K’S PATH was founded in 2005 with a focus on Companion (pet) Animals. Our Companion Animal Shelter is an Adoption Center that accepts animals

regardless of age, gender, breed or behavior. Once a dog, cat or other companion animal such as a bunny arrives at our facility, it is immediately seen by our medical staff and brought up to date on vaccinations, treated for any diseases or wounds and put into quarantine for a minimum of one week to ensure health and allow our new resident to get acclimated to the new surroundings. Our cat quarantine rooms are equipped with top of the line Shore-line cages that minimize disease and stress. Each cage is furnished with a Kuranda bed for the comfort and happiness of the cats. Dogs in quarantine are housed in 1.5 meter by 4 meter rooms with solid doors to again ensure a comfortable and stress free environment as they recover from illness or are just settling into their new temporary home.

Before going up for adoption, every dog and cat receives a thorough behavioral assessment. The dog and cat assessment were developed and tested in the USA to provide the best information about each animal. For dogs, we use Assess-A-Pet, an assessment developed in the 90s by Sue Sternberg, a foremost expert on dog behavior and housing dogs in shelter environments. The cat assessment we use was developed by Jennifer Barg M.S. CPDT-KA, CDBC.

Once a companion animal is deemed adoptable, it is spayed/neutered and then is moved onto our adoption floor. Healthy, adoptable animals remain up for adoption until they find a home . We do euthanize companion animals that are found to be unsafe for adoption, as we do not believe putting potentially dangerous animals out into the community is the right thing to do. We take our responsibility to the community very seriously and feel it is important that our community can trust us to place safe, happy pets into their homes.

Once up for adoption, K’S PATH works very hard to keep every animal in our care physically and mentally healthy. Cats live in communal, cage free catteries that are designed to mimic a home environment while giving the cats lots of levels and hiding spots to exhibit natural behavior. The shelter has 5 catteries and cats are matched based on age and temperament. Cats receive constant love and attention from our staff and volunteers along with different toys and activities to keep them stimulated and happy.

Dogs are housed in 42 rooms measuring 1.5 meters by 4 meters on average with solid lower doors and a small window at the top. Each dog has a dry and comfortable bed and we ensure that each kennel has toys, rawhides and Kongs in it at different times of the day for the dogs’ stimulation. We work very hard to ensure our dogs never become bored since this is the first trigger of kennel stress. Every dog is taken out into our socialization garden for daily interaction with staff and volunteers in addition to a long walk around the surrounding farm and 4-5 play sessions in the 7 play yards that form the border of the shelter building.

To date, K’S PATH has accepted and cared for over 10,000 companion animals.

A sniff of a Doggy day at K’S PATH!

My name is Troy and I am one of the longest doggy residents at the K’S PATH Companion Animal Shelter. A lot of people come and visit the shelter but they only stay for a short time and don’t really know more about what us doggies do all day. So I thought I would take this opportunity to give you a sniff of a doggy day.

At the shelter, I live with about 75 other dogs and I bunk with one very good friend. Boss wakes me up before 7am because he has a surprisingly small bladder and dances with his legs crossed for a few minutes until our caretakers come in to let us out for our morning business. Once all of our neighbors have been let out too, we get our very yummy breakfast. We are always starving because we are dogs and inhale our food that is specially made for each of us. Event though Boss looks bigger, he gets less food than I do and he gets very jealous.

This is when we start to notice that our rooms are a bit smelly because the puppies down the hall still poop in theirs. Disgusting! So our caretakers let us back out into our fun play yard while our bedroom gets cleaned. Can you believe we get clean blankets and toys every morning?! We like being spoiled. When we come back, our bedroom is also stocked with rawhides, scrumptious!

I haven’t had to live in any other shelter but some of my neighbors have and they tell me our digs are so much better. We have big bedrooms that measure 1.5m by 4m with a solid door for privacy. I would hate not having my own space and everyone being able to see in. That would upset me and probably bring out the woofs in all of us making it very noisy. I love how quiet and peaceful our home is.

At about 10am, we all start getting very excited because it is time for our play-time in the garden and our walks. I try really hard to wait patiently for my turn, but it is really difficult and sometimes I jump up to look through my window to see what is going on. When it is my turn, I know immediately if I am going for a walk or I am going into the garden because when we go for walk, they put these really special harnesses on us that make it so much more fun to walk. Mine is a beautiful blue. Sometimes I get over excited when I see the chickens and the harness doesn’t let me pull and make myself cough, which really hurts my throat. In the garden I LOVE to play ball and I run around in circles so fast that I get really hot, so I jump into the pool to cool myself off. It is so much fun! Boss doesn’t want to get all his white fur dirty and so he takes it easy. It looks so booooring….

At 2pm when all of us have had our walk and play-time in the garden, I am exhausted!!! So I take a long nap. Sometimes Boss tries to sleep in my bed but I always remind him that I have been here longer and I am in fact the boss and no one is allowed to sleep in my bed. Sometimes I spend a couple minutes licking my peanut butter Kong before dozing off.

Everything starts up again at 5pm. I am so glad I get let out again because I drank so much water after our walks and play, I really need to go. The puppy bedrooms have to be cleaned again but not mine, Boss and I keep our bedroom very clean. Because Boss and I are big dogs, we get to go for another walk in the evening before dinner arrives around 6pm. We of course are starving again and eat it as fast as possible which is the best way to eat a meal. My mom always taught me to polish off my plate and I definitely do.

After dinner we get to go out one more time because we need to make space for all that new food and then we settle down for the night. The lights get turned off at 8pm. Some of the puppies cry a little bit at night because they miss their mommy but I always try to sing them to sleep and let them know that they are in a good place and everything will be alright.

Although I really like living in the shelter, I have been here for a year and would really love to find a comfy home. If you want to learn more about me, you can see my photo at www.kspath.org, send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call on +965 6700 1622. I don’t answer the phone but the people who do will tell you all about me and my friends.

In addition to our sheltering and adoption program, K’S PATH consults on Humane Animal Control activities. In Kuwait the current predominant practice for animal control is poisoning and K’S PATH has been working very hard to change the way this is done.  K’S PATH currently runs several animal control programs around Kuwait for government agencies and private sector companies. K’S PATH employs humane live traps, hand capture and dart gun to capture dogs in the most pain and stress free methods possible.

Capturing dogs in a humane manner calls for thorough understanding of feral and stray animal behavior, their needs and habitat limitations, thoughtful and strategic planning with vigilance on available food source and pack hide-outs, and dexterous capture skills.

John Peaveler, K’S PATH Managing Director and Lead Capture Specialist possesses several years of experience in capturing stray animals. Through extensive research and studying many animal control programs the world over, John identified the best equipment available in the market.

“We wanted to ensure we use the most effective and most humane methods to capture these animals which have already endured so much hardship by the time we find them,” John explains. “The problem of stray animals all over Kuwait is increasing.  And needs to be addressed in a very pragmatic and effective way.”

We continue to work closely with government agencies to change the current methods being used.