Friendship Animal Protective League
8303 Murray Ridge Road Elyria, Ohio 44035About this shelter
Friendship Animal Protective League in Elyria, OH
Friendship Animal Protective League is a private, independent, non-profit humane society founded in Elyria, Ohio, and operates as the largest animal shelter in Lorain County. Located at 8303 Murray Ridge Road, it provides care, quality food, and supplies to cats, dogs, and small animals awaiting adoption, and follows a no-kill policy. Friendship APL is a 501(c)(3) organization holding a four-star rating on Charity Navigator, and it sits among 13 other animal shelters and rescues in Lorain County, roughly 25 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio.
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Adoption process
Adoptions are first-come, first-served: visit the shelter during open hours, meet the animal one-on-one, fill out an adoption questionnaire, and if staff approves your paperwork you complete final paperwork and take the pet home the same day.
- Service area
- Lorain County, Ohio (based in Elyria)
- County
- Lorain County
- Animals served
- Dogs, Cats & Other Animals
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