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| Pet Shelters Across America is a 501(c)3 member organization. Our members connect people and homeless pets and facilitate countless pet adoptions each year. While our specific charge is to fundraise for our shelter partners, you can visit every member site and their on-line adoptable pets from this web site. Last year our members helped more than 1.2 million animals and hosted nearly 4.5 million visitors. |
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HOW WE DO IT
Pet Shelters Across America members are advocates for animals and protect them from cruelty and neglect. Our members provide programs and services that encourage the bond between animals and people.
Pet Shelters Across America members offer refuge and care for homeless animals. We offer shelter, medical care, nourishment and a second chance for homeless animals, thus protecting animals from cruelty, neglect, carelessness, ignorance and irresponsibility.
Today’s humane organizations provide these services: caring for the lost, abandoned and surrendered animals, promoting animal adoptions from shelters, spay and neuter programs, micro-chipping, educational programs, behavioral information and pet training, and best practices in human and animal health issues.
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Additional Adoption Initiatives
Frequently, additional services are needed before an animal can be placed on the adoption floor. Our shelters take many steps in an effort to place animals into adoptive homes and to keep them there.
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Foster Care Programs
For animals who have had surgery and need recuperation time, mother animals and their young, animals too young to be placed, those undergoing special medical treatments such as heartworm, kennel cough or upper respiratory infections and more.
Socialization
We work with shy, nervous animals to socialize them so they are more adoptable. This is done in the shelter and in foster homes.
Medical Treatments & Vaccines
Depending on the severity of the condition and the resources available, shelters will treat animals for everything from parasites to upper respiratory infections to heartworm to even amputation of a limb or removal of an eye to make each animal adoptable. Many shelters collaborate with veterinarians who donate their time for surgeries not typically done in a shelter environment. These partnerships improve our knowledge, resources, community reach and countless shared lives. |
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Rescue Group Partnerships
Our agencies work with a variety of partners who find homes for some harder-to-place animals. We work with local rescue groups for some breeds and other animals that are not adopted out by some agencies but are taken in. Members also work with other shelters to take their overload of animals so that more animals can be adopted into homes.
Micro-chip Animals
By imbedding microchips under the skin we can identify lost or stolen pets and reunite them with their owners.
Behavioral Information and Pet Training
One of our many goals is to reduce the number of animals being turned into shelters. We seek to keep pets in their homes in a manner that’s comfortable for both pet and owner. We offer an online library containing tried-and-true methods for managing many common pet behavior problems. There are also tools for evaluating situations that may be resolved only by applying additional resources. Our agencies offer a behavior help lines to help resolve existing behavior programs and train new, appropriate behaviors. |
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