CritterFest

We are in the process of inviting central Indiana animal shelters and rescue groups. The following list is of those confirmed to attend CritterFest:

North Central Indiana Spay and Neuter at Crystal Creek Kennels
North Central Indiana Spay and Neuter is a non-profit no-kill shelter located at Crystal Creek Kennels in Battle Ground, Indiana. NCISN believes that euthanasia is a crime–a crime against our loving companions. Through pro-active rescue, adoption efforts, and an affordable spay and neuter program, we work to eliminate the use of euthanasia as a method of pet population control. NCISN endeavors to reduce the suffering, abandonment, and neglect of companion animals in our community and reach our goal of no more homeless pets.
www.pleasespay.org

Almost Home Humane Society
The Almost Home Humane Society (AHHS; formerly the Tippecanoe County Humane Society), an independent, nonprofit agency, was founded in 1939 by a group of animal lovers in Tippecanoe County. Since its beginning more than 60 years ago, the organization has been dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community. As a local nonprofit we exist through the generosity of our community. AHHS cares deeply about the comfort and rights of animals and citizens within our area. As such, we strive to enhance the relationship between people and animals through education, controlling the pet population through responsible advocacy, and providing sanctuary for unwanted, lost, and neglected animals.
www.almosthomehumane.org

Tri-County Trap-Neuter-Return
TNR helps to control the feral and stray cat overpopulation through a progressive community program of Trap-Neuter-Return, which is the only proven method that permanently and humanely reduces feral and stray cat populations. Feral cats are humanely live trapped, altered, vaccinated for rabies, and left ear tipped, which identifies the cat as part of a managed feral cat colony. The cats are returned to their caretakers who monitor the colony and provide food, water, and shelter. TNR serves Tippecanoe County and surrounding areas.
www.tricountytnr.org

Robyn’s Cats
Robyn’s Cats works with Tri-County Trap-Neuter-Return to find forever homes for domestic and feral cats. Occasionally there are friendly domesticated cats living with a feral colony. Also, kittens from feral cats, if removed at an early age (5 to 8 weeks), can often be socialized. Whenever possible, Robyn’s Cats remove from colonies any young kittens or domesticated cats that are adoptable and spay or neuter, vaccinate, and foster them until a good home is found. We also place barn cats (generally feral) for free to responsible homes with a safe outbuilding.
www.robynscats.com

Sheltie Rescue of Greater Lafayette
Sheltie Rescue of Greater Lafayette is a nonprofit, volunteer organization founded to help find loving homes for abused, abandoned, neglected and surrendered Shelties in the Lafayette, Indiana area. All Shelties in our rescue program are treated for medical problems, spayed or neutered, given vaccinations, checked for heartworm, and put on preventative. Each dog is then fostered in a loving home to determine temperament in order to properly place it with the perfect family.
www.sheltierescuelafayette.com

Casa del Toro Pit Bull Breed Education and Rescue
Casa Del Toro focuses on educating the public, the shelter community, and law enforcement agencies while extending a helping hand in implementing responsible pit bull adoptions through local animal control facilities. We believe that through education and community outreach we can improve the public perception of pit bulls by supporting responsible ownership through adoption placement, training, and post-adoptive support.

Casa Del Toro also works on improving the lives of pit bulls by providing dog houses and supplies to outside dogs and encouraging owners to bring their dogs inside to live as family pets, educating the public on humane laws, ending indiscriminate breeding and overpopulation through spay and neuter programs, and actively working to strengthen dog fighting laws while educating the community on the realities of dog fighting.
www.casadeltoro.org

EARPS Exotic Animal Rescue
EARPS Exotic Animal Rescue is a nonprofit rescue group made up of volunteers who are improving the quality of life for pocket pets, exotic pets, and nontraditional pets through fostering, adoption, and education, as well as helping control the pet population through spaying and neutering. We work to help animals throughout Indiana as well as parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois.
www.earps.org

All-Star Greyhounds
All-Star Greyhounds is a non-profit organization that provides adoption services for greyhounds and is supported by volunteers. Our goal is to find responsible and loving homes for greyhounds who are no longer wanted for racing purposes, found in animal shelters, or in need of a new home. All-Star Greyhounds is based in Lafayette, Indiana, and has branches in Fort Wayne, South Bend, and Goshen.
allstargreyhounds.org

