ALBERTA ANIMAL SHELTERS,
S.P.C.A.s & HUMANE SOCIETIES
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Calgary & Southern Alberta
Animal Rescue & Adoption
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Edmonton & Central Alberta
Animal Rescue & Adoption
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Northern Alberta
Animal Rescue & Adoption
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ALBERTA BIRD RESCUE & BIRD ADOPTION
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ALBERTA CAT RESCUE & CAT ADOPTION
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Calgary & Southern Alberta
Cat Rescue & Cat Adoption
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Edmonton & Central Alberta
Cat Rescue & Cat Adoption
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ALBERTA DOG RESCUE & DOG ADOPTION
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Calgary & Southern Alberta
Dog Rescue & Dog Adoption
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ALBERTA FERRET
RESCUE & ADOPTION
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Calgary & Southern Alberta
Ferret Rescue & Ferret Adoption
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ALBERTA HORSE & EQUINE
RESCUE & ADOPTION
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People have come together worldwide to assist a special class of
friends unable to speak for themselves — our pets and companion
animals. These people have formed humane societies and animal rescue and
adoption agencies of local, regional, national and even international
scope. Most humane societies and animal rescue agencies are
not-for-profit organizations, relying upon donations, grants and volunteer
assistance. The focus and goals of each agency vary, but as a group they
serve to perform and promote the following important functions:
- Protection, rescue and placement (through adoption or return to owner)
of lost, endangered and abused domestic animals;
- Education of pet owners and prospective pet owners regarding the
health, safety and proper care of pets;
- Operation of clinics to insure that even low-income pet owners can have
their animals innoculated against common diseases;
- Sponsorship of humane programs to limit or reduce populations of
domestic animals that have, through abandonment and subsequent
overbreeding, become feral (wild); such programs typically include
sterilization (neutering) and redomestication;
- Introduction and sponsorship of legislation regarding protection of
animals.
If you are a resident of the Province of Alberta, would like to become a
pet owner (Pet caretaker is a better term; if you are a true
pet lover you realize that pets should not be treated as property and that
your pets really own you.) and believe you can do so responsibly (See our
Pet
Health & Safety Tips.), please consider pet adoption from
an Alberta animal shelter, humane society or a pet rescue and adoption
agency. When you adopt a dog, cat, or other pet, you provide love and
care to an animal who might otherwise never find a home. Thousands of
abandoned or lost pets are euthanized annually because no one comes to
their aid and the cost to maintain them in animal shelters is simply
too high. Dogs and cats are, of course, the preferred pets of
Canadians; sadly, this makes them the most abundant and hence, as a
group, the most neglected. Let’s each do our part to help all
of our “fur-footed” friends find the good homes they so richly
deserve; adopt a dog, cat or other pet or donate to an Alberta pet or
animal rescue agency.
Authored by Kenneth L. Anderson.
Original article published 25 January 2004, updated 9 January
2006.
Follow links to the right to learn more about animal protection organizations in
the Province of Alberta, Canada, which include dog rescue and adoption
agencies, cat rescue and adoption agencies, ferret rescue and adoption
agencies, bird rescue and adoption agencies, horse rescue and adoption
agences and other pet and animal rescue and adoption agencies such as
humane societies and S.P.C.A.s.
At the left margin, Related Links address topics of interest
pertaining to pets and companion animals. View the
Pet Adoption & Rescue SiteMap
for a complete list of animal adoption agencies, humane societies and pet placement topics.
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