Join the fight, Save a life! Adopt a Pet

It may not be obvious to many what the above number represents. It’s large and powerful, yet in this instance, incredibly sad.

Every year, in the United States, over 5,000,000 healthy and adoptable pets are euthanized. Why would the most powerful country in the world do such a thing? There is one only simple reason — there are not enough homes.

Shelter and rescue organizations in this country are brimming with unwanted, stray and homeless pets. Please do your part to help alleviate this problem. With everyone understanding the issue, doing their part to care for their pets like family members, and utilizing the important resources PETS 911 can offer your community, we can and will solve this issue.

The following PETS 911 services are in your community and directly empower you to make that difference:

• Adopt a pet and save a life! Check out pictures of adoptable pets — or simply find the many organizations in your community you can visit.
• If you find or lose a pet, make sure you enter the pet into the PETS 911 national lost and found system.
• Please spay or neuter your pet(s). Prevent your pets from contributing to the problem of overpopulation by having them fixed. If everyone made sure their pet was spayed or neutered, the issue of overpopulation would end!
• Donate money or “wish list” items to your local animal shelter or rescue organizations. They are short on resources when it comes to caring for so many animals.
• Volunteer at your local animal shelter or rescue organization – volunteers are precious to this cause but there are too few to go around.
• Foster a homeless pet. This helps your local shelter or rescue more than you can imagine! And boy is it fun!
• If you have feral (wild) and/or stray cats in your neighborhood, there are ways to humanely take care of them, while at the same time preventing them from breeding — through a process called “TNR.” Read more about that in the Stray and/or Feral Cat section.
• Get training, behavior and health tips for both cats and dogs in our special sections dedicated to keeping your pets healthy and happy.
• Don’t forget to check out all of the animal shelters and rescues in your community. Learn all about the services they provide…and pass this information on to your neighbor!

In summary, each of us can do our part. If you know of anyone that needs help with the above — or would benefit from this information, please pass along this website as a resource.

Thank you for doing your part to help the animals that need us!