Volcano Cat Sanctuary

07/01/2025

Our first Paint and Purr event on Saturday was such a sweet success! 🎨🍷👨🏼‍🎨🐈

We even got a massive rainbow right out the window over Hilo bay as the sun set. 🌈

We ended up selling out the spaces we had!
Many colorful kitty paintings were made, laughter was heard, and snacks and sips were enjoyed.

Our kittens decided to stay in a side room, and were a lovely diversion, running and tumbling and cuddling, and doing their kitty acrobatics, along with some tender little moments with our painters.

Laurie Bauers did an expert job setting all of the amazing kits up for folks, and brought her awesome energy and love for art. 🎨

Proceeds are going towards the first stage of building much needed fencing at our permanent sanctuary site.

Stay tuned for this and some other fun events we’ve got planned, if you love kitties and want to support our work in building a Sanctuary!

Thank you Big Island art and kitty cat community! 🌺

07/01/2025

🐞❤️ Sweet Lovebug received so much attention from all the sweet keiki at yesterday’s adoption event, and he loved it!!

When this little guy was found wandering around Carlsmith Beach Park, he was scared, shy and hungry, but within a week at his caring foster his hisses turned to purrs, and his playful, cuddly, loving personality had fully blossomed! 🌺

Lovebug loves to play with toys 🧸, and while he might be a bit shy when he first meets you, soon enough he’ll be all cuddles — and when dinner’s ready? 🥣 Just tap his food bowl and you’ll hear his 4 little legs stampeding from around the corner!

This smart adorable baby boy has already learned the word “no”, so just imagine the other tricks you can teach him!

❤️ Lovebug is now available for pre-adoption! 🐞

https://new.shelterluv.com/matchme/adopt/PUNA/Cat

06/30/2025

We are so happy to share wonderful news with you! This sweet girl went HOME yesterday!!! 🎉🚙🏡

We received an adoption application recently and invited them over for a meet and greet. Although originally a different kitten sparked their interest, when they saw Esme, they did not hesitate a second and said, “That’s her. She is the one I came here for.”

🐾❤️💚❤️🐾

When they came home, she went right to the former cat’s bed, the beloved feline family member who passed a while ago and is so dearly missed.

❤️‍🩹 Welcome home Lei (short for Leilani). You are exactly where you belong.💘 We do not know your past, only that we found you forlorn at a local dumping site, and that you were sweetly and patiently waiting at our sanctuary to find the love you deserve.

You found it. 💚☀️

06/30/2025

What a delightful Kitty Adoption Event we had today, hosted by Kohala Coffee Co.!

To witness all these amazing keiki who played and stroked our rescue kitties for hours on end- it was just wonderful and heartwarming to witness. 💓🌺🐾🐈

These keiki are such a promising future - thank you parent(s) for allowing them to feel compassion and empathy and give them space and time to connect with all of our rescued kitties. 🐾💓

06/29/2025

🎉🐾 We hope to see you tomorrow!!

Our next kitten adopted event is this
Sunday, June 29th!

𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 Kitten Adoption Event

When: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Where: Kohala Coffee Co.
in the Puna Kai Shopping Center in Pahoa

What: Meet the fluffy house panthers, fur babies, purry lions, healers, tiny precious Hawaiian rescued kitty cats, ready for pre-adoption and adoption!! Several are strongly bonded and paired up, ready to go to their wonderful furrever homes! 🐾☕️🐈‍⬛

Puna Kai Shopping Center
Kohala Coffee Co.

06/28/2025

🐾 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒚 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑:

“Good morning please help me with this cat family, the mama cat just gave birth 4 weeks ago and I don’t know what to do with them, honestly there’s a lot of feral cats and stray cats that I’m taking care of and feeding them as much as I can but unfortunately we are just renting a house and I’m out of job right now, im also a widow and I’m doing side hustles right now for us to stay afloat please please help thank you very much and God bless! Here is the mama cat and her kittens photos. 🙏❤️”

We would love to help but we have just way too many kitties right now but since these four cuties are such dream boats - we hope they will find a really good home quickly! They are located in Hilo.

We will connect you with the finder, if you are interested in this beautiful family! (Moma needs to get spayed asap, babies in a little while, we can assist you with that.) 💓🐾

2 adorable videos in comments. ⬇️

06/27/2025

👨‍🎨 🍷 🐈‍⬛ Do you like to paint, meet kitties and enjoy good company? Join us tomorrow, June 28th for our first 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐫 event with artist Laurie Bauers!! We still have a few spaces available!! 🎨

Laurie will be guiding everyone through this cute kitty in a coconut painting!!
Help save lives, have fun and kick back with a libation! 🐈❤🍷

When: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Where: Pau Hana Counseling Office
224 Kamehameha Ave., Suite 202, Hilo

This event has limited space, so please register ahead of time using the QR code on the flier below!

Or go to www.lauriebauers.com under Book Online. Click the Paint and Purr book now button, click “check next availability" and the event will pop up for registration.

What’s better than a chill evening of Painting and Purring - a paint and sip event that supports local kitties on the Big Island?!
🎨 🍹🐈

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.

06/26/2025

Did we have a couple of stressful days, dear friends!! 🥹 We took our beloved Mochiko, one of our sweet rescued kittens to the Pahoa Animal Hospital as we noticed some abnormal breathing, starting on Sunday.

As they diagnosed this precious baby with an URI, they also noticed a lump that was concerning and unusual. Looking into it deeper, they found out it needed to be removed immediately. Not taking any chances, we decided to move forward to have the urgently advised surgery right away.

Mochiko is recovering right now, being monitored and loved up. 🩺💕

Caring for these tiny rescue kittens is so much touch and go, they are so very vulnerable due to imperfect circumstances which are sadly the norm, with everything we have going on here, on our beloved island in terms of sensitive, often abandoned kittens.

This vet bill is just another blow to our rescue efforts, might you be willing to help us?

06/26/2025

Have you ever seen a more adorable little house panther????

Ola takes the cake, with his big bobble head, green eyes, and cuter than cute feisty little love nugget personality.

He is so resilient too. He came to us in really rough shape, and we weren’t sure he was going to regain full use of his back legs, and he has recovered completely!

Who needs a little Ola in their life???

The meaning of “Ola”: Life, health, curable, heal, to live, to survive, to thrive.

We give gratitude every day for Ola here at Volcano Cat Sanctuary.
Do you need some Ola?

Here is our adoption form:

https://new.shelterluv.com/matchme/adopt/PUNA/Cat

06/26/2025

🎉🐾 Our next kitten adopted event is this
Sunday, June 29th!

𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 Kitten Adoption Event

When: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Where: Kohala Coffee Co.
in the Puna Kai Shopping Center in Pahoa

What: Meet the fluffy house panthers, fur babies, purry lions, healers, tiny precious Hawaiian rescued kitty cats, ready for pre-adoption and adoption!! Several are strongly bonded and paired up, ready to go to their wonderful furrever homes! 🐾☕️🐈‍⬛

We hope to see you at the Puna Kai Shopping Center on Sunday!

06/24/2025

Just sharing this ridiculous cuteness. Obviously these two found each other, even if from different mamas and rescue circumstances. They definitely need to be adopted together, do they not??!!!

Tiny dream munchkins!

https://new.shelterluv.com/matchme/adopt/PUNA/Cat