🐾 Three Little Pitties Rescue

Houston-founded rescue that has grown nationally, with strong advocacy and transport work.

🐾 Friends For Life Animal Shelter

Houston’s largest no-kill shelter and a national leader in lifesaving models. Strong community credibility and transparency.

🐾 Houston Pets Alive! (HPA!)

No-kill rescue focused on saving animals most at risk, including medical and behavioral cases. Very well respected locally.

🐾 Special Pals Shelter

Certified no-kill shelter serving the northwest Houston area. Strong adoption and foster network.

🐾 Second Chance Pets

Houston-based rescue focused on rehabilitation and rehoming, especially for overlooked animals.

🐾 Rescued Pets Movement

Not a shelter, but a critical no-kill partner that transports animals from overcrowded shelters to regions with higher adoption rates.

🐾K-9 Angels Rescue

Houston-area foster-based rescue with strong volunteer engagement and community presence.

🐾 Houston PetSet

Mobile clinic providing low-cost spay, neuter, and immunization services

🐾 PuppyKittyNYC (NYC Animal Care Centers)

Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC) is dedicated to ending animal homelessness in New York City. As the city’s only open-admissions shelter, they provide compassionate refuge for animals in need and serve homeless, lost, and neglected animals across all five boroughs—Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

🐾 Animal Haven

A well-respected NYC no-kill shelter focused on rescuing animals from high-risk situations and placing them in permanent homes.

🐾 Muddy Paws Rescue

Foster-based, no-kill rescue organization with a strong volunteer network and excellent community engagement.

🐾 Social Tees Animal Rescue

NYC-based, foster-only, no-kill rescue with a strong focus on advocacy, education, and adoption events.

🐾 Best Friends Lifesaving Center – NYC

Operated by Best Friends Animal Society, this center focuses on adoption, foster care, and community support within a no-kill model.

🐾 Sean Casey Animal Rescue (SCAR)

Brooklyn-based rescue with a hands-on, community-forward approach to emergency rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption.

🐾Koneko Cat Café (Rescue Partner Model)

Partners with no-kill rescues to place adoptable cats in a community-centered, humane environment.

🐾 Best Friends Animal Society

A cornerstone of the modern no-kill movement, working nationally to end the killing of shelter animals through policy, education, and direct support.

🐾 The Humane League

National animal advocacy organization focused on systemic change, particularly for farmed animals, through corporate accountability and policy reform.

🐾 Alley Cat Allies

National leader in humane, no-kill solutions for community cats, including TNR programs and education.

🐾 ASPCA

While not universally no-kill, the ASPCA plays a major national role in rescue, disaster response, and animal cruelty prevention. Include with clear framing if desired.

🐾 Maddie’s Fund

Philanthropic organization dedicated to achieving a no-kill nation through grants, research, and shelter support.

🐾 Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF)

National legal advocacy organization advancing animal protection laws and enforcement.