Please contact the shelters and rescues below to adopt a homeless animal.

To maintain this very large list of shelters is a huge undertaking for our small staff. If you find any of the information below is incorrect or outdated, or to add a shelter, please let us know via our CONTACT FORM. In your correspondence, please mention the organization and the state.

Purrfect Adoption, Surf City 28445

Purrrfect Friends Feline Shelter and Adoptions, Goldsboro 27533

Rabbit Rescue, Fayetteville 28304

Richmond County Animal Shelter, Rockingham 28380

Roanoke Chowan Humane Society, Powellsville 27967

Robeson County Animal Shelter, St. Pauls 28384

Rockingham County Animal Shelter, Reidsville 27320

Rockingham County Animal Welfare Society, Reidsville 27323

Rockingham Humane Society, Wentworth 27375

Rowan County Animal Shelter, Salisbury 28146

Rutherford County Animal Control, Rutherfordton 28139

Rutherford County Animal Shelter and Humane Society, Rutherfordton 28139

S.A.F.E. Haven for Cats, Raleigh 27616

Safe Harbor Farm (aka Cat-Kind), Maysville 28555

Sampson County Animal Shelter, Clinton 28328

Save Them All Animal Rescue, Greensboro 27408

Saving Graces 4 Felines, Greenville 27836

Schnauzer Rescue of the Carolinas Inc., Webster 28788

Second Chance Pet Adoption, Raleigh 27613

Second Chance Pet Adoptions, Cary 27512

Snowflake Animal Rescue, Raleigh 27624

Southport Animal Shelter, Southport 28461

Southport/Oak Island Animal Rescue - SOAR, Southport 28461

SPCA of Cumberland County, Fayetteville 28303

SPCA of Franklin County, Youngsville 27596

SPCA of Northeastern North Carolina, Elizabeth City 27906

SPCA of the Triad, Inc., Greensboro 27520

SPCA of Wake County, Raleigh 27603

Stanley County Animal Control, Albemarle 28001

Stanley County Animal Rescue League, Albemarle 28002

Stokes County Animal Shelter, Germanton 27019

Surry Humane Society, Mount Airy 27030

The Guardian Angels, High Point 27262

The Haven - Friends for Life Animal Shelter, Raeford 28376

The Roanoke River Humane Society, Williamston 27892-8202

The Sanctuary at Valley View Farm, Waynesville 28786

Transylvania County Humane Society, Pisgah Forest 28768

Union County Animal Control, Monroe 28112

United States Equine Rescue League / North Carolina Equine Rescue League, Kernersville 27285

Valley River Humane Society/ Animal Shelter, Murphy 28906

Vance County Animal Shelter, Henderson 27537

Vance County Humane Society, Henderson 27536

Wake County Animal Control Shelter, Raleigh 27602

Watauga County Animal Control, Boone 28607

Watauga County Humane Society / Shelter, Boone 28607

Wayne County Animal Shelter, Goldsboro 27530

Wayne County Humane Society, Goldsboro 27533

Wilkes County Animal Shelter, Wilkesboro 28697

Wilson County Humane Society, Wilson 27895

Wishaven Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation, High Point 27262

Yadkin County Animal Shelter, Yadkinville 27055

Yadkin County Humane Society, Yadkinville 27055

Yancey County Humane Society, Burnsville 28714

Yorkshire Terrier Rescue Network, Inc., Greensboro 27406