An animal shelter is where we can place animals temporarily who may be lost or sick.
I like the mission behind animal shelters, especially the "no kill" shelters. Gives all animals a chance to find a good home.
Yes! A no kill shelter uses many resources to house and provide medical care to homeless animals.
It's amazing how many stray animals there are, including even exotic animals like snakes!
Humane Society of the United States
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), based in Washington, D.C., is an American nonprofit organization founded by journalist Fred Myers and Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, and Marcia Glaser in 1954, to address what they saw as animal-related cruelties of national scope, and to resolve animal welfare problems by applying strategies beyond the resources or abilities of local organizations. In 2013, the "Chronicle of Philanthropy" identified HSUS as the 136th largest charity in the United States in
. Best Friends Animal Society is the largest no-kill shelter in the United States who adopts policies such as "Save Them All". Like this shelter and many others, they strive to keep their animals as long as it takes to find them new homes. City shelters and government funded shelters rarely have this policy because of the large number of animals they receive. No-kill shelters are usually run by groups that have volunteers or individuals with enough space to foster pets until a permanent home can be found. However