About us
Helping California's shelter animals find loving homes.
Angelpaws is a warm, bilingual place to meet animals available for adoption from verified shelters and rescues — starting in Los Angeles, and built to grow across California.
Meet the animalsOur mission
We connect Californians with shelter and rescue animals available for adoption, and help everyone involved keep track of each animal's health and needs. Think of it as a Petfinder for California, built for the way Los Angeles actually lives — in more than one language, on any device, and without a sign-up wall between you and the animal you're looking for.
Too many animals wait in shelters and rescues and are simply never seen. Small rescues often run on spreadsheets and social media, while adopters search a dozen disconnected sites with inconsistent information. Angelpaws exists to remove those barriers — one fast, trustworthy place where verified organizations manage their animals and Californians find the one that's right for them.
What we do today
Angelpaws is live and useful right now. Here's what that means for you:
Browse and inquire, no account needed
Search and filter adoptable animals, read their stories, and message a shelter about the one you love — all without creating an account or handing over personal details.
Verified shelters and rescues
Only verified animal-welfare organizations can publish animals. Each shelter creates and manages its own listings, photos, and adoption status, so what you see comes straight from the people caring for the animal.
Bilingual from day one
Every part of Angelpaws works in English and Spanish, because Los Angeles does too. Switch languages any time and the whole experience follows.
Who Angelpaws is for
People looking to adopt
Anyone in California hoping to welcome home a dog, cat, or other animal. Browse freely, save the ones that catch your heart with an optional light account, and reach out to a shelter when you're ready.
Shelters and rescues
Verified shelters and rescue organizations across California who want a modern, trustworthy way to show their animals to the people most likely to adopt them — without expensive software or duplicate data entry.
Where we're headed
We start in Los Angeles and design for California, the rest of the country, and eventually beyond — expanding only where we can do it responsibly and where local partners and rules allow. Growing carefully matters more to us than growing fast.
Over the long term, we want Angelpaws to be more than a listing site: a trusted network that helps people truly understand what an animal needs and helps every animal find a loving home. That's the direction we're building toward, one honest step at a time.
What guides us
One idea guides every decision we make: every feature should deepen the bond between a person and their animal, and help animals get adopted and cared for. If something doesn't do that, we question whether it belongs here.
We collect as little personal information as we reasonably can, we put animals' welfare first, and we earn trust before we ask for it. Angelpaws exists for ethical animal welfare and responsible rescue — nothing else.
Ready to meet them?
Your future best friend might already be waiting at a shelter near you.
Browse adoptable animals