The Best Wyoming Dog Rescues & Shelters in 2025

Laramie Animal Welfare Society

We are the same 501(c)(3) corporation, and we continue our support of the Laramie Animal Shelter in the same ways as before, including paying for spays/neuters, major medical expenses, and behavioral training for the animals at the Laramie Animal Shelter. We have also expanded what we do to include: Foster & Adoption programs; a Trap, Neuter, Release (TNR) Program; and providing support for Albany county people and their pets.

Laramie Peak Humane Society

To fulfill our mission, we prioritize fostering strong community ties through various programs, including impound and lost pet services, TNR, and vouchers. Our team and facility actively engage with the community, bringing adoptable pets to adoption drives, dog parks, and local events in Douglas, Wyoming. Look out for us and our furry friends at upcoming gatherings in the area. For more details, see Programs & Services.

Sheridan Dog & Cat Shelter, Inc

In 1969 our shelter started on Fort street with a modest building and the hopes to help the animals and the people who lived in Sheridan County. For many years our shelter helped as much as they could but found the need outweighed the space, so they took the necessary steps and got the facility we use now built. Since then we as a shelter have worked hard to continue on our goal.

Big Sky Rottweiler Rescue

Pet Pals, Inc

Pet Pals, Inc is a State and Federally licensed nonprofit corporation that was formed in August 2000 and licensed in 2001. Our mission is to achieve a humane existence for animals and reduce the number of stray and unwanted animals! We provide spay/neuter clinics, educational programs, nursing home pet therapy, & work with other shelters and rescue organizations in the transport and saving of lives. Located in Wyoming about 65 miles from Cheyenne, we are the only state and federally licensed nonprofit animal facility in our county which covers 2,225 square miles. We started in 2000 and received non-profit status in 2001.

Happy Endings Animal Rescue

Happy Endings Animal Rescue (HEAR) in Pinedale, WY is a no-kill animal rescue serving Sublette County and the surrounding areas. HEAR is a 501 (C) 3 non profit organization and is completely volunteer run.

Black Dog Animal Rescue

It‚s not just about saving black dogs. In fact, Black Dog Animal Rescue (BDAR) welcomes dogs of all colors‚nd ages, sizes, and breeds, and cats too! It‚s not just about finding loving forever homes for the hundreds of animals that come through the doors of BDAR every year, either. At BDAR, we're working to change the way that companion animals‚as well as their dedicated families‚are recognized and supported by their communities. We believe in creating Socially Conscious Animal Communities. Read about what it means to be a Socially Conscious Shelter.

Cheyenne Animal Shelter

Welcome to the Cheyenne Animal Shelter! Founded more than 50 years ago, CAS has been proudly serving Cheyenne and Laramie County as the largest community- centered animal shelter and resource center in the state of Wyoming. For the last half century we have made it our work to ensure that every homeless or displaced pet has a safe place to go for housing, care, and second chances. Knowing too that attached to each one of those animals is a person, we view ourselves as part of the local fabric of critical social services enhancing the dignity of people in our community. Together, we are working to help pets and people get access to the resources they need in order to preserve the human-animal bond which, as we all know, is one of the greatest gifts life has to offer.

Park County Animal Shelter

Park County Animal Shelter (PCAS) has been a registered Wyoming nonprofit corporation since August 1990, sanctioned by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501 (c) (3), with animal sheltering services located at 3 Arrow Avenue, Cody, Wyoming. Formerly known as Humane Society of Park County, PCAS changed its name in 2012 to reflect its community support. PCAS has operated a not-for-profit, no-kill safe shelter for abandoned, stray, abused, neglected, and relinquished animals in the City of Cody and Park County since 1996. In 1995, the year before the PCAS became a sheltering organization, more than 100 animals were euthanized in Cody. During 1996, following creation of the PCAS shelter, less than seven animals were put down. For more than two decades, PCAS has endeavored to minimize euthanasia as a no-kill facility (not euthanizing for overcrowding), and is dedicated to the preservation of life and quality existence for all animals under its care. PCAS serves the community law enforcement and public need by providing a humane facility for the care and rehabilitation of animals taken into custody by animal control officers, community service officers, and police officers of the Cody Police Department. It serves the broader needs of the citizens of the City of Cody area by offering a central location to provide for the care of unwanted, mistreated, or stray animals that may be returned to their owners, cared for onsite or in foster homes, or adopted out to new owners. In 2010, PCAS started providing two low cost spay neuter clinics a year for low income residents of Park County. The clinics target not only domestic dogs and cats but feral cat colonies. These clinics neuter approximately 200 animals a year, and have treated over 1,000 cats and 300 dogs in recent years. PCAS is working to expand its clinics for cats to a monthly program. The current PCAS facility has room for 20 dogs and 45 cats. During an average year, PCAS cares for 500 dogs and cats, returns 160 to their owners, and adopts out 285. All animals available for adoption are spayed or neutered and vaccinated.

