PET ADOPTION WEBSITES
Where to adopt a MorkieWant to adopt a Morkie? How to connect with the thousands of adoption centres and rescue groups across North America, to adopt a Morkie.

Do your own online searches to adopt a Morkie
[your state or province] small dog rescue
Other search terms you can use, along with your location, include:
- Morkie Maltese mix adopt,
- Morkie rescue adopt,
- Yorkie cross breed adopt rescue,
… and so on.

Call and visit local shelters
And it could take some time.

THE BEST SOLUTION: pet adoption websites
Their goal is simple: link homeless pets with a forever family. They are free, and have real-time listings of all adoptable pets that are available. Right across North America! Sign on and start searching.
Where you can adopt
Shelters / Pounds
In the United States there is no government-run organization that provides oversight or regulation of the various shelters on a national basis. However, many individual states do regulate shelters within their jurisdiction.
A municipal shelter is a facility that houses stray and abandoned animals, as well as animals that people can no longer care for, on behalf of local governments
Humane Societies
In Canada, the government-run Humane Society shelters specialize in dogs, cats, and small rodents.
The American Kennel Club maintains a list of contacts, primarily within breed clubs, with information on breed rescue groups for purebred dogs in the United States.
Rescue groups
A no-kill shelter is a usually private organization whose policies include the specification that no healthy, pet-worthy animal be euthanized. Despite their good intentions, approximately 3-4 million cats and dogs are euthanized in shelters due to overcrowding and a shortage of foster homes.
Foster groups
A no-kill shelter is a usually private organization whose policies include the specification that no healthy, pet-worthy animal be euthanized. Despite their good intentions, approximately 3-4 million cats and dogs are euthanized in shelters due to overcrowding and a shortage of foster homes.

Pet Adoption Websites
Partnered with more than 1,860 shelters
Petango is a not-for-profit, sponsored by Pethealth, a health insurance company for pets. Petango helps connect people and pets.
If you’re considering adopting, Petango features:
- real-time searches – all the available pets for adoption can be seen, with up-to-the minute availability status
- watch list – keep an eye on the pets that interest you
- email notifications
- online pet adoption application
Listings from 13,000 shelters
Petfinder works almost like an Internet dating service. It allows prospective adopters to search a database of available pets based on search criteria such as breed, age, size and gender.
Petfinder is owned by the PETCO chain of retail pet care stores and is operated as a not-for-profit.
At any one time, Petfinder has over 300,000 adoptable pets listed from more than 13,000 shelters, humane societies and rescue organizations. Listings are updated daily. Last year, over 1 million animals were adopted through the site.
“Think Adoption First” is a company philosophy and program, which encourages pet adoption, rather than the purchase of companion animals. Once approved, you pay the adoption fee (average range is $25 to $125), and get copies of the pet’s vaccination records and sterilization certificate so you can get him licensed.
This is North America’s Largest Non-Profit Pet Adoption Website, featuring tens of thousands of pets looking for forever homes. Sponsors are Purina, Petco and Bayer. As they say on the website,
“We help over 17,000 animal shelters, humane societies, SPCAs, pet rescue groups, and pet adoption agencies advertise their homeless pets to millions of adopters a month, for free. We’re all about getting homeless pets into homes.”
They partner with more than 3,700 animal welfare groups across North America. Through these programs they’ve already helped more than 8 million pets in need.
Their activities include:
- In-Store Adoption Centers in many PetSmart locations
- Rescue Waggin’ distaser relief program
- grant program for animal welfare agencies across North America
community adoption events.
Another focus of the organization is increasing spay/neuter services to help communities solve the problem of pet overpopulation.