Shelters are often inundated with pet surrenders, and do not want to provide a simple outlet that takes away the obligation of responsible pet ownership. Therefore, they would prefer that people try hard to find a solution before resorting to surrendering their pet to a shelter. If you must find a new home for a pet, please try posting to our adoption portal before placing the burden on the shelter. Direct adoptions work well and allow everyone to share in the accountability of their community!
No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.
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Homeward Bound functions as the primary site for reporting and housing of lost animals in Addison County. Through this program, we accept lost animals into our shelter and also function as a central repository for reports of lost/ found animals. Over the many years, Homeward Bound has been able to successfully reunite hundreds of “best friends” with their families.
Homeward Bound has contracts with all of the towns in Addison County, with the exception of Monkton and Waltham, whereby the Animal Control Officer has access to our shelter 24 hours per day to bring in stray dogs (please not that these contracts are limited to stray dogs only)! While we do accept stray cats, the town contracts do not provide for the Animal Control Officer to transport stray cats to our shelter.