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Richmond Animal League

11401 International Drive, Richmond, VA 23236

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Phone (804) 379-0046 ext.1000
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Areas Richmond Animal League serves

The Richmond Animal League is located in Richmond, Virginia. RAL serves all of central Virginia, providing homeless animals with temporary housing, medical treatment, sterilization, and quality care until they are adopted to permanent, loving homes.

Richmond Animal League's adoption process

Additional adoption info

RAL charges an adoption fee to help defray the costs incurred for medical and daily care. Adoptors are asked to fill out our adoption application. Once the application has been processed and approved, your "new best friend" can go home with you.

Adoption application

About Richmond Animal League

The Richmond Animal League, Inc. is Richmond’s oldest non-profit, no-kill humane society. RAL was founded in 1979 by a group of local good Samaritans concerned about the hundreds of stray animals in the area. We are dedicated to providing complete care and shelter to our animals until we can place them in loving permanent homes.

Richmond Animal League's adopted pets

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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.