1. Being an animal shelter volunteer is good for your emotional, physical, and mental health. It is scientifically proven that spending time with animals helps lower your stress levels and blood pressure. It will also keep you active, especially if you prefer to walk dogs.

2.Overburdened shelters take in millions of stray, abused and lost animals every year, and by adopting an animal, you're making room for others. Not only are you giving more animals a second chance, but the cost of your adoption goes directly towards helping those shelters better care for the animals they take in!

3. adding the way in improving pet health in communities. Animal shelters are ambassadors for healthy animals, and that helps stabilize the pet population as well as increasing the well being of citizens. 

4.Puppy mills are mass breeding facilities that often treat dogs inhumanely in order to cut costs and maximize profit. Dogs in puppy mills are sometimes kept indoors in isolation for the entirety of their lifetimes and deprived of basic needs. After mothers are past the age of bearing a new litter, they are often abandoned or killed. Flea markets, online sellers and even pet stores often get their puppies from these factory-like facilities. By adopting a dog from a shelter instead, you are refusing to support these malicious industries and making a difference in your community.