“PETS OF THE HOMELESS” IS NOT A SHELTER.  IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF A SHELTER THAT ALLOWS OR PROVIDES FOR PETS, please visit the three websites below. RESOURCES: 1.) Sheltering Animals and Families Together 2.) Safe Havens Directory 3.)

Ken White, President, Peninsula Humane Society; “Two topics which each, separately, invite a strong and often highly emotional response, put the phrase “homeless people” and “pets” into the same sentence and it’s likely a controversial if not explosive conversation will

I love what you do! When I was first out of school, we had a homeless man named Bill.  He had a German Shepard that went everywhere with him.  Every year he would come in for his rabies shot and

From a volunteer of Pets of the Homeless, she was making a delivery of pet food to a homeless center in Reno, NV. I was on Record Street yesterday.  As I drove through the parking lot in my nice warm SUV, I was

Sadly many visits to Pets of the Homeless website are from people about to become homeless or who are homeless with pets.  One young woman wrote:  “Hello. I just came across your web page. I too am about to be

Author: Bob Reid Had a pretty good day for a Tuesday On the street corner down by the mall. Got two dollars here and three dollars there And pretty soon thirteen in all. And Dusty was cheerful as ever, For

by Jaye Lewis Junie and Sam were an inseparable pair. Just seeing the way they looked into one another’s eyes, you could tell they loved each other.  Life changed for both Junie and Sam, the day they met.  It’s true,

I just finished reading “Breakfast at Sally’s” by Richard LeMieux.   Be sure to have a box of tissues handy for this inspirational book.  I highly recommend this memorable book. For an insight to what it means to be homeless read

How does one help someone in the streets with an animal aside from giving her/him some money? I met a woman in Chicago with a cat in her cage just last month. They were homeless. All I could do was

There have been comments about some homeless treating their animals with cruelty; dogs tied up tightly, twisting to be freed or being hit; skinny dogs/cats in poor health.  As in the case of child abuse, such instances of animal abuse