Watermelon Mountain Ranch

Rio Rancho pet laws, lost or found pets, and adoption of animals.

The community of Corrales is non-kill and animal-friendly. The goal of Animal Services is to protect and ensure the welfare of all household, farm, and wild animals.

Animal Humane New Mexico, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was founded in 1965, provides care for more than 10,000 dogs and cats who are homeless or in danger of becoming so each year. Since 2010, all healthy animals in our care have been adopted out. We never put animals to sleep based on their age or length of stay. At Animal Humane, we provide every companion animal with exceptional veterinary, social, and emotional assistance and love. As a private, nonprofit shelter, we get no money from the city, state, or federal government; instead, every dollar is wisely earned or raised.

NMDOG is a hands-on rescue that helps New Mexico's chained, mistreated, and abandoned dogs. This small, all-volunteer, 501(c)3 non-profit, foster-based rescue, with its headquarters in Albuquerque, was founded in 2010 and has since impacted the lives of hundreds of dogs.

In early 1996, not long after they relocated to the region, Lee and Sophia DiClemente had a vision for a No-Kill animal facility in New Mexico. Every year, New Mexico euthanizes thousands of stray, abandoned, and lost animals.

Pets Alive in New Mexico! is a 501(c)(3) non-profit with the goal of assisting New Mexico in joining the expanding, forward-thinking No Kill companion animal welfare success that is occurring throughout America, where upwards of 99% of lost and abandoned pets and community cats are given a second chance to find a loving, permanent home.