Charlie’s Guardian Angels, Seattle, Left Behind K-9 Rescue, Covington and The Pit Stop, Maple Valley, have joined other animal welfare organizations in the area that list their homeless pets on Petfinder.com, the oldest and largest database of adoptable animals on the Internet.

The site currently has over 359,000 homeless petslisted, and it is updated continuously.

More than 13,700 animal welfare organizations in the U.S., Canada, and other countries post their pets on the site.

Pets may be viewed athttp://www.petfinder.com.

A potential adopter enters search criteria for the kind of pethe or she wants, and a list is returned that ranks the pets inproximity to the Zip code entered. Adoptions are handled by the animalplacement group where the pet is housed, and each group has its ownpolicies.

Petfinder.com was created in early 1996 as a grassroots project byJared and Betsy Saul to end the euthanasia of adoptable pets.

Since its inception, the site has facilitated approximately 20 millionadoptions, making it the most life-saving initiative in animalwelfare.

Sponsors include The Animal Rescue Site, BISSELL Homecare, Inc., a manufacturer of home cleaning and floor care products, PETCO, anational pet supply retailer that sponsors in-store adoptions and provides coupon books for new adopters, PetFirst Healthcare, the exclusive pet insurance provider for Petfinder.com, Merial, maker of the number one veterinary-recommended flea and tick preventative,FRONTLINE(r), and heartworm preventative, HEARTGARD(r), and HomeAgain, a microchip and pet recovery service.