LifeLine strives to keep pets with the people who love them. Whether your dog has behavior issues or your cat has special medical needs, we’ll provide pet resources and assistance to help keep your human-animal family together.
With many families facing hardships, some find it challenging to care for their pets. The LifeLine Community Support team helps residents of Fulton county keep their pets. This effort includes lost pet assistance, behavior training resources, low-cost medical care, pet supplies, temporary pet housing and more.
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PALS
It is the mission of Pets Are Loving Support, Inc. (PALS) is to provide ongoing care and support to the pets of Atlanta-area persons living with disabilities due to HIV/AIDS and terminal illnesses, and the elderly.
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Paws Atlanta
Paws provides pet food to families in need in an effort to keeping pets and people together. The Pet Food Bank is available to community members daily on a walk-in basis.
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Pet Buddies
Pet Buddies is an outreach organization that provides spay and neuter sponsorship, temporary pet food and supplies to struggling pet owners, older people, people with disabilities, veterans, medically fragile individuals and people experiencing homelessness.
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Pets For Life
LifeLine’s Pets For Life program provides free spay/neuter services, pet supplies and pet food to Fulton County residents living in specific zip codes.
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AARF
Atlanta Animal Rescue Friends (AARF) operates a pet food pantry for residents in need living in 30021, 30052, 30083, 30084, 30087 and 30088 zip codes. Applications for pet food assistance can be submitted online, by email or by phone call.
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Pet Help Finder
This locator tool can put you in touch with pet pantries and other organizations near you that offer financially friendly resources for pet food and supplies.
Whether you have adopted a new pet or need help with your current pet, we can provide you with pet resources and solutions for your pet’s behavior. Many pet behavior challenges can be managed and corrected through training. These resources can help you to improve your pet’s behavior.
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Paws Between Homes
Paws Between Homes provides temporary foster homes, supplies, and veterinary care to the pets of people who are being evicted or otherwise losing their housing. They serve low-income households in metro Atlanta.
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My Pit Bull Is Family
My Pit Bull is Family is a 501c-3 nonprofit organization with a mission to end housing and insurance discrimination. They have the largest database of rental properties that welcome ALL pet breeds.
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PetRelocation
For more than 15 years, PetRelocation has been guiding pets and their people through the complicated process of moving, happily reuniting them in their new homes.
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Stay Together Furever
Operating in north-metro Atlanta, Georgia, their mission is to provide dogs and cats with loving foster homes for up to 90 days for pet parents who are facing a major, temporary life crisis. They focus our efforts on lower-Income families and fixed-income seniors, those who may have no other choice but to surrender their pets due to overwhelming financial constraints.
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Ahimsa House
Ahimsa House is Georgia’s first and only organization dedicated to helping the human and animal victims of domestic violence reach safety together. They provide a number of free, direct services to people and pets in need.
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AirAnimal
If you are planning a move that will require your pet to travel by air, Air Animal can handle all the details ensuring a stress-free experience for you and your pet.
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RentCafe
RentCafe offers this helpful guide to finding a pet-friendly apartment and renting with pets! You can also use their Estimated Fees filter when searching for a rental that displays pet-related costs and policies upfront.
REHOME YOUR PET
We understand that sometimes, due to circumstances beyond your control, you may have to give up your pet. Read through the steps you can take to find your pet a new home without having to surrender them to the shelter.
HOME FREE PROGRAM
If you’ve lost your pet and they are brought to the shelter for the first time, we will waive reclaim fees and any dog-at-large citation so you can quickly reclaim them at no cost! Free rabies vaccination and pet registration will be provided at the time of pick up, too.
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Dogs On Deployment
Dogs on Deployment connects those in active duty, reservists, National Guard, veterans and first-responders with volunteers who will care for their pets while they have service commitments.
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Pets for Patriots
Pets for Patriots, a LifeLine partner, offers free memberships to U.S. veterans and provides members who adopt from LifeLine with a $150 pet gift card, discounts on vet care and pet supplies, as well as post-adoption follow up calls. LifeLine offers members free adoptions on eligible pets.
