5 Animal Shelters Around New Hope: Adopt, Volunteer Or Donate

NEW HOPE, PA — Spring brings National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day, but when that has come and gone, many pets remain, waiting for homes around New Hope and Bucks County.

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.

Great Animal Shelters Around New Hope And Lambertville

Bucks County SPCA and its Lahaska Animal Center in New Hope are always busy rescuing and rehoming cats and dogs and even farm animals who may find themselves homeless! They've been around more than a century.

• Volunteering, fostering, or donating are ways anyone can help, even if you can't adopt.
• The Quakertown Animal Care Centers is part of Bucks County SPCA.
• Find out about service projects you or your group can do from home to help homeless animals.

Animal Alliance New Jersey, of Lambertville, is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitation, spaying and neutering, and adoption.

• Volunteers are always needed for walking dogs, pet adoption days, and other work!
• Animal Alliance offers pet wellness visits at its clinic and can help you begin the steps to neutering your pet.

Almost Home Dog Rescue is a Doylestown rescue for dogs who need homes, and they want people to know they are an alternative to buying a pet from a puppy mill.

• Almost Home needs foster friends who can keep dogs for long or short stays as they await adoption.
• See who Almost Home Dog Rescue has on its Facebook page. Amanda, in the photo below, showed up this week.

Make Peace With Animals is a local, 100-percent volunteer nonprofit dedicated to finding "peaceful solutions" to problems that arise with animals in communities. Its special focus is finding adoptions for retiring racing greyhounds. Make Peace With Animals has chapters in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

• Make Peace With Animals posts its available animals on PetFinder.com. Greyhounds like Jody are waiting for homes.
• The organization's website offers useful veterinary information.

Tiny Miracles Farm, Pet Care, and Rescue is a unique organization founded by Kim Rutherford in Chalfont. They've been rescuing all kinds of animals since 2011.

• Tiny Miracles is a shelter, but also offers pet care services.
• Tiny Miracles Rescue is a registered nonprofit that aims at saving animals from "high-kill" shelters. The animals are vaccinated, neutered, dewormed and given other care as they await placement in a home.
• Live nearby? Consider fostering as a way to help Tiny Miracles.

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