About Us
Founded in April 2025, OnlyPaws Cat Rescue JA is a volunteer-led initiative working to save Jamaica’s street cats and end their suffering. Every day, cats on our streets suffer from hunger, sickness and neglect, but we believe our community can make a difference.
Our mission is to minimize the suffering of Jamaica's street cats by addressing the overpopulation crisis through Trap, Neuter, Return or Relocate to safe homes (TNR). We also care for our street cats by providing emergency vet care and food, and we are actively working on providing affordable cat food and spay/neuter services to cat owners in need.
We rely on donations, sponsors and volunteers to keep doing this life-saving work. Together, we can protect our street cats, break the cycle of suffering and create a more compassionate Jamaica for cats.
We provide daily nutritious wet and dry cat food to rescued cat colonies through automatic feeders, feeding missions and caretaker partnerships. A full belly means less roaming, less danger. It's how they learn to trust us, it's how rescue begins.
Daily Meals
Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return/Rehome
Jamaica’s streets are overflowing with unwanted cats due to low spay/neuter awareness and frequent abandonment. Through Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return (TNVR) and public education, we break the cycle of overpopulation and suffering. But TNVR isn’t enough if cats are returned to unsafe streets to struggle with hunger. The welfare of cats has always been, and will continue to be, our guiding principle. This is why we pair TNVR with feeding, fostering or adoption. Together, we can stop the suffering before it begins.
Rescue ends with love, safety, and a forever home. We rehome spayed or neutered cats to committed families, following a careful adoption process to protect them from further harm. Adoption fees help cover vet care and ensure adopters are invested. With your support, we can keep caring for rescued cats until they find their forever homes.
Adoptions
We strive to make vet care possible for Jamaica’s street cats, with vaccinations, deworming, medical care for injuries and illness, along with boarding at veterinary clinics to ensure proper healing. Every donation helps us ease their pain and save lives.
Vet Care
So many street cats live and die without ever knowing a gentle touch or a kind voice. We exist to change that. With your help, we can spread so much more love for the cats in Jamaica & change the way Jamaicans view cats. Love changes lives.
Love
Help Us Do More
We rescue cats from Jamaica’s streets weekly, but without a sanctuary and with limited foster homes, many cats face long waits and risk never being saved in time. Socializing feral cats takes patience, space and resources we simply don’t have, and funding is stretched thin.
We launched savecatsinjamaica.org to fund Jamaica’s first dedicated cat sanctuary for this purpose. Join us in giving street cats a second chance at life, love and safety.