Adopt A Pet Review

Wednesday, July 16th

2025 Pet Adoption Site Reviews

Adopt A Pet

• Supports over 15,000 animal welfare organizations
• Offers resources to help new pet owners
• Lists a variety of pets, not just dogs and cats
• User-friendly and intuitive website design
• Detailed pet profiles for informed adoption decisions
• Email alerts for new pet listings
• Rehome program for a compassionate solution to pet ownership difficulties

Adopt A Pet supports over 15,000 animal welfare organizations and provides free advertising for pets needing homes. As part of the Kinship group, they also offer resources to help you as a new pet owner. You can find articles on pet care, product reviews, and training, or locate local pet care professionals on their website.

All kinds of pets found here

Adopt A Pet lists more than just dogs and cats. You can shop for other pets here, too, like rabbits, birds, horses, small animals, reptiles/amphibians/fish, and farm-type animals. From the menu bar at the top of the page, you choose the type of animal you're looking for, or you can select "shelters/rescues” and enter your location, then filter by animal type on the results page. This page doesn't display individual pets, but rather shelters or rescues near you and the types of animals they care for. This might be useful if you already know you'd rather get your first impressions of prospective pets in person than browse for them online.

Website design is satisfying and intuitive

The profiles of individual pets are thoughtfully organized. They include all the info you'd need to make an informed decision about adoption, like whether a potential pet is good with kids or other pets, if their shots are up to date, and if they've been spayed or neutered. Adopt A Pet gives perhaps a little more information than some other sites, or at least provides the fields for that information - like breed, color, and size. When browsing, you can filter your results by things like coloring, health needs, how they get along with other people or animals in a household, and more. Some competitors allow filtering for dogs that don't require a fenced yard or a lot of activity, and we would have liked to see that functionality here.

Urgent cases aren't apparent

Unlike some sites that show you the dogs in imminent danger of euthanasia, Adopt A Pet doesn't make it obvious who is most in need of your help. Even when filtering by the "needs home fast” filter, we didn't get any results for a city where a competitor site showed us a full page of at-risk dogs. It could be that those shelters just haven't cross-posted to Adopt A Pet, or they didn't tag their dogs appropriately when they listed them, but if saving a life is as important to you as finding a good fit, you may want to use a different site.

Get notified first when matches are listed

Some pet adoption services let you sign up for email alerts when new pets are listed meeting your specifications. Adopt A Pet has this too, but unless you pay $10 a month, you won't get these notifications until 24 hours after paid members do. If you're in the market for a specific breed, this fee may be worth it to you. Plus, Adopt A Pet says it's going to a good cause: they say it helps them "save more pets”, although they don't go into more detail than that.

Rehome program is a humane solution to pet ownership difficulties

We really appreciate Adopt A Pet's Rehome program, which allows private pet owners to find a new home for their pets without having to take him or her to a shelter. That means their dog or cat (or horse, or bird) can go straight from their loving home to yours, saving valuable room for truly homeless animals and preventing heartache and worry for the previous owners, who many times are only giving up their pet as a last resort.

Educational articles

We like that Adopt A Pet has some articles walking you through pet adoption. You'll also be able to read articles about pet ownership that answer questions like, "How long will it take for my cat to get used to our new kitten?” "Should I adopt an older or a younger pet?” "What should I consider when choosing a vet?” Like all of the pet adoption websites in this review, you should know that Adopt A Pet only hosts listings of animals that are posted by shelters, rescues, and private owners, so they can't mediate for you if you have a miscommunication.

A top contender

Adopt A Pet is one of our favorite pet adoption sites because of their attention to detail in their layout and their Rehome program. We would recommend checking them out when starting your search for your new companion.