Adoption

Ultimately, adopting a special needs pet is its own reward. However, there are so many additional benefits to having any pet in your home - special needs or not.Homer was brought into St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center as a 6 week old kitten with 2 issues: First, he is an all black cat, which makes him harder to adopt. Second, he has Anophthalmia (he was born without eyes), which means he must have had a pretty great mother who raised him outdoors to 6 weeks of age when somebody finally found him. RELATED: Bulletproof Sam is a Pit Bull Ambassador Homer is very special to me, but not because of his disability. RELATED: Happy Tail: Buddy Gets a Fresh Start in Life I thought that having ...

The The Petfinder Foundation's program assistant and resident photographer-videographer, Brody Anderson, spent last week in Tavares, FL, documenting Rescue U's renovation of Lake County Animal Services. He sent back this report: "I was fortunate enough to be a part of Rescue U's January project at Carolina Waterfowl Rescue in Indian Trail, NC, so I thought I had a good idea of what I would witness at the Tavares build. The shelter would undergo a series of improvements with the intention of enriching the lives of the pets living there. Happy, healthy pets have a much better chance of finding forever homes. "During the course of my visit, I had the opportunity to speak with the shelter's ...