Coming Home: a gentle guide for your cats and their new families
You give cats a second story. We would like to add something to it: a booklet for the first days, weeks and months in a new home, warmly written, ready to print and hand out. It is free for shelters and rescues.
AI-generated photosWhat's inside
Across 24 pages, “Coming Home” keeps new families company through the first weeks: familiar scents before she arrives (a blanket from the shelter, a worn T-shirt left with her ahead of pick-up), a safe home, a calm journey home, the quiet room for the first days, the first night and being alone, the gentle “3 days · 3 weeks · 3 months” orientation, her quiet signals, trust at her pace, winning a shy heart, a cat with a past, the calm basics, the first vet visit, introductions to other pets, children and visitors, and finally going outside. It also has pages to fill in: questions for the shelter, her arrival day, her first times and notes for the vet.
The back page leaves room for your stamp and contact details. The booklet comes in A4 and US Letter, fillable on screen or by hand.
How to get the booklet
Send us a short email with the name of your shelter or rescue. We will send you the booklet as a PDF in US Letter and A4, plus a code that lets you download it yourself for free at any time. No sign-up, no obligations.
Request the free booklet for our shelter
You are welcome to print it, hand it out with every adoption and email it to your new families. Please do not post it publicly online.
For your own cat
Adopting a cat from a shelter or rescue and would like the booklet for yourself? It costs $9, as a PDF to print or fill in on screen, in US Letter and A4.
And if your adoptions suggest anything the booklet is missing, every hint is precious to us: contact@catmind.studio