Volcano Cat Sanctuary

Volcano Cat Sanctuary Volcano Cat Sanctuary is a 501c3 nonprofit cat rescue committed to the well-being of all animals on Hawai'i Island.

We are currently fostering kittens ages 4 weeks to 12 weeks and assisting with adoptions.

We are honored to introduce Loko Moco to you. This tiny being was scooped up by a caring community member in the middle ...
01/20/2025

We are honored to introduce Loko Moco to you. This tiny being was scooped up by a caring community member in the middle of a busy road in Hilo, thinking that she was injured. Thank goodness she is ok, now in loving foster care by the finder. This precious princess is available for pre-adoption, as she is still to little to get spayed.

You can message, dm or email us if she is the one for you, and if we don’t pre-adopt her this week, she will join us at our upcoming adoption event at the Kohala Coffee Co. at the Puna Kai Shopping Center this coming Saturday!!

🎉😻 Our second Adoption Event this new year is coming up soon!! 😻🎉Join us and our precious rescue kitties on Saturday, Ja...
01/19/2025

🎉😻 Our second Adoption Event this new year is coming up soon!! 😻🎉

Join us and our precious rescue kitties on Saturday, January 25th, at the Kohala Coffee Co. at the Puna Kai Shopping Center from 2-4pm!

Meet these house panthers, fur babies, healers, tiny precious Hawaiian rescued kitty cats, ready for pre-adoption and adoption!! Several are severely bonded and paired up already, ready to go to their wonderful furrever homes!

We can’t wait to meet you on Saturday, beloved Big Island kitty cat Ohana!!

😻🐾🌋🐈‍⬛💫💓🐈🌺🌈

https://volcanocatsanctuary.org/adopt

💃🎉🕺The Squirrel update we were all hoping and waiting for: “She is doing great! She and my calico took a bit longer to g...
01/17/2025

💃🎉🕺The Squirrel update we were all hoping and waiting for:

“She is doing great! She and my calico took a bit longer to get along and my calico will still hiss at her but they play together ALL THE TIME. I think my calico is just reminding Squirrel who was here first lol.”

🐿️ 💓🤎💓🐿️



Meet dear Hafa and Adai! These two precious beings were found dumped at a parking lot, completely lost and forlorn. One ...
01/17/2025

Meet dear Hafa and Adai! These two precious beings were found dumped at a parking lot, completely lost and forlorn. One of our amazing fosters kindly took them in, giving their all to sooth them, letting them know that they are safe now. ❤️‍🩹

With our committed foster’s ongoing care, they are slowly relaxing, trying so hard to trust humans. 🙏🐾 They are still on the skittish side and we don’t blame them.

Just look at them, how beautiful are they?? These two precious boys might not be the common adopters first choice. They will need that sweet, caring extra step from the right adopter who understands that not all kitties come as cuddlers right away. But if you know, you know. That tiny extra effort and patience provided, comes with endless joy and blessings.

If you think you might be the one, please reach out to us. These two beautiful boys so deserve their forever homes. ⭐️🏡🖤💘🖤💫

One of our many goals is to adopt out two kittens to one home. They need each other, as much as they need a safe, caring...
01/16/2025

One of our many goals is to adopt out two kittens to one home. They need each other, as much as they need a safe, caring home provided by caring humans. There are countless advantages when you adopt two kitties, not only when you are not at home, but also for them to play and have each other’s backs.

Here are two recent, wonderful examples. All of these four kitties did not come from the same litter, yet they were adopted out in pairs, carefully selected.

Both adopters’ feed back is joy! Joy! Joy!

Let us help you with matching two kitties into your wonderful home.

www.volcanocatsanctuary.org

Edit: 2 Precious pictures added from two other very happy adopters of 2 kitties who posted in the comments - they are just way too cute to not include them here. 😻😻

Here a few of our kitties who found amazing furrever homes recently. We are just so very grateful for our kitty Ohana wh...
01/16/2025

Here a few of our kitties who found amazing furrever homes recently. We are just so very grateful for our kitty Ohana who continues to show up and cares so very deeply. It for sure takes a village, to rescue, care, foster, medicate, get them healthy and finally altered.

