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TEXAS ANIMAL SHELTERS,
S.P.C.A.s & HUMANE SOCIETIES
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Dallas, Fort Worth, DFW & North Texas
Animal Rescue & Adoption
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Houston & Southeast Texas
Animal Rescue & Adoption
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Austin, San Antonio & Central Texas
Animal Rescue & Adoption
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West Texas
Animal Rescue & Adoption
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TEXAS CAT RESCUE & CAT ADOPTION
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Dallas, Fort Worth, DFW & North Texas
Cat Rescue & Cat Adoption
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Houston & Southeast Texas
Cat Rescue & Cat Adoption
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Cat Haven
Cat Haven, Inc.
(serving the Houston area)
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Austin, San Antonio & Central Texas
Cat Rescue & Cat Adoption
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TEXAS DOG RESCUE & DOG ADOPTION
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Dallas, Fort Worth, DFW & North Texas
Dog Rescue & Dog Adoption
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Houston & Southeast Texas
Dog Rescue & Dog Adoption
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Austin, San Antonio & Central Texas
Dog Rescue & Dog Adoption
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West Texas
Dog Rescue & Dog Adoption
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TEXAS HORSE
ADOPTION & RESCUE
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Houston & Southeast Texas
Horse Adoption & Horse Rescue
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West Texas
Horse Adoption & Horse Rescue
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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 State of Texas, 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
a Texas 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. Tens of
thousands of abandoned or lost pets are euthanized annually in the U.S.
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” friends find the good homes they so richly
deserve; adopt a dog, cat or other pet or donate to a Texas pet or
animal rescue agency.
Authored by Kenneth L. Anderson.
Original article published 24 January 2004, updated 24 August
2005.
Follow links to the right to learn more about animal protection organizations in
the State of Texas, which include dog rescue and adoption agencies,
cat rescue and adoption agencies, 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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