Thurston County’s primary regional animal shelter and animal control agency
Blue Mountain Humane Society was founded in 1967 by a group of local residents committed to creating positive outcomes for animals in the Walla Walla Valley. Over the years, the Society has grown and evolved to include a humane, state-of-the-art no-kill shelter facility designed to serve companion animals.
Our mission is to prevent cruelty, promote kindness and to foster the human-animal bond.
We work to educate, inform and equip our community with the tools required to accomplish our ultimate vision: to end pet overpopulation and homelessness and to inspire a compassionate community.
To that end, in addition to sheltering pets, we provide subsidized spay, neuter and vaccine services for pets belonging to income-qualified families. We also provide humane education programming and volunteer opportunities for supporters of all ages. As the contracted provider for animal control services in rural Walla Walla County, we provide cruelty and neglect investigations to ensure that animals have homes with responsible, committed caregivers.
Founded by Vivian Goldbloom in 2013, Emerald City Pet Rescue exists to rescue abused, neglected and homeless animals. We pull predominantly from high-kill shelters around the country and place them into loving forever homes. Sometimes these animals come from abroad and sometimes from right around the corner. Emerald City Pet Rescue is run by dedicated staff and volunteers who give their time and resources to house, train, rehabilitate, transport and care for these animals.
Emerald City Pet Rescue is committed to the following goals: rescuing stray animals from high kill animal shelters who are scheduled to be euthanized. Emerald City Pet Rescue saves the animals who have been in the shelters the longest and will die unless rescued, either due to much needed medical treatment or overpopulation. We operate a no-kill facility where rescued pets can be safely sheltered without the threat of euthanization until we find the right adoptive family for each pet.
We pride ourselves on providing the best medical care possible for our rescued animals and rehabilitating hard-to-adopt animals to help them increase their chances to find loving homes. All of our rescues are spayed or neutered, and we strongly endorse the importance of spaying and neutering pets in order to drastically reduce the number of unwanted animals on the street. Our rescues are also given inoculations, microchips, and anything else they need to get back to being healthy and happy. The microchips ensure the best possible chance to locate a pet in the event that they are ever lost, and registration of their microchip is a requirement in our contract.
Emerald City Pet Rescue takes particular care in placing our animals – pure and mixed breed alike. Our screening process includes meet and greets, reference checks, and a visit to the potential owner’s home to ensure the home and family are compatible with the pet’s needs and our requirements.
We firmly believe that compatibility in personality, activity level, and skill set are crucial and necessary aspects of the adoption process. These steps help us ensure that we are giving each pet and potential adopter the best chance at a harmonious, loving, and fulfilling forever home. We allow for multiple inquiries for a particular pet in order to ensure we place them in the perfect home. We carefully consider each potential adopter in the order in which they have contacted us, but there are occasions where we will recommend an alternate match for a potential adopter based on the criteria mentioned above.
We require potential adopters to sign a detailed contract outlining our animal care requirements. The contract is to ensure that our animals will always be protected and properly cared for. Emerald City Pet Rescue has a lifetime policy of always taking our animals back, no matter what the circumstance.
All of our staff and volunteers here at Emerald City Pet Rescue are committed and dedicated to raising funds, fostering and caring for our animals, and participating in adoption events. We do everything we can to ensure that loving homes are found for these amazing pets. Above all else, our core value: Love can save lives.
Our mission is to save the lives of homeless cats by providing access to high volume spay/neuter surgery in a safe and humane environment, collaborating with others and mentoring like-minded organizations to increase spay/neuter in their regions.
Homeward Pet Adoption Center is one of the leading non‑profit, no-kill animal shelters in Washington State. Our mission is to give homeless animals a second chance through rescue, shelter, and adoption.
Caring for more than 8,000 animals annually is no small task – it’s a big job! But our staff and volunteers wouldn’t have it any other way.
It’s simple, to advance the welfare of animals in Tacoma and Pierce County. As a local, independent 501(c)3 non-profit, we at The Humane Society for Tacoma & Pierce County rely on donations to fund our organization’s vital programs. Visit us in person or check out our adoptable animals to find your family’s newest addition!
Founded in 1973, we are committed to improving animal welfare by eliminating cruelty and pet over population through education, law enforcement, providing shelter, promoting lifetime adoptions and spay/neuter programs. We investigate cuelty reports, provide law enforcement, rescue and rehome animals, educate the public about the responsibilities of pet ownership, operate a trap/neuter/release program for feral cats and provide shelter for over 5000 domestic animals each year.
The Humane Society of Skagit Valley is a non-profit organization founded in 1974 to provide a safe haven to shelter and care for the abandoned, abused, or unwanted animals within Skagit County; to treat the animals with dignity and respect; to place these animals into loving and caring homes; to create public education programs that increase the awareness of humane treatment and the necessity of spay and neuter of all animals; and to coordinate resources for housing and placement of small animals evacuated during disaster. We are not a county nor city municipal shelter, although we do contract with Skagit County and a number of cities to provide services to them. We are a private non-profit animal shelter that relies heavily on fundraising events throughout the year as well as donations and gifts left to us in wills. We truly appreciate the generosity of our community members as well as the amazing efforts of our volunteers at the shelter and at our fundraising events. As a Socially Conscious Animal Sheltering practices organization to create the best outcome for all animals by treating them respectfully and alleviating any suffering. Our Mission is to maximize live outcomes for all animals , while also balancing animal well-being and public safety.
