Hobbes Haven

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At Hobbes Haven our mission is to help shape & support a better life for feral & stray cat colonies in our varying communities of the Columbia River Gorge Oregon
Education & Advocacy |Trap-Neuter-Return-Monitor| Adoption | Shelters- food- supplies|501c(3)

06/11/2026

How beautiful beings like this can ever experience malice from a human hand, just blows my mind. How a conscious human being can ever exert any type of harm towards these gentle and magical beings is so hard to reconcile. It doesn’t always happen, but I try to do my best by falling into the mantra of ‘being the change you want to see in the world’.
Just because we made a mistake or made a wrong choice one day doesn’t mean that we have to make that same choice the next day. I encourage you to step up and be a better version of yourself- help those are around you in need!

Consider reaching out to your local rescues and shelters to help foster or see how you can help alleviate a lot of the responsibility and weight that is taken on voluntarily by these folks due to the incredible needs meeting matching levels of compassion.

Remember that one of our local rescues has a matching fund right now, so your donations go twice as far! Columbia Gorge Spay Neuter Rescue Fund

Our organization has an open wishlist, and we would appreciate any supplies for the cats- please look out for our future fundraisers too!
https://a.co/0gklRBJU

We have some rescued adoptable kittens too- check out our PetFinder page!
https://www.petfinder.com/member/us/or/the-dalles/hobbes-haven-or10009/ -all-pets

You can also like and share our page and our work to show your support, we would appreciate it!

06/08/2026

Fostering these three litters of kittens has been such a beautiful experience. I think fostering is a very low footprint but large impact action that YOU can take! It will enrich your personal life, give you purpose, and perhaps add some magic to your relationship with someone who can help you foster, and so many other reasons why it can be such a positive way to spend your time and share some of your space to give these little animals to give them a second chance!

Did you know…

That so many times your local rescue and shelters are at full capacity? What that means is there’s simply no space or resources to intake animals that need help. Many animals are reluctantly turned away because to take them in, would mean to jeopardize all of the other rescued due to limited resources, pushing capacity in space which endangers the animal’s health and increases stress, etc.
If you consider opening up your space, you could help rescues intake more animals- we take care of the hard ones while you take care of the healthy ones and just help us by increasing our space capacity, that’s the key. What this means to the animal is that they are able to be taken by the rescue, given medical care, and then given the space to recover and recuperate, leading to a future of adoption and given a second chance at a beautiful life.

Please consider reaching out to your local rescues to ask how you can start fostering!

If you’re not able to foster, how about the donating supplies so that rescues can keep their work going? Consider checking out wishlists!
https://a.co/0gklRBJU
You could donate directly to the rescues too!

Thank you for being the change you want to see in the world!

06/08/2026

Fostering these three litters of kittens has been such a beautiful experience. I think fostering is a very low footprint but large impact action that YOU can take! It will enrich your personal life, give you purpose, and perhaps add some magic to your relationship with someone who can help you foster, and so many other reasons why it can be such a positive way to spend your time and share some of your space to give these little animals a second chance!

Did you know…

That so many times your local rescue and shelters are at full capacity? What that means is there’s simply no space or resources to intake animals that need help. Many animals are reluctantly turned away because to take them in, would mean to jeopardize all of the other rescued due to limited resources, pushing capacity in space which endangers the animal’s health and increases stress, etc.
If you consider opening up your space, you could help rescues intake more animals- we take care of the hard ones while you take care of the healthy ones and just help us by increasing our space capacity, that’s the key. What this means to the animal is that they are able to be taken by the rescue, given medical care, and then given the space to recover and recuperate, leading to a future of adoption and given a second chance at a beautiful life.

Please consider reaching out to your local rescues to ask how you can start fostering! Here in the Columbia River Gorge you can count on:
Hobbes Haven
Columbia Gorge Spay Neuter Rescue Fund
The Pink Paws Rescue

Columbia Gorge Cat Rescue
Columbia Humane Society
If you’re not able to foster, how about the donating supplies so that rescues can keep their work going? Consider checking out wishlists!

https://a.co/0gklRBJU

You could donate directly to the rescues! Right now Columbia Gorge Spay Neuter Rescue Fund has a matching fund raiser going! This means that your $10 is actually a $20 donation- you are doubling your impact until the end of June!

Thank you for being the change you want to see in the world!

06/08/2026

Show me the reason why you don’t have any money…
- Spay neuter for all of our rescues- we cover the costs for all rescued sterilizations from our personal funds, because our priority is the health and well-being of the rescued cat and their colonies. Part of the important work is to reduce over population in a safe and humane method of T-N-R-M. This is why your donations and adoption fees support our work and care of the adopted rescues.
- Shelters for colonies- safe and weatherized shelters for cat colonies make an incredible difference for the health and well-being of the cats. Having a dry, safe, and sometimes warm shelter can be life-saving.
- Time monitoring and feeding sites- we make regular visits to our sites across the Columbia River Gorge, on both of the Oregon and Washington side. Our time traveling to and from the site as well as our traveling costs are out of our pocket at this time. Just because we don’t receive donations for gas, food, or supplies, doesn’t mean that the animals don’t need them, so we go out of our way to cover from our personal funds until our friends and supporters can help us.
- Effort trapping for clinic days- from scheduling the clinic days sometimes months out in advance, to training feral colonies for weeks before their trapping date, to waking up in the early hours of the morning to hopefully trap all the cats and then travel 2+ hours to our low cost veterinary clinics by their 7:30/8am check in, to then waiting onsite for the day while the cats are in surgery, to then traveling back 2+ hours back to your site where they are on unloaded in a safe and dry space where they are kept in their cage to recover for the night. - Gifting food and supplies- Feral and stray cat colonies do not happen by mistake. There are are a direct effect of human irresponsibility in the neglect of their animals’ health, safety, and repercussions on society due to overpopulation and suffering of these animals. - Medical & life saving care- almost all of the rescues that we intake are coming in malnourished, showing some type of disease or illness- Fostering & adoption-

06/05/2026

We think it’s so important for everyone to be to change they want to see in the world!
Sometimes it means opening up your home to support the transition of rescued animals that often have no choices.

