Pet Adoptions from CAP

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Thousands of pets throughout the Houston area have found permanent, caring homes through CAP’s award winning adoption program. Adoptions are the highest priority at CAP. Our staff members are always willing to work with each individual adopter to make that perfect match, both at our shelter and at three PetsMart Adoption Centers. The result of these efforts is an adoption rate that is among the highest in the nation!

Animals available for adoption at CAP include:

Pets for Seniors

CAP offers a reduced adoption fee for senior citizens who are over 60 years of age. This enables many seniors to acquire a pet and enjoy the many benefits a companion animal provides. Also, CAP offers free adoptions of pets over 5 years of age to senior citizens over 65.

Pet Match

CAP matches prospective pet adopters with shelter animals. Anyone interested in a particular type of dog, cat or other small pet can fill out a Pet Match request card. If and when that type of animal finds refuge in our shelter, our staff and our volunteer Pet Match Coordinator will try to make the purr-fect match! To learn more about the process, read our Pet Matching article in the Pet Care section.

Mobile Adoptions

Citizens for Animal Protection (CAP) is constantly exploring opportunities to find more lifelong families for our shelter’s homeless pets. To this end, CAP joined the PetSmart Adoption Program in 1992. PetSmart created this program to help increase adoptions. Since PetSmart does not sell dogs or cats, the company provides an adoption center area in each of its stores where adoption partner organizations can bring their homeless pets to find forever adoptive families.

Each day, CAP adoption counselors choose healthy, friendly dogs and cats from the CAP shelter, transport these homeless pets to one of three PetSmart store adoption centers. To date, CAP has adopted over 15,000 dogs and cats to loving homes in the Houston area through our PetSmart Mobile Adoptions program. This program has been a phenomenal success for CAP, not only increasing adoptions of our sheltered animals, but serving to promote spaying/neutering, provide information on pet care, generate donations and motivate volunteer applicants.

To see our PetSmart Mobile Adoptions locations and hours, see the Map/Hours page. Be sure to visit our cats and dogs for adoption, some of whom may be at PetSmart today!

CAP also holds mobile adoptions throughout the year at other locations, including Rover Oaks Pet Resort-Katy, Animal Planet Expo, North Shore Animal League-Tour for Life, Waggin' Tails-Fulshear, Houston Home Shows, Cat Shows and other various events. Be sure to check out our Upcoming Events Calendar!