Great Places to Adopt a Pet

If you are ready to add a four legged or a winged animal to your family as a pet, then adopting is one of the great ways instead of buying them. It not only allows you to adopt a pet but also save a life. Buying an animal from a pet store or from animal breeder can cost up to thousands of dollars while adopting can only cost few hundred dollars.

Adopting a pet from certain organization involves application form, interviews, home visits or sometimes veterinary referrals. Some of the great places to adopt a pet are as follows.

Petfinder.com:-

Petfinder.com allows you to browse through a wide variety of pets from thousands of shelters across North America. The site was founded by two founders on a New Year’s resolution day. It allows users to adopt pets 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This website was the first of its kind to launch in North American region.

Adopt A Pet.Com:-

Adopt-a-pet.com was launched in 2000 by name of 1-800-Save-a-Pet.com in North America. Currently it is one of the largest nonprofit organization for pet adoption whose soul purpose is to reduce the over population in shelters across Los Angeles area. The site introduces its user with 12000 plus animal shelters, rescue groups, SPCAs and humane societies to choose a wide variety of pets for adoption.

Best Friends Animal Society:-

Best Friend Animal Society was founded by a group back in 1984 and currently it is one of the largest nonprofit pet adoptions plus no kill sanctuary societies for animals in North America. The motive for founding this sanctuary was to refute the killing ideology of the unadopted animals by animal shelters and humane societies. Their headquarters is located in Kanab and their largest sanctuary is working in Utah. Another popular branch is in Los Angeles. You can find desired pets by visiting any of their branches and once you have chosen and filed the adoption papers, Best Friends Animal Society will transport animals to your homes.

Petco & PetSmart:-

Petco and PetSmart are not selling cats or dogs instead they have made an adoption policy. The adoption policy was carried out in collaboration with government and rescue groups to allow people to adopt pets from their stores. Animal shelters and other animal rescue societies are able to use the stores of Petco and Pet Smart to adopt animals up for adoption.

This organization has around 2000 plus stores in the North American region and is a nonprofit organization.