This is a shout out to all of our amazing fosters and adopters.

You so rock. ❤️‍🩹💖🕺💃🤟

If you are interested to foster, adopt or donate to our fledgling Sanctuary, please follow us on fb, insta, and TikTok.

Here is our website, we have an endless stream of purrfect rescued cutie pies available for foster and adoption:

https://volcanocatsanctuary.org/

20 of these were ours. We are so grateful for everyone at Aloha Animal Oasis who makes all of this possible!!! 🐾🫶
01/15/2025

20 of these were ours. We are so grateful for everyone at Aloha Animal Oasis who makes all of this possible!!! 🐾🫶

🩶🫶🤍 Sweet Esteban is very patiently waiting to get the wires connected to his furrever home, which we know is out there!...
01/15/2025

🩶🫶🤍 Sweet Esteban is very patiently waiting to get the wires connected to his furrever home, which we know is out there! The universe just needs to help get the message to his persons’ heart(s) …

💗🧚🪢📫📩💘

Esteban is a very good boy, melts in your lap and is incredible with his two baby foster brothers, which he took under his fluffy wings. But our foster just got four tiny needy forlorn kittens distributed by the never ending kitty distribution system and so we are calling loudly to now help us deliver Esteban to his destined home!!!! 🙏🐾🏡💘🙏

Please reach out to us via text, dm or email if this adorable, sweet, beautiful boy is welcome in your heart, home - and on your lap!

01/15/2025

Back in December we had the first estimate done to begin land clearing for our new sanctuary location.

And booooyyyy yo, it is not going to be cheap! But we are so excited to keep taking these steps closer to having more space for not only kittens, but also adult, and also older kitties to be.

We get so many requests every day that we are not able to fulfill, kitties who have nowhere easy to go.

Of course even once the sanctuary opens, we will still only be able to help a fraction of the need that comes to us. But it will still be more, it will still be something.

We’ve just found someone to begin clearing the land a couple of weeks from now, so stay tuned to watch the transformation as our sanctuary comes together!

-The Volcano Cat Sanctuary Fam 🐈‍⬛🌺🌋🌈🐾

Here is our new website, with donation links:

https://volcanocatsanctuary.org/

🌖 Moonbeam did so great at our adoption event yesterday! What a gentle, dear, sweet soul. 🌜She was found at a local tran...
01/13/2025

🌖 Moonbeam did so great at our adoption event yesterday! What a gentle, dear, sweet soul.

🌜She was found at a local transfer station one evening in December, hungry and forlorn, and wandered right into our founder’s arms! This fairy has the most beautiful green eyes and stunning fur. She is currently with a foster who helps her to shine as brightly as she is destined to!

If your vibes are more towards a gentle fairy moon being, who basically just wants to be held and be near you, please reach out to us! 🧚💚🌖🫶

You can dm, text or email us.

Mahalo! 🧚💚🌈🌛

www.volcanocatsanctuary.com

We had such a great kitty adoption event today!!!! 🥰🐾😍🐾🥰Seven of our beloved munchkins got pre-adopted and we found a n...
01/13/2025

We had such a great kitty adoption event today!!!! 🥰🐾😍🐾🥰

Seven of our beloved munchkins got pre-adopted and we found a new amazing foster for 2 bonded kitties, and likely a home for an eighth!!!!

We are so grateful for this caring, amazing community. 🫶🙏🐾

You make all of this possible. 😻💗

Mahalo for caring. Mahalo for keeping us going. We are so grateful. 💖

Please check out our website and our posts in the coming days, to see which of our rescued sweeties still need their very own furrever homes. So we can rescue more kitties in need!! 🙏🐾🏝️

https://volcanocatsanctuary.org/

Our next Adoption Event will be at Kohala Coffee Co. at the Puna Kai Shopping Center on Saturday, January 25th, from 2-4pm.

