Heading Home Animal Rescue

Heading Home Animal Rescue We help local Cats and Kittens in our community through Adoption, spay/neuter, TNR, & barn placement.

Heading Home Animal Rescue is a local non-profit animal welfare organization. Harnessing the power of our community through our dedicated volunteers, fosters, and experienced animal welfare professionals, we support the health and safety of the animals of Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties in California and the people who love them. Our programs, such as Working Whiskers, HHAR Spay/Neute

r Clinic, and our dedicated trappers and adoptions volunteer teams, truly make a difference. We proudly offer cats and kittens for adoption at PetSmart in Santa Cruz and San Mateo and please contact us directly for barn placements. Learn more about how we support our community at
https://www.headinghomerescue.org/

UPDATE: WE JUST GOT A CALL THAT MATHIEU HAS BEEN RETURNED IN A CARRIER ANONYMOUSLY TO THE STORE. We are overjoyed that h...
12/08/2024

UPDATE: WE JUST GOT A CALL THAT MATHIEU HAS BEEN RETURNED IN A CARRIER ANONYMOUSLY TO THE STORE. We are overjoyed that he is safe and will get to go home in the next few days after being examined by a vet. Thank you all for your help getting this information out there, and helping to apply pressure and get him back. We can’t thank you enough!

REWARD FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE RETURN OF MATHIEU

At about 8:25pm on 12/7, the couple shown in these photos broke into a kennel housing this sweet, shy guy named Mathieu. They ran out the front door of the building with him, and we are deeply concerned for his welfare. To make matters worse, he was expected to be adopted today with his brother.

Mathieu is about a year old, all gray, medium haired and has a tail is only about 2/3 length (something he was born with that adds to his charm!) He was wearing a light blue collar at the time he was stolen.

A police report has been made with Santa Cruz PD. If you recognize the people in the photos please reach out. We just want Mathieu back safely, he deserves the loving home he was headed to today with his brother. 😞

Perfection needs no adjustments, only recognition. 🤣
04/08/2024

Perfection needs no adjustments, only recognition. 🤣

We hadn’t quite gotten a chance to introduce you all to this girl, but you saw her on all of the news coverage of SBC Ne...
04/05/2024

We hadn’t quite gotten a chance to introduce you all to this girl, but you saw her on all of the news coverage of SBC Neglectapolooza. We named her My Goodies - 14 pounds of biscuit making, belly rub requesting, chatty story telling, GOOD GURL.

She got her happy ending a couple days ago, and we are so glad.

One by one, until we’re done.

In October, a woman named Jennifer who had rescued cats from the streets and loved them dearly, passed away. Her cats we...
04/04/2024

In October, a woman named Jennifer who had rescued cats from the streets and loved them dearly, passed away. Her cats were found with her body by paramedics and taken to their local shelter, then picked up by her boyfriend. For several months he cared for them, until his housing situation changed and they needed a soft place to land. Janet (Jennifer’s momma) put together a Facebook post, hoping to find her daughter’s kitties new homes, as she was unable to take them in due to cat allergies. Thankfully we had room in our program to take them, and now Starsky, Suzy and Little Boy are with us looking for loving homes as their momma would have wanted.

Starsky is huge, maybe 17 pounds of…well, he’s chunky, let’s just leave it at that. He is a senior, somewhere between 10-15 years of age, likely. All black, friendly and good with other cats.

Suzy is a fluffy brown tabby, currently shaved with a lion cut due to matting in her coat. She’s very sweet and also good with other cats. We can’t be sure of age for her, but she’s likely somewhere between 3-7 years old.

Little Boy is black and white, talkative, and friendly. We are unsure of his age as well but likely in that same range as Suzy of 3-7 years old.

They do not need to be adopted together, and we’d love to find homes for them sooner rather than later as they’ve been through so much change and loss in the last few months, they deserve to be settled in and loved as Jennifer wanted for them.

They’re at Petsmart in Santa Cruz, adoption hours daily, come on by!

Bautista went from a disgusting f***s and urine filled cage at SBC Neglectapolooza to us for care and recuperation then ...
04/03/2024

Bautista went from a disgusting f***s and urine filled cage at SBC Neglectapolooza to us for care and recuperation then on to a loving home last week.

One by one until we’re done.

