LifeLine Animal Project is an Atlanta nonprofit that runs the Fulton County and DeKalb County animal shelters. It offers pet adoption, fostering, low-cost vet care and spay/neuter, and free pet help events. It also helps people keep their pets with vaccines, food and other support.
Resources for Residents and Communities (RRC) is a nonprofit that helps metro Atlanta people get ready to buy and keep a home. It offers HUD-approved online homebuyer classes and one-on-one housing counseling. It also runs an all-volunteer Pet Patrol and invites neighbors to volunteer.
Healthy Canines is a small, all-volunteer nonprofit in Atlanta. It gives grants of $100 to $500 to Georgia dog owners who cannot pay for vet care for an illness or injury. The grant money has run out for now. It also gives out free dog food on the third Saturday of each month.
LifeLine Animal Project runs a spay and neuter clinic in College Park for cats and dogs. The clinic is open Monday to Thursday, and pets are dropped off in the morning for surgery. LifeLine also helps people with outdoor community cats, free pet help in some Atlanta neighborhoods, and pet vaccine events.
PAWS Atlanta is a no-kill animal shelter in Decatur that has served cats and dogs since 1966. It helps pets and their owners with adoption, a pet food bank, low-cost vaccine clinics, and cheaper flea, tick and heartworm medicine. People can also volunteer, bring a work group, or do court-ordered community service.
LifeLine Community Animal Center is an animal shelter and low-cost vet clinic in Atlanta. It is run by LifeLine Animal Project. The center helps people adopt pets and gives affordable vet care, vaccines, and spay/neuter surgery.
Meals On Wheels Atlanta brings healthy meals to older people with low income who live in parts of Fulton County. It also offers pantry food, pet food, and home repair help. Groups can order meals or book a cooking demo.
This is the City of East Point's parks and recreation department. It runs 23 parks, a recreation center, playgrounds, tennis and basketball courts, sand volleyball and trails. It also offers fitness activities, senior programs, and special events and festivals during the year.
RescueCats is a no-kill nonprofit rescue for homeless and owner-surrendered cats and kittens. Volunteers and foster families care for the cats until they find homes. All of their cats are spayed or neutered, and people can look at the cats online and adopt.
The Atlanta Humane Society is a no-kill animal shelter that has served Atlanta for more than 150 years. At its Arthur M. Blank Family Animal Center on Perry Boulevard, people can adopt dogs and cats. They can also get low-cost vaccines and spay/neuter surgery for their pets. A bilingual Resource Center helps pet owners find food, supplies, and other help to keep their pets at home.
Angels Among Us Pet Rescue is a volunteer-run nonprofit that rescues dogs and cats from high-kill shelters in north Georgia. The pets live in foster homes in the north metro Atlanta area until they are adopted. You can apply to adopt, apply to foster, volunteer, or ask to give up a pet through their intake form.
Georgia SPOT Society is a volunteer-run nonprofit in Atlanta. It works to cut down on unwanted pets by paying for spay and neuter surgery for pets of people who cannot afford it. It also teaches the public about spaying, neutering, and pet ID, and keeps lists of clinics, shelters, and rescues.
LifeLine Animal Project is a nonprofit that runs the DeKalb and Fulton County animal shelters in the Atlanta area. It helps people adopt, foster and volunteer. It also offers lower-cost vet care, spay/neuter surgery, vaccine clinics, and free help for some pet owners.
LifeLine Animal Project is a nonprofit that runs the Fulton and DeKalb County animal shelters in Atlanta. It helps people adopt and foster pets, and it offers low-cost vet care, spay/neuter surgery, and vaccine clinics. It also runs free pet events and help for people who struggle to afford pet care.
Stay Together Furever finds temporary foster homes for dogs and cats while their owners get through a big, short-term crisis, like an eviction or a medical problem. A pet can stay in foster for up to 90 days, and the group says it covers the pet's vet care. It focuses on lower-income families and seniors on fixed incomes in five north-metro counties, and since January 2026 replies may take a week or more.
Pet Buddies Atlanta helps pet owners who are struggling money-wise. They give pet food to families in East Atlanta and sponsor spay and neuter surgeries for pets and community cats. They also share lists of low-cost vet care and other pet help in Georgia.
PetVet runs low-cost walk-in clinics for dogs and cats inside Tractor Supply Co. stores. A vet team gives vaccines, microchips, parasite tests and other routine preventive care. It is not an emergency or full-service animal hospital.
Furkids is a no-kill animal rescue and shelter. It takes in homeless and abandoned cats and dogs, treats animals with medical needs, and finds them homes. People can adopt, foster, volunteer, or bring their own pet to a low-cost vaccine clinic at the Cumming headquarters.
Ahimsa House helps people in Georgia who have pets and are escaping domestic violence. It arranges temporary care for pets in foster homes and boarding places while the owner gets to safety. All of its services are free.
Dylan's Hearts is a nonprofit based in Greensboro, North Carolina. It gives grants to help pay for emergency or life-threatening vet care for pets in families with low income. It serves Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. The vet hospital applies, and the money goes straight to the vet.
