Saving a life shouldn’t feel like a second job.
LocalPetFinder brings every shelter and rescue in your city into one place, so the companion waiting for you is easy to find, and easy to reach.
When we set out to adopt, the hardest part wasn’t the decision, it was the searching. A dozen tabs open: one shelter here, a rescue’s half-updated Facebook page there, apps that never agreed with each other.
You’d find a dog you loved, tell yourself you’d come back tomorrow, and by tomorrow she was gone. On the rare site that pulled everything together, you’d hit a form longer than a rental application, handing over your whole life before you’d even met your future companion.
None of that helps a single pet get home faster. It just wears good people down until they give up. So we built the thing we wished we’d had.
— The LocalPetFinder team, and fellow adopters
Adoption is hard enough. Finding the one shouldn’t be.
Scattered everywhere
Every shelter and rescue lives on its own site, Facebook page or feed. Nobody has the hours to check them all, every day.
Here today, gone tomorrow
Animals get adopted fast. The pet you fell for last night is often gone by morning, and you never even knew.
Walls before you start
Long questionnaires and middle-man fees, standing between you and a companion you have not even met.
Our mission is simple: bridge the gap between you and the companion who needs you, as fast and as smoothly as possible. No maze. No middle-man fees. Just the shortest honest path from “I’m ready” to “come home.”
What LocalPetFinder is
- A search across shelters and rescues in New South Wales, refreshed regularly so what you see is what is actually available.
- Free for adopters and free for rescues. No rescue pays to appear, and there are no commissions.
- A place owners can list a pet they need to rehome, alongside rescue listings rather than on a classifieds site.
What it isn’t
- Not a shelter. We don’t house animals or process adoptions. Every application is handled by the rescue itself.
- Not a breeder directory. We don’t run breeder ads or list pets for sale.
- Not a middle-man. When you find a pet, you go straight to the people who know them.
Ready when you are.
Browse everything available right now, or list a pet who needs a new home.