Welcome!   Cat Lovers! 
to the   Last Post's  Animal Sanctuary's   Homepage!

The Last Post encourages visitors and is open to the public from 11:00 am until 3:00 pm every day.  Call 860 824-0831 for directions.  We have over 300 cats, three goats, three pigs and a few dogs.  The Last Post is an oasis of peace in the Northwest Corner of Connecticut, near the Massachusetts border.

Please come and see us!

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Our Mission

A devoted animal lover and radio personality, Pegeen Fitzgerald, now deceased, founded the Last Post Animal Sanctuary in 1982.  Situated on 37 acres in Falls Village, Connecticut, on the Housatonic River in the foothills of the Berkshires, the Last Post is a large, private animal sanctuary.  Built especially for cats, it is tailored to feline needs. 

The cats live in five spacious rooms filled with couches and chairs for them to lounge and sleep on, exposed beams for climbing and perching, and lots of skylights and bay windows for sunning.

Along the outside of two of these rooms runs a one hundred foot sundeck, which the cats reach via cat doors and floor level windows.  All cats have access to breezeways and large porches.  Last Post insists that cats be fenced in or kept indoors to protect them, as well as wildlife.

Cats are caged only for a short time upon arrival at the Last Post.

All have spacious, comfortable enclosures of their own.  The remainder of the thirty-seven acres is left as a wildlife preserve.

The Last Post's primary purpose is to provide a safe, homelike surrounding for animals whose previous guardians have died or entered nursing homes.

Animals are left to the Last Post in wills, or special arrangements are made by people no longer able to care for their friends.

To Make Arrangements for your Cat

In 2002 a Unique Club Med for Cats will observe its 20th anniversary.

This beautiful riverfront retreat offers a unique retirement home for felines whose owners made financial arrangements ahead with

Jeanne Toomey, Executive Director  Last Post  95 Belden Street  Falls Village, CT 06031

 

To Make Donations

The Last Post is a non-profit organization which depends entirely on donations and bequests.  If you would like to donate to the Last Post, please make checks payable to:

Vivisection Investigation League  Last Post Animal Shelter 95 Belden Street, Route 126 P.O. Box 259 Falls Village, CT 06031

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