the cat
• The cat’s name and a good photograph
• Whether the cat is spayed or neutered and its general health
• The cat’s nature and appealing qualities
• Any limitations the cat has
• Your phone number, email and other contact information and the times you can be reached