Offers temporary home environment and care for surrendered cats, dogs or other small animals. Provides adoption services and enlists volunteers for variety of shelter tasks to assist the professional staff.

Provides rescue, refuge, medical treatment, and other basic care for abandoned, stray, and neglected animals. Facilitates adoption of fostered animals, matching pets with the most appropriate households. Adopters are required to have a home visit from Good Karma Rescue. Annual event offers $50 discount on adoption fee.

Provides resources, advice, and training for responding to animal needs in the event of a disaster. Other DARTS in Vermont include Rutland Area Disaster Animal Response Team (RADART), and Guardian Angels DART (GADART), which are not formally affiliated with VDART. Pet owners are encouraged to communicate with their local emergency manager via the Town Clerk for guidance on local response plans.

Provides rescue services to dogs at risk, placing them in foster homes and ultimately connecting them to adoptive households. Offers education and training to individuals and families on behavior modification, pet care, and pet owner responsibilities. Also provides volunteer opportunities, including fostering. Does not provide a shelter; rescued animals are fostered in private homes. Offers a Senior to Senior Program matching older adults with older dogs. Provides ongoing support for as many years as the new owners have their pet.

Works to reduce the over-population of unwanted cats by stabilizing barn cat colonies and reducing the number of free-roaming cats through Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR). Organizes humane trapping of unowned and loosely owned cats from farms, outbuildings, and the streets; provides spay/neuter services, vaccinations, and needed medical care; and returns them to their original environment or partners with other agencies that place adoptable animals in appropriate homes. Also provides periodic spay/neuter clinics.

Offers assistance in cat rescue, practices Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) service for ferals, provides spay/neuter services for stray cats and kittens and fosters strays until adopted into homes. Cats and kittens are placed in numerous foster homes in the area. They are not able to assist with re-homing.

Provides shelter and adoption services for stray or surrendered pets. All cats, dogs, and rabbits at the shelter are spayed or neutered and undergo behavior modification as necessary before being adopted out. Adoption includes a voucher for one free examination with your local veterinarian. Performs euthanasia only in circumstances of highly aggressive or extremely ill animals at the shelter. In addition, offers a means of reporting a missing pet via a form on the website. Stray animals are welcome any day, but please call ahead. Donations can be left in the donation bin outside the Adoption Center. Stray and owner surrender animals can only be accepted from Rutland County.

Provides temporary homes, food, medical, and behavioral care for stray or surrendered animals. Provides adoption services, pet food pantry, low-cost spay/neuter clinics, volunteer, and educational opportunities. Assists low-income owners with vet bills via a no-interest loan program. Also provides a Trap, Neuter, Release program (TNR) that aids farmers and others who willingly care for unowned cats in barns and other outbuildings, by trapping, vaccinating, spaying or neutering, and treating (if necessary), and then returning cat(s) back to their colony (group) in the wild or barn.

Coordinates evacuation and transportation of pets, provides safe shelters, and establishes a system to track and reunite pets with their owners in the event of a disaster. Provides resources and advice to strengthen and support Rutland County's capacity to respond to animal needs in the event of a disaster. Offers support and training for team members, and provides guidance to local emergency managers on including the communities' pet population in local response plans. Pet owners are encouraged to communicate with their local emergency manager via the Town Clerk for guidance on local response plans.

Promotes humane treatment of animals through public education and legislative advocacy and campaigns for cruelty-free practices. Website includes listing of low-cost spay and neuter organizations, volunteer opportunities, resources about homeless and lost animals, and information about events and fundraisers.

Provides adoption services for companion animals and farm animals that have been rescued or given up.

Provides pet adoption services; spay/neuter clinics; pet food assistance for low-income pet owners; community education about pet care; shelter for animals who have been abandoned, abused, or surrendered by their owners; and community support of animal cruelty investigations. The shelter attempts to reunite lost pets with owners. The Foster Care Program provides food and supplies for volunteers willing to provide temporary foster care for pregnant cats and dogs, animals recovering from minor surgery, and animals in extreme stress in the shelter environment. Also provides monthly Wellness Clinics at their Brattleboro shelter and in Wilmington, open only to pet owners receiving Pet Care Assistance. Applications for both services may be downloaded from the website.

Provides shelter and care for surrendered and stray animals, including dogs, cats, and other small furry pets. Facilitates pet adoptions, matching shelter animals with appropriate households. Also offers low-cost rabies vaccination and microchip clinics, volunteer opportunities, dog training, and educational programs on pet care.

