Cat Rescue & Adoption Centres: Gloucestershire

Based in Stroud, helping feral, elderly, disabled and stray cats. Rescue cats are given veterinary care where needed and rehomed where possible. 5 Valley also helps with trapping, neutering and returning of feral cats. Contact them if you can offer a loving home to a domestic cat or kitten or have a farm, stable or smallholding for a semi-feral cat.

Covering Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, and Northamptonshire. Blue Cross Burford have facilities for 25 dogs, 21 cats, 14 rabbits and other small pets. They also have numerous paddocks and stables to care for up to 60 horses. Please call prior to visiting.

Bristol and Wales Cat Rescue rehomes cats and kittens to adopters within a 50 mile radius, but can only take cats in from Bristol. All potential adopters are home-checked or must supply a letter of reference from their vet. All cats are treated for worms and fleas, litter-trained, socialised also neutered and microchipped if old enough.

Covering postcodes: BS1-11, BS13-16, BS30-32, BS34-37, BS40-41. Rescuing and rehoming stray and unwanted cats and kittens, encouraging neutering, and providing information to the public about the care of cats and kittens.

Covering Postcodes: Cheltenham GL50, GL51, GL52, GL53, GL54 and Tewkesbury GL20. Rescuing stray and unwanted cats and kittens, rehoming where possible and encouraging neutering. Cats are cared for by fosterers at their own homes until new homes can be found.

Covering Cinderford, Coleford & Lydney, Ross-on Wye, Chepstow and Monmouth. Cats are cared for in fosterers’ homes until new homes can be found.

Covering Stroud, Stonehouse, Dursley, Painswick, Nailsworth, Wotton Under Edge and the surrounding areas. Finding homes for many stray and unwanted cats and kittens.

Based in Gloucester. Rescuing and rehabilitating street cats, feral cats and injured cats in the Gloucester and Swindon areas. Cats are neutered, microchipped and vaccinated prior to adoption. Adopter suitability checks apply.

Based in Tetbury. Rescuing abandoned, ill-treated or injured animals throughout the Cotswolds area. Finding new homes for hundreds of unwanted animals each year.

Based in Cheltenham. GAWA rescue and re-home unwanted and abandoned stray cats, dogs and small animals. Each year they care for around 1000 animals.

Covering Bristol, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. HEART’s aim is to find secure new homes for animals that have been abandoned or whose owners can no longer care for them. They help dogs, cats, rabbits, horses, goats and many other animals throughout the South West.

Covering Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Rescuing and rehoming around 800 animals each year. No animal is put to sleep unless advised by a Vet. Adoption fees help towards the cost of microchipping, vaccination and neutering the animals prior to rehoming (those too young to be neutered are rehomed with a neutering agreement).

Based in Gloucester, rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming cats throughout Gloucestershire. Katkinz Rescue work closely with local veterinary services to provide the best care possible. All cats will be neutered, microchipped, flea treated, and will have full clearance from the vet before rehoming. Home checks apply.

Based in Gloucester, covering Gloucestershire and the surrounding area. New Start Cat Rescue aims to rescue and help unwanted cats and kittens of any age and to encourage responsible cat ownership. They strive to find suitable homes for any cats who come into their care and give advice when necessary. They neuter feral cats and return them to their normal colonies where possible. They also promote regular vaccination and worming programs, encourage microchipping. Also promoting and encouraging neutering.

Covering Gloucestershire. The Cheltenham and East Gloucestershire Branch of the RSPCA provides food, shelter and medical care for rescued animals until they can be found suitable new homes. We rehome dogs, cats, birds, rabbits and other small animals from our rehoming centre on the edge of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire to the whole of the UK.

Providing animal welfare to the Cirencester, Fairford, Tetbury, Dursley, Nailsworth, Wotton-Under-Edge, Berkeley and Stonehouse areas.

Based in Gloucestershire - rehoming Nationwide. Starfish Rescue help with any animals at risk, especially cats, dogs and rabbits. All animals will be neutered if they are old enough, for young animals the potential adopter must undertake to have the animal neutered as soon as they are the appropriate age. Home checks will always take place.

Based in Gloucester. Teckels is a charitable animal welfare centre, which was established in 2003 after the Gloucester based rescue kennels and cattery merged with another long established animal rescue centre based in Swindon. Teckels has rescue and re-homed thousands of animals in recent years from both the Gloucestershire and the Swindon area.

Based in the Vale of Evesham, covering Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Twilight Cats is a small, privately funded, feline retirement home dedicated to providing tender loving care to cats in their twilight years. Occasionally, the shelter may seek to rehome a senior cat who is not suited to living in a multi-cat environment (in this instance, a home visit and adoption fee will apply). Priority given to super seniors (15 years and over).