🐾💖😻🌈🌺🐈‍⬛🤟🐈🏝️🌋

So much help and support among so much pain. 🥹🫶🐾🙏
01/12/2025

So much help and support among so much pain. 🥹🫶🐾🙏

01/11/2025

Here’s an update on one of our most recent emergency rescued munchkins.

She is doing better! Her little body is getting a little bit stronger,
She’s becoming SO affectionate.

Turn up the volume and listen to her powerful little purr!

She’s got a ways to go, but we are moving in such a hopeful direction.

BUT, she needs a name!
Can you help us with it?

A $50 minimum donation and you can name this precious baby girl - name this angel being, donate a little, and help her fight to stay around!! 🐾🙏🐾🐾🙏🙏

Can you bless her with a beautiful name,
And support our work rescuing kittens on the Island of Hawaii?

https://linktr.ee/volcano_cat_sanctuary

These cutie patootie kittens will be up for adoption soon, and in the meantime they need wonderful names to bring them g...
01/10/2025

These cutie patootie kittens will be up for adoption soon, and in the meantime they need wonderful names to bring them good juju on their path to forever homes. 🏡✨

For everyone who donates $50 or more to us, just put a note letting us know which one you want to name, and what their new name will be!

Let us know if the name is for:

Tortie kitten
Medium hair black kitten
Orange kitten
Short hair black kitten

Want to name one in honor of a pet who has passed?

If you’re not in a position to have animals anymore, but want to support rescues in another way, name one of these babies after a beloved fur family member to honor their memory.

If there was ever a time to support animal rescues, this is it.
Your help makes a big difference.

https://linktr.ee/volcano_cat_sanctuary

Mahalo! 🌺🐾💞🐈‍⬛🙏

01/09/2025

PLEASE SHARE FOR LA RESCUES & MISSING PET OWNERS.

WHAT Kitty Charm Farm LEARNED FROM THE MAUI FIRES

CATS SURVIVE.
We were told no one could have survived. We were told not to come. But nearly 1000 survivors were trapped in Lahaina area alone. So many cats were rescued that we needed a warehouse here on Maui. Many animals perished because food and help did not come quick enough. This is always the case- there are ALWAYS animals waiting for rescue. Some dogs, wildlife- but most will be cats.

DO NOT ASSUME YOUR PET DIED.
Pets often 'go feral' after severe trauma. It will never hurt to call them, but most won't show face. Don't give up! They need to be trapped. Pets are STILL being found after the Maui fires. Alert your microchip company that your cat is missing and make sure they have multiple contacts for you. Create a lost pet flier with original address, photo, chip #, collar description, any special marks cat may have, and all the ways to reach you. Soon there will be hubs to post these (there are a handful of people who work on all fires nationwide, databases links are now posted below)

FEEDING STATIONS ARE NEEDED RIGHT NOW.
The animals need to be sustained with water and food until professional trappers can get in. They hunker under burned cars, climb down into storm drains, and make themselves invisible - but they are there, and they will come out at night looking for food. In our case, the county made it very hard for our local humane society to get in and sustain the animals - is was 3 weeks after the fire was out that they finally got in, and that was after pet owners began protesting at City Hall every day & going on the news demanding that their animals be rescued. You would think large organizations like Humane Society's would be considered first responders and have ample access, but that is not often the case.

**FOR AREAS NOT ON LOCKDOWN**
Set up food & water on street corners. It helps to hang a sign “LOST PET FEEDING STATION- PLEASE FILL”. You can leave a few gallon jugs of water & a giant bag of food under each sign. Knock on doors of homes still standing to see if you can “assign” someone to fill the stations each night (cats come out PMs). Swap phone numbers & track location. Traps & motion detection cameras can be added in the future- for now, these animals need to be sustained. Some may have serious injuries and will need to get out.