We are an open-admission facility. We do not pick and choose our pets, but accept any companion animals who need our care. We see over 2500 animals pass through our shelter each year. We provide care, comfort, and medical care to the animals that come through our doors. Properly address even animals that may have extensive medical needs and assess through a medical team and animal behavior and enrichment team, to provide a holistic approach when possible.
Our mission
To provide a safe haven to shelter and care for the abandoned, abused, or unwanted animals within Skagit County; to treat the animals with dignity and respect; to place these animals into loving and caring homes; to create public education programs that increase the awareness of humane treatment and the necessity of spay and neuter of all animals; and to coordinate resources for housing and placement of small animals evacuated during disaster.
Our principles
Whereas, we are responsible for the welfare of those animals that we have domesticated and those upon whose natural environment we have encroached; and
Whereas, all utilization of animals gives us neither the right nor the license to exploit or abuse them; and
Whereas, all life possesses an inherent value and is thus deserving of considerate treatment.
Therefore, be it resolved that the Humane Society of Skagit County and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals encourages the public to adopt the following guidelines and further expects our membership to agree with these principles:
- We will not kill animals needlessly nor for entertainment, nor to cause pain or torment.
- We will provide adequate food, water, shelter, and care for animals for which we have accepted responsibility.
- We will not use animals for medical, educational, or commercial experimentation or research unless absolute necessity can be demonstrated and unless such is done without causing pain and torment.
- We will not maintain animals that are used for food in a manner that causes them discomfort or denies them an opportunity to develop and live in conditions that are reasonably natural for them.
- We will not kill animals for food in any manner that does not result in instantaneous unconsciousness.
- We will not confine animals for display, impoundment, or as pets in conditions that are not comfortable and appropriate.
- We will not permit domestic pets to propagate.
Our vision is that every adoptable companion animal has a home. We serve as the principal and most prominent animal welfare and safety net organization in Kitsap County and adjacent areas of the Olympic Peninsula for lost and homeless pets.
In 2019, we:
- Successfully found homes for over 5,800 animals and performed over 5,900 spay/neuter surgeries.
- Our save rate was greater than 96%
Our Mission With respect and compassion for all animal life, MEOW promotes lifelong relationships between people and companion animals, providing shelter and care for each precious life until adopted into a forever home.
Our Vision MEOW envisions a day when society will be free from the dangers and nuisances of irresponsible pet ownership, when every pet born will be assured loving care all of its natural life and will never suffer due to abuse, neglect or ignorance.
Our History In the early 1990s, a small group of animal-loving friends made a commitment to create a better life for homeless animals. With little more than determination, they started MEOW, a non-profit organization with a no-holds-barred no-kill philosophy. MEOW is staffed almost entirely by volunteers. It’s still all about the animals.
Our Goal MEOW’s goal is to help create a “no-kill nation”, where people are responsible for their pets, where there are no helpless creatures abandoned in boxes or left to fend for themselves in parking lots, where there is no longer a need for any healthy companion animal to be euthanized. There are many worthy organizations and individuals working toward this end. The rescue network is communicative and non-competitive. Certainly, progress is being made. But there is so very far to go.
Today MEOW places 800 – 1000 animals into permanent homes each year. Donations from interested individuals, organizations and businesses, as well as adoption fees, provide financial support. Our adoption application process ensures placement into an environment where there is appropriate space, human contact, and a commitment to safeguard and care for the animal for its entire lifetime. Our standards are high. The welfare of the animals is paramount in the placement process.
Cats and kittens come to us from various sources and situations: orphans found under a deck, a stray or abandoned cat crying at the door, someone has developed allergies or is moving to a place where the cats are not welcome. Some come from our extended rescue family, trappers and caretakers who often encounter tame free-roaming cats and kittens feeding with feral colonies. Newborn or senior, healthy, ill or injured, all are valued at MEOW. Incoming cats and kittens are examined for general health, illness, injury, parasites and tested for feline viral diseases and provided appropriate medical care. Daily care of cats and kittens is done both in the shelter and in the foster homes of volunteers, sometimes involving bottle-feeding orphans, often requiring intensive medical care of ill animals. MEOW provides a safe haven and socialization as well as proper nutrition and a clean environment while the animals await adoptive homes. Our volunteers speak with the public, interview prospective adopters, and provide education concerning the care of pets on such subjects as spaying/neutering, introducing a new pet into the family, addressing behavioral issues, proper daily care and well-cat/kitten care.
Each year MEOW is faced with the impossible and each and every day we recommit ourselves to something we truly believe in, the motto we adopted at our inception, ”all nine lives are precious”.
