Best Of 2025: Furkids Honored For Its Lifesaving Animal Rescue Work In Alpharetta

Alpharetta, GA — Every community has its bright spots — the neighbors, businesses and local favorites that make it feel like home. As 2025 comes to a close, Patch and T-Mobile are recognizing the people, places and moments that made this year brighter in Alpharetta through our Best of 2025 series.

This story was submitted by Caroline Koenigshof, who nominated Furkids. To share your own Best of 2025 nomination, click here to answer a few questions, and we’ll take it from there.

Who or what are you nominating for Best of 2025?

Furkids

How did this person, place or experience make a difference in your life or community this year?

Furkids offers thrift store finds with high quality, but most importantly, [helps] rescue homeless animals, providing them with the best medical care and nurturing environment while working to find them a forever home.

What would you like everyone in town to know about your nominee?

Furkids, headquartered in Georgia, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization that operates the largest cage-free, no-kill shelter in the Southeast for rescued cats and Sadie’s Place, a no-kill shelter for dogs. Furkids also operates one of the only facilities in the Southeast dedicated to the care of FIV positive cats. The Furkids mission is to rescue homeless animals, provide them with the best medical care and nurturing environment while working to find them a forever home. Furkids heals the whole animal, physically and emotionally, restoring its health and its spirit. Furkids has rescued and altered more than 65,000 animals since its founding in 2002. Approximately 1,000 animals are in the Furkids program today, in the Furkids shelters, 8 PetSmart and Petco adoption centers, and more than 400 foster homes in the Atlanta area. Furkids is the only animal rescue organization in metro Atlanta that allows children of all ages to volunteer. Furkids volunteer programs are designed to restore the health and spirits of injured and homeless animals while providing healing opportunities for volunteers who are strengthened by the bond of love and care between humans and animals.

If you could tell them one thing, what would it be?

Please keep doing what you do! You do so much for our community and animals who have nothing.

What’s something you love most about your town or community?

I love how it is a large community, but still has that small hometown feel.

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