Frequently Asked Questions

Most applications are reviewed within three to five days. From application to bringing your cat home is typically one to two weeks.

Our adoption fee is $150 per cat, subject to change. Fees include spay/neuter, vaccinations, microchip, FIV/FeLV testing, and deworming.

Candy's Cats is a no-kill rescue. Every cat in our care stays with us, in a foster home or at one of our adoption centers, for as long as it takes to find the right family. We never euthanize for time, space, or convenience. That's an important difference from many county-operated shelters, which are focused on volume, often can't provide the same level of individual medical and behavioral care, and may ultimately euthanize animals when homes aren't found quickly enough.

To understand why we don't discount our adoption fees, it helps to see how those fees are spent. The fee helps cover each kitten's spay/neuter surgery, vaccines, deworming, flea treatment, microchip, and any other medical care they receive while in rescue. Most rescues spend as much as the adoption fee on each kitten, and often more, especially when unexpected medical issues come up. Your fee helps us continue providing care to the next animals who need us.

For a typical kitten in our rescue, the adoption fee helps offset costs such as:

A single healthy kitten can easily represent $185 to $500 or more in veterinary expenses alone, before food, litter, cleaning supplies, foster-care support, transportation, and administrative costs.

If you have any questions about our adoption fees, please let us know. We'd also be happy to help you find a teen or young adult cat who can go home as a single.

We adopt locally to ensure we can support our adopters. If you're outside Central Florida, please contact a rescue in your area.

We strongly encourage adopting kittens in pairs. They thrive with a feline playmate, and it makes raising them much easier.

Feline Immunodeficiency Virus. See our FIV Info page for the details. The short version: FIV+ cats live full, happy lives in indoor homes.

First, scan for a microchip at any vet and report it as found so the owner has the best chance of finding them. For the full steps, including reporting to local animal services, the wait-and-watch advice for newborn kittens, and how to request intake, see our Rehome a Pet page.

We're a small, volunteer-based rescue with limited foster space. Our Rehome a Pet page walks you through the full process: returning a cat you adopted from us, requesting intake for a cat you didn't, and alternatives worth exploring first.

There are so many ways to help! You can foster, volunteer, donate or shop our wishlists, or grab some gear from our store. Sharing our cats on social media or coming to an event helps too. See every way to pitch in on our Get Involved page.