To promote and provide affordable, high quality spay and neuter services for cats and dogs in an effort to stop the killing of animals due to overpopulation.
Pasado’s Safe Haven is a non-profit fighting to end animal cruelty. We focus on the most vulnerable animals among us – victims of cruelty and neglect, animals living with families lacking access to critical services, and those whose very survival depends upon social and/or legislative change. Our uniquely comprehensive programs seek to prevent cruelty before it starts, and to ensure that victim animals have a second chance at life.
PAWS is people helping animals. We are the kind of people who delight in the company of an animal friend, who are awed by a majestic eagle in flight. Like you, we understand that animals enrich our lives. We also know they cannot speak for themselves and need protection. That is why PAWS brings together people like you to ensure animals are respected, safe and have a voice. Since 1967, PAWS has united more than 135,000 companion animals with loving families, cared for 120,000 injured and orphaned wild animals, and made the world a better place for countless others through advocacy and education. PAWS is recognized as a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Our tax ID number is 91-6073154.
Purrfect Pals was founded in 1988 on the belief that every cat matters. Purrfect Pals operates a managed admission shelter and sanctuary for cats with special medical and behavioral needs, with no time limit on their length of stay. At Purrfect Pals, the highest priority is taking in the cats and kittens who need us mos –those that other shelters and rescue groups might not have the resources to help. This includes older cats, cats with major medical needs, cats with chronic illnesses (including FIV and Feline Leukemia) and those with behavioral challenges.
Our cat adoption and rehabilitation programs help us place homeless cats, including those with special needs, in loving homes. We believe that every cat is adoptable; some just need more time than others to find the right match. Our ultimate goal is to place them, but these cats have a loving home in our Arlington sanctuary for as long as they need us. Our sanctuary is currently home to cats positive for FIV and Feline Leukemia, feral cats, geriatric cats and cats with chronic illnesses.
You will find our adoptable cats at our main shelter and sanctuary in Arlington as well as at area pet stores including Everett and Renton Petsmart, Issaquah Petco and Denny’s Pet World in Kirkland. To view our adoptable cats by location, visit: http://purrfectpals.org/adopt/browse-cats/
Regional Animal Services of King County (RASKC) provides King County with sustainable, cost effective services that protect people and animals, while providing humane animal care. Our organization is built on the cornerstone values of compassion and service. We demonstrate this commitment in the countless hours spent by staff and our RASKC volunteers to save animals’ lives at the shelter and in the field. By collaborating with community partners, we are able to expand our programs and resources to provide even greater value to our residents.
Save a Forgotten Equine (SAFE) is devoted to the rescue and rehabilitation of horses facing abuse, neglect, or starvation. Once recovered, SAFE provides these horses with training, then finds adoptive homes through a rigorous screening process, which includes an application, interviews, reference checks, and site visits. After adoption, annual follow-up visits are conducted to ensure the animal’s continued well-being and SAFE will take a horse back if its adopter can’t continue to care for it. SAFE supports Animal Control agencies in several Washington counties, including King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties, and provides assistance to horse owners struggling to care for their animals in the current economy.
We are the regional provider of animal protection services to Spokane County and operate the County’s only open-admission animal shelter. On an annual basis, we respond to tens of thousands of requests for service and care for 9,000 – 11,000 domestic animals.
The Seattle Animal Shelter was founded in 1972 to protect public safety and enforce all animal-related ordinances for the City of Seattle. In addition to our primary role, we care for the abandoned, abused and orphaned animals of Seattle.
Seattle Area Feline Rescue, located on the border of Seattle and Shoreline, at 14717 Aurora Ave. N, saves homeless cats and kittens and finds them loving homes. We are a non-profit, no-kill rescue connecting people in our community to their new furry family members. Visit our welcoming Adoption Center, featuring specially-designed and ventilated enclosures to keep the kitties happy and healthy. (You won’t even know there are any litter boxes in the building!) Here, you can fall in love in one of our adoption rooms and take home your new best friend. Learn more about us.
Get Involved
Support from caring animal lovers like you makes the rescue’s work possible! There are many ways to get involved. You can volunteer to help at the Adoption Center, give temporary shelter to kitties in need and become a foster, or save lives and make a donation. Thank you for making it possible to rescue homeless cats and kittens!
Our Mission
To save the lives of homeless, neglected and at-risk cats and kittens by spaying and neutering, by providing safe refuge and rehabilitation, and by finding felines permanent, stable homes.
Founded in 1897, Seattle Humane was the first humane organization to serve King County. Originally devoted to animal issues involving stockyards and slaughterhouses, Seattle Humane later provided animal control services, picking up lost and/or stray animals. In 1972, the City of Seattle and King County established their own animal control divisions, and Seattle Humane moved to Bellevue as a private nonprofit dedicated to bringing people and pets together. True to our mission, we offer pet adoption, education programs, a Pet Food Bank, and spay/neuter services to low-income pet owners. Through our outreach, advocacy, and services, we strive to ensure that animal companionship is accessible to all.
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