For rescue centres
Rescue Pet Finder helps people across the UK find cats and dogs to adopt from rescues near them. Listing your animals here is free.
Questions rescues ask us
Why aren't our animals on Rescue Pet Finder?
We may not have found your rescue yet, or your website may ask sites like ours not to read it. Signing up below gives us your permission, and we'll check what's needed to show your animals.
Our rescue is on the rehoming page, but our animals aren't listed.
Your website asks sites like ours not to copy or read it, so on our rehoming page we show only your rescue's name, where it is and a link to your website, for people who need to find a new home for their pet. Signing up below gives us your permission, and we'll check what's needed to show your animals too.
Some of our animals are missing, or only our cats or our dogs show.
We read the pages where your website lists its animals, so an animal on a page we don't know about can be missed. Sign up below and tell us in the message box where your animals are listed.
Our animals' photos load slowly on phones.
Many rescue photos are very large files. When you sign up, you agree that we can show smaller copies of them, which load much faster.
Can you help our animals reach more people?
Yes. When you sign up, you can also let us share your animals, with their photos, on social media and in search engines' image results, such as Google Images.
Our animals are already listed. Do we need to sign up?
You don't have to, but it helps. Signing up lets us do more for your animals: faster-loading photos and, if you like, sharing them more widely. It also means we can reach you quickly if a problem comes up.
How it works
- We list all the animals you have available for adoption: cats and dogs for now, and other animals may come later.
- Each day we read the animals listed on your own website and show them here, so there's nothing extra for you to update.
- Every animal links back to its page on your website. Adoption happens with you: we don't take applications.
- When your website shows an animal as reserved, so do we, and when it comes off your website, it comes off ours.
- We may keep resized copies of your photos on our own server, so pages load quickly on phones. They are only used to promote the pet, and a copy is deleted when the animal leaves your website.
- We leave out any phone numbers or email addresses that appear in a listing, so adopters contact you through your own website.
- It's free, and always will be: we never charge rescues.
Sign up
Tell us about your rescue below, whether or not your animals are already here. We'll look at how your website lists its animals and reply by email. If you're new, nothing appears here before we do. Some websites take longer to set up than others.
Already listed?
If something about your animals is wrong, or you'd like them taken off the site, please contact us and we'll sort it out.