Clear Creek Cat Rescue receives grant to help find cats furr-ever homes.

Clear Creek Cat Rescue, located in Southcentral Alaska, is excited to announce that they recently received a Rachael Ray Save Them All grant from Best Friends Animal Society, a national animal welfare organization.

The grant is for a program designed to help families keep their pets when medical or behavioral issues could result in the pet being relinquished.

“Too often a family is put in the situation of letting go of a beloved pet because they can’t afford medical care, or maybe the animal has a simple behavior issue that a consultation with one of our experts could help resolve,” Clear Creek Cat Rescue (CCCR) wrote in a press release.

CCCR is a nonprofit in Southcentral Alaska, with volunteers from Houston to Homer dedicated to rescuing cats in need, giving them care, rehabilitation if needed, and finding happy homes for them, giving them care, food, and shelter during a most unfortunate time in their lives when they have been taken to the pound or are otherwise lost and homeless. Some volunteers go so far as to share their homes with these cats while they are waiting for their forever family, some transport them from place to place, some host adoption fairs, Through this dedicated group of people, about four thousand cats have been saved and found loving homes.

“We will use this $12,500 grant to help keep pets with their families.” These funds will help us save more cats through CCCR’s Barn Cat Project, as well as socialize and prepare cats for adoption into furrever families.

CCCR is an active partner in the Best Friends Network, which offers help and support to shelters, rescue groups, and other animal welfare organizations working to save lives in their communities.

The Rachael Ray Save Them All Grants is a grant program, administered by Best Friends, a leading animal welfare organization working to save the lives of cats and dogs in America’s shelters by 2025. Founded in 1984, Best Friends runs lifesaving programs all across the country, as well as the nation’s largest no-kill animal sanctuary, and is funded by The Rachael Ray Foundation™ that provides grants to shelters for euthanasia reduction initiatives. The Rachael Ray Foundation helps animals in need and is funded by a portion of proceeds from each sale of Rachael's pet food, Nutrish®.

The ‘Rachael Ray Save Them All Grants’ fund projects that increase lifesaving efforts of cats and dogs in U.S. shelters, with project proposals from public and private shelters, as well as rescue groups and other animal welfare organizations focused on impacting lifesaving at shelters. According to the website, the Rachel Ray Foundation will be funding 51 different projects from around the country.

“This year’s grant winners will be saving the lives of thousands of animals by transferring in dogs and cats from shelters, financing or facilitating spay/neuter surgeries, building out TNVR and neonatal foster programs, and providing training services to the many harder-to-adopt dogs displaying a variety of challenging behaviors. We are so excited to once again have so many partners working with us toward the goal of reaching no-kill by 2025.”

Clear Creek Cat Rescue was originally founded to help find homes for the Mat-Su Animal Shelter’s cat population, gradually expanding to rescue cats from the Mat-Su, Houston, Kenai, Soldotna, and Homer shelters as well as homeless cats from southcentral and Kenai, Dutch Harbor, Bethel and other areas of the state. CCCR also takes in homeless cats of all kinds, including ferals; we also sometimes accepts cats from private individuals and other rescues when there is a need.

Through its Barn Cat Project, volunteers at CCCR are able to trap, spay/neuter and vaccinate feral and colony cats, and rehome them to welcoming barn homes. CCCR also sponsors a monthly spay/neuter clinic in Wasilla with Dr. Jim Hagee.

For more information about the Rachel Ray Save them All Grant, please visit www.network.bestfriends.org

For more information about Clear Creek Cat Rescue, please visit www.clearcreekcatrescue.org