Smart Pet Choices
Pet and Wildlife Resources
Adopting a Pet
The Humane Society website allows you to find an animal shelter near you. It also includes things to think about before choosing a pet.
Habitattitude
This website helps aquarium hobbyists, backyard pond owners, and water gardeners avoid impacts on our natural environment.
Injured Wildlife
These resources will help you locate a wildlife rehabilitation center near you, if you find an injured wild animal.
Nuisance Wildlife
Do you have raccoons in the garbage? Skunks under the porch? Bears in the nearby forest? Deer in your garden? These resources will help you minimize conflicts with wildlife and find effective solutions.
Orphaned Wildlife
These websites provides information on what to do (and not do!) with injured, orphaned, or nuisance wildlife. Often, when young animals appear to be abandoned, the mother is nearby.
Issues Facing Wildlife
Wildlife face many forms of cruelty, exploitation, and threats to their survival—both in the wild and in captivity. Examples include rattlesnake roundups, illegal sale of body parts, fishing by-catch, and lethal predator control.
Petfinder
This website allows you to search for adoptable pets in your area, by type, size, age, and gender.
Sustainable Ornamental Fishery
Project Piaba is a community-based conservation project in Brazil that is exploring ways to maintain a sustainable ornamental fishery while also sustaining the local economy and ecology.
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