Our mission is to have a No Kill Animal Shelter to provide protection, love and hope for animals who are homeless and abandoned. To work with all legitimate resources to place these animals in life-long homes and to involve the local community in these efforts by way of volunteers, donations and public education in matters of animal safety, training and population control.

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Yakima Valley Pet Rescue and Adoption Center

Attn.: Board Development Committee

P.O. B  994

Yakima, Wa 98907

Purposes The purposes for which Yakima Pet Rescue and Adoption Center has been organized is to support animal welfare, eliminate animal suffering, and act an extension of humane education, providing recourses to the public, including:

• To perform whatever duties possible in an effort to provide humane care and treatment for unwanted and displaced pets.
• To help return lost animals to their owners.
• To protect and place as many healthy, temperamentally sound pets in homes where they will receive quality, lifelong care.
• To provide the animals, who are being destroyed at an animal shelter or can no longer be kept by an owner, a second chance at life.
• To work with all legitimate rescue resources, individuals and organizations, in an effort to place animals in homes where they will receive quality, lifelong care.
• To provide humane euthanasia when necessary to animals who are deemed dangerous or to those who must be destroyed because of quality of life. No animal may be removed from the shelter for the purposes of serving as a subject in any kind of research.
• To help alleviate pet overpopulation in our community through mandatory spay/neuter for rescue animals and educational programs.
• To position Yakima Valley Pet Rescue and Adoption Center within the community to provide the public with successful, professional, and caring programs to educate the public on ways to help the animals.