Working Cat Placement

Accepts donations of pet supplies (food, litter, leashes, medications), household items (towels, blankets, cleaning products), office supplies, and specialty items (vehicles, pop-up tents) through wish lists and donation programs to support shelter and animal care operations.

Accepts bequests through wills and planned gifts including bank accounts, retirement assets, life insurance, securities, charitable trusts, and real estate to support long-term animal care initiatives.

Accepts donations of cars, trucks, vans, RVs, and boats with free pickup to support animal care programs.

Provides enrichment and socialization for shelter animals through programs such as Dog Day Out, which allows adoptable dogs to spend time outside the shelter, and the Cuddle Team, which offers private cuddle sessions with puppies and kittens at workplaces and public events.

Rescues, rehabilitates, and adopts out over 5,500 animals annually, including animals seized from cruelty situations and those rescued from research facilities, with a no-kill policy ensuring all adoptable animals are placed regardless of length of stay.

Places unsocialized or feral cats into outdoor working environments such as barns, stables, farms, sheds, breweries, and warehouses, providing them with safe, enriching homes while offering adopters natural pest control.

Operates a 27,000-square-foot Animal Rescue Center open to the public seven days a week, with extended hours on Thursdays and Fridays, to support animal care and adoption services.

Operates a humane law enforcement unit authorized by New York State to investigate animal cruelty complaints involving dogs, cats, horses, exotics, and farm animals in Westchester County.

Provides affordable spay and neuter services, wellness examinations, vaccinations, and disease testing to the public through Cody's Clinic, which has spayed and neutered more than 80,000 dogs and cats since 1983.

Provides lifesaving surgery and extensive medical treatment to homeless and abused animals through the Mend a Friend Fund, including emergency care for severely injured animals such as puppies with head trauma and neglected horses requiring medical, dental, and farrier care.

Supports animal care through volunteer-driven activities including dog walking, cat socialization, event assistance, and off-site adoption events using a mobile adoption unit, as well as hosting corporate days of service and educational tours for youth groups.

Operates an adoption process that matches cats with adopters based on lifestyle and expectations to promote successful, lifelong placements.

Provides initial feeding, bedding, and basic shelter for feral cat colonies as part of ongoing population management efforts.

Funds spaying and neutering of rescue and feral cats through partnerships with charitable veterinary organizations to support population control.

Implements humane Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) programs to manage feral, stray, and homeless cat populations, including spay/neuter services and colony management. Operates primarily in Webster and Ontario, NY, and surrounding areas.

Relocates stray and orphaned cats to barns and other properties where they can serve as working cats in humane population control roles.

Provides spayed/neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, dewormed, and FIV/FeLV-tested feral and semi-feral cats to outdoor structures such as barns and sheds for natural rodent control, supporting humane population management and community needs.

Operates a cat and kitten adoption program at its Cortland shelter and at PetSmart in DeWitt, NY, adopting over 500 cats and kittens annually. All cats are vaccinated, spayed/neutered, microchipped, dewormed, and tested for FeLV/FIV prior to adoption, with a policy requiring young kittens to be adopted in pairs unless the adopter already has a young cat at home.