Meet Our Life-Saving Team
Ten Lives is a volunteer run organization. We have no paid staff or employees and rely on the generosity of our community to complete our life-saving work. Having a volunteer based program allows us to direct 100% of funds raised to cats and kittens in need!
Melissa is the co-founder and Executive Director of Ten Lives. She has been volunteering in the “rescue world” for over 5 years. She and her partner are happily owned by 4 rescue cats! Melissa was inspired to start Ten Lives Cat Rescue after fostering a cat named Slugger, a former junk yard cat, for a year. His remarkable transformation taught them so much about patience, the capacity of the human heart, and dedication. Cats like Slugger need second chances and Ten Lives is dedicated to providing just that.
- Fur Family: Lily
- Volunteer Role: Post-Adoption Coordinator, Foster
- Favorite Part about Volunteering with TLCR: It’s a tie! I love continuing to be constantly blown away by how amazing and dedicated our volunteers are (their pure acts of selflessness inspire me!)…but it’s also equally rewarding connecting with adopters and hearing (and seeing) our cats absolutely thriving in their furever homes! =^..^=
- Fur Family: Charlie and Ghost
- Volunteer Role: Adoption Contracts Coordinator
- Favorite Part about Volunteering with TLCR: Helping very deserving cats get one step closer to their forever homes!
- Fur Family: Shiva, Hopper, & Waffle
- Volunteer Role: Foster, Supply Coordinator
- Favorite Part about Volunteering with TLCR: Meeting and working with like-minded, caring people to help give kitties the life they deserve.
- Fur Family: Quinn, Trooper, Patch, Chance, and Frankie.
- Volunteer Role: Foster, Foster Coordinator, Board Director
- Favorite Part about Volunteering with TLCR: Meeting & working with other volunteers that are just as crazy and caring about cats as I am!
- Fur Family: Freyja, Syn, and Beyla
- Volunteer Role: Adoption Coordinator, Event Planning
- Favorite Part about Volunteering with TLCR: Working with the most wonderful, passionate, and dedicated group of volunteers ever and matching cats with their purrfect forever families!
- Fur Family: Colette, mom to Miel and Merlot
- Volunteer Role: Foster, Microchip Coordinator
- Favorite Part about Volunteering with TLCR: The awesome team work and shared vision of doing what is right for the cats in our care. Also, taking scared cats and getting them ready for their forever homes.
- Fur Family: Shinobu, Ryuji, and Chiharu
- Volunteer Role: PetFinder Admin & Website Manager
- Favorite Part about Volunteering with TLCR: Supporting such an amazing and admirable team of people who work tirelessly for the cats and truly make a difference!
- Fur Family: Lloyd, Emma, and Fred
- Volunteer Role: Foster, General Email Admin, Intake Coordinator
- Favorite Part about Volunteering with TLCR: Spending time with cats and being able to make a difference in their lives.
- Fur Family: Sophie, Benny, Henry, Luca, Evan, and Miss Kitty
- Volunteer Role: Foster Mom & Foster Pa
- Favorite Part about Volunteering with TLCR: Giving the scared, angry, abandoned cats a chance and watching them transform with love–and maybe some cat treats sprinkled in!
- Fur Family: Jack, Luna and Marcelline
- Volunteer Role: Foster, Supply Coordinator
- Favorite Part about Volunteering with TLCR: Giving needy cats an opportunity to know love, kindness, and safety and what it feels like to be part of a home. Also making wonderful friends who love cats and are passionate about what they do!
- Fur Family: Brooklyn, Abby, & Cora
- Volunteer Role: Foster, Event Volunteer
- Favorite Part about Volunteering with TLCR: Helping rehabilitate and socialize cats who are considered “feral” and who without an organization like Ten Lives wouldn’t be given a second chance at finding a forever home.
- Fur Family: Kenya, Melanie, and Ash
- Volunteer Role: Foster, Instagram Admin
- Favorite Part about Volunteering with TLCR: Watching my foster babies transform and blossom from scared strays into happy, confident, thriving cats.
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