St. Louis Pet Rescue

St. Louis Pet Rescue (STLPR) was incorporated on June 4, 2009 as a non-profit rescue group focused on saving pets from local animal control facilities and neglect situations. STLPR is a no-kill rescue, meaning we provide safe placement for pets and will only resort to euthanasia to end a pet's suffering due to illness.

In each of the last five years, we have adopted out over 300 rescue animals (cats and dogs combined)! These are 300 animals each year that were unlikely to have made it out of animal control facilities otherwise, and we are able to accomplish this because of our awesome group of foster volunteers! All of the pets STLPR rescues are in loving foster homes. Foster homes help to socialize the pets with other animals and with people, and foster families provide all the love, medical care and training the foster animals need while in our homes. We screen adoption applicants most importantly to review vet records of existing pets in the household and often visit an applicant's home to make sure it is a loving environment for our fosters to live.

St. Louis Pet Rescue only adopts to the local St. Louis metro area. We strongly believe that adopting a rescue pet is a big commitment. These pets are looking for someone to love and be their companion for the rest of their days, and often they are coming from unfavorable living conditions. Per the STLPR Adoption Agreement, adopters are required to return the pet to STLPR if for some reason things do not work out, so we limit our adoptions to the St. Louis metro area for the rare occasions when we need to bring an animal back into rescue. Thus, we provide a safety net for all of our animals.

In addition to pet adoptions, STLPR also serves our communities by helping to control the feral cat populations. Through our trap/neuter/release (TNR) programs followed by barn placement for many feral cats, we are acknowledging the valuable role these animals play in our communities, and we are helping them to continue to play this vital role.