Effective September 17, 2026
1. Planning foundation
Feline Transitions helps Guardians organize cat-specific care information, people, documents, funding intentions, review dates, and transition instructions. Enrollment begins the process but does not by itself create a care obligation.
2. Path A — plan and coordinate
Under Path A, the Guardian identifies the people or organizations expected to provide care. Feline Transitions may verify roles, maintain the plan, receive notices, contact named parties, and coordinate accepted transition steps. Path A does not make Feline Transitions the owner, custodian, residential provider, or long-term caregiver.
3. Path B — Lifetime Care
Path B is advance enrollment in Lifetime Care and is available only after cat-specific assessment, capacity review, written acceptance, and a documented funding plan. After a qualifying death or incapacity, Cats in the City Rescue assumes the transition responsibility accepted in the agreement, which may include custody, stabilization, assessment, rehabilitation, and long-term placement.
The ordinary objective is a durable successor Guardian or permanent home. The cat remains enrolled and monitored for life and may be reactivated without another program fee if a placement fails. Placement difficulty is not a reason for euthanasia; humane euthanasia may be considered only when medically indicated because suffering or quality of life cannot be acceptably relieved.
4. Collective funding
Legacy Contributions support collective program capacity. They are not escrow, prepaid care, an individual reserve, or a declining balance, and care is not limited by the amount attributed to an enrollment. A larger contribution does not purchase a higher standard of care.
5. Lifetime Residency
Lifetime Residency is an individually underwritten designation within Lifetime Care, not its default definition. It depends on the cat’s needs, a suitable accepted setting, available capacity, and a documented legacy plan.
6. Combined plans
A household may use Path A as the primary plan and request Lifetime Care as a contingency. Each layer remains governed by its own accepted scope.
7. Excluded professional services
Unless separately stated, Feline Transitions does not provide legal, tax, financial, fiduciary, veterinary, emergency-dispatch, insurance, or estate-administration services. Guardians should obtain advice from appropriately licensed professionals.
8. Emergencies and final agreements
The transition report is not 911, animal-control dispatch, or veterinary emergency service. This website is an educational summary. The signed agreement, accepted care plan, state-specific terms, and written acceptance control if they differ from general website language.