Welcome to the Catnip Society

IT'S COMING!

Kitten season is almost upon us.  With this winter's warmer weather, love has been in the air and now the darling results are appearing.

Catnip Society is committed to saving and finding wonderful, forever homes for these precious beings, but we need your help.
Because we do not have a shelter, we depend on compassionate people to take in and foster these babies until homes can be found for them.

We will place them on our website and on Petfinders as soon as they are ready for adoption.  While in foster care Catnip will vaccinate and arrange for spaying/neutering at the appropriate age.  Fostering is a wonderful way to help.  If you are interested in becoming a foster parent please contact Catnip Society at info@catnipsociety.org or call 742-1023.

There is also a tremendous need for donations to continue to make possible the lifesaving work that Catnip does.  We are a local non-profit organization made up of local people, committed to helping our communities cats, domestic and feral.  We receive no government funding.

In tough economic times there is an even greater need for caring people to work together to help the least fortunate.  Donations of any amount are welcome, it is what we can do together that adds up.

Please send what you can to:
Catnip Society
Box 5008-304
Mariposa, CA 95338

Our Adoptable Cat page is now up-to-date! Please check it out if you need a new best friend!

• Cats are unable to eat many things such as chocolate, Tylenol, avocado, poinsettia, lily-of-the-valley, and morning glory. They are all poisonous and sometimes deadly to cats.
  
  
• Cats can taste sweet things.
  
  
• A cat will not eat its food if it is unable to smell it. The cat has 17 million nerve cells in its nose, which are used to trace smells around its environment.
  
  
• The indoor cat has a longer life span than an outdoor cat.
  
  
• A one year old cat is equivalent to an 18 year old human.
  
  
• Cats are able to find their way home using the magnetic field on earth, the sun, and their own biological clocks.

• Cats have the best vision and in the dark their eyes become more like ears, the reason being that their pupils can pick up acoustic vibrations.
  
  
• Cats have the ability to see color.
  
  
• Cats are able to hear sounds that move faster than 45,000 hertz. They could hear the sound of a bat.
  
  
• Kittens when they are born have closed ear canals that don't begin to open for nine to ten days.
  
  
• When a kitten is born they are unable to hunt as this must be taught to them by their mothers.
  
  
• The average cat food meal is equivalent to five medium-size mice.