King Street Cats

King Street Cats is the only all-volunteer, cat-exclusive, no-kill, free-roaming animal rescue facility in Alexandria, Virginia. We receive no public funding and survive solely on private donations from our supporters.

When King Street Cats became an official cat rescue organization in 2003, we comprised around 25 volunteers, rescuing and finding homes for approximately 100 cats and kittens each year. Since then, we have grown into a regionally recognized rescue, comprising more than 150 volunteers finding forever homes for a record 321 cats in 2015.

For the past 15 years, in addition to rescuing and finding forever homes for the animals in our care, King Street Cats has been supporting spay/neuter efforts by ensuring that all our cats and kittens are sterilized prior to adoption as well as promoting TNR efforts in our community. We work in partnership with several high-kill shelters in our region in an attempt to help reduce euthanasia rates. KSC is particularly well known for rescuing animals with special physical and behavioral needs that would not otherwise survive the shelter system.

KSC promotes cat education and welfare in our local community. We partner with local schools and scouting groups to help teach children about animal welfare issues. We also host a monthly “Family Day," during which we invite families with young children to come and volunteer. We hold adoption events both at our own facility and at local venues. We regularly promote animal adoption and animal welfare through participation in regional events like the DC Green Festival, Wags N' Whiskers in Arlington, VA, and at CFC campaign events across the metro-DC area.

The main desirable outcome in our strategic plan is to help reduce the number of cats and kittens found homeless and/or euthanized in the metro-DC region. To do this, King Street Cats will pursue following plan:

Pursue relationships with other animal organizations:
1. Strengthen our relationships with regional high-kill shelters
2. Participate in Best Friend's Animal Society's No More Homeless Pets Network
3. Join the Virginia Federation of Humane Societies
4. Deepen our support for local TNR efforts

Educate and advocate for animal adoption and TNR:
5. Continue to work with schools and scouting groups
6. Exploit opportunities to promote adoptions and animal welfare at high-profile public events

Heighten our profile:
7. Utilize traditional and social media platforms to promote KSC
8. Encourage more volunteer participation in the organization

Our plan is to widen and deepen on our volunteer base through a monthly New Volunteer Orientation event, and intensive training programs for caregivers, adoption counselors and foster parents.

We will focus our rescue efforts on partnering with local shelters to save cats and kittens from euthanasia and work with local community cat caregivers and organizations to promote TNR in our area.

KSC will continue to host on-site and off-site adoption events and to exploit our social media to garner financial and other support for our rescue efforts.

Total number of cats/kittens rescued last five years: 2022

Total number of spay/neuter surgeries last five years: 1083

Total number of cats/kittens who found homes last five years: 1851