🚐✨ Our Mobile Spay, Neuter & Wellness Clinic is here! Bringing affordable care to pets from MM0 to MM70, thanks to our amazing donors & community. 🐾 Local pets grace the van, captured by Nick Doll! Stay tuned for our 2025 schedule! 💙 #FKSPCA #petwellness
Have you adopted a dog from the Florida Keys SPCA?
We are participating in the year's Key West Holiday Parade on Saturday, December 7th and are looking for alumni pups to walk with us!
If your dog does well with other dogs, is ok in a busy environment and you would like to be a part of our walking float, contact [email protected] today!
We would love to have you be a part of the fun!
Nominate
There is one more week of Nominations for this years Best of Marathon awards! Log in to Keysweekly.com until Aug. 18 at midnight to nominate your favorites in each category. Voters can vote once per day for all categories, and must fill out 75% of each ballot to cast a valid submission. So visit often, or daily, throughout the nomination process to propose your favorite finalists. Thank you for chosing our Marathon Campus as best non-profit in the Community category!
Cornbread Adopted
For Cornbread, nearly her entire young life has been a series of unfortunate events. It all began in November 2020 when Cornbread was found as a stray kitten and taken to our Marathon Campus. Two months later, we celebrated her adoption and wished her forever farewell with her new family in Key West. So, imagine our surprise when just two months later Cornbread was found as a stray on Sugarloaf Key!! Since returning to our Marathon Campus in March of 2021, Cornbread has waited patiently every day for a home of her own.
While in our care, our staff members recently noticed that Cornbread was having difficulty eating, which was strange for such a young cat. Upon examination by our amazing Veterinarian, Cornbread was sadly diagnosed with a severe case of an inflammatory issue called Stomatitis, also known as Feline Chronic Gingivostomatitis (FCGS), a painful, chronic inflammation of a cat's mouth tissues. It can cause ulcers and swelling in the gums, cheeks, and tongue, and can lead to open sores. Stomatitis can be debilitating and affect a cat's quality of life. For cases like Cornbread, the only solution is drastic – removing all the teeth!
Thanks to Dr. Lisa at Cruz Animal Hospital/Keys Animal ER Cornbread successfully had full mouth extractions and is now feeling much better!
Having been an unwanted street kitten, to adopted, to abandoned, to having all of her teeth pulled AND being our longest resident at 3 years, we think it’s more than time for Cornbread’s luck to change and for her to have the one thing she’s always wanted - a family! You can meet Cornbread at our Marathon Catio or, visit us online at https://fkspca.org/adopt/adopt-a-cat/ to complete an online adoption application today!
Are you looking for a sweet dog who is under 2 years old and loves people just as much as she loves treats and giving kisses?
Then look no further than Bella at our Key West Campus. Bella loves to play, to snuggle, and to snack with her favorite humans. She is also dog friendly!
Please come and meet this girl. She is not a fan of living in our kennels and has but one dream: to go home. We can't believe she's still here as she is the best girl and has the softest mouth in the business.
To learn more about Bella - or to fill out an adoption questionnaire - please follow this link: https://fkspca.org/adopt/adopt-a-dog/
Please note that our staff member is not up for adoption, but will gladly talk to you all day long about the sweetest doodle who is.
Bella at the FKSPCA
Have you ever come by our shelters to look at our adoptable dogs to see nothing but jumping and hear nothing but barking? Have you thought to yourself, "Don't they have any well behaved dogs? I just can't deal with this energy!"
We do! In fact, almost all of the dogs you see acting up in our kennels are well behaved, friendly, and completely different animals once out of the stressful kennel environment. While we try to make our kennels as comfortable as possible for all of our animals, it's still not a home and can be noisy and confusing.
Just watch this short clip of adoptable Bella hanging out for the day in the office of our Executive Director. Once outside of her kennel this beautiful 1.5 year old girl likes nothing better than laying around with her stuffed kitty and taking treats with perhaps the softest mouth in the Keys. As a young girl she still has a lot of energy, but it is channeled in a far different way when she is in a home environment. If we didn't know better, we'd say Kennel Bella and Office Bella are two different dogs! But we do, and they aren't.
We all have different reactions in different situations, and so do our animals. Our dogs aren't just waiting for a second chance at a new life; they are waiting to feel like they are home. And then just watch them blossom.
To fill out an adoption questionnaire for Bella please follow this link: https://fkspca.org/adopt/adopt-a-dog/
Phineas The African Grey Performing!
Welcome to our first installment of “What If…Wednesdays.” On select Wednesdays we will be highlighting the different ways we here at the Florida Keys SPCA are able to come to the aid of Keys residents and their animals from MM0 to MM70 that are perhaps unfamiliar to many in our community.
Animal Rescue is a tough job; new cases come in each and every day, all with a story that have the potential to break our hearts. Knowing we can help allows us to continue our mission, but many days we find ourselves asking, What if we weren’t here?
What If…we had no Safe Haven Program?
Meet Chris and his beloved African Grey Parrot, Phineas. Chris and Phineas have been performing together since 2000 starting in Seattle, WA, and recently moved down to Key West.
However, upon their arrival in Key West Chris encountered unexpected challenges, finding himself without a place to stay that could accommodate both him and his cherished bird.
Faced with the difficult decision of either parting with Phineas, his companion of 31 years or finding a suitable living situation, Chris was directed to Keys Overnight Temporary Shelter (KOTS). KOTS was able to offer temporary accommodation for Chris; however, because pets are not allowed to stay at KOTS, Phineas would have to find other accommodations.
KOTS told Chris about the Safe Haven Program here at the Florida Keys SPCA (FKSPCA), a safety net program that could provide safe shelter for Phineas for a couple of weeks. As Chris' quest turned out to be longer than expected, Phineas was part of our FKSPCA Family for a month and a half, entertaining everyone who entered our Lobby and Education Room.
During this difficult time, Chris found relief in knowing that Phineas was safe and well cared for, thanks to our Safe Haven program. Eventually, with the assistance of our FKSPCA Team, Chris secured both housing and employment at Nancy Forrester's Secret Garden, a bird rescue in Key West.
Throughout Phineas’ stay with us, Chris expe
Good morning and Happy Adoption Update Monday! This week's story comes to us from Ember's mom. She had this to say about Ember:
"It was the thick of Covid and I came to the SPCA to visit the kittens to cheer me up. I did not intend to get a kitty, but Ember attached to me and actually ran out of the kitten room to follow me. Took it as a sign. Now, 3 years later, he’s great! So much fun!
Marilyn"
*****Did you adopt an animal from our Key West or Marathon campus and have an update for us? Let us know! We love hearing your success stories and updates on the animals who have come and gone at our shelter. You can email [email protected] to share your story. Please include photos as well!*****
Save the Date!
If you haven't been to our Chihuahua Races at Rick's Key West you simply havn't experienced all Key West has to offer!
Join us Sunday afternoon, May 5th as we celebrate Cinco de Mayo the best way possible - by racing your Chihuahuas (and other small dogs because hey - if they fits, they race)! There will be cash and prizes for the overall race winner, and drink specials and good times for all involved.
More information coming soon!
Congratulations to Fran as she accepts her Unsung Hero award for all of her dedication and support of the homeless animals.
Fran has volunteered every week at our Key West campus for over two years in our cateries. She helps keep our cats clean, and happy and works on socialization skills that have led to them becoming more adoptable! In addition, she also volunteers at our events helping to achieve our fundraising goals!
Thank you so much for all of your hard work Fran!
