The document summarizes renovations made to convert a house into a cat shelter and adoption center for Clarion PAWS. Key rooms like the kitchen, living room, dining room, bedrooms, and bathroom were repaired, painted and divided into individual cat rooms. Storage and work spaces were also created. The goal is to better house cats until they find forever homes by separating them into smaller groups and providing windows so they can see outdoors.

1. Our house, is a very, very, very fine
house. With two cats in the yard
house…

2. Welcome to This Old Cat House.
Side & Main Entrance
Summer 2014
remodeling project.
Back Entrance
Summer 2014
remodeling
project.

3. Kitchen
Before
Painting
Kitchen
After
Painting

4. Living room before.

5. Living room after. Rooms 1, 2, & 3 with center modules that can be
opened to make one large room.

6. Cat Room 1 in the old living room. Every room has a window.

7. Cat rooms 1 and 2 in the old living room.
Cat room 3 in the living room.

8. Old dining room before new windows and painting

9. Room 4 in the old dining room.

10. Rooms 4 and 5 in the old dining room. Note latches
on the 2 center doors. They unlock so doors can be
opened to make 1 large room.

11. Room 5 in the old dining room.

12. Front bedroom
before plaster fix,
new windows and
paint.

13. Front bedroom after
new windows and
paint.

14. Room 6
Old front bedroom becomes
cat rooms 6 and 7.
All of the floorcovering in the PAWS
house is vinyl fiber floor. The base
cove is rubber, sealed top and
bottom to prevent moisture from
getting to the plaster walls. Thereby
preventing a place to harbor mold
and/or bacteria.
Room 7

15. This is the back bedroom that will
become PAWS intake room (Cat
rooms 8 and 9).
The plaster was in need of some
repairs . Then the room was
painted and new triple pane vinyl
windows were installed.

16. Cat intake room 8
Cat intake room 9

17. Before
After removing all the plastic tile and the
bath tub, the walls were covered with
fiberglass panels, floor covered in vinyl
fiber floor covering with rubber cove base.
PAWS repurposed some of the cabinetry at
the old adoption center and uses it for
storage.
Bathroom after remodeling.

18. Old laundry room.
Needed plaster repair and
redirection of water pipes.

19. The laundry room was
painted, new window
and shelving installed.
PAWS moved the
washer and dryer
from the former
Adoption Center and
purchased a used 3
bowl stainless steel
wash tub with a
commercial sprayer
installed.
PAWS soaks litter
boxes, scoops and
plastic cat toys in the
first sink using disinfectant, then items are moved to the 2nd sink for rinsing and then to
the 3rd sink for air drying.

20. Work room before it became the PAWS office.

21. Old work room
converted to new
PAWS office.

22. Clarion PAWS
P.O. Box 804, Clarion PA 16214
www.clarionpaws.org
(814)229-1231
With the dedication of past and present board members and volunteers, and the trust placed in us by our
generous donors, Clarion PAWS has stayed the course in our quest for a time when there will be no more
homeless pets. Unfortunately, our current location just wasn’t fitting our needs and due to the current
economic climate we knew it would be too difficult to raise the kind of funds needed to build the state of
art adoption facility we all dream about, so we did the next best thing and purchased a house with about
an acre of property on Clarion River Hill (Route 322, near Clarion Electric and Scrap Happy), and remodeled
it to suit our needs.
Although the house isn’t any larger than our current location, the layout and ample windows will allow us
to better house our residents by separating them into smaller groups based on their personalities. During
their visit with us, while waiting for their forever homes, our residents will be able to enjoy the sunlight of a
dreamy afternoon, watch the leaves turning colors or see flakes of white snow from their window perch.
They may even catch a glimpse of a bird in flight, a chipmunk racing across the grass or a beautiful cardinal
perched on a snow covered tree branch.
Clarion PAWS’ original mission was to become a shelter/adoption center for both cats and dogs, however
thanks to our fellow rescue groups, Clarion PUPS and Tri-County Animal Rescue there is now help available
for the homeless and abandoned dogs of Clarion County. Thankfully their existence will allow us to
concentrate our efforts on the tremendous number of homeless and abandoned cats and kittens (feral and
friendly) in Clarion County by continuing to accept only felines into our adoption program.