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Animal Garden Nigata
Highly recommended boarding facility. Boarding your pets here, while you’re away, helps to fund rescue work! Some general nformation in English…
ARK (Animal Refuge Kansai)
http://www.arkbark.net/
The best animal shelter we know of in Japan. Many cats and dogs ready for adoption. Also leads action to confront cruel breeders and the authorities that neglect to do their job.
No More Homeless Animals Clinic
http://www.animalrescue-sf.org/
A low cost, high-volume, spay/neuter cat clinic near Kobe. Female cats - 8000 yen, male cats - 5000 yen. Check out the article in the Daily Yomiuri.
Zero no Kai
Tel: 075-462-3505 (no website)
A low cost, high-volume, spay/neuter cat and dog clinic in Kyoto. Females - 10,000 yen, males - 5000 yen. Only 3 days a month - the last full Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the month.
Heart
http://www.heart-tokushima.com/
A great animal welfare organization in Tokushima (Shikoku). If you are in the area contact them to adopt a cat or dog, or ask how you can volunteer.
ALIVE
http://www.alive-net.net/english/index.html
Has put together lots of information on animal welfare issues in Japan. (English and Japanese)
Neko Dasuke
http://nekodasuke.main.jp/
Has put together lots of information on animal welfare issues in Japan. (In Japanese only.)
Japan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA)
http://www.jspca.or.jp/
We don’t currently have much information about them. They apparently have 2 shelters in Japan. (In Japanese only.
Small Animal Support Association (SASA)
http://www.sasajapan.jp/
Satoya Boshu (Japanese pet adoption site)
AnimalTraps - Tru-Catch Live Traps
http://www.animal-traps.com/
A place to buy a variety of good traps and accessories for TNR.
Alley Cat Allies
http://www.alleycat.org/
Your best source for information on TNR.
Other
Animal People
http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/
World news on animal and environmental issues.
Revival: Animal Health
http://www.revivalanimal.com/
Animal Care supplies. They will ship to Japan, but we no longer recommend this. We have recently had an order with one or two kinds of vitamin supplements, and over the counter skin care products for pets stopped at customs in Japan, and were then unable to receive them. There are no refunds, in this case, so proceed with caution.
World Animal Net
http://worldanimalnet.org/
Listing of animal organizations around the world.
Glenda Moore’s Cat Stuff
http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/catstuff.htm
Fun and entertaining site with lots and lots of stuff relating to cats. Easy to use cat graphics (as seen on our website!), especially for Rescues.
