Please don't buy or breed!
Adopt a homeless pet in need!

Search for adoptable pets
in the entire petfinder database!

 

Adopt a homeless pet and please, if you can, donate to help the animals in need and the
volunteers who devote their time, energy and love to those who cannot speak for themselves.

Click below to find a rescue group near you!

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/rescue.htm

http://www.petfinder.com/pet.cgi?action=4

 

If you choose to go through a breeder for your favorite breed, please choose responsibly.
Below are some links for families considering adopting from a breeder:

How Responsible Breeders Differ from Backyard Breeders and Pet Shops

Backyard Breeders vs. Reputable Breeders

 

If you need help finding a home for an animal, please use the links below to find a rescue organization near you.If you can't give them a good home, let rescues help find them one. It's the kindest and best alternative for an animal you can't give a home to yourself.

 

Why spaying and neuteringis the first
step to a solution for homeless pets...

I am the Voice of the Voiceless
Through me the dumb shall speak
'Til the world's deaf ear be made to hear
The wrongs of the wordless weak.
Oh shame on the mothers of mortals
Who do not stoop to teach
The sorrow that lies in dear dumb eyes
The sorrow that has no speech.
From street, from cage, from kennel
From stable and from zoo
The wail of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
Of the mighty against the frail.
But I am my brother's keeper
And I shall fight their fight
And speak the word for beast and bird
Till the world shall set things right.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox-

 

As a nation, we claim to love cats and dogs. Millions of households have pets and billions of dollars are spend yearly on pet supplies and food.
But as a nation we should take a hard, sobering look at a different annual statistic: the millions of dogs and cats given up to shelters or left to die on the streets. And the numbers tell only half the story. Every cat or dog who dies as a result of pet overpopulation—whether humanely in a shelter or by injury, disease, or neglect—is an animal who, more often than not, would have made a wonderful companion, if given the chance. Tremendous as the problem of pet overpopulation is, it can be solved if each of us takes just one small step, starting with not allowing our animals to breed.
- HSUS