When we met Mr. Samuel Buffington*, he was in a trap at Hollister Police Animal Care & Services, having been caught and ...
04/02/2024

When we met Mr. Samuel Buffington*, he was in a trap at Hollister Police Animal Care & Services, having been caught and removed from SBC Neglectapolooza along with a couple hundred of his friends and acquaintances.

He was pretty worried, and before Rick and Susie deleted their “rescue” facebook and Petfinder pages we were able to find photos of him from when he was up for adoption previously. They had him listed as very shy and so we weren’t sure what he would be like after he had time to decompress.

Well, jokes on them because turns out he is a complete goofball and sweetie pants who loves petting and attention. He’s one of the kitties that it was hard to get photos of because as soon as he sees you he’s trying to come over for pets and cheek rubs.

He’s at Petsmart in Santa Cruz, go get him. He deserves the best, this boy!

*this is not the name he had at SBC Neglectapolooza.

Allie from SBC Neglectapolooza was adopted last week! No more worries about mats or whether or not you’ll have a clean l...
04/01/2024

Allie from SBC Neglectapolooza was adopted last week! No more worries about mats or whether or not you’ll have a clean litter box and plenty of food and water, sweet girl.

Gino (don’t worry, he’s nothing like the Gino from 90 Day Fiancé) is still looking for a home! Gino is sweet and friendl...
03/31/2024

Gino (don’t worry, he’s nothing like the Gino from 90 Day Fiancé) is still looking for a home! Gino is sweet and friendly, but maybe not confident enough to live with young children. He does well with or without other cats, and definitely enjoys petting and attention but isn’t a needy dude. He’s over at our PetSmart in Sand City, waiting patiently for the right folks to come along.

The right folks look like: cat-experienced, owners of (or willing to purchase) a good car tree, aware of how to help a shy guy get comfy in a new place, have good foods, feather/string toys.

These are somehow still available? 🙃 We don’t understand it, but maybe you guys didn’t get our message about them existi...
03/30/2024

These are somehow still available? 🙃 We don’t understand it, but maybe you guys didn’t get our message about them existing in this fine world of ours last week?

Garbanzo, Chickpea and Ramen are tiny, perfect, and homeless. *cue Sarah McLaughlin music* Go get them at Petsmart in Santa Cruz!

The photo is terrible, but the action is superb! Caught the final straggler out on the Hawthorne location in Watsonville...
03/27/2024

The photo is terrible, but the action is superb! Caught the final straggler out on the Hawthorne location in Watsonville that we were working. One more pocket of unfixed feral kitties addressed, this one with the help of the wonderful folks over at the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter who were able to get her in for spay so she can be returned home today! This location utilized every way of helping that we have — equipment and trapping provided, spay and neuter (for free!) provided, the two social cats taken into adoptions and found homes, and the homeowner educated on the vacuum effect! Eight more kitties helped, and a neighborhood hot spot resolved!


Garbanzo, Chickpea (twins, of course) and Noodle and Ramen are two month old baby kids that landed in adoptions at PetSm...
03/26/2024

Garbanzo, Chickpea (twins, of course) and Noodle and Ramen are two month old baby kids that landed in adoptions at PetSmart in Santa Cruz today. Three boys, one girl, four PERFECT kittens. These four came to us from a caring family in Salinas that had kitties that needed to be fixed. (Of course that is being done as well, courtesy of AFRP and Karen G.) Come down and meet them, we’re pretty sure they’re going to have a long line of adopters by the time the internet realizes this post exists. 🤣

March Adoption hours at Santa Cruz Petsmart:
Monday 5-7pm Tuesday 6:30-8:30pm Wednesday 5-7pm Thursday 5-7pm Friday 5-7pm Saturday 2-5pm and Sunday 1-3pm.

This handsome, goofy boy is Bentley. He came to us from the capable hands of Marina Gordon after she found him dumped in...
03/25/2024

This handsome, goofy boy is Bentley. He came to us from the capable hands of Marina Gordon after she found him dumped in San Juan Bautista. Marina and her husband Erik take in a lot of cats in the San Juan Bautista and Hollister areas, getting them patched up and ready to find loving homes. Those communities are almost as lucky to have them as the cats are!

Bentley hung out with us at our Petsmart in Gilroy for a week, maybe two charming literally everyone who saw him. He was one of many kitties adopted this past weekend during Petsmarts quarterly National Adoption Event. Congrats to Bentley and his new home, and three cheers for Marina and all the work she does to help kitties in need! 👏👏

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