20 Years of FieldHaven Feats

2004

• The “cat trailer” is brought into service
• Deke’s alive!
• Gladding McBean Project: trap, neuter, return (TNR) of 50 feral cats

2005

• City of Lincoln SNAP grant
• Placer Area Animal Coalition fundraiser: FieldHaven joins with three other Placer County animal shelters to raise funds
• $5,000 “Excellence in Education” award from Iams
• Launched Mature Cats for Mature People adoption campaign

2006

• Community/Cat Assistance Team (CAT) launched to provide assistance to people with cat questions and problems
• FieldHaven receives a national award for the success of our “Home 4 the Holidays” adoption campaign by the Iams Company and Helen Woodward Animal Center
• Awarded ten tons of dry cat food from Iams; the food was shared with nearly 20 other rescues

2007

• “Prevent Teenage Pregnancy” poster wins Brian Bank Marketing Award from the HSUS
• FieldHaven greeting cards; volunteer Alice West creates cards with cat photos to sell as a fundraiser
• Lincoln addresses its stray and feral cat overpopulation with “Operation: Amoruso”

2008

• New shelter fundraising campaign is launched
• “Go Green” with Rodent Raiders barn cat program is launched
• Courtesy List program helps place cats that we aren’t able to bring to FieldHaven
• FieldHaven honors firefighters and EMTs by holding a fundraiser, raising $3,500
• Voted “Best of the Best” Non-Profit in Lincoln. We continue to hold this honor

2009

• Collaboration with UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program for new shelter design
• Partnered with UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine to provide unspayed female cats for surgical teaching rotations in their state of the art animal hospital.
• FieldHaven holds 1^st annual Classics, Cats & Cabernet

2010

• FieldHaven joins Facebook
• The Tenth Life Club (TLC) fund is started when a very generous donor provides the seed money to help cats with special needs.
• Construction begins on the new shelter

2011

• FieldHaven assists Noah’s Wish in mandatory evacuation during Lincoln’s propane fire
• Grand opening of the new shelter

2012

• FieldHaven welcomes seven cats orphaned by Superstorm Sandy
• FieldHaven participates in “Rebates for Rescues” adoption program sponsored by Placer County SPCA
• Pink is adopted after 804 days at FieldHaven

2013

• Opened Snap It Up! Thrift Shop
• 2013 Wells Fargo Hero Award
• Santa Paws Pet Food Pantry: community pet food giveaway
• Launched FieldHaven Spa and Purrfectly Priceless adoption programs

2014

• Started “Summer Camp for Kittens” to help the unsocialized kittens at the shelter become comfortable with humans
• Launched “Spectacular Senior September” campaign to help our senior cats find homes
• The “September 60 Project” came about when FieldHaven rescued around 60 cats and kittens living in a hoarding situation

2015

• 42% more adoptions than 2014
• Opened Champy’s Catfé Adoption Center and FieldHaven Marketplace
• Assisted animals in Butte & Valley Fire
• Installed dental equipment for shelter and community cats

2016

• Dog and cat microchip clinics launched
• Partnerships established with San Francisco SCPA and ASPCA.
• Wheatland 100 Cat Spay/Neuter Challenge (151 cats fixed)
• Community Pet Food Pantry opened
• Yalu the Korea Cat successfully socialized and homed
• Purrjama Party launched

2017

• Opened 2^nd Chance Ranch
• Started offering low-cost vaccine and microchip clinics for the public
• Neonatal kitten program started with 188 bottle babies
• Pet Food Pantry served 547 animals
• Operated evacuation centers for cats during the Oroville Dam Evacuation and Cascade Fire

2018

• Opened Hathaway Surgery Center for spay/neuter
• Partnered with Marysville to TNR the Town of Marysville
• Began the Camp Fire recovery effort

2019

• Wrapped up the Recovery Center for the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA after 7 1/2 months of operations and nearly 700 cats saved
• Hosted our first “TNR the Town” event

2020

• Opened the Hathaway Cat Resource Center in Marysville, CA
• Reengineered many of our programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Introduced new programs Kitten Sitters and Meow & Forever
• Transferred over 300 cats and kittens to partner shelters

2021

• Hathaway Spay/Neuter Clinic at full capacity post-COVID
• Started the Turntable 150+ cat colony relocation project

2022

• Rescued over a dozen miracle kitties
• Introduced our Trap-Alter-Manage-Invest (TAMI) program

2023

• Provided aid and recovery services during the Maui fire
• Helped keep 1,401 cats and kittens out of the shelter system with the help of our Kitten Sitters program