SAFE Haven for Cats (a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization) was founded by Pam Miller and her family in 1994 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The shelter was first located in her two-car, 500-square-foot heated and air conditioned garage. The first 400 cats were adopted from that garage. Five years later, in October 1999, SAFE Haven moved and opened the first permanent no-kill shelter for cats in the Triangle region of North Carolina.