Adopting a pet feels good. And adopting a pet from the Humane Society of Utah feels even better. Because when you adopt one, you’re really helping save thousands through behind-the-scene rehabilitation efforts, spay and neuter surgeries, food and shelter.
Update by HSU Volunteer:
Kitty City Now Open
Kitty City is a brand new multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art small city that provides cats with a high quality life while they await adoption.
Kitty City can hold about 200 cats at one time and the facility was full when it opened to the public on August 25, 2012. Kitty City has attracted so much attention and positive experiences for potential new owners that over 130 cats have been placed in new homes in just the first ten days of operation. At the end of the Labor Day weekend only 24 cats remained ready for adoption.
Kitty City is comprised of three six-cat Villas, one nine-cat Villa, fifteen five-cat Condominiums, and about forty one-cat Townhouses. The Townhouses are for cats that won't socialize with other cats and need their own dedicated space. They are two levels of built-in cages that have closeable openings that can join two side-by-side cages and/or two cages one above the other. If all of these openings are unblocked a cat is free to roam through a four-room Townhouse.
The Condominiums each have their own flat-screen TV that plays an endless loop of nature video with birds, squirrels, fish and other animals in natural settings. Some of the cats become complete couch potatoes.
The Villas are large structures on which the cats can recline, play with each other, or frustrate volunteers and staff by climbing out of reach. As each Villa, Condominium, or Townhouse becomes totally vacant, it is completely cleaned and sanitized before the next cat or cats are introduced. There is absolutely no odor in the facility!