No, they don't. And most of the cats we did take, we didn't get the fee from people. We weren't going to turn a cat away if we could help it. That said, most of these places are volunteer run and the vet expenses are not donated so the surrender fee was to offset the expense of having to take the cat into the vet to have them checked out before putting them into general population. If someone surrendered their cat with all their health info and papers in order, different story.

It was heartbreaking. And I ended up leaving for 2 main reasons: 1...I had two jobs at the time and this was like a third and was too much. The second was I just couldn't take how terrible people were about their pets. It was too much after awhile.