When to Contact the Stanford Cat Network

IN EMERGENCIES, call the HELPLINE at (650) 566-8287

or Stanford Facilities Operations at (650) 723-2281.

Facilities Operations will dispatch Crane Pest Control, which will rescue or pick up the cat, contact the Network about it, and take the cat to one of the area veterinarians with whom we work for boarding and care.

If you are able to transport the cat yourself, please contact the helpline and take the cat to Adobe Animal Hospital at 4470 El Camino Real Los Altos (650) 948-9661.

Please contact the Stanford Cat Network about cats at Stanford:

IF you see a cat or kitten(s) who looks lost or hungry

IF you find a sick or injured cat (see above for emergencies)

IF you find a dead cat

IF you have lost a cat, please see our Lost and Found section

IF you cannot keep your cat

IF you need free help with cat behavior problems or advice on cat care

IF you want to adopt a cat or kitten, please read about our Adoption Program

IF you have been feeding a cat on campus and you are not already affiliated with the Stanford Cat Network

IF you would like to help out or donate, please see the Support SCN page

How to Contact the Stanford Cat Network

The fastest response will be given if you email us. You can send mail to the Stanford Cat Network at P.O. Box 18287 Stanford, CA 94309. You can call the helpline at (650) 566-8287.

Why Contact the Stanford Cat Network?

We take responsibility for all free-roaming cats at Stanford -- unsocialized or tame, sick or injured, alive or dead. No cats are euthanized, unless medically warranted by a veterinarian to relieve suffering. None of the animal shelters can do that, because they are inundated with society's unwanted, unsterilized pets.

Homeless or lost Stanford Cats never should be allowed to drop through the cracks, to either die of starvation or be assimilated into the Campus population and reproduce. We depend on everyone in the Stanford community to let us know about them, so that we can intervene and provide care. 

We take dead cats and try to identify them, make a record, and help their Campus caregiver or the person who lost them to reach closure on their disappearance and death. Then, we have them respectfully buried or cremated.