NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA

Pet rescue and adoption: north shore animal league america operates the largest "no kill" animal adoption center in the world. We are a world leader in setting best practices for adoption. We adopt dogs, cats, puppies and kittens from our port washinton, ny headquarters and facilitate tens of thousands of adoptions each year working with our network of over 2,000 shelter partners. The league conducts an international pet adoptathon where shelters across the world join us in staying open for 36 consecutive hours to adopt as many animals as possible and a tour for life where mobile units rescue and adopt animals from shelters. The league has adopted out over 1.2 million animals across the country since its inception in 1944. The mutt-i-grees initiative was implemented nationally by the league as a key element in increasing shelter pet adoptions in an effort to elevate mixed breed dogs to a higher status in the eyes of potential adopters. Our adopters are asked to add their newly adopted pet as well as any other shelter rescue pets that they have own to our mutt-i-grees registry. This included them as part of the mutt-i-grees community, which elevates the value of all mutt-i-grees (shelter and rescued animals) to reduce animal cruelty.