Pet Place Review

Wednesday, July 16th

2025 Pet Adoption Site Reviews

Pet Place

• Offers a one-stop shop for pet adoption needs
• Provides reliable advice, trusted providers, and essential services
• Specializes in cat and dog adoption
• Allows users to favorite animals for later
• Features a "pet match survey" to help find the ideal pet
• Includes an adoption checklist for potential pet owners
• Provides an insurance comparison tool
• Partners with pet protection providers
• Offers a user-friendly interface for searching for pets

No matter where you're at in your journey as a pet parent, Pet Place is there for you. They understand that your pets keep you busy and happy, and that navigating through all the advice, opinions, and resources available can be overwhelming. That's why they've created a one-stop shop where you'll find reliable advice, trusted providers, and essential services (including adoption). They believe that every pet deserves good care from loving and committed owners, just like you.

Best for cats and dogs

Pet Place has three categories of pets you can search for adoption: dog, cat, other. If you're looking for birds, hamsters, guinea pigs, or lizards, you're not going to have an easy time on this website. They're all included in the "other" category and you can only expand your search radius to 100 miles. On other websites, though, you can see an overview of which states have which animals and how many they have. On Pet Place, you would need to test a bunch of different zip codes to bring up results.

May not have as many animals as competing sites

To get started on your search for a cat or dog, select a dog or cat breed (or leave that field blank to see all) and enter your zip code. Animal profiles on the result page will show their name, breed, and city. You can favorite animals for later. There weren't quite as many results for dogs in our area on Pet Place as we found with competitor sites using the same zip code. This is subjective, though - some pet adoption sites may be used more than others in different parts of the country.

Lengthy survey before you can contact shelters

Once you've found an animal you're interested in adopting, you may have to fill out a "pet match survey” before you can be put in contact with the shelter or owner. Questions include the age of your ideal pet, gender, and breed. If you don't have a breed preference, you can choose "any”, or scroll to the bottom of the list of breeds and select "mixed breed”. (If you're searching for a specific breed of cat, scroll all the way down - the list of cat breeds is populated with dog breeds, but the cats can be found at the end.) If you're looking for a dog, you'll also be asked how active you want your dog to be, how large or small, and questions about your allergies, the size of your yard, your history of pet ownership, and more. At the end of the survey, you can see all your answers and change them before submission. If you haven't already made an account, you'll be prompted to do so now.

To-do list for pet adoption built into pet listings

Pet Place has an Adoption Checklist handy for you as you browse potential pets, but it's a little generic. Make sure to read the bio of the pet you're interested in, too, because sometimes shelters will include information specific to their process there. The checklist also includes links to Pet Place's insurance comparison tool and their partnerships with pet protection providers.

Just okay

You might appreciate Pet Place, but it could use some improvements. It would be helpful if they added options to sort by dogs that urgently need help, like those in high-kill shelters. Also, the filtering options could be more extensive. Overall, while Pet Place is functional, it's pretty much an average pet adoption site.