Rehoming

We receive many emails and phone calls from worried owners who need to re-home their beloved pets. As a foster-based non-profit animal welfare organization, we spend our limited resources on saving cats and dogs from our local animal shelters. These pets are injured, sick, and scared with no families to advocate for them, and they are often at risk of euthanasia at the shelter.  Unlike an animal shelter, we do not have a facility where pets can live. The pets we rescue are put into foster care in the private homes of our volunteers.

Community members can help others in the community keep their pets with them in a variety of ways. The following resource, Pets and People Together, provides in depth information about ways in which the community can help others keep their pets in their homes. 

If you cannot keep your pet, one of the most effective ways to find a new home for your pet is to post on NextDoor.com. This is an online community of neighbors who help each other out. We've had great success finding new homes for pets via NextDoor. Again, post great photos, your contact information, and positive details about your pet. If you have family or friends living in other cities, ask them to post to their local NextDoor community in order to increase the reach of your post.

Other places to post is Craigslist as well as a Facebook page specifically for rehoming requests in the Bay Area. As with any place you post, we recommend to make sure to thoroughly interview interested parties.

We hope that you will review these resources and seek assistance from family and friends to help rehome your pet - you know them better than anyone, and they are counting on you! 

Rehoming Tools

Adopt-a-pet

Thanks to Adopt-a-pet and Petco Foundation, "Rehome" is a new tool to help owners rehome pets! The experts at Adopt-a-Pet.com, the largest non-profit pet adoption website, with support from the Petco Foundation, have created a simple, reliable, free program to help you place your pet from your loving home directly to another.

Other Resources

Best Friends - Rehoming a Pet