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Mississippi Animal Rescue League

5221 Greenway Drive Ext, Jackson, MS 39204

Contact Samantha Page
Email
Phone (601) 969-1631
cats, birds, dogs, farm animals, horses, rabbits, reptiles & small animals at Mississippi Animal Rescue League
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Areas Mississippi Animal Rescue League serves

Central Mississippi

Mississippi Animal Rescue League's adoption process

Additional adoption info

You must be 21 or older to adopt a pet from MARL and you must visit the shelter and fill out our adoption application with references. If you rent, we must be able to contact your landlord. Allow about an hour for the adoption process. Visit our PetFinders Page to see a list of animals currently available.

Adoption application

About Mississippi Animal Rescue League

The Mississippi Animal Rescue League, MARL, is a private 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals. Chartered in 1969, we are the largest full service animal welfare organization in Central Mississippi providing care and basic medical services for thousands of homeless and unwanted animals each year. We do not receive any general operating funds from any state or federal agency.

MARL is an “open admission” shelter- that means we accept every animal that comes in the door. One of our key goals is to find loving homes for all animals in our facility. As an “open admission” shelter, we take in on an average of 50-60 animals a day and many more in the spring and summer. Local “limited admission” shelters turn animals away when they are full. We work very hard to provide loving and humane treatment and good homes for each and every animal that comes through our doors. Sadly, we receive more animals than there are homes available. Being an “open admission” shelter, we face the hard reality of animal overpopulation each day.

Mississippi Animal Rescue League's adopted pets

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

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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.