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 If you find any of the information below is incorrect or outdated, or to add a shelter, please let us know via our CONTACT FORM.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.

Ackley Animal Control, Ackley 50601

Adopt-A-Friend Animal Sanctuary, Coralville 52241

Ames Animal Shelter and Control, Ames 50010

Animal Lifeline of Iowa, Inc., Carlisle 50047

Animal Protection League, Burlington 52601

Animal Protection Society of Iowa, Des Monies 50317

Animal Rescue League of Iowa, Des Moines 50313

Animal Rescue League of Iowa - West, West Des Moines 50265

Animal Welfare Foundation of Iowa, Anamosa 52205

Appanoose County Shelter, Mistic 52574

Atlantic Animal Shelter, Atlantic 50022

Avoca City Animal Shelter/ Northside Animal Hospital, Avoca 51521

Beloved Animals, Cedar Rapids 52401

Black Dragon Ferret Rescue, Council Bluffs 51503

Boone Area Humane Society, Boone 50036

C & W Rustic Hollow Shelter, Nashua 50658

Calhoun County Pound, Rockwell City 50579

Cedar Bend Humane Society, Waterloo 50703

Cedar Rapids Animal Shelter, Ely 52227

Cedar Valley Humane Society, Cedar Rapids 52403

City of Des Moines Animal Control and Shelter, Des Moines 50320

Clinton Humane Society, Clinton 52732

Companion Animal Network, Marion 52302

Council Bluffs Animal Shelter, Council Bluffs 51501

Creston Animal Control, Creston 50801

Creston Animal Rescue Effort, Creston 50801

Denison City Animal Shelter, Denison 51442

Des Moines County Humane Society, Burlington 52601

Dubuque Humane Society - Shelter, Dubuque 52003

Emmetsburg Animal Shelter, Emmetsburg 50536

Fort Madison Humane Society, Fort Madison 52627

Friends of the Animals, Tipton 52772

Greene County Humane Society, Jefferson 50129

H.E.A.R.T., Eldora 50627

Harlan Animal Shelter, Harlan 51537