Providing compassionate care and brighter futures for homeless animals.
Search for your new friend here.
There are many places to acquire a dog or a cat, but our shelter provides adoption matchmaking services that help you find the right pet for your family and household. Before you adopt your companion animal from us, the Animal Protection Society will:
- Treat the pet for internal and external parasites
- Give them all initial vaccinations
- Spay or neuter the pet
- Test all cats for Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) and Leukemia Virus (FeLV)
Beyond all that, animals at the shelter are lovingly cared for, socialized, and observed for all possible behavioral and health problems. We care about our friends, and it shows! Learn more.
How You Can Help
Donate
Outright donations help us feed and take care of the shelter pets. They also help us maintain our facilities and keep the lights on. Make a one-time donation or a monthly donation of any amount.
Volunteer
Volunteer opportunities are many, just to name a few: walking dogs, trapping feral cats, general shelter cleaning, medical clinic support, fostering pets, and volunteering at our Treasure Hounds store.
Treasure Hounds
Shopping at our upscale retail thrift store is another way to support us, so is donating gently used household furnishings, home goods & decor to Treasure Hounds.
Dr. Merriss Waters, you are a rockstar. Congratulations Yakima Valley Pet Rescue, what an impressive 1st pop up spay/neuter clinic. ... See MoreSee Less
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The most important step to ending suffering for dogs and cats.
Way to go all!
Amazing!
~ PET OF THE WEEK ~
Jack
Age: ~7 months old
Sex: Male
Breed: Domestic Short Hair, Black
Origin: San Juan Islands
Weight: ~6.5 lbs
Personality: Cool, Progressive, Quick Witted
Energy Level: I’m young so I’ve got energy to burn, but I still know how to appreciate a good cat nap
Likes: Being a Lap Cat, Faux Leather Jackets, Motown Music
Dislikes: Burnt Coffee, Locker Rooms, Status Symbols
Hi! I’m Jack, and I go by such nicknames as “Jack Attack“, and “Jack in Black“. Soon I’ll have more names to add to this list, but that’s for my current people to now decide. That’s right y’all, I’m happy to report that by the time you’re reading this on social media or in the newspaper, I will already be comfortably settling into my new home & new life with my family! One day, a day that felt like any other when it started, my family walked through the shelter doors, came in looking for a cat to adopt, and found me! They fell in love with me, filled out their application, and before long got to come pick me up & take me home with them. When all the other cats who I came in with got adopted before me, I started to wonder what was so wrong with me? Why wasn’t anyone choosing me? And then just like that, my family arrived. Now that I’ve found my happy next chapter, I so desperately want all the feline friends I made back at the shelter to feel the happiness that adoption brings too!
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~ PET OF THE WEEK ~
Jack
Age: ~7 months old
Sex: Male
Breed: Domestic Short Hair, Black
Origin: San Juan Islands
Weight: ~6.5 lbs
Personality: Cool, Progressive, Quick Witted
Energy Level: I’m young so I’ve got energy to burn, but I still know how to appreciate a good cat nap
Likes: Being a Lap Cat, Faux Leather Jackets, Motown Music
Dislikes: Burnt Coffee, Locker Rooms, Status Symbols
Hi! I’m Jack, and I go by such nicknames as “Jack Attack“, and “Jack in Black“. Soon I’ll have more names to add to this list, but that’s for my current people to now decide. That’s right y’all, I’m happy to report that by the time you’re reading this on social media or in the newspaper, I will already be comfortably settling into my new home & new life with my family!
One day, a day that felt like any other when it started, my family walked through the shelter doors, came in looking for a cat to adopt, and found me! They fell in love with me, filled out their application, and before long got to come pick me up & take me home with them. When all the other cats who I came in with got adopted before me, I started to wonder what was so wrong with me? Why wasn’t anyone choosing me? And then just like that, my family arrived. Now that I’ve found my happy next chapter, I so desperately want all the feline friends I made back at the shelter to feel the happiness that adoption brings too!
As we speak, there are so many amazing animals awaiting adoption here in Friday Harbor, let alone the numbers in need in shelters nationwide! The cats I left behind at APS-FH’s Community Cat space are top notch, well rounded, great looking individuals. I feel lucky to call them my friends, and I guarantee you’d feel the same to have them in your life. Although I never met them, word on the “shelter streets” is that the dogs awaiting adoption on the other side of the building are much the same. What I’m saying is that there is so much incredible potential waiting for you inside your local animal shelter! Please consider adopting, or fostering an animal from APS-FH today!
If you are interested in adopting any of the cats at APS-FH, come by the shelter for a visit, or you can fill out and submit our Feline Adoption Application on our website:
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Definitely a “cool cat”.