965 rescue organizations and cat cafés where you can adopt
Chestertown, MD
Kent County, Maryland's only animal shelter providing food, shelter, medical care, and adoption services for cats, dogs, and small pets in need. The organization also operates community support programs including a food pantry, lost-and-found services, and animal welfare investigations.
Baltimore, MD
BARCS is an open-admission animal shelter serving the Baltimore City community, dedicated to preserving, reuniting, and creating new families for homeless animals. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, they provide adoption services, family-preservation programs, and comprehensive shelter care.
Home-based / foster network — serves the Baltimore, MD area
Cat Rescue of Maryland specializes in rescuing and rehoming cats, with a particular focus on feral and community cats. The organization emphasizes spay/neuter services to reduce suffering and create capacity for additional rescues.
Mechanicsville, MD
A foster-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that protects animals in the Chesapeake Bay area by connecting them to safe homes, providing veterinary care, and offering foster, adoption, spay/neuter, trap-neuter-return, and community education services.
Home-based / foster network — serves the Rockville, MD area
LOVEPAWS helps underdogs and cats in under-resourced homes, on the streets, and in shelters in their community, with a focus on pit bulls in Prince George's County. They operate a foster-based rescue with adoption services and community support programs.
Home-based / foster network — serves the Rockville, MD area
Petey and Furends is a certified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN 84-4819015) no-kill animal rescue organization that is dedicated to reducing instances of neglect, abuse, and homelessness in companion animals. To do this, we use research- and evidence-based practices to facilitate a matchmakin
Harford County, MD
Shadow Cats TNR is a cat rescue and TNR organization dedicated to assisting animals in need in Harford County through trap-neuter-return services, adoption programs, and reduced-cost spay/neuter clinics.
Leonardtown, MD
St. Mary's Animal Welfare League operates the Cat Castle Rescue Center, an adoption-focused facility dedicated to rehoming adult cats and kittens through volunteer-driven rescue efforts.
Frederick, MD
All-volunteer animal rescue and welfare organization established in 2002 committed to rescuing animals, finding them loving homes, and promoting humane treatment. Operating under the philosophy that every animal deserves a loving home and that euthanasia is neither acceptable nor humane.
Owings Mills, MD
A network of cat-loving volunteers in Baltimore providing love, food, shelter, and medical care to cats and kittens through foster homes and adoption services.
Salisbury, MD
A non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue and placement of dogs and cats, with a focus on animals discriminated against due to their age or lack of training.
Cumberland, MD
A county-supported shelter providing safe care for dogs and cats in need, with adoption services and a foster program designed to save lives through temporary care.
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