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An animal shelter is a facility that houses homeless, lost or abandoned animals; primarily a large variety of dogs and cats. The animal is kept at the shelter until it is either reclaimed by an owner, adopted to a new owner or placed with another organization. In the past, they were more commonly referred to as "dog pounds", a term which had its origins in the pounds of agricultural communities, where stray cattle would be penned up until claimed by their owners.

A rescue group or rescue organization is dedicated to pet adoption. These groups take unwanted, abandoned, abused, or stray pets and attempt to find suitable new homes for them. Many rescue groups are created by and run by volunteers, who take the animals into their homes and care for them—including training, playing, handling medical issues, and solving behavior problems—until a suitable permanent home can be found.

The first SPCA in the USA was the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), founded by Henry Bergh in New York in 1866. Two years later, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in Boston by a group that included George Thorndike Angell, John Quincy Adams II, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Saltonstall, and William Gordon Weld.[1][6] Examples of other national, nonsheltering humane animal societies include: The Humane Society of the United States, American Humane which was founded in 1877 as a network of local organizations to prevent cruelty to children and animals. The sheltering humane societies include: Peninsula Humane Society and The Humane Society of Allen County. Many local humane societies were founded earlier, and are independent of these similarly named organizations, therefore, local humane groups called SPCA or Humane Society are not related to the national groups such as the Humane Society of the United States or the ASPCA.


  • Animal Haven Rescue
  • Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundation
  • Beebe Humane Society
  • Benton County Humane Society
  • Central Arkansas Rescue Effort
  • Columbia County Animal Protection Society
  • Conway Animal Control
  • Fairfield Bay Animal Protection League
  • Fayetteville Animal Shelter
  • For the Sake of All Animals
  • Forrest City Humane Society
  • Good Shepherd Humane Society
  • Helping Hands for Little Paws
  • Horseshoe Bend Animal Control
  • Humane Society of Clark County
  • Humane Society of Eastern Arkansas
  • Humane Society of Faulkner County
  • Humane Society of Independence County
  • Humane Society of Marion County
  • Humane Society of North Central Arkansas
  • Humane Society of Northeast Arkansas
  • Humane Society of the Ozarks
  • Humane Society of Pulaski County
  • Humane Society of Saline County
  • Jefferson County Humane Society
  • Maumelle Friends of the Animals
  • Needy Paws Animal Shelter
  • Ozland Horse Rescue
  • Ozark Humane Society
  • Paragould Animal Welfare Society PAWS
  • Riddle's Elephant and Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Rogers Animal Shelter
  • Russellville Animal Shelter
  • Second Chance Sheltie Rescue
  • Sebastian County Humane Society
  • Tiny Timbers Horse Rescue


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