Animal Shelters

Our mission is to prevent cruelty, encourage kindness, respect, and reverence for all life forms, and to promote the welfare and humane treatment of all animals, including fish, birds, reptiles, and mammals. To this end, we organize the rescue and temporary care of stray and abandoned animals, spread the values of humaneness through educational initiatives, and through these efforts, we help to build a society that values all living things.

Breed-specific non-profit dog rescue Naked Kisses Dog Rescue, also known as NaKiD Rescue, is situated in Florida and serves the Southeast of the United States.

The Middle Peninsula's towns are served by the open-admission, nonprofit Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society (GMHS).

Lil Roar Cat Rescue (LRCR) is a Virginia Beach, Virginia-based 501 (c)(3) non-profit cat rescue organization. LRCR's main goals are to: 1) spay and neuter community (feral) cats through our Trap, Neuter, Release (TNR) program; 2) find "forever" homes through our foster care program for adoptable stray cats and kittens found while undertaking our TNR projects; and 3) inform the public on the significance of spaying and neu

Our mission is carried out by cooperating with the public and other animal welfare organizations, enforcing the domestic animal laws of the Commonwealth and the City, offering educational programs, and providing the unwanted, stray, abused, and abandoned animals in our City with humane care, food, and a secure environment.

Four distinct Hampton Roads communities—Newport News, Hampton, Poquoson, and York County—have joined forces to assist the Peninsula Regional Animal Shelter (PRAS). The City of Newport News manages and runs this cutting-edge, 30,000 square foot facility on behalf of the four counties.

Animal Aid Society (AAS) is a no kill dog shelter & a licensed 501(c)3 nonprofit located in Hampton, Virginia. Since its foundation in 1971, AAS has helped numerous stray, abandoned, and abused dogs find their happily ever after in Coastal Virginia.

When a group of devoted volunteers in Suffolk noticed how many pets were being given up by their owners, the Suffolk Humane Society was founded. These volunteers promised to work with the City of Suffolk's Animal Care Center to spread the word about adoptable animals in our neighborhood because they wanted to see a difference. In an effort to address Suffolk's severe pet overpopulation issue, these volunteers also pledged to educate the public on the value of spaying and neutering our pets.

By socializing outdoor-born and unwanted kittens for adoption into forever homes, Billy The Kidden Rescue works to enhance the lives of displaced cats and kittens and lower feral cat populations in Hampton Roads.