** FOR AREAS THAT ARE ON LOCKDOWN**
If all traffic is stopped, as was the case in Lahaina after 3 days, please know that the individual army national guards were very helpful. We brought 50 pound bags of food, empty plastic bags, plastic bowls & gallon jugs of water to each security entrance, and asked them to offer it to front line workers who are driving in to place inside. If they dont agree, remain friendly and come back and meet the next one. The job gets boring and visitors become welcome. We also set up a sample feeding station which cats used AT the security checkpoint which we manned ourselves. Place a rock inside the bowls so they don’t blow away- then fill. Many animals had to make it the boarders to sustain themselves as no one was allowed in and it was many miles square. Unfortunately LA has a much bigger and less defined boarder so a boarder feeding program will only work in some areas.

At every security checkpoint, we posted a flier facing the cars driving in:

“FRONTLINE WORKERS - PLEASE TAKE PET FEEDING KITS TO PLACE ON THE INSIDE. IF AN ANIMAL IS SPOTTED THERE ARE CARRIERS STATIONED HERE FOR YOUR USE. IF YOU SEE OR CATCH AN ANIMAL IN NEED, CALL ###-###-###X. WE CAN PROVIDE TRAPPING, SCANNING, VET.”

MUNICIPAL SHELTERS, LARGE RESCUES OFTEN GET FEMA FUNDING.
Find out the closest 24 hr emergency vet and see if they are taking in victims for free. Open admission shelters must take any animal you find, but they can also euthanize them when they could be treatable. If you are an individual helping, or your rescue does not have a vet on staff, start networking with nonprofits who have access to vet care. Burned animals require a lot of care.

POST WHAT YOU NEED ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
People are generous! Ask for a warehouse, cages, scanners, fosters, vets, vet techs, cages, food, litter – ask and you shall receive! Set up an amazon wish list. Be prepared for A LOT of supplies to arrive. If you have available housing, open it to experienced rescuers who can help you. 90% of our expenses were vet related, but we also took in a lot of injured animals. Cash is the best donation – open a fundraiser. It’s best to declare where any extra funds will go in advance so people feel safe to donate. Example, 100% of the money will be used for LA fire rescue - if there are any unused funds they will be donated to our local pet food bank.

IF YOU ARE DONATING
The large municipal shelters and national rescues will receive a lot of funding, possibly more than they can spend. Many also get FEMA funding and grants. Any donation is a great one, but we encourage you to look for grassroots organizations to support who are already out there feeding and trapping. Look for the doers who dont have time to do the PR, but will need your support. Be sure to label your donation "for LA fire rescue 2025" if you dont want your money used for other purposes. It's the law that is used as you designate. No designation, it can be used for anything. General fund donations are also needed - it's up to you where it goes.

IF YOU LIVE IN LA & WANT TO HELP.
Get food & water out in the burned areas where you are allowed to be. Place food and water on the boarders if you cant get in. Give feeding kits to guard stations to place. If you spot an animal TAKE A PICTURE and call your local feral cat trapping organization, they are usually scrappy, move quickly, and can help. (Update- for Pasadena there is a dispatch line through Pasadena Humane)

We have set up a fostering page for those who can offer their home, or need one. It's LA Fire Fosters

If you have a missing pet, be sure to fill out the following database form, which is accessed by experienced fire rescuers who match unrecognizable pets and pets with bad microchip information.

LOST CAT FORM
https://bit.ly/LAlostcatform

LOST DOG FORM
https://bit.ly/LAlostdogform

LOST OTHER ANIMAL FORM
https://bit.ly/LAlostanimalform

FOUND CAT FORM
https://bit.ly/LAfoundcatform

FOUND DOG FORM
https://bit.ly/LAfounddogform

FOUND OTHER ANIMAL FORM
https://bit.ly/LAfoundanimalform

* Photo is a live shot of a Lahaina resident running cats out to our rescue van once the fire was out. Her house burned to the ground. While looking for her own cats who sadly perished, she saved countless others who did not.

Every fire is different. These are the things that worked for us.

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We send our sincere prayers and continous thoughts of care and concern to all rescues, sanctuaries, animals and people a...
01/09/2025

We send our sincere prayers and continous thoughts of care and concern to all rescues, sanctuaries, animals and people affected by the fires in California. 🙏 May you and the animals be safe.