City/County Animal Shelter

The Animal Control Division is composed of one Animal Control Supervisor, three Animal Control Officers, and three Animal Shelter Assistants. The Animal Control Division provides enforcement of the City's ordinances on animal control. They work to balance health, safety, and welfare needs of people and animals. The Animal Shelter is a City owned and operated facility. It provides housing and other shelter services for Gillette and Campbell County.

Green River Animal Control Shelter

The Animal Shelter is home to the Green River Animal Control, this division consists of two full-time Animal Control Officers and two part-time Animal Control Officers, (aka ACOs). ACOs patrol our City looking for lost or stray animals and respond to animal calls within the city limits.

Kindness Ranch Animal Sanctuary

Animal Adoption Center

The AAC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit animal rescue organization founded in 2004. Our location in downtown Jackson Hole, just two blocks from the historical Town Square antler arches, enables us to engage with our community regularly through volunteer opportunities, meet and greets for potential adopters and seasonal events. Since its birth, the AAC has rescued thousands of animals and thoughtfully placed them in loving forever homes as well as facilitated tens of thousands of spay/neuters in the state of Wyoming to alleviate the problem of animal shelter overpopulation at the source. The AAC strives to rewrite the negative stereotypes about abandoned animals by educating the community about each animal’s unique story. The AAC requires a foster period for dogs which means the dogs stay with their potential new family before adoption. Because cats take longer to adjust to a new environment, adopters have a two-week trial period after which they are welcome to bring the cat back if it is not a good fit. To prevent animals ending up back in the shelter system, all animals adopted from the AAC are welcome back at any time should the adoptive family’s circumstances change. By engaging with our community and providing the necessary resources to set both the owner and the animal up for success, we hope to realize a future where there are no more homeless pets.

Jackson-Teton County Animal Shelter

The Jackson-Teton County Animal Shelter provides humane care to, and finds homes for, lost and abandoned companion animals. The Shelter is available to educate the public on responsible animal ownership and serves the community by educating and enforcing animal regulations, including licensing requirements. Annually we will have 200 dogs pass through the Shelter; about 75% of them are reclaimed by their owners, and we are proud of the fact that nearly all of the rest find new homes. Nearly 90% of the 110 plus cats that come through the Shelter also find new homes; the majority of the rest get reunited with their owners.

Lander Pet Connection

The Lander Pet Connection is dedicated to saving the lives of homeless Lander-area animals. The LPC is compassion and kindness in action. We work every day to save the lives of starving, injured and abandoned animals and then find them loving homes. We provide resources and education to loving pet guardians to better support the human-animal bond in our wonderful community. We are helping people with pets and pets without people. We are a humble, devoted and active group that helps animals in Lander and Fremont County Wyoming. The LPC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit animal shelter and rescue. We serve as a refuge for lost and found dogs in cooperation with the city of Lander, in addition to operating independently to save lives. Founded in 1996 by Syd Miller, the Lander Pet Connection is a companion animal rescue and adoption nonprofit based in Lander, Wyoming. Originally called the “Dare to Care Animal League,” the organization later registered at the “Lander Pet Connection.” Syd Miller helped save hundreds of animals in the area.

