AniMeals BFF Project

06/23/2025

A truly lovely sentiment especially if you are an adoptive “parent.”

If you would like to help our dream of a new shelter become a reality,
Please check out our BFF page, link and naming opportunities at
Animeals.com

06/19/2025

Why do we do what we do? Why is a new shelter to save more animals, provide more services, offer more hope, so important?

This short home video of a recent adoption, tells a very important story --- Bellino, formerly Bowser, a stray tom, full of mites and kind of a mess, was cared for by a tireless AniMeals crew for c. two months. Day after day they healed him - getting him well fed, cared for and ready for an eventual forever home. Often overlooked in favor of the "cuter" ones, an insightful caregiver at the shelter steered a potential adopter toward him and it was a match.

In his new home for less than 24 hours, Belo as he is affectionately being called, is purring like a motor, beginning to come out of his shell. He is looking into the face of his new mom and stretching out and starting to interact.

It is just one life, one cat, of the many thousands out there in our community. But imagine how much we could do, how many more we could help, with a new shelter, cageless rooms, outdoor catios, a surgical suite, a quarantine area, a larger food bank for all those in need, an education and visitor space? Just imagine - we can do this because there are so many more Bellinos out there, waiting for a home and a second chance.

If you can, please consider donating to the BFF Project because a new shelter, will be a pathway to home.

https://www.animeals.com/bff

06/18/2025

Hey! Did you know ---June is widely recognized as National Adopt a Cat Month. This month is dedicated to encouraging people to adopt cats from shelters and to raise awareness about the joys of cat ownership. June is often chosen for this event because it coincides with "kitten season," a time when many litters of kittens are born and available for adoption.

How about this --- anyone who donates $50 or more to the BFF Project today https://www.animeals.com/bff to help us to build a new shelter, will receive a complimentary pass to an equine and small animal welfare and wellbeing conference in Missoula, Friday, September 12. AniMeals' Ashey Liscomb will be a featured panelist/presenter that day, and will include other speakers, films, a hosted reception that evening, all taking place in downtown Missoula. Learn why there is such an animal welfare crisis and why a new shelter is so badly needed! Meet other animal lovers and support a great cause.

Since 2003, AniMeals has provided shelter, food, and veterinary services to the most at-risk animals in our community.  Through far-reaching community support, we have provided the highest level of care and rapid response that AniMeals has become well known for. 

06/17/2025

AniMeals BFF Project is now an accepted and recognized nonprofit with Crypto for Charity. This means that if you would like to donate to the BFF Project with Crypto currency, it can be redeemed through Crypto for Charity and the donation in US dollars will be sent to AniMeals BFF Project, funds which are earmarked for the new shelter.

06/17/2025

How did we miss it?! Today was take your cat to work day but we are with our cats at work every day!

However, Big Bear Sign Company, is not only a great local business, they let employees bring their sweet adopted cats to work. This is Tatum and Friday at Big Bear!

06/13/2025

There is nothing quite so beautiful and inspiring as seeing animals in their loving homes, knowing (or not aways knowing) their histories or back stores.

Have you adopted from AniMeals? If so and if you have photos of your cat or photos of you and your cat and would like to share them with us, please send to [email protected]. Please let us know in writing if we may share, post or publish your photos.

We are preparing a variety of print and digital projects that highlight adoption and what a new shelter could mean for our community and all of our community animals and images tell a thousand different stories. We might like to feature you and your adoption. :) Thank you for giving love to a furry friend!

06/10/2025

If You Love Cats, This May Be Why
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/intimacy-a-path-toward-spirituality/201507/if-you-love-cats-this-may-be-why?eml

We hope you enjoy this wonderful article!

Meanwhile...

In the coming months we are planning a number of cat-centric events to highlight our efforts to build a new shelter in Missoula Here in Missoula, the need is so great and we want to promote, foster and make everyone more aware of what we can offer in the way of care, comfort, adoptability, love and most importantly hope, with a new shelter. Athough AniMeals is feline focused, we have services for dogs as well such as microchipping and a food bank and we hope to expand these projects. We need to be responsive, not only to our community but to the animals in our community who need us, who rely upon us and who give us so much joy in return.

If you can, please support, give and donate to the BFF Project. All donations are earmarked for the new shelter and any gifts made to the BFF Project are held specifically and exclusively for this community wide project. Gifts can be made in memoriam, to honor a pet or a person, or for a family brick (paver), bench, or all sorts of other parts of the project. You can find a full list of naming and gift giving opportunities on our website (animeals.com) when you click on the BFF Project button on our homepage. And don't forget, we love to hear from you and welcome all kinds of support because we never run out of need. :) Thank you!

Many of us love cats, but we may not have considered one major reason why we find them so irresistible.

06/04/2025

The rumors are true --- felines and other animals in our community need our support – they need shelter and food, veterinary care, and a place to call home. For AniMeals, that means it’s time to grow, to build, to make a home for our friends, hence our capital campaign, BUILDING FOR OUR FRIENDS, a fundraising effort of 4 million dollars.

Our goal is simple and straightforward - to build a new shelter in Missoula with a larger pet food bank for all pets and owners who need it, so that no pet ever has to go hungry and so that no person goes hungry because they have to insure their pet gets the food it needs; cageless rooms for cats with attached catios (outdoor cat patios), medical and surgical suites for spay/neuter and vaccination services and a quarantine area for pets who come to AniMeals with special medical issues and need time to get well.

As the new director of the BFF Capital Campaign, it’s an honor for me to join AniMeals at this pivotal time and I am committed to bringing this effort to life through you, our community, our donors, friends and families; all who love animals and care about the welfare and wellbeing of pets in our community. As we all know, there really is no place like home and for cats and other pets, we are their home until they can find a forever home.

I hope you will join us in this effort! While we have many naming opportunities for all sizes of gifts (with one million you can even name the shelter), you can sponsor a brick or a leaf or something much larger like a cat room, but every single gift to the campaign is important and meaningful, no matter how large or small. Please join us in Building for our Friends!

If you would like to learn more about the Building for our Friends, Capital Campaign Project or you would like to meet in person, please reach out and contact anytime. My email is [email protected] or we can schedule a time when we can meet at the shelter.

While it can be challenging at times to find AniMeals, we are located in the heart of Missoula off West Broadway at 1700 Rankin Street right next to Gull Boats and RVs.

There is nothing like the love of a pet!

06/04/2025

https://conta.cc/440YS6s

June Newsletter is out - lots of great news for cats and other creatures!

Email from AniMeals Updates on a new shelter, upcoming events, and an adoptable duo! June 2025 Newsletter   Our Capital Campaign is here! Building for Our Friends   Dear Friends, The rumors are true,