
Animals
A Second Chance Puppies and Kittens Rescue
P.O. Box 211924, Royal Palm Beach, FL 33421
Phone: (561) 333-1100
A Second Chance Puppies and Kittens Rescue, founded in October 2007, is a 100% volunteer, foster-based 501(c)(3) non-profit rescue group based in Palm Beach County, Florida. From the Board of Directors to our Foster Caretakers to our Event Staff, each volunteer gives generously of their time and skills, motivated solely by a desire to help animals.Devoted to saving pregnant and nursing dogs, cats and their offspring, keeping them in safe, healthy foster environments until they are adopted by loving forever families, while promoting animal welfare and the prevention of homeless animals by means of spay/neuter education and working toward the goal of a euthanasia-free community.
Website: www.asecondchancerescue.org
Adopt a Cat Foundation
1125 Old Dixie Hwy, Lake Park, FL 33403
Phone: (561) 848-4911
Adopt A Cat Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to finding loving homes for homeless cats rescued from off the streets. We are also strong advocates of TNVR programs. Our no-kill, free roaming shelter currently has over 200 cats waiting for a forever home. We also have over 100 cats in foster programs. As an all-volunteer run organization, we are in constant need of volunteers. If you would like to volunteer, please call 561-848-4911 x3.
Website: www.adoptacatfoundation.org
Amber's Animal Outreach
P.O. Box 1036 Loxahatchee, Florida 33470
Phone: (561) 449-5491
Amber’s Animal Outreach helps those “children of a lesser voice” by serving dog owners and rescues by assisting with medical expenses, shelter, rescue, fostering, training,dog supplies,spay/neutering and educating the public to prevent unnecessary population.
Website: www.aaodog.org
Animal Care and Control
7100 Belvedere Road, WPB
Phone: (561) 233-1281
Animal Care and Control is an open-admission animal shelter that provides services to over 20,000 cats, dogs, puppies and kittens each year. The Mission of the Animal Care and Control is to provide shelter to lost, homeless and unwanted animals, to provide spay and neuter and other medical services for companion animals, and to encourage pet owners to be responsible for pets in their care by providing educational programs on humane treatment, animal behavior training, and proper control.
Website: www.pbcgov.com/animal
Animal Hero Kids
Email: SusanH@AnimalHeroKids.org
Phone: (561) 236-8843
Animal Hero Kids, an all volunteer 501c3 who gives free humane education presentations and recognizes kids and teens who aid animals in need are searching for volunteers. We need people to help repair or make costumes, artists for banners, newsletter designers, computer savvy people, social media helpers, grant writers, carpenters, and a computer animation person or two.
Website: www.animalherokids.org
Busch Wildlife Santuary
2500 Jupiter Park Drive, Jupiter, FL 33458
Phone: (561) 575-3399
Busch Wildlife Sanctuary...more than just a place to see animals, it's a real wildlife adventure! The Sanctuary offers visitors a one-of-a-kind opportunity to learn about Florida’s wildlife and natural environments. This unique refuge combines a nature center with a wildlife hospital. Nature trails lead visitors through pine flatwoods, oak hammocks, and cypress wetlands. Along the trails are wildlife habitats exhibiting a variety of native animals from eagles to panthers, crocodiles, foxes, snakes, bears, and more.
Website: www.buschwildlife.org
Dezzy’s Second Chance Animal Rescue
8470 92nd Place South, Boynton Beach, FL 33472
Phone: (954) 588-7045
There are millions of loveable, healthy dogs and cats that desperately need homes across the United States. Due to overpopulation of homeless pets, 4 million are euthanized every year— that’s 11,000 pets every day.Fortunately, Dezzy’s Second Chance provides homeless dogs and cats in Palm Beach and Broward County with the opportunity to find a new loving home. Located on the Boca Raton, Delray Beach border, Dezzy’s Second Chanceis an Animal Rescue that prides itself on connecting individuals and families with the pet of their dreams.
Website: www.dezzyssecondchance.com
Furry Friends Adoption & Clinic
401 Maplewood Drive Suite 10, Jupiter, FL 33458
Phone: (561) 747-5311
The Humane Society of Greater Jupiter Tequesta DBA Furry Friends Adoption & Clinic is proud to have rescued hundreds of thousands of abused and neglected animals since our inception in 1985. We are steadfast in our mission to rescue, rehabilitate and find permanent loving homes for the animals in our care. We operate an adoption center, full service clinic, thrift store and have a 27 acre ranch/sanctuary located in Palm City, FL. We rely on volunteers to support our operations. Volunteers can walk our dogs, socialize & play with our cats, attend events with our animals, help out in our thrift store, help with administrative duties.... the possibilities are numerous and FURRY FRIENDS NEEDS YOUR HELP! To volunteer, please go on our website (click About and Volunteers) to print off our application. Fill it in completely and email it or bring it by our location. Volunteer orientations are held Saturday mornings at 11:00 am at 401 Maplewood Drive, Ste 10. Please complete application before attending.