Indy Great Pyrenees Rescue
Indy Great Pyrenees Rescue is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization based in Indianapolis. Our mission is to rescue and place homeless Great Pyrenees in new loving homes. We take dogs in as space allows from Indiana and Kentucky and accept owner surrenders whenever possible. All of our dogs live in foster homes. These generous families help raise and socialize each dog and treat any of its medical conditions. By having our Pyrs in foster homes, we are able to learn a lot about the dogs prior to adoption. This makes it easier to match potential adopters to the right Pyr for their family. To date, IGPR has successfully rescued and placed over three hundred big, beautiful Great Pyrenees in new homes.
www.igpr.org

Home for Friendless Animals
The Home for Friendless Animals is a not-for-profit no-kill shelter and adoption facility providing a loving refuge for stray and abandoned dogs and cats. The Home was incorporated in 1943 in Bridgeport, Indiana and in May, 1960 it relocated to a 73 acre farm in Montgomery County south of Waynetown. The Home for Friendless Animals is a lot of work, laughter, and tears. It’s also a wonderfully rewarding place for those of us fortunate enough to be part of it. The dogs and cats we care for are our reason for being here and the inspiration for all that we do.
www.friendlessanimals.com

Peggy’s Pups Coonhound Rescue
Peggy’s Pups rescues coonhounds and beagles all over the state, and seeks to find loving forever homes for them. After working in a shelter for a period of time, Peggy saw that there was a real need for a rescue to help out these hunting breeds. Peggy’s Pups provides a safe place for hounds and beagles — these energetic, sometimes nutty, sweet animals — until they can find them a forever home.
www.petfinder.com/shelters/IN216.html

We Care Pet Rescue and Transport
Helping Pets to Safety
We are a registered nonprofit transport and rescue agency. Our dedication is to help homeless pets in any way that we can and to provide transport for these dogs and cats to get them out of unsafe animal shelters to the security of safe animal rescues, or to forever or foster homes. Although we are based in east central Illinois, we can make arrangements to go almost anywhere, including the east coast. We are a small group with a sanctuary of animals that we have rescued in the past that we were not adoptable or never got adopted and grew old with us. We are not a shelter, however, and we currently cannot accept any more animals, but we try help with animals’ needs in any way that we can. We may be able to assist with lower cost vet care, spay and neuter, referrals to other agencies to help people with rescue, or fostering and finding homes for homeless pets. We try to assist with anything pertaining to the welfare of any animal in need. Just ask and we will do the best that we know how.
petrescuetransport.com

America’s Basenji Rescue
We are a rescue for the African Basenji dog and Shiba Inu with the goal of placing our dogs into loving, caring homes. Our rescue mission includes assisting with the placement of full-blooded Basenjis, Basenji mixes, and Shiba Inu, evaluating each dog and screening prospective owners, providing foster care for each dog in need along with medical care and socialization as needed, assisting with transport, and providing follow-up information, support, and advice to adopters. We also rehabilitate Basenji and Shiba with issues caused by previous owners and provide special care and homes for elder Basenji. We strive to ensure the placement of our dogs in a safe and loving way, with the least amount of upset to the animal being placed. We are a registered nonprofit organization serving all of Indiana.
www.petfinder.com/shelters/IN87.html
www.basenjirescue.us

Chihuahua Rescue, USA
Chihuahua Rescue, USA, currently has chapters in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, New York and Tennessee. As volunteers join and our support increases, our scope will broaden to include additional states. We are an all-volunteer rescue, transport, foster, and adoption organization. It is our belief that irresponsible breeding of animals (especially for profit) is unethical and seek to encourage potential pet guardians to consider adoption as their first choice in selecting a loving canine addition to their family. We believe that every Chihuahua deserves a chance to become a treasured family member and strive to provide the best possible homes for them. We take great care in our placement process for these precious animals.
www.petfinder.com/shelters/IN388.html
www.chihuahuarescueusa.org

Indianapolis Animal Care & Control
With the largest selection of animals and lowest adoption fees in the Greater Indianapolis area, Indianapolis Animal Care & Control is the perfect place to find your next best friend. With a knowledgeable staff ready to answer all your questions, you will leave with the right pet for the environment you have to provide. In addition to offering hundreds of animals for adoption daily, Indianapolis Animal Care & Control oversees the enforcement of animal-related laws in Marion County. Preventing dog fighting, investigating abandoned animals, those not receiving proper care and dangerous or barking animals are just a few of the responsibilities of the agency. Indianapolis Animal Care & Control is located mere minutes from downtown Indianapolis at 2600 South Harding Street, midway between Interstates 70 and 465 on the city’s Southwest side.
www.petfinder.com/shelters/IN113.html

