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This post, The Spring Collection adoption event, originally appeared on Wilmette Pet Center on April 27, 2018. Tweet This Post!

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Download the registration formhere :  https://wilmettepetcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Howloween-Happenings-registration-form.pdf

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This post, Howl-oween Happenings!, originally appeared on Wilmette Pet Center on October 9, 2014. Tweet This Post!

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Gloria Barinholtz spent many years volunteering at various animal shelters. She hadn’t found a pound or shelter she could live with, and so in 1981 she founded Adopt-A-Pet, the area’s first “shelterless shelter” – a new concept based on placing animals in foster homes, rather than a shelter facility. Though many were growling that you can’t teach old dog new tricks, she was determined to make it work. For the rest of her life she pursued her passion: saving as many innocent animal lives as she possibly could. Gloria spent upwards of 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, juggling 3 phone lines, collaring new foster homes, screening adopters, showing animals, meeting with vets and giving advice to pet owners. Need a new leash on life? Lost your best friend? Gloria would answer all of these calls and make sure you weren’t barking up the wrong tree. Like a searching bloodhound, her instincts were keen. She was a master at the art of sniffing out a suitable prospective pet owner over the phone. She asked every doggone question there was. Her obedience rules could tame the fiercest and ferocious. Her devotion to educating pet owners and striving for purrfect matches eventually paved the way to Adopt-A-Pet’s success. She knew she couldn’t do it alone; she recruited an army of volunteers that had the same passion. Since then, through her dogged efforts, Adopt-A-Pet has placed an amazing over 15,000 homeless dogs and cats into new loving homes. Adopt-A-Pet will soon be celebrating their 33^rd year of pulling dogs and cats out of bad situations and placing them into loving and nurturing foster homes until a permanent loving home can be found.

Gloria survives in memory through the thousands of families she has helped in adopting their new-found pet. Today Adopt-A-Pet is ever stronger with the continued thankless efforts of Adopt-A-Pet volunteers guided though the leadership of the acting president, Gloria’s daughter, Randy Barinholtz.

In the late ‘90’s, Gloria had the insight to approach WilmettePetCenter, who sold dogs and cats, to transition and become an Adopt-A-Pet foster home. Because of Gloria’s willingness to see compassion in all, she opened the gates for WilmettePetCenter to stop selling and become our area’s first 100% foster home ‘pet store’ for shelter dogs and cats.

Please join us on November 23^rd, 1:30 pm, to honor Gloria Barinholtz and the Adopt-A-Pet volunteers who have kept her vision going 33 years strong. This will be Wilmette Pet’s third anniversary of 100% adoption of dogs and cats. Help us dedicate and unveil our new adoption cat room named appropriately, Gloria’s Kitty Corner.  We will also be hosting Adopt-A-Pet’s Tree of Hope Lighting Ceremony. For every donation to Adopt-A-Pet of $5 or more, an ornament of a homeless pet will be placed on the Tree of Hope.

We hope to see you November 23rd and a big “Thank You” to you as your support and compassion continues to allow us all to continue saving homeless pets.

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This post, Gloria Barinholtz and 33 years of helping homeless animals, originally appeared on Wilmette Pet Center on November 20, 2013. Tweet This Post!

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Howdy, I’m Pippin. I’m new here to Wilmette Pet, so be sure to check in as the staff gets to know me better! I’m a 2 year old chihuahua-terrier mix – at least, that’s what they think. I know that I am, actually, a pure bred, 10th generation American mutt, and proud of it.

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This post, Hi!, originally appeared on Wilmette Pet Center on December 11, 2011. Tweet This Post!

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Have fun in your new home, Bopper!

Farewell, Simon!

Fido, we'll miss you!

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This post, We’ve found our new homes!, originally appeared on Wilmette Pet Center on December 4, 2011. Tweet This Post!

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Hope we get to see you again real soon!

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This post, Goodbye, Melvin!, originally appeared on Wilmette Pet Center on November 17, 2011. Tweet This Post!

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Love pets but can’t have one where you’re living right now? Want to learn more about caring for a pet before making the commitment to take one home? Love your own pets enough that you want to help others?

Then Adopt-A-Pet Illinois would love to have your help! If you’re at least 16 years old please click on this link and complete the Volunteer Form.

Adopt-A-Pet depends entirely on you for funds. We do not receive funding from any governmental agency. Only through your donations can Adopt-A-Pet continue its life-saving work. All donations are tax deductible as permitted by law, and every cent goes towards the care of our animals.

Adopt-A-Pet needs dedicated volunteers for a variety of activities. We need your time, your talents, your ideas, and your business contacts. You’ll find when you enrich the lives of helpless animals, you also enrich your own.

Adopt-A-Pet is limited in the number of animals it can save by the space it has in which to temporarily house them. You can help save the lives of more animals by becoming a Foster Home for one of Adopt-A-Pet’s animals. What a rewarding feeling it is to know that you have made a difference in saving an innocent animal’s life!

Please note: No experience is necessary. Training is provided for all positions. All you need is a love for animals, the desire to help and the ability to make a commitment to the job.

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This post, Volunteer With Adopt-A-Pet, originally appeared on Wilmette Pet Center on November 12, 2011. Tweet This Post!

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Hi, I'm Bopper!

Hi, my name is Bopper. I was just bopping around town when Animal Control saw me and picked me up and said I didn’t belong out on the streets. They brought me to Adopt-A-Pet and now I’m bopping around Wilmette Pet Center trying to find a forever home.

As you can see, I’m a strikingly handsome boy. I’m kind of medium haired right now, but I could turn into a longhair – at my young age it’s a little too early to tell. So whoever adopts me has to be prepared to give me some extra grooming time to keep me from getting matted. I’m an outgoing little fellow that will become your best friend in no time flat. I’d like to be adopted with my new friend Bohnet or another playful kitty so we can bop around together. Why don’t you come and meet me? Just think, I could be bopping around YOUR house by the end of the week!

Bopper’s approximate date of birth is 8/8/11 and his adoption fee of $135 includes: vet exam, Feline Leukemia test, FIV test, FVRCP vaccination, deworming, microchip and neuter.

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This post, Our newest foster!, originally appeared on Wilmette Pet Center on November 11, 2011. Tweet This Post!

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“Remember Lucy? She’s the best ‘cat-dog’ a family could ask for. Can’t imagine the last 6 years without her! Thanks Wilmette Pet and Adopt-A-Pet!”

–Joanne

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This post, “The Best Cat-Dog a Family Could Ask For!”, originally appeared on Wilmette Pet Center on November 10, 2011. Tweet This Post!

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Thanks to the folks at Wilmette Pet Center, and the great work they do with Adopt-A-Pet Illinois. Because of them we now have Cody (formerly Quimby) in our lives. Here he is, day two, napping hard after a rigorous hour of play. Cody is amazing and immediately one of the family. Thank you!

–John, Krista, Jake, Wade, Kurt and Mack, and now Cody

What an adorable addition to your family!

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This post, Enjoy Your New Home, Cody!, originally appeared on Wilmette Pet Center on November 6, 2011. Tweet This Post!

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