Website: www.furryfriendsadoption.com
Holly Creek Star Center
3680 Dellwood Rd. Loxahatchee FL, 33470
Phone: (561) 899-3448
Holly Creek STAR Center is a non-profit Hippotherapy center that utilizes horses as a therapy tool to increase specific motor, sensory, speech, and behavior/social responses. By non-profit, we mean that we operate primarily on a volunteer base with only one full-time paid employee. The ability to offer these one-of-a-kind therapy options in this way could not happen without the dedication and pure heart of so many. Holly Creek STAR Center is a place where individuals with disabilities and their families can create strong animal and human bonds and experience overwhelming therapy success. We are more than a unique therapy environment. Our staff and volunteers are focused on community education, building self confidence and supplying necessary tools for independence that are specific to each client and their family needs.
Website: www.hollycreekstar.webs.com
Kibblez of Love
8100 Belvedere Rd., Suite 13, West Palm Beach, FL 33411
Phone: (561) 271-5890
Kibblez of Love is dedicated to assisting struggling families by feeding their pets, as well as offer referrals for low cost vet care and sponsor spay/neuter surgeries for their pets. Our goal is to keep your family fur members home with you and out of the shelter. We understand the animal to human bond, and believe that it is something that should not be broken or torn apart due to financial set backs.
Website: www.kibblezoflove.org
Kitty Karma of Delray
P.O. Box 6594 Delray Beach, FL 33482.
Phone: (845) 641-5293
Kitty Karma of Delray, Inc. is a non- profit organization established for the assistance of feral cats. They will be trapped, spayed or neutered and returned to the location where they are fed on a ongoing basis. We can try to pull kittens out of the field and get treatment, foster homes and adopted with your help! Volunteer needs: Playing with Cats and Kittens. Generally socializing them through play, touching, and feeding. There may be additional tasks preparing/assisting with paperwork.
Website: www.kittykarmaofdelray.org
Labrador Retriever Rescue of Florida
1950 NE 6th Street, #10365, Pompano Beach, FL 33060
Phone: (877) 522-7352
Our nonprofit organization is comprised of hardworking volunteers and vets that are committed to placing labs in new homes. We have been working together since 2000 and have rescued over 8000 dogs. LRRoF, Inc. provides foster care, veterinary care (including spaying/neutering and microchips) for the Labradors in our adoption program. Our goal is to place our Labradors with loving families in safe, permanent homes. We have MANY volunteer positions available that will coincide with your talents and interests as well as the amount of time you can give. House Checks,Adoption Counselors,Transporters, Fosters, Event Planners, Admin & Public Speakers are needed to accomplish our goals. We are grateful for your participation
Website: www.labradorrescue.net
Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society
1301 Summit Boulevard, West Palm Beach, FL 33405-3035
Phone: (561) 547-9453
Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society exists to inspire people to act on behalf of wildlife and the natural world. We advance our conservation mission through endangered species propagation, education and support of conservation initiatives in the field. Our commitment to sustainable business practices elevates our capacity to inspire others.
Website: www.palmbeachzoo.org
Panther Ridge
14755 Palm Beach Point Blvd Wellington, FL 33414
Phone: (561) 795-8914
Part habitat, part haven, part labor of feline love, the Panther Ridge Conservation Center is above all else a home for some of the world’s most beautiful and endangered big cats. Nestled among the horse farms and estates of Wellington, Florida, near Palm Beach, Panther Ridge is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit institution dedicated to providing a lifelong home and superior care for exotic felines that have been abandoned, abused or neglected. Panther Ridge also provides hope — in the form of public education concerning the challenges these animalsface in the wild, the problems related to private ownership, and the programs around the world that are trying to help reestablish their populations. We collaborate with, and help raise money for, other organizations around the world that run cooperative captive breeding programs, in situ conservation projects, and reintroduction programs that are the foundation upon which the repopulation of endangered feline species will be based.
