Please adopt an animal from an animal shelter. Buying from a "pet store" or breeder takes a good home away from a shelter animal who desperately needs a loving home.
Please spay or neuter your cat, dog or bunny. It is estimated that 8 to 10 million dogs, cats and bunnies are killed each year in shelters because there are not enough homes. Allowing your dog, cat or rabbit to breed perpetuates this cycle.
Adoptions:
www.adoptapet.com
Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) works for over 7,000 animal shelters and rescue groups. Adopt-a-Pet.com is the world's largest non-profit pet adoption website, used by over half a million adopters each month.
www.petfinder.com
You can search animals from rescue shelters across the U.S. and find local humane society and animals currently up for adoption.
www.ygrr.org All Breed Rescue Link
Adopt and rescue a specific breed on the Yankee Golden Retriever
Rescue, Inc. all-breed rescue list
Spay and Neuter Help/Feral Cat trapping info:
www.alleycat.org
Alley Cat Allies is an organization advocating trap/neuter/return as a method of reducing feral cat populations and is an excellent source of information on caring for feral cats and their kind treatment.
www.thestopclinic.com
An organization dedicated to providing accessible, low cost neuter and vaccination services for privately owned and feral cats. Check their schedule to see when they're in your neighborhood.
www.commonwealthcats.org
Feral cat and sterilization and vaccination program. Check their schedule and info on how to trap, neuter and release feral cats.
www.petpopulation.org
The National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy
Pet Bereavement
www.aplb.org
The Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement is a large clearing house for information on pet bereavement.
Miscellaneous
www.sentientbeings.org
Promoting compassion for America's most abused animals
www.VegforLife.org
How To's on becoming vegetarian
www.cok.net
Compassion Over Killing: Working to end animal abuse, COK focuses on cruelty to animals in agriculture and promotes vegetarian eating as a way to build a kinder world for all of us, both human and nonhuman
www.Grey2KUSA.com
GREY2K USA is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to ending the cruelty of dog racing. They are a network of humane-minded citizens who work to pass stronger dog protection laws and close down existing greyhound racetracks. They also offer adoption referral information to help the thousands of dogs still racing.
