Rescue cats for adoption and rehoming in and around Belfast

One place to meet rescue cats is inside the city: Kumiko Cat Lounge on the Upper Newtownards Road, a cat lounge run in partnership with Belfast Kitten Rescue, a group that fosters cats in its own homes. Both post their cats on PAW, and we show them from this update.

Further out, Assisi Animal Sanctuary at Conlig, about 10 miles away, and Almost Home Animal Rescue NI at Moira, about 14, both rehome cats. Petal's Place Cat Rescue had two cats in Banbridge on 6 November 2026.

Assisi charges £100 for a cat or kitten. Belfast Kitten Rescue's cats at Kumiko were £90 each, or £180 for a bonded pair, on its PAW listings on 6 November 2026. The Barn asked £80 for a cat on PAW and Paws and People £50. Almost Home doesn't publish a cat fee.

Each rescue sets its own adoption fee, and Cats Protection says you can expect to pay £80 to £120 on average for an adult cat and £100 to £120 for a kitten, varying between its branches. The fee usually covers neutering, microchipping and first vaccinations, and each rescue confirms its own fee.

The routes differ more for cats than for dogs (Kumiko, Assisi):

• Kumiko: meet them first. You book a session at the lounge, fill in its enquiry form if a cat catches your eye, and Belfast Kitten Rescue arranges the adoption itself.
• Belfast Kitten Rescue: no busy roads. It wants its cats to go outside safely, so it won't rehome to a home on or near a busy road unless a cat's own write-up says it can live indoors.
• Assisi: no same-day homing. Its steps are a form, a phone call and a visit to meet the cats that suit you.
• Almost Home: be honest. Its form asks where the cat will live day and night and whether you would take a bonded pair.

The Cats Protection Northern Ireland Cat Centre at Dundonald also rehomes cats, though its cats aren't on our pages. Belfast City Council says it has no authority over stray or feral cats, and tells an owner who can no longer keep a cat to sign it over to a local cat rescue.

Our guide to cat rescues in Belfast and Northern Ireland compares them in more detail, and if you searched for kittens for sale, our rescue kittens guide explains where the young ones are. Browse the kittens and older cats pages, or the Northern Ireland cats page for Fermanagh and beyond.

Rehoming a cat of your own? Start with our Belfast rehoming page.