Aitutaki Community
Animal Rescue
Aitutaki Community
Animal Rescue
Help Aitutaki Animals Stay Healthy
Please Help Us Continue To Provide Our Services For FREE
Please Help Us Continue To Provide Our Services For FREE
Using safe, humane and professional veterinary methods, we help the community of Aitutaki in the Cook Islands to create a stable, sustainable, and healthy animal population using a spay/neuter/treatment program. Also known as TNR (trap, neuter, release).
Aitutaki Community Animal Rescue (ACAR) is a Cook Islands Registered NGO Charity. All services are provided FREE of charge. We are able to receive donations to carry out multiple veterinary missions per year.
Since Feb 2018, we have organized 8 successful veterinary missions to Aitutaki
Our volunteer veterinary teams are assembled with professionals from US and international locations including Oregon, California, Wisconsin, Arizona, Alabama, Canada, New Zealand and now Australia. The veterinarians and vet nurses are licensed in their home countries and are dedicated to helping animals in need no matter the location. We fund our own flights to the Cook Islands and our own expenses in order to go on these missions. We fund-raise, write grants and ask for donations through the internet, FaceBook, and GoFundMe.
Please Donate To Help The Cats And Community!
Alongside Te Are Manu Veterinary Clinic in Rarotonga, Aitutaki Community Animal Rescue has successfully treated, spayed, or neutered over 1500 cats
Please note: ACAR and Aitutaki Community Cat Program are now merged. All the same goals, mission and compassion for Aitutaki!
Since Feb 2018, we have organized 5 successful veterinary missions to Aitutaki
Our volunteer veterinary teams are assembled with professionals from US and international locations including Oregon, California, Wisconsin, Arizona, Alabama, Canada, New Zealand and now Australia. The veterinarians and vet nurses are licensed in their home countries and are dedicated to helping animals in need no matter the location. We fund our own flights to the Cook Islands and our own expenses in order to go on these missions.
Please Donate To Help The Cats And Community!
Alongside Te Are Manu Veterinary Clinic in Rarotonga, Aitutaki Community Animal Rescue has successfully treated, spayed, or neutered over 386 cats
Please note: ACAR and Aitutaki Community Cat Program are now merged. All the same goals, mission and compassion for Aitutaki!
The beautiful island of Aitutaki, surrounded by it’s 19 sq miles of lagoon and islets (called motu), has been rated as the “most beautiful lagoon in the world” by Lonely Planet. Beautiful, remote, peaceful with extraordinarily friendly and sweet people.
And cats. Heaps of cats. There are no natural predators for the cats of Aitutaki, and no consistent veterinary care so after at least a century of multiplying, there is a bit of an over population problem.
Check out the featured articles about us in Cook Island News and Escape Magazine
