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Rochester Animal Services

184 Verona Street, Rochester, NY 14608

Contact Jonelle Lang
Email animalservices@cityofrochester.gov
Phone (585) 428-7274
cats, birds, dogs, rabbits, reptiles & small animals at Rochester Animal Services
This shelter hasn't posted any pets that match these criteria.

Areas Rochester Animal Services serves

City of Rochester NY

Rochester Animal Services's adoption process

Additional adoption info

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About Rochester Animal Services

To provide information, assistance, pet re-unification and pet re-homing for the Rochester community in order to facilitate pet retention, encourage compliance, and support healthy choices for pet owners and safe, vibrant neighborhoods.

Rochester Animal Services's adopted pets

Adopt a Pet is the easiest way for you to search for a new pet in Rochester, NY.

Support adoption and rescue. Why go to a dog breeder, cat breeder or pet store to buy a dog or buy a cat when you can adopt?

Why should you adopt?

Dog adoption and cat adoption saves lives. Adopt a dog or adopt a cat and you'll have a friend for life.

What is the difference between adopting a dog, adopting a cat, adopting a kitten or adopting a puppy versus getting dogs for sale, cats for sale, puppies for sale or kittens for sale from a dog breeder or a cat breeder?

When someone is breeding puppies or breeding kittens, they are creating new dogs and cats who need homes. Some people are interested in a very specific breed of dog, cat, puppy or kitten and they think the only way to find that specific breed is to buy a dog for sale or buy a cat for sale from a puppy breeder or a kitten breeder. Yet animal shelters are filled with dogs and cats who must find homes.

So rather than buying a dog or puppy for sale from a dog breeder or buying a cat or kitten for sale from a cat breeder, we encourage people to adopt a dog, adopt a cat, adopt a puppy or adopt a kitten at their local animal shelter, SPCA, humane society or pet rescue group.