2026 Winter Update

It’s been a busy year! We have...

fixed 537 cats !!

found adoptive homes for 317 cats this year !!

A huge thank you to our community and volunteers and donors for

assisting us in our endeavor to reduce the homeless cat populations.

Unfortunately, due to staffing shortages our spay/neuter clinic is now closed for the 2026 winter season, reopening in the spring. We care about the cats in our community and know this is frustrating not to have local access to the help you need.

If you have an emergency situation of abandoned kittens, or injured cats, we will respond to you as soon as we can. Please see our emergency form >click here<

We are always in need help to. So if you are interested in volunteering to help please fill out our volunteer form - we are specifically looking for clinic support and vet techs to help us prepare for the reopening. >click here<

Also we are always in need of fosters >click here<

We will not maintain a wait list so if you require our assistance in the spring please resubmit a form in March 2026

Here are some local resources for assistance in the meantime:

Shelters
https://www.gorgecat.org/resources

Spay and neuter
https://www.feralcats.com/form
https://www.oregonhumane.org/services/spay-neuter-assistance/

Thank you for caring about the cats. If you can assist any stray cat this winter with food and shelter you will be helping.

- CGCR Team

To qualify for our services, the cat(s) must be feral, stray, or abandoned cats and kittens that are not living as part of a human family.

If you have abandoned kittens, our foster program is limited as well, but open and ready to help .

If you have a large colony of over 6 adult cats we suggest you reach out to the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon which has the capacity for larger sites. https://www.feralcats.com/

If you have found a cat please understand we DO NOT have a shelter and cannot offer medical or intake services (other than medical emergencies). You must post the kitty as lost/found online or with posters and document it FOR 30 DAYS in order for us to put you on a wait list for help.

Don't be a Kitten-Napper! Not all kittens you find are orphans!! Here’s great info on what to do if you find kittens. Once you have gone thru these steps keep us posted. Refer to this site: https://www.alleycat.org/community-cat-care/finding-kittens-outdoors/

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Our Mission: To end “cat abandonment” in all of its forms.

Our Methods: Trap/Neuter/Return Program; Adoption of friendly cats; Early spay/neuter.

Our Madness: We believe we can reinvent the way people think about cats and reduce cat overpopulation and suffering.

Barn Homes Needed

If you can provide a home for feral kittens and cats please fill out our Barn Home Application ...

We have healthy, sterilized cats in desperate need of new outdoor homes. These cats are feral (semi-wild) and need to live at a farm, horse stable, warehouse, plant nursery, or other suitable outdoor location.

Veterinarian care has been given (sterilized, , distemper shot, and exam). No adoption fee will be assessed but we ask for a donation. The property owners only responsibility will be to provide daily food/water, protection from the elements, and long-term care. After a short period of secure confinement, the cats will accept your barn as their new home.

The cats will keep rodents away from grain and food storage areas and buidlings. If you own or manage property and have permission for long-term placement of animals on the property, please contact us!

Columbia Gorge Cat Rescue helps to reunite missing cats in our area with their families through Petco’s Love Lost program.

Columbia Gorge Cat Rescue is a nonprofit volunteer group dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and placing the community’s abandoned, neglected and injured cats and kittens into loving, lifetime homes. We are a group of individuals committed to helping cats in our community. Our goal is to help with the problem of cat over-population.

Click the arrow to see our adoptable cats and kittens

We are not a shelter; we are a rescue group that provides spay and neuter services for stray and feral cats in our community. Adoptable cats are placed in foster homes while they await their new home or taken to our Petco adoption partners in the Portland area. We are 100% privately funded through donations and grants and all of our money is spent on the cats' care. We do pay our vets who offer their services to our clinic. You are welcome to support our cause by donating. Every little bit helps.

Because of the number of homeless cats who need our help, we do not intake pets.

Stray & Feral

cats Qualify

Spay/Neuter We can Help

To help fight feline overpopulation we offer a donation based spay and neuter clinic for stray and feral cats

PLEASE NOTE: Our service area includes Hood River County, northern Wasco County in OR; part of Skamania County, and western Klickitat County in WA.

More specifically - The Columbia River Gorge Corridor from the west end : The Bridge of the Gods to the Dalles Bridge at the east end and including: North Bonneville in Skamania Co; the communities along Hwy. 141 -Trout Lake, Snowden, Klickatat and Glenwood in Klickitat Co. and Dufur in Wasco Co.

Hope for the future

Need Help ?

Our volunteer organization exists to help homeless cats in the Columbia River Gorge.

We are a small group of volunteers, we are not available 24/7. However, we very much want to help.

If you have an emergency Please use our Emergency Link for a quicker response

The Gorge is a unique area with many small communities and juridictions that politically are not connected. We have fixed over 6300 cats since 2007 throughout this varied landscape of towns and jurisdictions spanning both sides of the Columbia River. Our small, dedicated, volunteer forces have made this happen.