Whiskers Animal Benevolent League

If there’s a hole in your life where a kitty should be, Whiskers will help you find him or her.
It took me a while to connect with Whiskers. They have a shelter in downtown Albany, but they do not publish an address for it. You have to call for an appointment. That made me a little uneasy somehow. (I admit, I am uneasy in general about organizations that keep large numbers of animals.)
Come to find out, a large number of the cats are cared for by foster moms in their own homes. The foster moms bring their charges into the adoption clinic, which is held at Petsmart in Clifton Park. I never visited the shelter — only the adoption clinic. And I never had any contact with shelter staff — the foster moms processed our application and arranged the adoption; they made everything as easy as it could be. And the middle-​aged cat we adopted had a foster mom that had clearly taken very good care of her.
If you’ve been thinking about adding a cat or kitten to your family, please don’t wait. There’s so many kitties waiting to be adopted. You can see some of them here:
(And if Clifton Park is too far, many other Petsmarts hold adoption clinics for other shelters. You can look them up on Petsmart’s website.)