Help for Your Pets: Resources & Assistance
Whether you need help with rehoming a pet, accessing low-cost vet services, or managing a community cat colony, we offer resources to support pet owners in need.
Emergency Veterinary Services
Locate emergency veterinary clinics that provide critical care for your pets in urgent situations. Find support when you need it most.
Blue Pearl
24-hour emergency animal hospital offering specialty veterinary services.
Area Served: Nationwide
VCA Animal Hospital
Primary, specialty, urgent, and emergency veterinary care.
Area Served: Nationwide
VEG (Veterinary Emergency Group)
Emergency veterinarian open 24/7, providing a wide variety of services for various animals.
Area Served: Nationwide
Homing or Rehoming
Find rehoming assistance and tips for placing your pet in a loving home. Connect with no-kill shelters and rescue groups to help you find the best fit for your pet.
Ahimsa House
Helps humans and animal victims of domestic violence reach safety together.
Area Served: Statewide (Georgia)
Pet Relocation
Guides pets and their people through the often-complicated process of moving, both domestically and internationally. From navigating regulations and paperwork to facilitating travel logistics, they are a full-service pet travel agency here to assist you and your pets.
Area Served: International
Rehome
Helps people find safe homes for pets they can no longer keep, instead of leaving them at an overcrowded shelter.
Area Served: Nationwide
Stay Together Furever
Provides dogs and cats with loving foster homes for up to 90 days for pet parents facing a major, temporary life crisis.
Area Served: Gwinnett County
The Pets in Crisis Support Program
Provides temporary housing for the pets of Atlanta residents who are facing eviction or losing their housing.
Area Served: Metro Atlanta Area
Lost Pets
Get help finding your lost pet with these resources. Post missing pet alerts, check shelters, and increase the chances of reuniting with your furry friend.
Facebook Groups
Join local Facebook groups to post about lost or found pets. Many communities have dedicated pet recovery groups where you can share photos and details, making it easier to reach a wide audience and get help in your search.
Area Served: Nationwide
Nextdoor
Use Nextdoor to connect with neighbors and spread the word about your lost or found pet. This hyper-local platform makes it easy to notify your community quickly and efficiently, increasing the chances of reuniting pets with their families.
Area Served: Nationwide
Pet Microchip Look-Up
This is not a microchip registry. If you know your pet’s microchip number but don’t know the company it’s registered with, use this to find the appropriate registry to update your information.
Area Served: Nationwide
Petco Love Lost
Lost & found pet database where users can report missing pets, set up alerts, report found pets, create missing pet flyers, and more.
Area Served: Nationwide
Military Rehoming Help
Specialized resources for military families needing help rehoming pets during deployment or relocation. Get support finding a new home or temporary care for your pets.
Best Friends Animal Society
Offers organizations that can help rehome your pet and provides tips to rehome your pet prior to military deployment.
Area Served: Nationwide
Dogs On Deployment
Connects military members with trusted volunteer pet boarders so no one has to surrender a beloved pet during deployments, training, or emergencies.
Area Served: Nationwide
Pets for Patriots
Offers several recommendations for those who receive military deployment orders.
Area Served: Nationwide
Pet Friendly Housing
Resources focused on helping people find and keep rentals that welcome pets, plus support programs that prevent pet surrender.
My Pit Bull is Family
Non-profit organization with a mission to keep families together by promoting dog-friendly rental and insurance policies and offering essential pet retention programs.
Area Served: Nationwide
Pet Inclusive Housing Initiative
Research and tools that help housing providers, renters, animal welfare groups, and policymakers create and support pet-inclusive housing so people and pets can stay together.
Area Served: Nationwide
Pet Food
Discover free or low-cost pet food programs for families in need. Ensure your pets receive proper nutrition, even during tough financial times.
Georgia Pet Food Pantry
Georgia Pet Food Pantry in Winder partners with local nonprofits to provide free pet supplies and connect families to low-cost spay/neuter and vaccines, helping keep pets in their homes.
Area Served: Barrow County
HSFC Pet Food Pantry
HSFC’s Community Pet Food Pantry provides free pet food to Forsyth County families facing hardship, helping prevent surrender. Pickup is Tuesday & Thursday, 12 p.m.–4 p.m., at the adoption center.
Area Served: Forsyth County
PAWS Pet Food Bank
Open 7 days a week and available to community members on a walk-in basis. Pet Food Bank access is available once every 30 days.
Area Served: Dekalb County
Pet Loss & End of Life
Resources for navigating a pet’s end-of-life, including hospice and euthanasia services, grief support, and guidance before, during, and after a loss.
Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement
APLB’s mission is to promote and expand the field of pet loss and grief support by providing pet family support services and resources that honor the human/animal bond.
