Top Red Bank Area Animal Shelters: Adopt, Volunteer Or Donate

RED BANK, NJ — Spring brings National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day, but when that has come and gone, many pets remain, waiting for homes in the Red Bank area.

Those adorable puppy and kitty eyes may seem unfairly enticing, but pets are great companions. It's been shown and reported that pets can increase wellness and enhance mental health.

If you just love animals but you're not in a situation to adopt right now, you might consider volunteering at a local shelter. Help is usually needed with exercising dogs, cleaning, feeding pets, and helping to raise funds. Donating is also a way you can get pets into homes; your donation may keep costs of local veterinary care low so more people can afford to adopt pets.

Top Animal Shelters Around Monmouth County

Home Free Animal Rescue & Sanctuary
This nonprofit rescue facility in Red Bank takes dogs only from local shelters and keeps them as it aims to find them homes.

• Home Free is a no-kill shelter and they need volunteers to help care for the animals.
• Donations help Home Free keep operating, feeding animals, educating the public, and finding homes.
• View pets here who are waiting for adoption.

Monmouth County S.P.C.A.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals offers services in Monmouth County, including affordable veterinary care, pet dental care, and a spay or neutering clinic. They're at 260 Wall St. in Eatontown.

• The shelter needs help, in donations and volunteers.
• Check out S.P.C.A. services at low costs here.

Associated Humane Societies
Community shelters for animals are located in Tinton Falls, Newark, and Popcorn Park under the care of Associated Humane Societies, founded in 1906. These shelters rescue strays and homeless pets all year as well as wildlife. The Popcorn Park facility is also a zoo!

• Costs are kept low for vet care by donations and more than 200 volunteers.
• Educating those who adopt pets is part of the mission at Associated Humane Societies.
• Services include wellness visits, spay and neutering, microchipping, and a mobile clinic.

Manes & Tails Organization
Not to play favorites with the canine and feline, the equestrian also sometimes needs to be rescued. This New Jersey organization helps older or abandoned horses — sometimes headed for slaughter — to find homes.

• Their website explains the organization has been "Rescuing, Rehabbing, Retraining and Rehoming Horses Since 1995."
• You may not have a stable to take in a horse but you can learn more. You may want to support these horses another way; you can donate to this unique nonprofit.

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