Rescue cats for adoption and rehoming in and around Sheffield

Inside the city, The Sheffield Cats Shelter on Travis Place, S10, is the one cat shelter we list, and Save A Stray has foster homes in Sheffield as well as around Rotherham and Thorpe Hesley. Close by, Chesterfield Animal Rescue fosters cats and is listed at Dronfield, and Thornberry Animal Sanctuary rehomes cats at North Anston.

The rest are a drive away: Barnsley Animal Rescue Charity and Royston Animal Welfare on the Barnsley side, Little Souls Rescue and Sanctuary listed at Harworth, RAIN Rescue at Misson and Heronbank Cat Rescue around Huddersfield. Our Sheffield cat rescues guide compares every one we list, with its area and process.

Sheffield cat rescues check where a cat would live before they place it (each rescue's rule). Have your answers ready before you apply.

• Renting. The Sheffield Cats Shelter needs a statement from your landlord or housing provider before it will invite you to meet any cats, and says around 40% of the cats needing rehoming at its shelter come in because owners didn't have that permission. Save A Stray needs your landlord's written agreement too.
• Roads. The Sheffield Cats Shelter checks the roads around your home. If your address doesn't pass, it will consider you for an indoor-only cat, usually an older cat, one with a health condition, or one that has always lived happily indoors.
• Kittens. Save A Stray only places kittens within a 40 minute drive of Sheffield, because they come back for neutering at 4 months, and The Sheffield Cats Shelter doesn't rehome kittens before 11 weeks.
• Home checks. The Sheffield Cats Shelter works from up-to-date photos of your home, Chesterfield Animal Rescue always home checks before rehoming, and Heronbank Cat Rescue rehomes within Yorkshire only and asks a £10 home check fee first.

Sheffield-area cat rescues that publish a set fee ask from £80 a cat at Royston Animal Welfare to £175 at Chesterfield Animal Rescue. In between, Barnsley Animal Rescue Charity asks £110 for an adult cat and £130 for a kitten, and The Sheffield Cats Shelter £150 a cat, or £275 for a bonded pair.

RAIN Rescue generally asks £100 to £185, shown on each cat's profile. If you can't take a cat home straight after a successful meeting, it takes a £50 reservation fee that holds the cat for up to 7 days, and that fee is non-refundable. Save A Stray puts each cat's fee on its listing, and Little Souls Rescue and Sanctuary sets its fee cat by cat, so ask.

Each rescue sets its own adoption fee. 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, and Blue Cross fees start from £150 for cats aged 4 months to 7 years. The fee usually covers neutering, microchipping and first vaccinations, and each rescue confirms its own fee.

These charities rehome cats around Sheffield (our guide to them). We don't list their cats, so search their own sites.

• Cats Protection Sheffield & District, a volunteer branch covering S postcodes across Sheffield, Barnsley and Rotherham, asks £95 for an adult cat and £115 for a kitten under 6 months. Cats Protection Chesterfield & District covers S18 and S40 to S45, and Cats Protection Doncaster covers DN1 to DN12, DN14 and DN22.
• The Blue Cross Sheffield rehoming, advice and behaviour unit on Old Station Drive has no cattery: most of its pets stay with their owners or foster carers until adopted.
• The RSPCA also rehomes animals; search on its own site.

Take it to a vet or a cat rescue to be scanned for a microchip, so its owner can be traced. The council stray service is for dogs: in England, section 149 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 deals with stray dogs, not cats.

Looking for a kitten? Our rescue kittens guide for Sheffield covers who rehomes kittens around the city and how long kittens stay indoors, and the kittens page lists every kitten near Sheffield today. There are pages too for older cats, indoor cats and bonded pairs.

Need to rehome your own cat instead? Our Sheffield rehoming page covers Cats Protection Sheffield & District's Direct Homing scheme and The Sheffield Cats Shelter's waiting list.