Kiki's Place of Care and Kindness

Hello, Welcome to Kiki's Place of Care & Kindness' 2025 GMD page!

 

A Heartfelt Request for Support

As a small, home-based rescue with no paid staff and very limited space, every life we save is possible only because of people like you who believe in compassionate care and responsible rescue!

This Give Miami Day, your gift — big or small — directly provides food, vet care, supplies, and safety for the animals who rely on us when they have no one else to help them.

If you’re able to, please support Kiki’s Place of Care & Kindness so we can continue saying “yes” to the most vulnerable animals who need a kind, caring, and safe place to go. 

Kiki’s Place of Care & Kindness — a 2025 SNAPSHOT

For our small but mighty-hearted, home-based rescue, 2025 has been another year filled with both challenges and incredible moments of compassion! In the past 11 months, Kiki’s Place has been able to say “yes” to so many animals who had nowhere else to turn:

•    Rescued and fostered 14 kittens and 2 adult cats — and will be placing all of them in loving forever homes!

•    Welcomed Moonpie, our first foster of the year: an older black-and-white kitten with an abscessed paw, abandoned in a neighborhood colony. 

•    Took in a tiny kitten with her bottom lip detached from her chin. After surgery, she began showing signs of mild cerebellar hypoplasia. This sweet baby, now affectionately named Pecan Pie, was evaluated by Southeast Veterinary Neurologists and is waiting for her forever home as an extra-special, special-needs kitten.

•    Helped coordinate the adoption of Egypt, a young cat rescued with a broken pelvis, and are currently sponsoring a calico kitty we named Adelaide (or Addy), whose injured front leg needed amputation. Just weeks later, despite having what appeared to be an ear tip - she surprised us by giving birth to five kittens we named Carly, Joni, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, and Van Morrison, all waiting for forever homes.

•    Arranged TNVR for a mother cat and her three older kittens who were too fearful of people to be adoptable. The mom, Sally Sue, was spayed, proved to be friendly, and is now awaiting a forever home.

•    Took in an emaciated senior blind cat, now named Hobbins, who received vetting while we determine his long-term care and adoptability.

•    Rescued three tiny, emaciated kittens - Fawn, Prom, and Tippytoe - and nursed them back to health — all now looking for loving homes.

•    Provided comfort and care to a shy abandoned cat "Silvie" whose decline in appetite and big stomach revealed a large abdominal mass; sadly, humane euthanasia was the kindest choice.

•    Continued providing daily care, medical support, enrichment, and love to our 13 permanent residents, who depend on us for lifelong sanctuary. This year, we also said a heartbreaking goodbye to Rango, who passed due to a cancerous jaw mass.

And our care extends beyond the rescues we take in — we also provide guidance, referrals, loan trapping equipment, and hands-on support to people in the community who are trying to help a cat, kitten or pup in need.

OUR COMMITMENT TO RESPONSIBLE RESCUE

At Kiki’s Place of Care & Kindness, our guiding promise is simple: every animal we take in receives love, respect, veterinary care, and a safe environment where they can heal and thrive.

Since 2007, we have rescued or sterilized/TNVR’d over 118 cats and kittens, including bottle babies, and have rescued, fostered, and placed five dogs, six puppies, and 80+ cats and kittens into forever homes.

Many of our rescued cats — often strays, abandoned pets, or at-risk colony cats with behavioral or medical hurdles — live permanently at Kiki’s Place, where they enjoy a nurturing environment and a nearly complete, spacious, securely fenced catio.

Because we are a small home-based rescue, we are not an open-intake shelter. We rescue or take in animals only when we have the space, time, and resources to fully commit to their wellbeing.

FOSTERING & PARTNERSHIPS

We are proud to partner with reputable rescues — especially the wonderful This Is the Dog! rescue in Homestead, which assists with adoptions and transports to New England. Our goal is to build a strong network of foster homes to meet the overwhelming need for safe, loving spaces for animals in transition.

When we place animals in foster care, Kiki’s Place supplies food, litter, vet care, medication, equipment, and support, while foster parents provide the daily care and love every rescue animal deserves until a forever home is found.

ADOPTION 

All adoptable animals who pass through Kiki’s Place receive essential veterinary care — prioritizing spay/neuter — to ensure they’re healthy, protected, and ready for their forever families.

TRAP-NEUTER-VACCINATE-RETURN (TNVR)

We are committed to TNVR - the most humane and effective means to control the stray cat and dog overpopulation. While we can't help every TNVR case, we assist or provide resources in the most helpful way possible to help people responsibly solve stray cat and dog issues.