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GOOD PEOPLE • GREAT CATS • SECOND CHANCES

Local Cat Rescues

Looking for your new best friend? These organizations serve cats and their people in and around the Proper Purrs community. Visit their websites for current adoptable cats, application details and ways to help.

Suncoast Animal League

Palm Harbor, Florida

A local nonprofit animal-welfare organization helping cats, dogs and wildlife through rescue, foster care, adoption and community programs.

Phone: (727) 786-1330
Address: 1030 Pennsylvania Ave, Palm Harbor, FL 34683

The Little Cats' Rescue

New Port Richey, Florida

A no-kill cat and kitten sanctuary focused on rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming, including care for senior and special-needs cats.

Phone: (727) 359-9629
Visits: By appointment after adoption application review

Humane Society of Tampa Bay

Pinellas Campus • Clearwater, Florida

The Clearwater campus provides pet adoption and animal-welfare services for the Pinellas community, including cats looking for new homes.

Phone: (727) 797-7722
Address: 3040 FL-590, Clearwater, FL 33759

HELPING THE CATS WHO LIVE OUTSIDE

Community Cats & TNVR

See an outdoor cat with a neatly tipped ear? That little ear tip is a good sign: in Pinellas County, community cats in TNVR programs are sterilized, vaccinated for rabies, and identified by an ear tip. TNVR — Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate & Return — helps humanely manage free-roaming cat populations.

MEOW Now / Friends of Strays

Pinellas County specifically directs residents concerned about free-roaming cats or colonies to MEOW Now for TNVR assistance, caregiver support and advocacy.

Phone: (727) 522-6566 ext. 116

Operation: SNIP

Largo nonprofit spay/neuter clinic with a dedicated Thursday Community Cat TNVR day. Appointments are limited, so caregivers should call before trapping.

Phone: (727) 595-1983
Location: 13489 Walsingham Rd., Largo

Pinellas County Animal Services

The official county resource for community-cat rules, TNVR guidance, animal concerns and the Pinellas Cats Alive return-to-field program.

Phone: (727) 582-2600
Location: 12450 Ulmerton Rd., Largo

🐈 Billy's Ear-Tip Lesson: A tipped ear isn't an injury or something that needs fixing. It is the visible sign that a community cat has been through a TNVR program. If an ear-tipped cat looks healthy and is simply going about its neighborhood business, that tip helps people recognize that the cat has already been sterilized and vaccinated.

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Proper Purrs is sharing these organizations as a community resource and is not affiliated with or speaking for them. Adoption availability, hours, fees and requirements can change, so please confirm details directly with each rescue.

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