Surrendered Older Cats Find a Home with this Tucson-Area Nonprofit
This month’s KGUN 9 Giving Project nonprofit is Hearts That Purr, a Tucson-based nonprofit organization whose mission is providing shelter and loving care for senior felines made homeless due to the terminal illness, incapacitation or death of their owners, along with educating owners about how to plan for providing care for companion animals when they no longer can do so themselves.
Jeanmarie Schiller-McGinnis and her husband founded Hearts That Purr in 2013 after she saw a disturbing trend at traditional shelters. “Older cats or cats with special needs, like health issues, were never the ones that people came to adopt,” Jeanmarie said. She also saw a need here in Tucson, where so many owners had to surrender their cats.
It’s so sad to think that a cat is going to spend the last part of their life in a shelter,” Jeanmarie said. “Especially when their owner had to give them up because the owner’s health failed or the owner passed away.” Out of that sadness came Hearts That Purr.
For more on Hearts That Purr, explore KGUN9’s story here: