5 Hoboken Area Animal Shelters: Adopt, Volunteer Or Donate

HOBOKEN, NJ — Spring brings National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day, but when that has come and gone, many pets remain, waiting for homes in Hoboken.

Those adorable puppy and kitty eyes may seem unfairly enticing, but pets are great companions. It's been shown and reported that pets can increase wellness and enhance mental health.

If you just love animals but you're not in a situation to adopt right now, you might consider volunteering at a local shelter. Help is usually needed with exercising dogs, cleaning, feeding pets, and helping to raise funds. Donating is also a way you can get pets into homes; your donation may keep costs of local veterinary care low so more people can afford to adopt pets.

5 Great Animal Shelters Around Hoboken

Animal Haven
At 200 Centre St. in NYC, you'll find dogs and cats waiting for adoption, some in training so they will be better pets when they're adopted.

• Donations help with operations costs and other needs, but you can also give to the Recovery Road fund to help animals in need of specialized hospital care.
• A Community Engagement program helps pet owners in crisis make it through so they don't have to give up a pet.

Hudson County Animal League
This New Jersey state health department-approved adoption agency rescues cats and finds them homes.

• You can help get cats into homes by donating to Hudson County Animal League.
• Your support helps the league in its spay-neuter-release efforts to manage the local feral cat population.

Companion Animal Placement
This Hudson County organization provides dog and cat adoptions and also does the important work of managing the feral cat population humanely. They're an affiliate of Animal Haven and Liberty Humane Society.

• Companion Animal Placement uses PetFinder.com to facilitate matches. Find pets by location.
• You can be a huge help by learning to foster pets who await their forever homes.

Seacaucus Animal Shelter
This shelter rescues and finds homes for dogs and cats, caring for them as it seeks to place pets in forever homes. They're at 525 Meadowlands Parkway in Seacaucus.

• View pets and get news at the Facebook page for Friends of the Seacaucus Animal Shelter.
• Volunteers are needed to foster pets, care for them at the shelter, or work at events.

Manes & Tails Organization
Not to play favorites with the canine and feline, the equestrian also sometimes needs to be rescued. This New Jersey organization helps older or abandoned horses — sometimes headed for slaughter — to find homes.

• Their website explains the organization has been "Rescuing, Rehabbing, Retraining and Rehoming Horses Since 1995."
• You may not have a stable to take in a horse but you can learn more. You may want to support these horses another way; you can donate to this unique nonprofit.

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