Cat Guardians — Local services in Lombard

We got our Edie-Kay a little over a year ago. This facility is clean, cats are cared for with love and genuine affection! I try to keep in touch when I can and I recommend anyone looking to re-home from a rescue to please take a look here first. They're a no kill shelter that have volunteers that take the time to care for these beauties. Our Edie is striving and I take photos and send little updates when I can. The volunteers work very hard to not only provide the best life for these babies but to enrich their lives! When we went last November, Emily knew all the cats by name, their traits and their favorite activities. We truly love this place. We plan to donate toys and food and litter soon as we know it's not easy. Please, donate if you can or volunteer if you can. The screening process was easy and fully expected; point is they want to ensure the life they are giving you, you won't just abandon or won't be forced to leave behind due to a "no pet policy" it's not fair to the life that will for 10-20 years rely on you. I am responding to a comment I seen on here that just made no sense at all .. cats and dogs, etc aren't for show, they are a 100% investment forever no matter what just like a child. Please, remember that! We buy her food before our own and sometimes we over buy to ensure whatever happens, she has food, as expected. We'd hope everyone human would think like this, logic! We look forward to the many years ahead we have with our gorgeous Edie-Kay and will continue to send updates to our extended family members at...

I want to start off by saying that I greatly admire and respect the work that goes into operating an animal shelter and know that staff want only the best for all of the animals. I myself have been volunteering at an animal sanctuary for 4 years helping care for chickens, cows, donkeys, ducks, goats, horses, and pigs... I am disappointed and saddened that I never even had the opportunity to visit Cat Guardians or speak to someone outside of email, because I am certain it is a wonderful place.

My boyfriend and I applied to adopt a cat. I have never owned a cat myself, but my boyfriend and his family have had 4 cats. I wanted to be complete and honest in our application, so I answered the question "Was your cat indoor/outdoor or indoor only?" in regards to his previous cats with "Indoor but backyard when monitored." For a 5-word answer we were denied the opportunity to adopt any animal from Cat Guardians.

We were never planning to take our cat outside, and there was more to the story than could fit on a 2-inch line about the cats his family owned. They had all been stray kittens from a nearby abandoned barn. His family slowly gained their trust and took them in.

We feel hurt and harshly misjudged. I wish that their concern would have been explained to us and we'd had more of a conversation. I guess someone could lie on their application and get further along in the process than we were able to.

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She was so nice. I went there few months ago to see if she could take my recently deceased friend Rosie's cats but coordinator there was @ capacity for # of cats she can have at the time. Now forwarding resources for my sister whose cat-loving friend also passed away. I am amazed and grateful there are still people in this world who give 100% of themselves to a cause unable to pay back... stray, unwanted, abandoned, domesticized animals who've often just been left at her door. She (the woman who runs this joint) was humble. She seemed tired, and in my eyes, extremely noble. Perhaps a bit like my sis and my beautiful late friends (mentors, really) and the felines whom they cared...