Rescue cats for adoption and rehoming in and around Glasgow

We list two cat rescues within about 41 miles of Glasgow, and one of them is in the city. Purrple Cat Rescue has a rescue centre and cat café on St Enoch Square, with most of its cats in foster homes across Glasgow. The other, Fife Cat Shelter, is at Cleish, by Kinross, about 40 miles away.

So this page lists cats from that wider area, nearest first, and on some days very few are listed. Each profile links to the rescue that cares for the cat, and you apply with them. Our Glasgow cat rescues guide compares them, with Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home further afield and the charities that rehome cats in the city itself.

Each rescue runs its own process, and the right one often depends on how far you can travel (how to choose). Read each cat's profile for the home it needs before you apply.

• Purrple Cat Rescue. After its adoption form, it books a phone call and then a video home check, adds approved adopters to a pool while it finds a match, and invites you to its St Enoch Square centre on adoption day. Every cat's profile says whether it can live with children and other cats, and whether it needs to go outdoors.
• Fife Cat Shelter. It never delivers, so you collect your cat in person, and a kitten too young to be neutered must be neutered by the time it is 6 months old.
• Renting. Cats Protection Glasgow requires written permission from your council or landlord to keep a cat, and recommends having it in place before you apply.

Fife Cat Shelter asks a donation of £120 for a neutered cat (£180 for two) and £100 for a kitten not yet neutered (£150 for two), paid when you collect.

Purrple Cat Rescue's fees are generally from £250 a cat, and it says a fee may be more or less depending on the cat's and carer's circumstances; they go largely towards vet bills and care. Cats Protection Glasgow asks £120 for an adult cat and £140 for a kitten.

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.

Two charities rehome cats from Glasgow itself, and we name them but don't list their cats (our guide to them). Search their own sites.

• The Cats Protection Glasgow Cat Centre in G41 houses its Glasgow cats ready for new homes, and you meet them by appointment after an application. Its volunteer branch, Cats Protection Glasgow, keeps all its cats and kittens with fosterers across the Greater Glasgow area.
• The Scottish SPCA has its Glasgow rescue and rehoming centre in Cardonald, G52 3RY, and a Lanarkshire centre in Hamilton, ML3 0SB. The Scottish SPCA also rehomes animals; search on its own site.

Take it to a vet or a cat rescue, who can scan it for a microchip. The council stray service set up by section 149 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, which extends to Scotland, deals with stray dogs, not cats. In Scotland a cat doesn't have to be chipped: you can choose to microchip your cat, so a scan may or may not find an owner.

Looking for a kitten? Kittens are often not listed with us near Glasgow, so our rescue kittens guide for Glasgow covers who rehomes them and how to apply and wait, and the kittens page shows any listed today. There are pages too for older cats, indoor cats and bonded pairs.

Need to rehome your own cat instead? Our Glasgow rehoming page covers the Cats Protection Glasgow branch, which arranges a place with a volunteer fosterer, and the other local routes.