CAT’s mission is to work with our community to save the lives of homeless, sick and injured cats and kittens by offering shelter, adoption, foster, hospice, and veterinary services to end needless feline euthanasia in our community.
It is the perfect app for someone looking for a cat to adopt and/or just loves the cats at the shelter.
(launched April 11, 2012)
- Automatically detecting the user’s preferred language and displaying the app in either English or Spanish.
- A new Felineality Chart which will make the Meet Your Match program easier to understand for new adopters.
- A powerful search/filter tool connected to Petfinder which notifies the user as soon as a new animal arrives at the shelter based on their personal preferences.
- New logo features, including a fun Cheshire Cat animation and a valuable $20 discount coupon for adoptions of adult cats.
- Direct access to the reason the Internet was invented, CAT Videos!
- Links to Offsite Adoption locations and a Sherwood shelter open hours clock.
- And more…
It’s worth the download just to wow your friends when you make your phone purr and vibrate!
(sorry not available for iPhone right now)
We want to thank volunteer Mitch Besser for creating the CAT Android App. The CAT App is an open source application.
From the palm of your hand you can:
Every day, your CAT App will display a new, adoptable cat from our
By clicking the + (plus) sign that appears in the upper left corner of the Cat of the Day’s thumbnail photo to view more photos.
To find out more about the cat’s Felineality, press the + (plus) sign to the right of the Felineality name.
Push the “More Cats…” button to be taken to the entire online list of cats for adoption from CAT.
Push “OK” to go back to the phone application’s landing page.
Exclusively with CAT’s Android Application - your next cat could be waiting to meet you right now.
When you complete the Meet Your Match survey (linked directly from the CAT App landing page), you will be notified when there is a cat at our shelter who could be your perfect feline match.
Meet Your Match™ Feline-ality™” is a program of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Read more about this program.
How to play the Match 9 Lives game
The goal of Match 9 Lives is to match all nine cats in the top row and all nine cats in the bottom row with their correct Felineality icon in the middle row.
You win after you correctly complete all nine matches.
The top and bottom rows contain photos of nine different cats each, a total of 18 cats.
Every cat in a row has one of the nine possible Felinealities that describes how that cat is likely to behave in his/her new home. Each cat in the top row has a unique Felineality that matches exactly one unique cat’s Felineality in the bottom row.
The cats are randomly shuffled when you start a new game.
Line up your matching guess in the center column by placing a finger on a row and sliding the images in a row left or right. Once you have lined up your guess for all three rows, press the Match button at the bottom center of the display to see if your guess is correct.
If your guess is correct, the photos and icons will be visibly marked as correct. If not, you will be shown a message indicating how many cat’s you matched correctly.
If you long press (press and hold) a photo, you will be shown a full biography of the selected cat. The biography includes that cat’s Felineality along with other information about adopting that cat. To improve your score, memorize each cat’s Felineality to help you quickly and accurately make guesses.
You can obtain more information about each of the nine Felinealities by short or long pressing the middle row of icons. The Felineality icons are always shown in the following order:
To obtain the highest possible score, quickly match up each cat with his/her Felineality without any incorrect guesses. Two scores are independently recorded, the amount of time and how many total guesses it took to complete a game.
The bottom left corner of the game displays the running game clock. The clock automatically starts running after your first guess. The bottom right corner displays the number of correct matches over the number of total guesses (Match/Guess). A perfect final score will show nine matches for nine total guesses as 9/9.
Additional game information can be found by pressing your phone’s menu button. When you are done playing, press your phone’s back button to return to the CAT phone app.
After playing Match 9 Lives, consider giving one of these adorable cats a win by adopting them into your forever home. Are you game?
Just like your parents did when you were a child, CAT hid a special Holiday Gift deep inside it’s Android Phone Application. Known as “Easter Eggs”, our phone app has one too.
Oh sure, we could make it easy for you to find this special gift (see photo) but what fun would that be.
Throughout December, we will post clues to guide you down the Tinsel Trail to find our Hidden Gift.
When you do find it, you will be rewarded for your efforts. Read each clue and combine them to solve the riddle on how to find the prize.
In order to play, however, you must download the CAT App to your Android-enabled cell phone.
Answer the questions
Read the clues
Don’t judge a cat by its color
The clock is running
To thine own self be true
Haste makes waste
You’re up and you’re down
Your Felineality will help you find the 2 out of 18 cats you’ll need.
Read then Match to Win the Game, Match then Read to Win the Prize
Win the price when you win the game but only if your first follow clue 5
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