Our Mission

Tender Loving Cats, Inc. is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit 501(c)(3), no-kill feline rescue, concentrating on reducing Long Island's community cat population through Trap-Neuter-Return and the rehabilitation of homeless cats and kittens for adoption. Tender Loving Cats, Inc. rescues the mistreated, saves the injured and loves the abandoned.

​All cats and kittens adopted from Tender Loving Cats, Inc. are spayed/neutered prior to adoption as a part of our mission to reduce the numbers of homeless cats and kittens on Long Island.

Pet Peeves grants Tender Loving Cats, Inc. $10,000 to fund spay/neuter, veterinary & medical care, food & supplies in December 2020

Tender Loving Cats, Inc. (TLC) would like to thank Pet Peeves, Inc., in association with the Alex and Elisabeth Lewyt Wholly Charitable Trust, who has provided us with a grant in the amount of $10,000 to be used for spay/neuter, veterinary & medical care, food and supplies. The Lewyt's mission was to save countless animals from euthanasia and TLC intends to honor that mission by using this grant to impact the lives of upwards of 200 cat/kitten(s) currently living on the streets of Long Island.
TLC programs such as our Prevent-A-Litter (PAL) Program, Senior Owners Assistance Program (SOAP), Campus Cats Initiative and more!

ASPCA grants Tender Loving Cats, Inc. $3,500 to fund our Prevent-A-Litter Program to spay/neuter owned cats of low-income individuals on Long Island in December 2020

Tender Loving Cats, Inc. would like to thank the The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (the “ASPCA”) for helping us save continue to lives by issuing a $3,500 grant that will allow us to spay/neuter over 70 owned cats of low-income individuals through our Prevent-A-Litter (PAL) Program.

The Doris Day Foundation awards Tender Loving Cats, Inc. with a $5,000 grant towards PAL and SOAP Programs in 2020.

​Thanks to a generous $3,000 grant from the Doris Day Foundation the Prevent-A-Litter (PAL) Program has been reopened! This grant will allow TLC to spay/neuter almost 40 cats living on the streets of Long Island. Our Senior Owners Assistance Program (SOAP) assists a severally disabled paralyzed woman with food and litter for her indoor & outdoor cats and will now be able to assist her another year!
Official DDAF Grantee

We’ve Been Nominated!
​Best of L.I. 2021

Tender Loving Cats, Inc. is proud to announce that thanks to YOU we’ve been nominated for Bethpage Federal Credit Unions Best Animal Rescue & Animal Shelter on Long Island for 2021. After a record-breaking amount of nominations, the Best of Long Island competition will go into its 16th annual voting period, which begins on October 1st and ends on December 15th. During this time, votes are accepted one vote per category per day per person at bestoflongisland.com. This means you can vote for us everyday during this 75-day period. At the end of the voting period the nominee with the most votes in each respective category will be awarded the distinction of winning the Bethpage Best of LI 2021.

Tender Loving Cats, Inc. receive a $1,000 cat enrichment grant from the Petfinder Foundation for 2020.


Thanks to a $1,000 enrichment grant that Tender Loving Cats, Inc. was awarded by the Petfinder Foundation, we were able to purchase many different cat enrichment toy favorites: like the One Fast Cat exercise wheel, Go Cat Wand Teasers, Tunnels, easily disinfected wooden scratching post by Designer Pet Products & Catit Vespar with replacement pads and Stretch & Scratch disposable scratchers for all our kitties in Suites at the adoption centers. These items have helped to stimulate their minds and teach them where it’s appropriate scratch in a home, making them more adoptable and more prepared to enter their forever homes. In a shelter-like environment it’s important to have items that can be easily washed and disinfected in communal play areas. This grant has enabled our grass roots shelter to provide such items to our cats & kittens that we otherwise would not have been able to.

Tender Loving Cats, Inc. opens its second adoption location within Petsmart W. Babylon.

We are so excited and proud to announce the opening of our second Petsmart Charities Adoption Center within the Petsmart West Babylon, 535 Montauk Hwy. Our volunteers worked very hard and fast to everything is purrfect in just 3 weeks! Over that time we scrubbed, disinfected, decorated recruited to tried to fill every shift but we are still in desperate need of volunteers to fill two hour shifts each week. If your interested in volunteering please complete out Volunteer Application. Community Service Hours are offered for children 14 years of age. and up with an adult over 18 year of age. We put a lot of blood, sweat and often tears to give our homeless cats & pet parents a great place to find love and companionship. #tenderlovingcats #petsmartwestbabylon #rescue #save #love #cats #kittens

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