Our Story -

Matilda's Garden was founded in July of 2017. Though we are a new organization, our board has a long history of volunteering in animal rescue in the DFW area. For over 25 years, we have independently dedicated our time to shelter and stray cat rescue, TNR, and community advocacy and education.

Matilda’s Garden aims to find loving homes for cats and kittens in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. We are an all-volunteer foster-based non-profit cat rescue dedicated to helping area shelters achieve high live release rates, treating animals humanely and with compassion, and ending cat homelessness in north Texas.

All cats adopted through Matilda’s Garden are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, tested for FIV/FeLV, and microchipped. We hold regular adoption events and offer meet and greets with our fine felines by appointment.

Who is Matilda?

Matilda is one of our rescue cats. She received an injury that made her high risk for return or abandonment if she had been adopted out. She's not a very social girl, and has the temperment of most tuxeto cats (bratty). She was originally nicknamed Elizabeth Taylor because of the beauty mark on her face, though the name Matilda stuck.

The name Matilda's Garden came from her running outside of the clinic when someone wasn't fast enough at shutting the door. She would run out in front to this little garden area and there she would stay, until someone from the clinic called momma to get her. "Come get Matilda" calls happened so often, as she wouldn't let anyone but her mom pick her up.