The Safe Landing Project (click to learn more)

From the Streets. To a Safer Place. To a Brighter Tomorrow.

Sometimes saving a cat isn’t about a dramatic rescue. Sometimes it’s simply about having somewhere safe for them to go.

Every day, friendly cats are found wandering our neighborhoods. Some are clearly lost pets. Some may have been abandoned. Others enter a trap during a TNR effort and quickly show us that, despite being found outside, they are not feral at all.

Getting them off the street is only the first step.

What happens next can be much harder.

The Gap We See Every Day

When a friendly cat is found, there isn’t always an immediate place for that cat to go.

An owner may need time to be located. A microchip may need to be researched. Lost-pet reports and neighborhood posts need time to circulate. And when no owner can be found, a rescue may be willing to help—but may not have an available foster or intake opening that same day.

That leaves a critical gap in what happens next.

Too often, rescuers and community members are left scrambling for a temporary solution. And sometimes, there simply isn’t one.

A Safe Landing Changes Everything

The Safe Landing Project was created to help bridge that gap.

Our goal is to provide friendly found cats with a safe, secure, short-term place to land—generally for no more than about two weeks—while the next step is determined.

This is not intended to be a long-term shelter or foster facility. It is a temporary stopping point designed to give us something incredibly valuable:

Time.

For one cat, that may mean a joyful reunion with a family who has been desperately searching.

For another, it may mean several safe days while we coordinate with a rescue that can accept the cat into its program.

And for a cat who has been abandoned, those days may be the first step toward an entirely new life.

We’re creating the time and space needed to find the right answer for each cat.

Why This Matters

Cats don’t schedule their emergencies.

They are found at night, on weekends, and at the exact moment when fosters are full and rescues are stretched to their limits.

Yet a friendly, frightened cat standing in front of us still needs an answer.

We believe that answer should never have to be:

“Put them back outside because there’s nowhere for them to go.”

Sometimes all we need is a little time.

Time to find an owner.
Time to research a microchip.
Time to make phone calls.
Time to contact rescue partners.
Time for an opening to become available.
Time to make a plan.

And most importantly, a safe place for that cat to wait.

Help Us Give Them That Time

Ladder of Life A Kitten’s Journey is launching The Safe Landing Project because we have seen this need firsthand.

With the support of our community, we want to create another option for cats caught in that difficult space between the street and whatever comes next.

Your donation will help make this short-term safe space possible and help provide the care these cats need while we work toward the next step.

And because these stays are intended to be short-term, one safe space has the potential to help cat after cat throughout the year.

Your support can help turn the question:

“Where are we going to put this cat?”

into:

“They’re safe. Now let’s figure out what comes next.”

Please help us give more cats a Safe Landing.

The Safe Landing Project - Ladder of Life A Kitten's Journey

From the Streets. To a Safer Place. To a Brighter Tomorrow.