Felines and Canines

A small, long-standing shelter at the corner of Paulina and Devon, celebrating 48 years and 1,352 adoptions in 2024. It takes both dogs and cats, which makes it one of the few places in this directory where a household adopting one of each can do it in a single visit.

Adoptions are by appointment, and often same-day. That is an unusually quick turnaround for a shelter of this size — most appointment-only rescues here want days of notice. The phone is answered between 12:30pm and 5pm, which is the window to call in.

Dogs have their own contact. The shelter routes dog enquiries to Abby@FelinesCanines.org and cats separately, so ask for the dog side rather than the general line if that is what you are after.

One thing it does not publish, and it matters here. Everything else in this category states its admission model — whether it can turn an animal away. Felines and Canines does not say on its own site whether it is open-admission, limited-admission or no-kill. Several shelter directories describe it as no-kill, but that is their word and not the shelter's, so this listing does not assert it. Ask when you call; for a surrender in particular, the answer decides whether a trip is worth making.

For a lost dog, Chicago Animal Care and Control is still the first place to look — every stray picked up in the city goes there.

Finding the door: the building is on the corner, and the entrance is on the Devon side, not Paulina. The address sits just south of Devon, which puts it in Edgewater by a block; locals and some listings call this stretch Rogers Park, so either name will find it.

Source: felinescanines.org, read 2026-10-02.