Papillon Dog Websites

Papillon Dog Websites

Papillon Dog Websites

In The Adopted Dog Bible: Your One-Stop Resource for Choosing, Training, and Caring for Your Sheltered or Rescued Dog [Stonesong Press, 2009], Kim Saunders provides an overview of adopting a rescue or shelter dog through the website, Petfinder.com, as well covering all aspects of dog care.

Petfinder.com is a searchable database listing pets available for adoption. Petfinder.com claims to have assisted in more than 12 million animal adoptions since its founding. Petfinder.com now boasts about 5 million visitors per month. The website currently has over 275,000 pets available for adoption and over 25% of the dogs available for adoption are purebred dogs.

History of Petfinder.com

The Petfinder.com website is the brainchild of Betsy and Jared Saul who founded the website in 1995. Their goal was to make it easier to match potential pet adopters with pets available for adoption so that no adoptable animal would have to be euthanized due to lack of a home. Petfinder.com was purchased by Discovery Communications (owner of the Discovery Channel) in 2006.