Anti-Cruelty Pet Resource Center — Roseland

Anti-Cruelty Pet Resource Center — Roseland

The Anti-Cruelty Society's community space at 519 E 103rd St in Roseland, described by the organisation as "a welcoming, community-based space designed to support people and their pets with the resources they need to stay together."

Read that last phrase again, because it is the whole point. This is not an adoption center. It exists to stop surrenders happening — because the overwhelming majority of dogs given up in Chicago are given up over money, a housing move, or a veterinary bill their owner cannot pay, not because anyone stopped loving them. A resource center is an attempt to intervene before the shelter is the only option left.

If you are somewhere near that point, call before you surrender. Whatever the specific programmes are on any given month, the organisation's stated purpose is keeping the pet and the person together. That conversation is free and it is the right first call.

This is the southernmost listing in the whole directory, and for that reason alone it is worth knowing about. Chicago's dog services cluster hard on the North Side; 103rd Street is about as far from that cluster as the city gets. Roseland, Pullman, Washington Heights and West Pullman have very little else.

Hours and specific services are not published. Call the Anti-Cruelty Society's main line — 312-644-8338, staffed 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM seven days — and ask what is running at 103rd Street before making the trip.

Getting there: 103rd and King Drive, near the 103rd Street Metra Electric station, on the #103 and #34 bus routes.

The address and the description of the centre's purpose come from the Anti-Cruelty Society's own hours-and-locations page at anticruelty.org/hours, which is the page to use if the link on this listing does not resolve. Hours, programme details and a direct phone line for this location are not published; the number above is the organisation's main line.