Very touched by the mission and the ability to truly engaged the community. A true staple of the area and have fun events like book club!
Almost Home Cat Rescue MKE is a wonderful organization! They are Milwaukee's only cage free shelter and the cats are much happier for it! It's always wonderful to see all of the cats and kittens roaming free and playing. You get to know their personalities much better!
They really care about cats and the community! They go above and beyond to take care of their babies and find them homes. Visiting Almost Home feels like a home, the open environment for the kitties gives them space to get comfy, especially when people come to see their possible new fur babies! It really makes a difference for those kitties. Thank you all your hard work!
After we lost the last of our four-legged family, the Sassy cat at 19 1/2 years old, I had thought about doing volunteer work with cats somewhere. It would be beneficial for both the cats and for me, since I have love and care to give, and cats seem to like spending time with me. Given our busy lives, though, I didn't get around to it. Then I found out Almost Home Cat Rescue had opened to the public while reading an article about them in a local news site. My wife and I stopped in one Sunday open house. Rambunctious black cat Earnest and shy calico Maxine were there in the community room, and Stephen was the volunteer staffing the open house. Both my wife and I were very impressed with how well-set up and clean the entire shelter was kept, and we chatted with Stephen, who as a founder of Almost Home, could tell us all about the place and the organization. I kept coming back for visits during open house, and realized that Almost Home was the place I wanted to volunteer. Every volunteer there goes through training and supervised shadowing before taking on their own shifts. I've now seen Almost Home from both sides - visitor and volunteer - and I can say that it's always a place I look forward to going to. They are totally committed to caring for cats and kittens and finding them forever homes!
This is an amazing cat shelter! They take amazing care of their cats and run an excellent establishment. I love this place and I would absolutely rate this place 5 stars!
I have been with Almost Home Cat Rescue since they began and helped found it.
Almost Home is a cage free, free roaming rescue where the cats can move about the room and play.
Big windows give them a view of the street where many of the neighbors stop to look in on the cats.
the neighboring day care walk the children just to see that cats and kittens up for adoption.
Dogs being walked are also enjoying the cats in the windows.
The rescue is clean, well taken care of, and the lack of pet smell is refreshing.
A great shelter with great, passionate people at the helm. You can tell so much love has gone into creating the space that our cats call home (for a short while), and the volunteers treat the animals as their own. I look forward to coming in multiple times a week to volunteer or spend time socializing with the animals, and it’s amazing that it’s open for the public to do the same. Such a wonderful organization!
There are rare moments when we get to experience caregivers like Almost Home Cat Rescue. I have visited the Wisconsin Humane Society as well as the Ozaukee Humane Society looking for that special friend and walked away feeling sad because of the confined cages covered with blankets to keep them quiet and isolated. At Almost Home it is an open playing field for the kitties with vertical and horizontal challenges and big screen TV's for their evening entertainment. Bowls of great food and water are always available for them. They have special areas for newcomers until they get adjusted to the new family members. If I were a cat, I would not want to leave Almost Home, it has everything I would want...i.e.new friends, great care, frequent visitors and plenty to eat. I visit often and have always experienced joy and lots of love from both directions.
This organization started as a virtual community to support feline care, rescue, and adoption and provides community support and continued service to the feline community & their humans. The volunteers are super, and their location is awesome, and open to everyone! Please stop in, dontate, utilize the community pantry, and be part of this mission!
Almost Home Cat Rescue MKE is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) founded by volunteers in early 2021.
Our passion is to create a safe haven for all cats in our care until their forever home is found; as well as to be a resource to the community, for its cats, and the people who love them.
•Compassion towards all people and animals.
•Providing a safe haven for all lost, abandoned, abused, neglected, unwanted, unsocial, ill and injured cats and kittens until they are ready to be adopted.
•Supporting a community of people and shelters committed to helping homeless cats.
•Raising awareness about the realities that homeless animals face in the community and across the nations, providing a forum for people to get involved in effecting change.
I am proud to be part of our Fundraising Team, a Volunteer and a Founder. Looking to adopt? Please visit our website at www.almosthomemke.com
I am a founder of Almost Home Cat Rescue, volunteer and on the fundraising committee.
I’m proud to be involved in an organization that not only cares for the cats that we take in but also the people that have cats. We offer assistance if cats are having behavioral issues so that they are able to stay in their home.
I would highly recommend checking out Almost Home and supporting us in any way you can.
The facility is well staffed, kept spotless, clean and that cats have everything plus, the would need. The adoption rate is over the top and the staff helpful, nice and communicative.
I am a fairly new volunteer and find the staff very knowledgeable and appreciative.
I got my cats, Gus and Olivia, from this rescue! It was an amazing match and everyone there was so amazing I ended up volunteering. Photos of Gus and Olivia living happily with me. Amazing cats, amazing rescue!
AHM is such an amazing group of people who really truly care about not just the kitties, but who adopts them!!! No kitty goes unloved!!! I am honored to be able to work with such a great organization!!!!
I adopted this lovable creature, and she brightens every day of my life. This non-profit is amazingly well run and helped me understand how to be a great cat dad. Highly recommend stopping in.
Almost Home is a no-kill shelter that offers a free-roaming, home-like environment for kitties! It's clean, cozy, and an amazing resource for local kitties and the community.
Almost Home Cat Rescue MKE stands above others for a few reasons. They are an all volunteer shelter and all monies are used for the care of the kitties. The shelter takes in strays, non-socialized kitties, abused, injured and very sick cats to include FIV and FELV diagnosed kitties. They have a Behaviorist that can help the fosters with the care of the rescues. They also work with people that are having behavior issues with their own cats and who want to work with them so as not to surrender them. Because helping kitties with behavior and shelter related stresses, they have a cage free environment within their shelter. The cats have large areas to roam and interact almost as much as being in a home.
This organization also does outreach to other rescues with supplies, funding and assistance in trapping, feeding and getting information out to people that can assist. There is a pantry at their location and if people find they are in need of assistance with food and other supplies, they can stop in at their location and receive products that can get them through tough situations.
They also do community outreach by partnering with other shelters to take in adoptable kitties, kitties that would probably be euthanized because of lack of funds or lack of resources to work with non-socialized kitties, and those with FIV and FELV so that they can be placed in loving homes. They also take adoptable cats out of shelter facilities and adopt them through Almost Home when shelters are overburdened with surrenders.
They team up with other businesses to promote their particular products and services while also promoting the shelter and it's needs.