California shelters

California Shelters

St. Bonnies Sanctuary/Lange Foundation

Every year in Los Angeles County, thousand of pets are taken to animal shelters simply because they drastically outnumber the homes available to them. They spend their last few days in crowded cages before many of them are euthanized. As their lives silently end, thousands more are being born who will endure the same fate.

The long-term answer to the overpopulation problem is to prevent the births of pets who will never have homes and will only know misery during their short lives. We are currently seeking funding to continue our efforts in the spay/neuter field.

In the meantime, with your help, we will do all we can to give a future to those who have already been born and abandoned and need our help so desperately. We continue to do so until the day finally comes when animal shelters will be what they were intended to be: a place of refuge.

The shelters continue to be overcrowded with cats. The kittens have a better chance of adoption than adult cats. Very few adults will ever find homes once they have entered the shelter system even though among them are many purebreds. At the Lange Foundation, our cats await their new homes in a cage-free environment. They are given the gift of time and if they are not adopted they will always have a home with us.
The horses under our care receive the same quality of care as our cats and dogs from our dedicated Sanctuary staff and volunteers.

Nine Lives Foundation

Nine Lives is 5400 sq ft warehouse space divided into a cat adoption area with cages and walk-around enclosures, a shelter hospital/isolation area, spay/neuter and treatment clinic and lobby/retail area. Our no-kill facility houses cats and kittens pulled from high-kill shelters and at-risk situations and finds permanent homes for them.

TEAM (Teaching Everyone Animals Matter)

TEAM is a non-profit organization that raises funds to support the needs of the Sacramento County Animal Shelter.

Love Your Pet Expo Sanctuary

We are a sanctuary for special needs animals.
We offer forever homes to blind, disabled, pregnant, senior, and other non-adoptable domestic animals.

Los Banos Animal Shelter

We are a small, older shelter with traditional cage set up for our cat population. We have a small active volunteer group which helps with adoptions, cleaning, spay & neuter programs and more.

Woods Humane Society
Woods Humane Society is a private, non-profit animal welfare organization with two shelter locations, one in San Luis Obispo and one in Atascadero, CA.

Sequoia Humane Society

The Sequoia Humane Society is a community leader in promoting the humane treatment of all animals, the end of pet overpopulation through the spay & neuter assistance and education, and in providing a high standard of care for sheltered pets until they reach their forever homes.

We envision a community where all animals are treated humanely, all pets live in responsible, caring homes where they are seen as family members, not property, and where euthanasia is no longer a means of pet population control.

Santa Ynez Valley Humane Society
The Mission of the Santa Ynez Valley Humane Society, Inc. is to serve our community by providing and promoting humane, compassionate, and conscientious care of companion animals and preventing their overpopulation, and to further the prevention of cruelty to animals and the enforcement of the laws of the State of California pertaining to the prevention of cruelty to animals.

Santa Barbara Humane Society

As a local nonprofit organization, the Santa Barbara Humane Society provides a safe haven for homeless cats and dogs and serves the community through a low cost spay/neuter and vaccine clinic, Humane Education classes and outreach, dog training classes, and affordable pet boarding.