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PENNSYLVANIA PET ADOPTION
Animal Shelters in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania SPCA
Pennsylvania Humane Society
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CAT RESCUE IN PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania Cat Adoption
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DOG RESCUE IN PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania Dog Adoption
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FERRET RESCUE IN PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania Ferret Adoption
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HORSE RESCUE IN PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania Horse 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 adoption
and rescue 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 would like to become a pet owner (Pet caretaker is the 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.), believe you can
do so responsibly (See our
Pet
Health & Safety Tips.), and wish to adopt a pet in Pennsylvania,
please consider pet adoption from animal shelters in Pennsylvania or
from a Pennsylvania SPCA, Pennsylvania humane society or Pennsylvania pet
rescue. When you adopt a dog, cat, or other pet, you provide love and
care to an animal who might otherwise never find a home. Huge numbers
of abandoned and lost pets are euthanized annually in Pennsylvania alone
because no one comes to their aid and the cost to maintain them in
animal shelters is simply too high. Dogs and cats are the preferred pets
of Americans; 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” and hooved friends find the good homes they so
richly deserve; adopt a dog, cat or other pet, or donate to or volunteer
at a Pennsylvania animal rescue.
Authored by Kenneth L. Anderson.
Original article published 10 January 2010.
Follow links to the right to learn more about animal protection organizations in
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which include dog adoption and
rescue agencies, cat adoption and rescue agencies, and other pet adoption
and rescue 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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