Adopt A Pet

www.PetFinder.com: Search animals in need of rescue and adoption across the United States.

Adopt an older animal in need. Cats can live up to 22 years old. Dogs can live up to 17 years old. Cockatiels can live up to 25 years old. Macaws and many parrots can live up to 100 years. Bunnies and guinea pigs can live up to 9 years. Animal companions and dependents are truly a long-term responsibility and commitment. Animals are depending on you to take care of them. Be a responsible dog or cat guardian or animal friend. Adopt from an animal shelter. Spay or neuter your companion animals.

Adopt. Don’t Buy or Breed.

Visit animal shelters personally as not all animals are listed on shelter websites. Animal control facilities and city shelters are usually high kill shelters. Many animals, especially at animal shelters and animal control facilities down south and out west, are still killed by gas chambers and heart stick. There are transport companies available if you would like to adopt an animal from an out of state animal shelter or animal control facility.

Animals are discarded because they are abused or unwanted. There are simply not enough homes for the tens of millions of animals born homeless, or neglected and/or abandoned by uncaring humans. Approximately 30,000 dogs and cats are killed daily at animal shelters and animal control facilities in the United States. One city animal shelter can easily kill over 100 animals in one day. Kittens, puppies, adult cats and dogs, gerbils, parrots, horses, and many other animals, are in desperate need of adoption and life-long loving homes.

Animals end up in shelters because people discard them, not because they are unlovable or abnormal. The primary causes of companion animal abandonment are unscrupulous breeders, failure to spay and neuter, and people's unrealistic expectations or laziness when it comes to caring properly for animals. Another primary cause is due to normal animal behaviors that people do not accept, do not know how to change, or do not deal with humanely or in a compassionate manner.