What is the Zimmer Foundation?
We are a private operating foundation (501(c)3) established in 1980. In 2000 we established our TLC/for The Love of Cats Spay/Neuter Programs to help reduce — and eventually eliminate — the shelter practice of killing homeless cats — which, in Michigan, kills over 75,000 cats and kittens annually. We are not an open-door clinic — rather we’re a safety net for cats below the spay/neuter radar: feral and stray outdoor cats and lower-income family pets. We are truly a grass-roots organization — the cat caregivers handle getting their own cats to/from the surgery appointments performed at a network of participating, veterinary clinics. Through their efforts, we’ve fixed over 12,000 total cats — and continue to do over 1,000 cats each year. We have no paid-staff or brick-and-mortar office. Our programs are administered by Internet, fax, mail and phone. Fixing these at-risk cats is important because the majority of cats and kittens taken to shelters or abandoned outdoors are given up b
