What’s the Difference Between an Animal Shelter and Rescue

What’s the Difference Between an Animal Shelter and Animal Rescue? 

What is the difference between a shelter and rescue? Click the link above to read more. Some benefits of rescues cited. But a useful add - foster parents can often tell you more about the personality of a pet than a shelter can, and many have good knowledge of whether or not a certain pet can live with other pets or small children.

Benefits

For animal shelters and rescues, the top benefit of adopting an animal is that you’re saving the animal. You’re giving it a second chance at life, and you’re not supporting harmful breeders.

The cost of adopting animals is often lower than the cost of buying an animal from a breeder or pet store.

One of the benefits of adopting from a rescue is that the animals are already socialized. They’ve bonded with their foster parents.

When it comes to shelter animals, you can forge a new bond, and you aren’t taking a pet away from a home they may have become too attached to. While fosters are meant to adopt, foster parents want them to go to loving homes.

Rescue Organizations vs. Animal Shelters – Is there a difference?

From the article above:

Rescue Organizations 

Most rescue organizations in the United States are non-profit 501(c)(3) and run by private individuals or by a small group. Rescue organizations don’t typically have paid positions and are funded solely by the person or the organization’s money or any public donations. Most rescues do not have over-populated facilities and can care for each animal personally. Like FuRRR, this also means all health and any medically related problems are addressed and treated before they go home to their new loving home.

What’s the difference between an animal shelter and a rescue?