A volunteer petting a dog at an animal shelter.
Volunteering is one way you can help pets in animal shelters without having to adopt.
  • So far this year, 8.5% of animals that enter the shelter system have been euthanized.
  • That's nearly 2% more than compared to 2021. 
  • Adoption is the best way to help but you can also volunteer, foster, donate, and more.

When stray dog Scout scaled two fences and crossed a highway to escape a Michigan animal shelter, he always went to the same place: the nursing home up the road.