Area Served: Nationwide
Lap of Love
Lap of Love is a network of veterinarians around the country with the goal of empowering every owner to care for their geriatric pets
Area Served: Nationwide
Love, Baxter
Love, Baxter is the world’s largest pet loss and end-of-life resource, offering expert guides, compassionate grief support, trusted professionals, and meaningful ways to remember your best friend.
Area Served: Nationwide
Rescue Groups & Shelters
Connect with no-kill shelters and animal rescue organizations to help adopt, foster, or place pets in loving homes. Help pets in need while supporting ethical adoption practices. We highly suggest visiting Lifeline Animal Project's Found Pets page.
Angels Among Us
Angels Among Us Pet Rescue is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to saving dogs and cats from shelters and high-risk situations in Georgia.
Area Served: Metro Atlanta Area
Barkville Dog Rescue
BarkVille Dog Rescue is 100% volunteer, foster-based dog rescue. We work passionately to save as many dogs as possible regardless of breed, size, and age. BarkVille goes the extra mile to save dogs who are in the most need of our assistance including dogs who are older, have medical needs and/or fall into the Pit Bull Terrier category.
Area Served: Pickens County
Cat Rangers
At CatRangers, we believe every cat deserves a second chance at love, safety, and a forever home. Located in Buford, Georgia, our home-like adoption center is a cage-free, stress-free environment where our rescued cats can roam freely, interact naturally, and show you who they really are.
Area Served: Metro Atlanta Area
Furkids
Furkids, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is a 501c3 nonprofit charitable organization that operates the largest cage-free, no-kill shelter in the Southeast for rescued cats and Sadie’s Place, a no-kill shelter for rescued dogs.
Area Served: Metro Atlanta Area
Good Mews
Good Mews is one of the few virtually cage-free, no-kill cat shelters in the state of Georgia and the first in the metro Atlanta area. Since 1988, Good Mews has placed over 13,000 cats in permanent homes.
Area Served: Cobb County
Gwinnett Humane Society
The Gwinnett Humane Society was founded in 1979 to promote animal welfare. GHS is a volunteer supported, 501c3 non-profit organization supported entirely by private donations. We receive no government funds and rely solely on donations and volunteers who donate their time and energy to improve the lives of pets and animals in our local community through education, support, resource referral and adoption services.
Area Served: Gwinnett County
Humane Society of NE Georgia
The mission of the Humane Society of Northeast Georgia is to help animals and people live better together. Since our shelter was founded in 1913, we’ve fulfilled our mission and promise to animals in need by providing placement of companion animals, humane education, affordable veterinary care, community outreach, resources for pet owners, statewide initiatives and other opportunities to advance animal welfare in northeast Georgia and beyond.
Area Served: Hall County
Orphan Annie Rescue
A non-profit dog rescue based in Atlanta, GA, Orphan Annie Rescue is run entirely by volunteers who care deeply about giving dogs a second chance. All of our dogs live in loving foster homes within metro Atlanta, where they’re treated like family while they wait for their forever homes. We don’t have a shelter or physical facility, just a community of people who believe every dog deserves love, safety, and a fresh start.
Area Served: Metro Atlanta Area
Paws Atlanta
For 60 years, PAWS Atlanta has been a trusted no-kill shelter for pets in need and a steadfast partner to the people who love them. We provide daily care, medical support, and refuge for every animal in our care until they find their forever home, no matter how long it takes.
Area Served: Metro Atlanta Area
Surgery and Veterinary Clinics
Find low-cost surgery options and veterinary resources to ensure your pet gets essential care. Affordable spay and neuter services and other veterinary care options available.
Community Cat Clinic
Catering exclusively to kitties, offering a wide range of services including check-ups, spay and neuter surgery, vaccines, and comprehensive care for injuries or illnesses. TNVR appointments available upon request.
Area Served: Cherokee County, Gwinnett County
LifeLine Animal Project
Preventative care to lifesaving procedures at affordable prices.
Area Served: Metro Atlanta Area
Surgipet
A veterinary clinic in Buford offering high-quality pet dentistry and non-routine surgeries at a reduced rate.
Area Served: Gwinnett County, Hall County
Trap, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return (TNVR)
Explore Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return (TNVR) resources, including trap loans and support for managing feral cat colonies. Help reduce overpopulation through humane spay and neuter programs.
Cat Snip
CatSnip is an affordable spay/neuter service operating around the metro Atlanta area as well as North Georgia.
Area Served: Mobile
Community Cat Clinic
Catering exclusively to kitties, offering a wide range of services including check-ups, spay and neuter surgery, vaccines, and comprehensive care for injuries or illnesses. TNVR appointments available upon request.
