08/24/2026
TIME FLIES WHEN YOU'RE SAVING LIVES!
Today we celebrate our FOURTEEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!!
Fourteen years ago today, we officially became a registered not-for-profit charitable organization in the State of New York.
Our mission: To change the plight of shelter cats across Long Island.
The plight: Adult and senior cats losing their homes for any number of reasons, and finding themselves alone and terrified in municipal shelter cages where they sit languishing for months (and sometimes years) and/or at risk of being euthanized.
We started as two women determined to succeed and make a difference - no money but BIG ideas. We first rented, and have since bought, our Cat Adoption Center, a house that is dedicated to the cats we rescue with a current team of 56 volunteers to take care of them.
To date, we have rescued 3849 shelter cats.
Some have remained with us forever due to a variety of health or behavioral reasons that deem them unsuitable for adoption. For these cats, we offer sanctuary.
We have also suffered many losses, which never gets easy but is to be expected when working with such a vulnerable population.
Most of our rescued cats have moved on to be successfully adopted into forever homes.
Whatever the outcome, the goal has always been to remove cats from the shelter setting and ensure that they never again feel the pain of isolation and abandonment. No cat deserves to live, or die, alone with such pain.
Every little feline soul we have met has been an amazing reminder of how precious and fragile life is, and of how deserving of love EVERYone is. Everyone comes with different needs and different personalities but every individual deserves to be acknowledged and loved for who they are and helped along the way.
This is why we are here, and this is why we love what we do. :)
Every bit of what we have been able to accomplish is thanks to you, our supporters who believe in our mission. Without you, there would be no Golden Paw Society and that is not an exaggeration. So thank you, thank YOU for being here with us and for making dreams come true for us and for the cats we rescue. Our hearts are filled with awe and gratitude that so many people have decided that what we are doing is worthy of support.
So bring out the party hats and let's blow some horns! (not real horns, cats don't like noise!) Here's to so many more amazing cats getting the second chances they deserve!!!
