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VIRGINIA ANIMAL SHELTERS,
S.P.C.A. & HUMANE SOCIETIES
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Northern Virginia
Animal Rescue & Adoption
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Chesapeake Bay to Hampton Roads
Animal Rescue & Adoption,
Norfolk SPCA
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Central Virginia
Animal Rescue & Adoption
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Shenandoah Valley & Blue Ridge
Animal Rescue & Adoption
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Augusta Regional SPCA
Augusta Regional SPCA
(serving the Cities of Staunton
& Waynesboro & Augusta County)
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CAT RESCUE VIRGINIA
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Cat Rescue Northern Virginia
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Chesapeake Bay to Hampton Roads
Cat Rescue
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Cat Rescue, Inc.
Cat Rescue, Inc.
(serving Chesapeake & the
Hampton Roads area of southeastern Virginia)
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Central Virginia Cat Rescue
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DOG RESCUE VIRGINIA,
DOG ADOPTION VIRGINIA
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Dog Rescue Northern Virginia,
Northern Virginia Dog Adoption
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Golden Retriever Rescue Education and Training
Golden Retriever Rescue Education and Training, Inc. (GRREAT)
(serving Maryland, Northern
Virginia, the District of Columbia, Delaware,
south central Pennsylvania &
eastern West Virginia)
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Labrador Retriever Rescue, Inc.
Labrador Retriever Rescue, Inc. (LRR)
(serving metropolitan
Washington, DC, Northern Virginia &
Maryland suburbs)
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Lab Rescue of the LRCP, Inc.
Labrador Retriever Club of the Potomac (LRCP)
(serving metropolitan
Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, Maryland, &
the Mid-Atlantic region)
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Northern Virginia Sheltie Rescue
Northern Virginia Sheltie Rescue (NVSR)
(serving Strasburg & Northern Virginia)
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NoVa Rottweiler Rescue League, Inc.
NoVa Rottweiler Rescue League, Inc. (NoVa Rottie Rescue)
(serving Northern Virginia &
the Beltway)
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OBG Cocker Spaniel Rescue of Northern Virginia
Oldies but Goodies Cocker Spaniel Rescue, Inc. (OBG)
(serving Washington, Dc,
Northern Virginia & the Mid-Atlantic area)
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United Maltese Rescue
United Maltese Rescue, Inc. (UMR)
(serving metropolitan Washington, DC, Northern
Virginia &
Maryland suburbs)
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Virginia Greyhound Adoption
Virginia Greyhound Adoption (VAGA)
(serving Oak Hill & Northern Virginia)
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Chesapeake Bay to Hampton Roads
Dog Rescue & Dog Adoption
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K-9 New Life Center
K-9 New Life Center
(serving Virginia Beach)
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Rainbow Animal Rescue, Inc.
Rainbow Animal Rescue, Inc.
(serving Norfolk, Portsmouth
& the Hampton Roads area)
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SEVA GRREAT
Southeastern Virginia Golden Retriever Rescue Education and Training, Inc. (SEVA GRREAT)
(serving the Hampton Roads
& Tidewater areas from the
North Carolina / Virginia state line
to Richmond)
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HORSE ADOPTION VIRGINIA
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Northern Virginia Horse Adoption
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REPTILE RESCUE IN VIRGINIA
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VA Reptile Rescue, Inc.
VA Reptile Rescue, Inc. (VARR)
(serving the New River Valley area & the
Commonwealth of Virginia)
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People have come together worldwide and in the Commonwealth of Virginia
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 are a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 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 Virginia animal shelter, humane society or a pet adoption and rescue
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. Hundreds 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 Virginia pet
adoption agency.
Authored by Kenneth L. Anderson.
Original article published 14 March 2006.
Follow links to the right to learn more about Virginia animal protection,
pet adoption and pet rescue agencies. These include but are not
limited to cat rescue agencies, dog adoption and rescue agencies,
humane societies, S.P.C.A. and animal shelters.
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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