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Animal Safehouse Program --Tampa Pups

Port Charlotte, FL 33952

Contact Leandra Preston
Email animalsafehouse@gmail.com
Phone (407) 620-6865
cats & dogs at Animal Safehouse Program --Tampa Pups
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Areas Animal Safehouse Program --Tampa Pups serves

Hillsborough, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Port Charlotte, Brevard, Orange

Animal Safehouse Program --Tampa Pups's adoption process

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Submit Application

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Approve Application

3.

Home Check

4.

Meet the Pet

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Sign Adoption Contract

6.

Take the Pet Home

Additional adoption info

We do a background check, home check, and interview to ensure a qualified adopter

Adoption application

About Animal Safehouse Program --Tampa Pups

Animal Safehouse of Brevard is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit effort with two related missions: we rescue pets for people escaping domestic violence and we save dogs from being euthanized at high-kill shelters in neighboring counties. Our mission has always been to provide temporary safe placement of pets who, like their owners, must flee domestic violence situations. While programs provide resources for people fleeing domestic violence, few have facilities for their pets. Most people with pets will not leave abusive homes if they cannot bring their furry loved ones along for fear of retaliation. Animal Safehouse meets this need by providing short-term fostering for these pets until they can be reunited or rehomed when necessary.

As more people are displaced due to economic issues, more pets are displaced, too. This and other factors such as addiction, domestic violence, mental health, and post-pandemic life shifts have led to crisis numbers of young, healthy, and non-aggressive dogs being euthanized at county shelters. Since our domestic violence needs are sporadic, we simultaneously rescue and rehome pets from ‘euth lists’ at county shelters in neighboring counties, most often Orange County Animal Services.

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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.