Best Animal Rescues Around Radnor: Adopt, Donate, Or Volunteer

RADNOR, PA — Spring brings National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day, but when that has come and gone, many pets remain, waiting for homes in Radnor Township and around Delaware County.

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.

Great Animal Shelters Around Radnor

Animal Coalition of Delaware County is an all-volunteer foster-based nonprofit that works to reduce the stray and shelter animal populations across the Philly area by finding forever homes for adoptable pets. ACDC Rescue is also dedicated to public education.

• ACDC Rescue posts its adoptable pets on its website.
• Volunteers are needed to foster pets, to help socialize animals, and to give time at the Cat Nook Cafe, cuddling pets and helping visitors.

Francisvale Home for Smaller Animals is a welcoming temporary shelter for abandoned dogs and cats and it's right in Radnor. It's a nice place to give if you just want to help little canine and feline friends. Francisvale Home has been around for more than a century and it has rescued many thousands of pets.

• Its compassionate care includes medically necessary treatments, education and rehabilitation of pets, and spaying or neutering.
• Volunteers are needed but must be at least 18 years old.
• You can donate in many ways, including by sponsoring a pet.
• See the Francisvale Home Facebook page.

A Dog's Place in Ardmore has been busy for 10 years "connecting great dogs with great people." The shelter takes in abandoned, abused, and neglected dogs. Many come here from Texas, which A Dog's Place explains has very high euthanasia rates and many animal cruelty cases.

• Adopting or fostering are ways you can support A Dog's Place. There's more information on the A Dog's Place Facebook page.
• The rescue shelter posted on social media it is "in desperate need" of people to foster pets.
• A Dog's Place is committed to education about animal treatment and care.

City Kitties is a no-kill cat rescue that's run completely by volunteers who rescue strays from the streets of West Philadelphia and works to get them into happy homes. Animals are screened for health issues and prepared for a foster home while they await adoption.

• City Kitties is always looking for people to serve as fosters, so cats can live outside cages.
• There are no paid staff members at City Kitties, so donations help them get cats ready for adoption.

Brandywine Valley SPCA has placed more than 4,700 animals in homes this year as it aims for 16,000. Under the umbrella of Brandwine Valley SPCA are eight facilities, including a shelter in West Chester on Phoenixville Pike and an animal health center in Malvern. BVSPCA has an adoption center at the PetSmart store at 2100 Chemical Road in Plymouth Meeting.

• View adoptable dogs and find the live Kitty Cam here.
• Donate or volunteer for BVSPCA. They need help from the community.
• Events for fundraising or adoption are a good way to help out. See upcoming community events.

LaMancha Animal Rescue is a no-kill shelter on 45 acres near Unionville in southeastern Chester County that rescues dogs and cats along with farm animals like goats and horses. LaMancha aims at taking in dogs who are the least likely to be adopted at other shelters.

• LaMancha Animal Rescue relies on those who donate to support their work.
• Animals available to adopt from LaMancha are on PetFinder.com and adopt-a-pet.com as well on on LaMancha's Facebook page.

All 4 Paws Rescue is a no-kill shelter in Malvern that helps foster all breeds of dogs. The shelter provides sanctuary and rehabilitation to animals for whom All 4 Paws may be a last chance.

• The fostering policy means the animals live with families who are trained to help the rescue facilitate adoptions that are good matches.
• Half of dogs in shelters and more than half of cats are destroyed because there is no one to adopt them. Founded in 2009, All 4 Paws saved 10,000 animals in its first 10 years.
• Volunteers are needed, along with those who can donate.

Finding Shelter Animal Rescue is a no-kill shelter supported by volunteers in southeastern Pennsylvania. The non-profit works to save, rehabiltate, and find homes for animals. Finding Shelter supports state legislation called "Victoria's Law" that would require that pet stores here discontinue the sale of commercially bred dogs, cats and rabbits and only offer animals rescued from shelters and rescues. Detailed information about Victoria’s Law can be found via Humane PA PAC.

• Donations are needed to help Finding Shelter rehabilitated and place pets they have rescued.
• View the Finding Shelter Facebook page to take a peek at animals waiting for adoption.

If you're just looking for a great place to bring your pet for services, St. George Hunt Memorial Veterinary Hospital in Wayne is nearby and offers great care for pets.

Molly, below, is at Francisvale Home in Radnor, waiting to be adopted:

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