Town of Pinedale Animal Control

We are here to serve and provide a safe place for Pinedale citizens and their pets by ensuring that animals have appropriate vaccinations through licensing and by minimizing public contact with nuisance animals. Animal Control enforces Town animal ordinances pertaining to our leash laws, cruelty to animals, impounding of dangerous/vicious animals, and investigation of animal bites. We pick up and contain stray, sick or injured, and feral animals and transport them to the appropriate destination. Emergency animal rescue, emergency night calls, and basic first aid are performed when required. We also set traps to capture evasive domestic and feral animals. If your dog or cat has run away, please contact the Town of Pinedale Animal Control to see if your pet was brought into our facility. A lot of animals are brought in over holiday weekends and after thunderstorms. Please also be aware that we will hold them for five days. If a dog or cat has not been claimed within five days, it is then eligible for adoption.

Rawlins-Rochelle Animal Shelter

Animal Control operates and cares for the Rawlins-Rochelle Animal Shelter seven (7) days a week. At the shelter, the Animal Control Officers take in surrendered and misplaced pets. An impounded animal remaining in the Rawlins-Rochelle Animal shelter for over five (5) days without being claimed by the owner shall become the property of the City and shall then be available for adoption. Any animal impounded shall be released to the owner thereof upon payment of all fees due to the Rawlins-Rochelle Animal Shelter.

Paws for Life Animal Shelter

We are the local animal shelter in Riverton Wyoming helping connect people to their new furever friends.

Rock Springs Animal Control

The Animal Shelter is home to Animal Control, a division of the police department. We respond to most animal calls within the city limits. We deal with problems such as barking dogs, animals at large, animal bites, and wild animals. If you have a problem with any animal, whether yours, your neighbor's, or a wild animal that is where it shouldn't be or is doing something you wish it weren't, call us. If we can't help, we know who can or how you may be able to fix it yourself. Call us if you suspect there is an animal in danger, but especially if there is a dangerous animal. Please do not approach a dangerous or wild animal.

Lucky’s Place Animal Humane Association of Star Valley

Lucky’s Place Animal Shelter and Adoption Center is still and will always be a “work in progress” as we strive to meet the needs of Star Valley animals. At times we will be over filled to capacity and not able to take your pet but we will be happy to put you on our waiting list until we have an opening. We will be glad to place your animal on Petfinders until we have room. We will always have a need for foster homes for special needs, litters of kittens and puppies, and hospice pets.

Yola and Boogy Fund (Yola’s Pet Rescue)

Herding Rescue Dogs of Wyoming

HeRD of WY, Inc. is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization that seeks to help unwanted dogs find appropriate and loving homes. HeRD of WY was formally organized in 2008 out of the recognition that there are many herding breed dogs and mixes that "fall through the cracks” in Wyoming. Herding dogs often struggle in certain homes and shelter environments due to their high energy, intelligence and sensitivity, and then have no safe place to go. The program has been so successful that HeRD now has active foster homes and relationships with shelters in six states and our adopters come from all over North America! We always have so many deserving dogs available for adoption, please check out our Available Dogs page as you search for your next herding dog!

Western Fremont County Humane Society

The Western Fremont County Humane Society is an independent, registered 501(c)3 charitable organization committed to the health and welfare of all animals. We seek to inform, inspire, and assist people to responsibly care for their pets and to treat them with kindness. For over 25 years we have been serving the needs of animals and owners in the Dubois and Crowheart communities of the Upper Wind River Valley in Wyoming. Our volunteers provide foster homes for pets in need and keep shelves of cat and dog food available at the Community Food Bank (donations always welcome). We have built and maintain the new Gizmo’s Dog Park at 26 Gilliland Avenue, east of town, using part of a bequest left by Rick Schwinn, Gizmo’s owner. The facility includes a livestock shelter and corral as well as walking trails bordering the colorful Dubois Badlands. Working with several Fremont County veterinarians we do all we can to save lives as well as spay and neuter those waiting to be adopted. Animal medical cost sharing with Western Fremont County residents is provided through applications available on this website or at Dubois Town Hall. The feral cat Trap, Neuter, Release (TNR) program is ongoing work – saving lives and avoiding unwanted kittens. Regularly published ads in the local press and our Petfinder page help us find forever homes for all the animals in our care. In the warmer months we sponsor events such as the vaccination clinic with East Fork Veterinary Clinic, the dog washes, and the Strutt Your Mutt Fun Dog Match.

St. Francis Animal Shelter