About Us
We are a small animal rescue and sanctuary located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We are a permanent sanctuary/home to animals with special needs/requirements including cats with cerebellar hypoplasia. We help free roaming cats who live outdoors by monitoring and “retiring” them from outside. We bring them indoors to provide them with veterinary care, indoor acclimation and rehabilitation, safety, and importantly love – and then move them onto appropriate next steps on their rescue journey. We believe in a world where every animal is given a fair chance including cats with special needs, and cats living outside who are not yet socialized. We are not a registered charity and cannot issue tax receipts.
A Special Home for Animals with Special Needs
We have created a sanctuary environment for our animals with special needs/requirements in order to have the best quality of life possible. We hope to raise awareness about Cerebellar Hypoplasia and help everyone see that cats with CH can live happy and comfortable lives under the right conditions. We do our best to give the cats here who have CH the most comfortable life.
Cerebellar hypoplasia is a neurological condition in which the cerebellum is smaller than usual or not completely developed.
NIH (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Cerebellar hypoplasia most commonly occurs when a pregnant cat becomes infected with feline panleukopenia virus and passes the infection to her unborn kittens.
We don’t TNR, we TNRRR
Since December 2020 we have helped over 75 lost, abandoned, feral, homeless, stray, injured, or wayward cats from the “Feline Dystopia” in Toronto by investigating, scouting, containing (trapping), sterilizing/vaccinating, and/or networking with other individuals and other rescue groups. Sometimes we are involved in the whole process from investigating and containing to vetting and homing, and sometimes we are only involved in one or two steps of the cat’s rescue journey. Until September 2025, we have not yet been forced to release any back outside on the harsh streets of Toronto post sterilization. We hoped to never have to TNR (Trap, Neuter/spay, Return back outside). All the cats we’ve helped thus far (until September 2025) have all been what we call TNRRR (Trap, Neuter/spay, Rescue, Rehabilitate, Rehome). Unfortunately, Toronto is experiencing a cats and kittens crisis and we are forced to TNR due to the high volume of strays and ferals everywhere as of September 2025 we are forced to TNR.
Feline Finishing School
We appreciate the TNR programs offered via City of Toronto / Toronto Animal Services, Toronto Humane Society, and Toronto Street Cats and the efforts made by community volunteers and other rescue groups. But when these TNRed cats become older/seniors, they need veterinary care that they typically don’t receive or have access to. We utilize our resources available to get these wayward cats veterinary care and indoor acclimation (Feline Finishing School). Humans created the feline dystopia that exists out there, and we feel it’s our responsibility to eliminate as much preventable suffering as possible. We help care for some of the previously TNRed cats of Toronto, and we have systematically closed four of these colonies through TNRRR (Trap, Neuter/spay, Rescue, Rehabilitate, Rehome). We hope to show that most of these cats may live very contently safe indoors when provided an appropriate environment and the majority of the colony cats in Toronto are not truly feral. TNR definitely helps with the population control as well as feline behaviour, it is the feline equivalent of “harm reduction”.
Not Just for Cats…
We are operated by two vegan humans with the help of a small number of trusted friends. We help any animal in need whenever possible, regardless of species. We are a permanent sanctuary to a once-abandoned pet turtle and a once-abandoned pet baby rabbit.
We have been involved in wildlife rescue as well, and will attend any local rescue requests whenever possible. We have contained or assisted in safely containing many wildlife species including sick/injured adult rock pigeons, orphan baby pigeons, unethically released domestic white pigeons, juvenile mallard duck with fishing line stuck in mouth, sick/injured adult Canada geese, baby Canada geese, adult herring gulls, adult ring-billed gulls, juvenile and nestling herring and ring-billed gulls, baby common tern, baby squirrels, adult squirrels, baby raccoons, adult raccoons, baby skunk, and opossums. We’ve occasionally had the privilege of releasing successfully rehabilitated wildlife back into the urban wilderness. We do not treat or rehabilitate wildlife ourselves, but we are comfortable in safely containing when required for intervention and they go to a licensed rehabilitation centre, usually Toronto Wildlife Centre or Shades of Hope Wildlife Refuge.
How You Can Help
We do what we do with a lot of care, love, and compassion. By utilizing social media to show the day-to-day progression of the animals in our care and rescue missions, we hope you may see the value in what we do. Cats with Cerebellar Hypoplasia, feral/fearful cat socializing, and containing/trapping cats require a lot of patience and love – which is plentiful at New Cat City. What is not plentiful is funding. All ways to help are listed on our Links page.
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