Together we can save more lives.

Adopt One.
Save Another.
That's The Rescue Effect.

When you adopt or foster an animal, your impact ripples throughout shelters nationwide — saving that animal’s life makes room for others. Helping one animal is just the start.

Adoption Resources

What to Expect When Adopting

Animals aren’t looking for perfection, they’re looking for loving homes. The ASPCA’s resources can help during every stage of your adoption journey.

After You Adopt

Use our guides to help you bond with and care for your new companion.

Adoption Resources

Our Role in The Rescue Effect

The ASPCA partners with local shelters and provides tools, training and relocation services to give more animals opportunities to find homes. Here are some of the ways this work helps animals.

Our Shelter Medicine Services team works directly with shelters across the country through remote and on-site consultations. Their work has impacted almost 500,000 animals since 2002. With more veterinarians board-certified in Shelter Medicine Practice than any other sheltering organization in the world, we operate the largest training program for future shelter medicine specialists.

Additionally, the ASPCA Behavioral Rehabilitation Center (BRC) and Cruelty Recovery Center (CRC) provide sheltering, veterinary care and behavioral care for hundreds of the most in-need and vulnerable dogs – victims of neglect, abuse, natural disasters and more. The BRC includes teaching spaces where the ASPCA hosts shelter professionals from around the country, sharing strategies they can take back to their own facilities to help the animals in their care.

As the largest transporter of adoptable shelter dogs and cats in the U.S., we also partner with shelters and rescues across 40 states to safely relocate over 250,000 animals to regions where they will have a better chance of adoption.

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