Website: www.pantherridge.org
Paws 4 Liberty
8939 Palomino Drive, Lake Worth, FL 33467
Phone: (561) 644-6292
Founded in 2006, Paws 4 Liberty (P4L) is one of only a few nonprofit organizations in Florida whose primary focus is serving post 9/11 veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The mission of Paws 4 Liberty is to help returning soldiers with disabilities regain their independence and confidence through the assistance of highly trained service dogs. With a primary focus on post 9/11 veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Paws 4 Liberty raises, trains, and places highly skilled service dogs at no cost to the recipient. We also work with veterans who already have a dog and would like their dog to learn tasks that would help them with their PTSD symptoms. Qualified veteran/dog pairs work together learning tasks and service commands that will help the dog assist the veteran with stress symptoms.
Website: www.paws4liberty.org
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue
3100/3200 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach, FL 33409
Phone: (561) 686-3663
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League is a limited-admission humane society and provides services to over 20,000 cats, dogs, puppies and kittens each year. The Mission of the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches, Incorporated is to provide shelter to lost, homeless and unwanted animals, to provide spay and neuter and other medical services for companion animals, and to care for, protect, and find quality homes for homeless and neglected companion animals, to advocate animal welfare, community involvement and education to further the bond between people and animals
Website: www.peggyadams.org
Pet Haven Rescue
1128 Royal Palm Beach Blvd. #131, Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411-1693
Phone: (561) 351-2315
Pet Haven Rescue is committed to help abolish the suffering, neglect, and overpopulation of animals. It is our strong belief that quality of animal care should come before quantity. We are advocates against hoarders and irresponsible rescue practices that cause more stress and anguish to these delicate creatures. Our cage-free concept reduces stress and cage rage in shelter settings, making them more adoptable. We will continue converting one shelter at a time!Additionally, we stand against puppy mills and make it a priority to stay engaged in laws and legislation that actively help change the lives of animals everywhere! We will not stop, we will never give up, we will continue to Educate, Renovate, and Rehabilitate.
Website: www.pethavenrescue.org
Save a Pet Florida, Inc.
PO Box 2444 Palm Beach, FL 33480
Phone: (561) 835-9525
Save A Pet Florida, Inc. is a not-for-profit, volunteer organization whose purpose is the preservation of life for all animals by virtue of a “no kill” policy. Save A Pet strives to promote awareness and support of the humane treatment of animals and the benefits of sterilization.
Website: www.saveapet.com
Senior Paws Dog Rescue
17929 Thelma Avenue Jupiter, Fl 33458
Phone: (561) 903-9518
Senior Paws Dog Rescue is located in Jupiter, Florida. We are a dedicated group of fosters and volunteers who have a special place in our hearts for senior dogs. We strive to improve the lives of senior dogs who find themselves without families to care for them. We are an all foster-based organization, so our dogs live in foster homes as members of our families. Until our seniors find their forever homes, we provide care, comfort, companionship, healing and most of all, unconditional love.
Website: www.seniordogsrescue.org
Tri County Animal Rescue
21287 Boca Rio Road Boca Raton, FL 33433
Phone: (561) 482-8110
Tri-County Animal Rescue is a no-kill, nonprofit animal shelter working to prevent the killing of over 170,000 unwanted pets in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties each year. Since our inception, we have saved over 50,000 domestic animals from being euthanized, placing them in homes through our adoption center. We also work with several organizations, businesses, and the local school district to educate the community on animal awareness. At Tri-County Animal Rescue, we believe that every cat and dog—regardless of breed, gender, temperament, etc—deserves to live a happy and healthy life. Our mission, then, aims to shelter and provide a comfortable home for all animals placed in our facility. We consider every animal that comes to our shelter a member of our own family, loving and caring for them with the utmost respect and tenderness until we can place them in their safe, happy, forever homes.
Website: www.tricountyanimalrescue.com
Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center
13300 6th Court North, Loxahatchee, FL 33470
Phone: (561) 792-9900
From the dream of a young person 30 years ago, was born an idea. An idea that horses could help bring healing to people with physical and cognitive differences. An idea that would take root in our community of fellow equestrians, uniting many with the love of horses. Vinceremos means "to overcome" or "to conquer" in Latin. The horses' gentle nature and rhythmic movement joined with our staff's extensive expertise has helped hundreds of clients conquer challenges associated with their disabilities. Vinceremos serves children and adults with developmental, physical and psychological disabilities in its dynamic stable environment. VTRC coordinates its services through physician/therapist referrals, group homes, school programs and individual enrollment. Vinceremos staff includes Therapeutic Riding instructors, Occupational Therapists and Physical Therapists. The staff also includes 23 specially trained equine partners that have been selected for their patience, dependability and rhythmic gaits.
Website: www.vinceremos.org