Area Served: Cherokee County, Gwinnett County
Good Mews
Good Mews is one of the few virtually cage-free, no-kill cat shelters in the state of Georgia and the first in the metro Atlanta area. Since 1988, Good Mews has placed over 13,000 cats in permanent homes.
Area Served: Cobb County
Gwinnett County Return to Community Cat Program
The Return to Community Cat Program, also known as Return to Field or Trap Neuter Return, aims to manage Gwinnett’s feral community cat population through sterilization and vaccination services. Designed to ensure their humane management, community cats, whether feral, stray, or tomcats, are unowned and free-roaming.
Area Served: Gwinnett County
Leftover Pets
Leftover Pets is a 501c3 non-profit organization established in 2005 to reduce the high euthanasia rate in Georgia shelters by making spay/neuter affordable.
Area Served: Banks County, Barrow County, Jackson County
Lifeline Animal Project
LifeLine’s Community Cat Program is metro Atlanta’s first and largest Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) assistance program. And, it is dedicated to humanely managing community cat colonies using TNR.
Area Served: Metro Atlanta Area
Paradox Spay/Neuter
A non-profit organization dedicated to providing low-cost spay and neuter services to the community. We are committed to reducing the number of unwanted animals in the area by providing affordable spay and neuter services to pet owners. Our clinic is staffed by experienced veterinarians and technicians who are dedicated to providing high-quality care to every animal that comes through our doors.
Area Served: Walton County
Spay Neuter Vets
Affordable, convenient, high quality spay and neuter clinic, locally owned and operated, performing surgeries by experienced professionals utilizing the most up to date techniques to keep your pet safe and comfortable.
Area Served: Forsyth County
Training
Access pet training resources to address obedience, behavioral issues, and more. Help your dog or cat become a well-behaved companion with expert advice.
Alex’s Feline Training and Behavior Consulting
The main focus is on cat training and enrichment, but also offers dog training, pet sitting, and dog walking services.
Area Served: Gwinnett County
Barking Hound Village
Boarding, daycare, and training organization.
Area Served: Metro Atlanta Area
GoodPup
Personalized in-home and virtual training classes for dogs of all ages.
Area Served: Online
Financial Assistance
Get Help With Vet Bills
For Georgia pet parents – a list of 15 amazing organizations that could help cover the cost of some veterinary care tests and procedures for families in need.
Click the image to download the PDF.
Updated in 2026.
- All About Animals
- Bow Wow Buddies Foundation
- Brown Dog Foundation
- Care Credit
- For The Love Of Alex
- Frankie’s Friends
- Free Animal Doctor
- Frosted Faces Foundation
- Healthy Canines (Georgia only)
- Help-A-Pet
- Live Like Roo
- Mosby Foundation
- Onyx and Breezy
- Pets Are Loving Support (Georgia only)
- Red Rover Foundation
pit bull assistance
Pit Bull Assistance Fund: Keeping Families Together
Sadly, Pit Bull type dogs are the #1 most euthanized dogs in GA shelters due to overbreeding and low adoption rates. However, help is now available!
Thanks to a generous gift from an anonymous donor, the Pit Bull Assistance Fund has been created to help keep pit bulls and pit mixes in their homes and prevent them from entering shelters. Veterinary care such as vaccines, antibiotics and/or spay and neuter services are available to select candidates at little or no charge.
If you answer yes to the following, we may be able to help you with your pit bull or pit bull mix dog’s veterinary care:
- Yes, I have a pit bull or pit bull-type dog
- Yes, I want to keep the dog
- Yes, I can travel to Duluth, GA for a veterinary appointment
- Yes, I need help affording food and medical care for the dog
If you answered yes to most of these statements please submit a help request form below. It may take up to 5 days for a response, please be patient as we work through these requests.
This program is limited by funding, and not all submissions are guaranteed assistance.
Animal Surrender Request
Our Animal Rehoming Policy
If you need to return a pet adopted from Planned PEThood of GA or are seeking help placing an animal, please complete the form below. Keep in mind, our rescue program is small and foster-based, supporting around 500 animals each year. We receive between 50-100 requests each month, so while we are happy to review your request, we encourage you to explore all other options as well.
The acceptance of any pet into Planned PEThood’s rehoming program depends on the pet’s health, behavior, and adoptability. We take in pets when space is available, and admissions are determined solely by Planned PEThood’s management. Our priority is to save animals from euthanasia at shelters across Georgia, but we do accept owner surrenders when space allows and the pet is a friendly, adoptable candidate.
Please note, submitting this form does not guarantee acceptance. A Planned PEThood representative will reach out if we are able to assist. We also encourage you to contact other rescues listed on this page and Gwinnett County Animal Welfare if you require immediate help.
If you have any questions, please email foster@PEThoodGA.org