Furkids is very excited to announce that we are doubling the size of our cat shelter!  

Good news, furkids! Furkids’ dogs have had their day and now it is time for the cats to play. We expanded our dog shelter and now thanks to an anonymous $50,000 grant, we are about to double the size of the cat shelter! Ten years of exponential growth has caused us to outgrow our current facilities. This wonderful new addition will feature a specialty suite for our Purrkids cats, suites for our FIV+ cats, a surgical suite that will be quadrupled in size, medical and admin offices, and much needed storage.

We are excited to bring our FIV+ cats back over to our main shelter where they can experience exposure to adoption applicants. We have achieved amazing adoptions this year and we can’t wait to celebrate more! Furkids is the only shelter in the Southeast that specializes in the care and promotion of FIV+ cats and we work hard to educate the public about their adoptability. With zero adoption fee and free vetting for a year, what do you have to lose? Just your heart to some of the greatest felines in our program! Browse FIV+ cats now.

The new space will also accommodate our Purrkids cats in a layout designed to better socialize them for adoption. We created this program a year ago for specially trained volunteers to help shy, traumatized and under-socialized cats become trusting of people. Our Purrkids volunteers change these animals’ lives in profound and lasting ways. We have already realized great progress and we look forward to growing the program for increased adoptions and intakes. Learn more about Purrkids and consider volunteering with this program.

Of course the long-term plan is to build a stand alone shelter carved out of nature, that will allow for outdoor enclosed spaces where our cats can experience fresh air and sunlight, walking trails for guests, a memorial garden, a haven for feral cats, increased space for our visiting pet therapy, youth and civic groups that come to serve, and a retail veterinary clinic open to the community. While that is our long-term 5-10 year goal, we are so excited to have the opportunity to expand our operations right now. We look forward to welcoming you to the grand opening of our new space before year-end. Stay tuned for more details!