Burien Animal Care & Control has recently joined other animal welfare organizations in the area that list their homeless pets on Petfinder.com, the oldest and largest database of adoptable animals on the Internet. The site currently has over 294,500 homeless pets listed, and it is updated continuously.

More than 13,100 animal welfare organizations in the U.S., Canada, and other countries post their pets on the site.

Burien pets may be viewed at http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/WA494.html. A potential adopter enters search criteria for the kind of pet he or she wants, and a list is returned that ranks the pets in proximity to the zip code entered.

Adoptions are handled by the animal placement group where the pet is housed, and each group has its own policies.

Petfinder.com was created by Jared and Betsy Saul in early 1996 as a grassroots project to end the euthanasia of adoptable pets.

Since its inception, the site has facilitated approximately 20 million adoptions, making it the most life-saving initiative in animal welfare.