Yorkshire Terrier National Rescue
Founded in 1997, our nonprofit organization is dedicated to finding the best possible homes for Yorkshire Terriers in our care, regardless of age, sight, hearing or other handicaps. Everyday we help local pounds and other types of shelters find Yorkies in need of our help in relocating homeless and abandoned pets. We screen and visit every home with a pre-adoptive interview, personal reference checks, and in home follow up visits whenever possible after the adoption. We spay and neuter prior to placing a Yorkie in its new home. Our dogs are heartwormed checked and current on all vaccines. We also microchip them for their new owners with a reference back to our Yorkshire Terrier National Rescue. We make every effort to ensure that our little dogs live in the loving environments that they so well deserve to their very last day on this earth.
www.ytnr.com

Midwest Boston Terrier Rescue
Midwest Boston Terrier Rescue is a nonprofit organization funded entirely by donations and run by the hearts of our volunteers. We rescue Boston Terriers from shelters and from people who surrender them to us, and we take in these dogs regardless of their age or medical condition. All of our dogs are in foster homes until they find a new, loving, lifelong, responsible home. We require an application, a vet reference, and a home visit before placement. We rescue Boston Terriers because we know and love this breed, and for no other reason than our concern for their welfare. We help Boston Terriers in need in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana.
www.midwestbtrescue.org

Don’s Dogs
Don’s Dogs got its start during Hurricane Katrina, when Don went down to New Orleans and brought back 20 dogs and eventually found homes for them. Since then, Don has been fostering and finding homes for small dogs, the size of Cocker Spaniels and smaller. Most of the dogs that Don fosters have been taken out of shelters in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky where they would have been euthanized. Don provides needed veterinary care for his adoptable dogs, and they are up-to-date on shots and spayed or neutered and microchipped before they go to their forever homes. Don also provides low-cost microchipping to anyone who needs it. Don’s Dogs is a 501c3 non-profit organization in Kokomo, Indiana.
www.petfinder.com/shelters/IN369.html

Paw Pals of Clinton County Humane Society
Paw Pals is an auxiliary of the Clinton County Humane Society, founded in September of 2001. Paw Pals is dedicated to helping the Society through raising funds for animals in need of vet care, maintaining websites to promote our cause, encouraging community involvement, education on spaying and neutering, contacting rescues to help place our animals, and raising adoption numbers. Our volunteers spend countless hours working with and promoting our pets. We are a not-for-profit organization and all donations go toward the care and comfort of the homeless animals of Clinton County. Please visit our web site to see our adoptable animals, and our blog to see stories of pets who have found their forever homes, like Bo the Beagle, pictured here.
www.cchumane.petfinder.org
pawpalsofcchs.blogspot.com

Natalie’s Second Chance Dog Shelter
Natalie’s Second Chance Dog Shelter is a No Kill Rescue for all dogs and puppies. Our mission is to find new homes for homeless dogs. We help strays, personal turn-ins, and dogs from other animal rescue groups find new homes. We are a no-kill facility, and we keep and care for each dog until a perfect match is found! We take in dogs of any age or any breed and find them forever homes. We serve Lafayette, Indiana and surrounding areas. Our motto is “Give a Dog a Home,” and that is what we do. Our open adoption hours are Thursdays 12-4, Fridays 10-5, and Saturdays 10-5. We are located at 10 S 16th Street in Lafayette, Indiana. Visit us at our Facebook page!
www.adoptapet.com/adoption_rescue/77816.html

ROCK Rescue
ROCK Rescue is a nonprofit rescue in Marion, Indiana that was formed to rescue and help animals from shelters and private referrals. All of our animals are in foster homes. Adoption fees are based on the costs of treating, spaying or neutering, other medical needs, vaccinations, etc., that occur for each individual rescue. We require an application be filled out on each of our rescues, and once approved, a meeting is arranged for introductions, and a deserving rescued pet will get a second chance at a loving and caring forever home. A fenced yard is required for the protection of our rescued companions. Our rescue is committed to finding the best possible homes for our loving companion animals.
www.petfinder.com/shelters/rockrescue.html