We are Boise’s Cageless, No-Kill, Feline Adoption Center
Our Mission
We save cats from suffering or euthanasia by practicing and promoting high standards of care and creating successful adoptions.
Our Vision
Simply Cats strives to continue its commitment to be a recognized and respected leader of no-kill cat rescue and adoption.
Our Values
High quality care: we treat the cats entrusted to us with respect and the highest level of veterinary care.
Innovation: we develop programs that continually keep us on the cutting edge of the animal welfare industry; and promote personal & professional development for our team.
Human-animal bond: we educate the community and promote the importance of the human-animal bond.
People: we value all individuals and treat them with the highest level of respect and compassion.
Service: we offer unique services to our community
Financial Integrity: we commit to the highest standards of integrity in management of donor resources.
Simply Cats Adoption Center is a not for profit organization that relies entirely on donations for funding. We do not receive any government funds.
Simply Cats is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Your donation is tax deductible as allowed by law.
Legal Name: Just Strays Animal Foundation, Inc. DBA Simply Cats Adoption Center
EIN: 82-0445263
- History
Simply Cats got its start (with just six cats!) as Just Strays Animal Foundation, Inc. in the late 1980’s. By 2005, the name of the shelter was changed to Simply Cats Adoption Center to reflect its feline-only animal population.
Thanks to generous donors, Maureen Howe and Dick & Yvonne Lierz, by 2007, a new state of the art building was constructed, donated and has been our home ever since. Today, Simply Cats Adoption Center shelters over 100 cats and kittens and operates due to the hard work of a small staff and over 100 dedicated volunteers.
Our current facility houses 10 adoption rooms that are cageless, and have an indoor-outdoor (contained) concept. At any one time, each adoption room generally houses 8-10 cats. In addition, we have 3 smaller indoor only adoption rooms that we utilize as necessary. The building also houses designated quarantine, isolation, holding and exam room areas. These designated ward rooms are utilized for sick cats, and cats awaiting veterinary approval to be put out for adoption.
- Shelter Management
- Executive Director: Patty Cutler
- Medical Director: Tara Koble, DVM
- Cat Care Program Manager: Reba Smallwood, CVT
- Adoption Coordinator: Erika Parrish
- Volunteer & Foster Coordinator: Jordan Fisk
- Outreach & Fundraising Coordinator: Jenn Hernandez-Arroyo
- Board of Directors
- President: Yvonne Lierz
- Vice President: Mert Burns
- Secretary: Linda Hutchison
- Director: Maureen Howe
- Director: Del Peterson
- Director: Katy Ritter