About Us
Working Together to Save Hawaii's Cats
Fly Hawaii Cats is a transport network that connects Hawaii's rescue organizations with trusted rescue partners and adopters across the mainland. By working together, we help save more lives than any one organization could alone.
Every island faces different challenges. Some rescues have more cats than available homes, while mainland shelters may have waiting adopters but not enough kittens. By coordinating safe transport flights, we help match cats with the communities that need them most.
Adoption to Loving Homes:
Maui Cat Rescue & Cat Café Maui (Kahului, Maui) MauiCatRescue.org | CatCafeMaui.com
Maui Cat Rescue is the nonprofit organization behind Cat Café Maui and Fly Hawaii Cats. At Cat Café Maui, we provide a safe, enriching space where adoptable rescue cats stay after they've been spayed or neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, and are ready to find their forever homes.
Every guest who visits plays a part in the cats' journey. Daily interaction with visitors helps the cats become more social, confident, and comfortable around people, making the transition into a home much easier.
Many cats are adopted right at the café by visitors enjoying their Maui vacation. Others are adopted online by families across the mainland. Through Fly Hawaii Cats, we coordinate all of the travel logistics—including volunteer flights, health certificates, airline arrangements, and airport pickups—so cats can safely travel from Maui directly to their new forever homes.
By combining rescue, socialization, adoption, and transportation, we give more of Hawaii's cats the opportunity to find loving homes while creating space to rescue the next cat in need.
Our Impact
Since opening Cat Café Maui, we've helped more than 1,100 rescue cats find loving forever homes. While many are adopted locally by Maui residents and visitors, others continue their journey through Fly Hawaii Cats to families and rescue partners across the mainland. Our cats have found homes in 24 destinations throughout the United States and Canada, with the largest number of adoptions in California (50), Washington (36), Oregon (13), Colorado (11), Arizona (9), Texas (9), Massachusetts (7), Nevada (7), and Alaska (6). We've also celebrated adoptions to Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Canada. Every adoption creates space for another rescue cat to receive a second chance, making an even greater impact on Hawaii's cat population.
Rescue to Rescue Partners across North America:
Kitty Charm Farm(Kahului, Maui) - KittyCharmFarm.com
Kitty Charm Farm focuses on rescuing vulnerable cats and kittens and helping them reach rescue partners where adoption demand is high. Many of their cats travel to trusted rescue organizations in Denver and San Diego, where shelters often have more adopters and greater resources available.
Nahiku Farm Sanctuary(East Maui)
A sanctuary dedicated to giving rescued cats a second chance. Many of their cats are transferred to rescue partners in the Seattle area, helping relieve overcrowding on Maui while supporting rescues that are ready to welcome more cats.
Purrs Across the Pacific(Oʻahu)
An Oʻahu-based rescue transport program that partners with mainland rescue organizations throughout the western United States, including Denver, helping connect island cats with communities where loving homes are available.
Catsnip(Kona, Hawaiʻi Island)
A dedicated rescue organization working to reduce cat overpopulation on Hawaiʻi Island through rescue, medical care, spay and neuter, and transport partnerships.
Volcano Sanctuary(Volcano, Hawaiʻi Island)
Provides sanctuary and rescue for vulnerable cats while working with mainland rescue partners to create more adoption opportunities.
Aloha Animal Alliance(Hawaiʻi Island)
Coordinates rescue efforts and transports cats to trusted rescue organizations in San Diego, Seattle, and other mainland communities where they have a greater chance of finding permanent homes.
Why We Work Together
Hawaii has far more homeless cats than available adoptive homes. Meanwhile, many mainland rescue organizations experience the opposite problem—they have families waiting to adopt but not enough kittens or friendly cats available.
By sharing resources and coordinating transports between rescue organizations, we create a win-win solution:
More Hawaii cats find loving homes.
Mainland rescues can meet adoption demand.
Local shelters free up space to rescue the next cat in need.
Together, we save more lives.
Every flight is more than transportation—it is a partnership built on compassion, trust, and a shared mission to give every cat the opportunity for a safe, loving forever home.