On any given day, when you stop by S.A.R.A's Treasures Gift & Thrift Shop, you'll see a wide variety of beautiful kitties living there!

  Most have been rescued from being killed when they "ran out of time" at the Lane County Animal Regulation Authority (LCAS).  Others have been rescued from life-threatening situations by other local animal welfare groups, like Stray Cat Alliance and the Humane Society of Cottage Grove, who then asked for our help to find them new homes. S.A.R.A. cannot accept stray or owner released animals from the public.

  S.A.R.A.'s "cat ladies" Melinda & Nicole have a deep passion for rescuing and caring for kitties in need!  Each incoming cat or kitten is treated with tender loving care, given a basic health check, tested for common feline diseases and parasites and then vaccinated against disease.  Each one is also micro chipped, so should it ever become lost in the future, and taken to an animal shelter, it will quickly be identified and returned to its people, or to S.A.R.A.   Every cat and kitten is also scheduled for a spay or neuter, if needed.

  Nicole & her husband Aaron provide loving foster care for those kitties who are too young, sick or scared to be ready for adoption.  When the cats and kittens are ready, they are brought to S.A.R.A's Treasures where they live in harmony with the other rescued cats and greet S.A.R.A's donors and customers with love and appreciation.

  It's an incredible experience to see a frightened, abandoned, sickly cat or kitten blossom into a gorgeous, healthy, sweet kitty who falls in love with a potential adopter, and happily goes off to a carefully screened, loving new home!

  It's through the generous monetary donations, and the donations of volunteer time and household items by kind people like you, that we have been able to save 650 cats in six short years and find them wonderful new homes.   Please come visit these incredible kitties and let us know what you'd like to do to become a vital part of this life-saving work!