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Meet our newest bambini!! Dante, Amore, Fabio and Giovanni were dumped at a ranch and brought to one of our incredible fosters. They are very scared and shy but with tender loving care, positive re-enforcement and calm surroundings they will learn how to relax and trust and blossom. Vi vogliamo bene, piccolini!! ❤️‍🩹❤️

Back in December we had the first estimate done to begin land clearing for our new sanctuary location. And booooyyyy yo, it is not going to be cheap! But we are so excited to keep taking these steps closer to having more space for not only kittens, but also adult, and also older kitties to be. We get so many requests every day that we are not able to fulfill, kitties who have nowhere easy to go. Of course even once the sanctuary opens, we will still only be able to help a fraction of the need that comes to us. But it will still be more, it will still be something. We’ve just found someone to begin clearing the land a couple of weeks from now, so stay tuned to watch the transformation as our sanctuary comes together! -The Volcano Cat Sanctuary Fam 🐈‍⬛🌺🌋🌈🐾 Here is our new website, with donation links: https://volcanocatsanctuary.org/

We had such a great kitty adoption event today!!!! 🥰🐾😍🐾🥰Seven of our beloved munchkins got pre-adopted and we found a new amazing foster for 2 bonded kitties, and likely a home for an eighth!!!!We are so grateful for this caring, amazing community. 🫶🙏🐾You make all of this possible. 😻💗Mahalo for caring. Mahalo for keeping us going. We are so grateful. 💖Please check out our website and our posts in the coming days, to see which of our rescued sweeties still need their very own furrever homes. So we can rescue more kitties in need!! 🙏🐾🏝️https://volcanocatsanctuary.org/Our next Adoption Event will be at Kohala Coffee Co. at the Puna Kai Shopping Center on Saturday, January 25th, from 2-4pm. 🐾💖😻🌈🌺🐈‍⬛🤟🐈🏝️🌋

Here’s an update on one of our most recent emergency rescued munchkins. She is doing better! Her little body is getting a little bit stronger, She’s becoming SO affectionate. Turn up the volume and listen to her powerful little purr! She’s got a ways to go, but we are moving in such a hopeful direction. BUT, she needs a name! Can you help us with it? A $50 minimum donation and you can name this precious baby girl - name this angel being, donate a little, and help her fight to stay around!! 🐾🙏🐾🐾🙏🙏 Can you bless her with a beautiful name, And support our work rescuing kittens on the Island of Hawaii? https://linktr.ee/volcano_cat_sanctuary

🎊✨🐾 Happy New Year everyone! We are pleased to announce our upcoming kitty adoption events for the New Year!! 🎊🐈💝🐈‍⬛🎊 🎊 Sunday, January 12th at the Pau Hana Counseling office at 224 Kamehameha Ave., Suite 202 in Hilo from 12 to 2pm and 🎊 Saturday, January 25 at the Kohala Coffee Co. at the Puna Kai Shopping Center in Pahoa from 2pm to 4pm Come by and meet us and all of our sweet rescue babies who are guaranteed to steal your heart!! 💘💝 We will have bunches of cute, sweet and adorable kittens available for adoption and pre-adoption. All of our kittens are always vaccinated, spayed or neutered upon adoption, microchipped, and treated for fleas, worms, and parasites. When you pre-adopt one (or two 💓💓) of our kittens, we will hold that kitten for you and make sure they get the proper care they need until they are ready to be spayed or neutered, and then you will be able to take home your kitten as soon as they are fixed! 🏡🎁 Mahalo and happy, blessed abundant and joyful healthy New Year!! 🌟🎊❤️

Can you believe it?
Can you believe it?

