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 started in Reynoldstown in 1989. It teaches people about buying a home through HUD-approved online classes and one-on-one housing counseling. It also runs a volunteer pet help program called Pet Patrol.
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 a pet shelter and low-cost vet clinic in Atlanta, run by LifeLine Animal Project. People can adopt a dog or cat here, and the center also offers affordable spay/neuter surgery, vaccines, and basic wellness care for pets.
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.
Saint Martin in the Fields is a welcoming Episcopal church in the Brookhaven area of Atlanta that holds regular worship services and runs community outreach. Through its Suthers Center for Christian Outreach, it gives out free groceries every Saturday morning and helps neighbors with utility bills and other emergency needs.
The Atlanta Humane Society runs this animal center on Perry Boulevard in Atlanta. You can adopt a dog or cat, take a pet to a low-cost vaccine clinic on Mondays, or book low-cost spay or neuter surgery. Staff also help pet owners who are in a crisis or thinking about giving up a pet.
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.
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.
Feeding GA Families is a nonprofit that has served the area since 2010. It runs food pantries, a locker system for emergency food, and home delivery of groceries. It also offers help with housing bills, job and youth programs, and items like hygiene supplies and clothing.
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.
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 is a community group that helps pets of families who are struggling. It sponsors free spay and neuter surgeries, including for community cats, and gives out pet food to families in East Atlanta. It also keeps a list of low-cost vet care and other pet help in Georgia.
Paws for Life USA is a nonprofit near Marietta that trains service dogs and therapy dogs. They match a dog with a person who has a disability and train the dog and the person together. They work with people in Georgia and other states.
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.