Provides shelter for animals who have been abandoned, abused or surrendered by their owners. Services include animal adoption, pet food pantry, spay/neuter services, community education about pet care, and reporting of cruelty and neglect of animals to local authorities.

Provides sheltering and adoption services for stray or surrendered pets. All cats, dogs and rabbits at the shelter are spayed or neutered, vaccinated as appropriate, and undergo behavior modification as necessary before being adopted out. Adoption includes a voucher for one free examination with a local veterinarian.

Provides shelter, medical treatment for shelter pets, and other basic care for stray and surrendered pets, including dogs and cats. Facilitates adoption of shelter animals. Call the shelter to schedule an intake date for surrendering a pet; walk-ins are only accepted on an emergency and case-by-case basis.

Provides shelter, medical treatment, and other basic care for surrendered and stray animals, including dogs, cats, and small pets. Facilitates pet adoptions, with adoption counseling to best match shelter animals with appropriate households. Also offers disaster preparedness services including education and emergency boarding. Provides a wide range of volunteer opportunities. Appointment is required to surrender an animal. Welcomes donations of pet food and pet supplies (towels, blankets, food and water bowls, nail clippers).

Provides pet adoption services; Community education about pet care; Shelter for animals who have been abandoned, abused or surrendered by their owners; Spay and Neutering programs; and Investigation of reported cruelty and neglect of animals. Also offers Sophie's Seniors, a special reduced-rate adoption and support program for older adults, and a petfood food shelf for those unable to properly feed their animals. With Jake's Friends Fund, provides financial assistance with veterinary expenses for pet owners in need. Provides follow-up to reports of animal cruelty and negligence, which may include educating the owners about animal care practices or state statutory requirements; assisting owners to improve conditions; facilitating animal surrender if owner chooses to relinquish animal; and working with States Attorneys Office in cases that require prosecution. See website or call for information on monthly spay-neutering clinics. May also provide adoptions to residents of neighboring communities.

Provides shelter; medical treatment; and other basic care for stray and surrendered animals, including dogs, cats, and other small pets. Facilitates adoption of shelter animals, matching pets with the most appropriate households. Helps reduce feline overpopulation through a trap/neuter/return program for free-roaming (feral) cats. Provides a Foster Care Program that includes food and supplies for foster care volunteers caring for pregnant cats and dogs, animals recovering from minor surgery, and animals in extreme stress in the shelter environment. Provides a wide array of donation and volunteer opportunities.

Coordinates evacuation of pets, provides safe shelters, and establishes a system to track and reunite pets with their owners in the event of a disaster. Provides resources and advice to pet owners, animal-related businesses and non-profits, local communities, and state agencies to strengthen and support Franklin County's capacity to respond to animal needs in the event of a disaster. Guardian Angel Disaster Animal Response Team (GADART) provides support and training for team members and provides guidance to local emergency managers on including the communities' pet population in local response plans. Pet owners are encouraged to communicate with their local emergency manager via the Town Clerk and regional emergency planning group for guidance on local response plans.

Rescues, rehabilitates, and adopts out stray and abandoned animals to suitable homes. Maintains an active cruelty investigation response team and responds to reports of animal abuse.

Provides shelter to lost and unwanted pets, matches pets to be adopted with appropriate individuals and families, provides discounts for older pets to older adopters, and maintains information about local animal control contacts and other animal shelters to assist with finding lost pets. Website provides online Pre-Adoption Application forms and pet adoption information. For surrendering owned pets, fill out a form on the website. There is a related fee.

Visits people in a variety of settings, including, but not limited to, hospitals, adult day centers, retirement communities, residential health care facilities, schools, libraries, and veteran housing communities. Therapy Dogs of Vermont (TDV) Volunteer Handlers and their dogs undergo thorough and rigorous testing and evaluation with the goal of certification. TDV handler/canine teams do not visit private homes.

Provides a volunteer-run shelter for abandoned or unwanted pets and provides secure placement of the animals in permanent adoptive homes. Offers monthly Spay ASAP low-cost spay/neuter clinic for cats and spaying services for dogs by appointment to income-eligible pet owners. A 14-day trial period is granted for each adoption. All pets are spayedneutered, up to date on shots, wormed, and heartworm- tested. All dogs and cats are microchipped with Petlink, Inc. chips.

Provides shelter and basic care for abandoned, stray, or surrendered cats and facilitates their adoption. Also provides a small KAS Community Fund, offering financial assistance with veterinary care, medicine, food or supplies. Applicants for the Community Fund are not required to provide financial information.