Save the Lives of Homeless Dogs and Cats
Help save the lives of homeless pets in your community by getting involved with your local no-kill animal shelter. By volunteering, adopting, fostering or donating, you can make a difference.
Why Adopt:- When you adopt, you save a life and make space for the shelter to rescue another homeless pet.
- No-kill shelters guarantee life to animals in their care and use 100 percent of their resources toward saving animals rather than killing them.
- If you have your heart set on a certain breed, please consider adoption first. There are many purebred animals in the shelter system and many breed-specific rescue groups.
- When you adopt a pet, it will already be spayed/neutered and will have already received veterinary care. (At PAWS Chicago, our animals also come with a certificate for two free weeks of vet care postadoption.)
- Guarantee of life: No-kill shelters provide peace of mind long after adoption. Should something happen to you or your family that makes it impossible to keep your adopted pet months or even years later, no-kill shelters will welcome the animal back, regardless of its age.
- Nationally, between 6 and 8 million homeless dogs and cats enter the shelter system each year, and more than 50 percent of these (3 to 4 million) are euthanized. (Statistics source: HSUS.org)
- Approximately 1 million puppies are produced through the puppy mill system in the United States each year. When you buy a puppy from a pet store, you support puppy mills' mass breeding and inhumane practices. (Statistics source: ASPCA.org)
- A responsible breeder always screens new pet parents and is not likely to sell their animals to pet stores or online puppy boutiques.
- Many pet store puppies have not received adequate veterinary care, will not be up-to-date on vaccinations or be spayed/neutered. These services can cost thousands of dollars in addition to what you paid for the puppy.
Visit PawsChicago.org to learn more about homeless pets.
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