Every foster home opens the door for us to help another litter.

Right now we want to support Columbia Gorge Spay Neuter Rescue Fund- they need our help!

If enough people donated even $3–$5 a month, it would make a huge difference. Those small donations help cover vaccines, food, flea treatment, deworming, medical care, and spay/neuter services so kittens can be healthy and ready for rescue placement or adoption.

Not everyone can foster, donate, or provide space, and we completely understand. But sharing our posts could help us reach someone who can😺🐶🐾

It truly takes a community to do this work. Thank you to everyone who continues to support the animals who depend on us.

Here are a couple ways to donate. Please note what you’d like your donation to go toward (supplies, spay/neuters, emergencies, etc.) ⬇️



PayPal.me/cgspayneuterfund
OR
https://venmo.com/u/cgspayneuterfund

We are so appreciative of the hard work and true dedication that this organization shows to our wide spread communities....
06/04/2026

We are so appreciative of the hard work and true dedication that this organization shows to our wide spread communities.
Please go to their website to schedule your domesticated, feral or stray cat sterilization, and essential vaccinations!
If you’re feeling generous, please consider donating to them! Our communities are much healthier and safer for the people and especially the cats, because of their work. 

05/25/2026

It’s been a beautiful miracle and fortune to have been able to intake these 9 neonatal kittens between April and May 2026. The loveliness of this experience is quickly crushed by the realization that up to 80% of these kittens born as ferals or strays don’t survive past their first year of life, and if they even get to that point, every single day is a harsh and punishing fight.

Four of these kittens came with their mom, and they were birthed inside one of our winter shelters (check out our previous post about them!). The mom is a feral female under one year-old that our caretaker out in Tygh Valley, Oregon has been supporting since she found the litter a year ago. This poor girl has had a couple of litters, and this is the only one that was saved because of being birthed inside one of our shelters that we shared with our caretaker a couple of months ago. What a beautiful example and demonstration that our winter shelters are helping animals survive just likely intended!

The other five neonatal kittens that we took in early May came from a lady who very kindly rescued them from the side of the highway by Goldendale, as she happened to be taking a walk with her dog, who noticed rustling in the tall grass. When getting information about this litter I learned that the person who found them guessed they were dumped on the road because there was no mom in sight and they looked too clean to have been born outdoors. This lady took them in and made a small breathable receptacle out of a tote with a heating pad help these old guys regulate their temperature. This is one of the youngest litters of kittens that I have taken in- their ears were still folded down though they were able to drink milk from a bottle.
At this point weeks later I’m very happy to say that all the kittens look relatively healthy and out of the delicate neonatal stage! This was not an easy task, it required a lot of dedication, patience, and devotion to their survival.

Please consider supporting our work! We are solely funded by our personal funds and would like our small community to build and support our mission so we can focus on helping and saving more lives instead of being throttled.
https://a.co/0gklRBJU

Please share our page and don’t forget to like and follow our other socials so you can catch our work!
Linktr.ee/hobbeshaven

05/22/2026

It’s that time of year-
Spring kittens and growing populations of feral and stray cat colonies means it’s time for:
Trap
Neuter
Return
Monitor

Remember, just because it’s out of sight and out of mind doesn’t mean it’s not out there happening. Sometimes I truly really reflect on the quote “ignorance is bliss” because when you truly are unaware of what’s going on out there, either purposefully or unknowingly, you don’t have to see a lot of hardships that are experienced by both people and animals alike.
I really like to note that people should feel uplifted to be the change they want to see in the world because no one is coming to do the work for you. You have to be the one that does the work and then join others who have the same mindset.

Thank you for supporting our mission through donations, adoptions and fostering if you have a chance!
Please visit our linktr.ee/hobbeshaven to check out all of our links, including our wishlist and donation locations!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!To our anonymous donor who donated $100 to our Hobbes Haven account at our collaboratin...
02/15/2026

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

To our anonymous donor who donated $100 to our Hobbes Haven account at our collaborating veterinary clinic, Columbia Veterinary Hospital!

We pride ourselves in transparency and by donating directly to our veterinary account, you can count on these donations being used directly for the veterinary services of our rescues. This donation will be applied this week towards the neuter services of two rescued boys, Sage & Richie.

We are so thankful for this donor in supporting our mission to support the lives of feral and stray cats in the Columbia River Gorge Oregon! Thank you for being the change you wish to see in the world!

Currently our mission and services are 100% funded by the founder, so any support via donations to our veterinary account, bags of cat & kitten food, support via our wish list or even sharing our page so we can gain more likes & follows, are all amazing ways to show your support and help boost our reach.

Please like, follow and share our pages with your friends and family! Check out our linktr.ee/hobbeshaven

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