We were able to find wonderful homes for 120 kittens this year, since we started our organization in the middle of 2024! It’s incredible to see all their faces and know each of them. To know that each of their lives will be totally different because of the efforts of people coming together, because of the generosity of good humans who care for their fellow creatures. “We cannot save them all, but for each one saved, we make a difference.” Each and every one of these beings changed us all too. Every single being, no matter how small, is worth our time and love. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible in 2024. We can’t wait to meet more beautiful beings in 2025! It is a pleasure, an honor, and a privilege to help all the kitties of the island! Thanks for being on this journey with us! 🐈‍⬛ 🌋🏝️

🌔🌖 Meet Moonbeam! 🌔🌖 One of our cofounders rescued her from the Keaau transfer station, where she had seen her several times and was finally able to grab her. She’s about six months old and is in heat, so we grabbed her just in time before she started having kittens, thank goodness! 😮‍💨 🌔 Moonbeam was clearly dumped, as our cofounder was able to grab her by hand without a lot of fuss. She is going to take a little while to trust again as she started out really scared and confused, but already is making a lot of progress. She’s headed to a foster today to support her socialization & learning that humans can be a safe and loving place. You can see her cuddled up in the cofounder’s lap and making lots of biscuits just after being rescued! 🥰🌙🐈🌖 🌔 Moonbeam is available for preadoption. 🌙 This beautiful little princess received her name from a generous donor who wanted to participate in our Name-A-Newbie program. We are very grateful for the donation and for the beautiful name! If you would also like to name one of our new sweet intakes, just put a note letting us know you want to “Name a Newbie” by donating $50 or more towards our Sanctuary, which will be breaking ground early next year on a new site near Volcanoes National Park! To submit interest in pre-adoption, and to send us a donation, you can find our forms here: https://volcanocatsanctuary.org/ 🌔🌖Welcome to our little kitty community, Moonbeam! 🌖🌔 🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙🌙

Brownie went to her fabulous furrever home yesterday. 🙏♥️🥹🐾We couldn’t be any happier for our sweet girl, who had such a rough start. In true Brownie fashion, she’s fallen in love with her new mama bear, and is cuddling her like crazy, and following around everywhere. “She is my shadow. I don’t have any cats that do this. I love her!”“Oh my goodness 😍Well, she is so special. She goes and explores just a little bit, then runs back up to me. I love that she is shy.”🐈‍⬛😍💝🥁🌴

🌟Squirrel’s Holiday wish is that she will find a loving forever family to ring in the new year with. Her wish is that someone is dreaming of a gorgeous tabby girl, like a little house lynx, to prowl into their heart & home in time to ring in the new year. She’s written her letter to Santa, asking for rubs on her spotted belly, a cozy spot to curl up, and lots of cuddles and scratches! She’s currently in an incredibly loving foster home, with one of our caretakers, getting lots of amazing socialization, and love, after a rough start like so many others that our rescue babies experience. Squirrel and her siblings were found outside by one of our volunteers as they were driving home. The kitten family were just wandering around near some mailboxes! Originally dubbed the “mailbox kitties” they were a bit older than most of our rescues, but adapted to home-life very quickly. Squirrel can be a teeny bit shy at first, but is very affectionate and playful once she opens up, and at almost 6 months old she’s already gotten her wildest mischief over with, so she’s perfect for a family who wants a kitten but doesn’t want to deal with the chaos that younger ones can bring. She loves attention, but is also capable of being an independent kitty for some of the day, so not the clingy one who will follow you around demanding and scratching at your legs all the time. Will you help her find her furr-ever home? Squirrel is ready to curl up in your heart. She’s a staff favorite, for sure. 🥰🧶🐈🐾✨🎉😻 Are you ready for a gorgeous little house lynx? Make Squirrel’s holiday wishes come true. #kittenrescue #christmaswishlist #wishcometrue #cutekitten #tabby #tabbycat #christmasmiracle

Merry Christmas from one of our wonderful adopters … ✨🌟✨🤣🐾🐾🎄 “Benny & Joon had da best 1st Christmas. 🎄 They. Shredded. Everything. 😂 They ate bfast. Shredded their presents open and then shredded the rest of the paper. Lol. It’s nap time. Mele Kalikimaka, VCS!” 🎄✨🎁🐈🐈🎁✨🎄

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