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The Cat Adoption & Rescue Playbook: The Complete Guide for Adopters, Fosters, and Community Cat Trappers
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What you’ll get
Useful from the first page.
About 3 Million Cats Entered US Shelters in 2025. About 277,000 Were Euthanised. This Book Helps You Change Those Numbers, One Cat at a Time.
A 91-page practical playbook in three parts: for adopters, for community cat trappers, and for fosters and rescues. Every chapter gives you a step-by-step method plus a checklist, template or table you can use straight away, and all 13 forms and logs are collected at the back as one-page printables.
INSIDE:
- Adoption Readiness Assessment (10-question checklist to prevent returns)
- Cat Matching Guide by lifestyle (busy professional, family, first-timer, senior, multi-cat household)
- Cat-Proofing Checklist (10-step home preparation)
- Essential Supplies List with cost estimates
- 3-3-3 Adjustment Framework (Days 1–3, Days 4–21, Days 22–90)
- Multi-Cat Introduction Protocol (4-week step-by-step)
- TNR Fundamentals with TNR vs. trap-and-remove comparison
- Complete TNR Process (7 steps from assessment to return)
- Trapper's Supply Checklist with costs
- Cat Socialisation Spectrum (4 levels with adoption potential for each)
- 4-Week Socialisation Protocol for semi-feral cats
- Adoption Application Framework (8 essential questions)
- Adoption Matching Matrix (6 cat profiles with ideal adopter, trial period, follow-up schedule)
- Post-Adoption Follow-Up System (Day 3 through Day 30)
- Colony Log Template (printable tracking sheet for colony management)
Good to know
- Instant digital download (PDF, 91 pages). Nothing physical is shipped.
- Printables may be copied freely for your own rescue or volunteer work.
- General guidance, not veterinary or legal advice. Shelter figures are ASPCA / Shelter Animals Count 2025 national estimates.