Ways to Help
A bag of food is a bill we do not have to pay
Foster homes are supplied by the rescue — food, litter, bedding, crates, all of it. Every item somebody sends us is one we do not have to buy, and the money that would have bought it goes to a veterinary bill instead.
If you would rather send something than send money, this is the page for you.
Our Amazon wish list
This is the one giving channel that needs nothing from you but a few clicks. Anything bought from the list ships to us directly — you never handle it, and we never have to arrange a collection.
Shop the wish list
The list is kept on Amazon and reflects what foster homes are actually short of. Items ship straight to the rescue.
Opens Amazon in a new tab. Catering To Cats & Dogs receives no commission from Amazon — you are simply buying us the item.
NEEDS CONFIRMATION — which wish list is the live one. We have two different Amazon list IDs on record: 37ZN7PQ2I9RX6, which is the one on the organisation's own Linktree and is therefore the one linked above, and QWBAD3OYGN21, which appears on the old website. Please confirm which is current, and delete or hide the other so donations do not go to an abandoned list. While you are in there: is the list curated and up to date, and does it have a shipping address set that actually reaches somebody?
Where it ends up
We have no shelter and no warehouse. Supplies are held off site and collected by foster homes, who ask for what they need roughly a week ahead so that somebody can get to the store of it at the weekend.
So a donated bag of food does not sit in a stockroom. It goes into somebody's car, and then into a kitchen where an animal is waiting.
This is also why we cannot always take a large physical donation at short notice — not because we do not want it, but because there is no building to put it in and somebody has to drive it. Please ask us first rather than turning up with it.
Giving something other than food
Several kinds of donation are worth more than their price tag to a rescue this size.
Gift cards
A pet-store or general gift card lets us buy the specific thing an animal turns out to need, rather than the thing we guessed at last month.
New or barely used equipment
Crates, carriers, pens, beds and leads get reused across placement after placement. Well-kept second-hand equipment is genuinely useful.
Other ways to give
Give money instead
Cash is the most flexible thing you can give us, because veterinary bills do not arrive on a schedule.
Give a spare room
Fostering costs you nothing — the supplies on this page are the ones we send to foster homes.
Give ten seconds
Share an animal who is still waiting. It costs nothing and it is how most of our adoptions begin.
Send something today
The wish list takes two minutes and arrives at our door. If you would rather ask first what we are short of, email us — somebody will tell you honestly.