Animal Welfare Professionals

We are a rescue out of Mississippi. We heavily rely on Petfinder to market our adoptable pets to be transported to adopters in the Northeast.

Ever since the Purina merger (over a year ago), Petfinder has been glitchy.  We pay staff to post these profiles that are often wiped, reset, or our staff spend an hour just trying to stay logged in and are constantly kicked out. 

Update in Petfinder that occured 12/2/2025:

Adopters must now click on a box at the very bottom of the filters to be able to see any pets that are not in that local area. We spend 10+ hours weekly listing our animals for transport adoptions. Most rescues/shelters that do transport adoptions are in high-kill/overpopulated areas. Most people are not going to see this filter square midway down the page. What else is everyone seeing with this new Petfinder update? Any input?

Hi

It's been a nightmare. 

Destroyed something that worked so good. 

Since they gone down the hill, adopt a pet got so much better, and we also post on  rescue group  and it's being distributed to many many other websites. 

Still, we're sorry about losing Petfinder. 

We are a rescue out of Mississippi. We heavily rely on Petfinder to market our adoptable pets to be transported to adopters in the Northeast.

Ever since the Purina merger (over a year ago), Petfinder has been glitchy.  We pay staff to post these profiles that are often wiped, reset, or our staff spend an hour just trying to stay logged in and are constantly kicked out. 

Update in Petfinder that occured 12/2/2025:

Adopters must now click on a box at the very bottom of the filters to be able to see any pets that are not in that local area. We spend 10+ hours weekly listing our animals for transport adoptions. Most rescues/shelters that do transport adoptions are in high-kill/overpopulated areas. Most people are not going to see this filter square midway down the page. What else is everyone seeing with this new Petfinder update? Any input?

As of now, everything that we have gone in and corrected has been deleted. 

What rescue group are you posting on? We are looking for social media groups. Someone mentioned checking out Reddit. I am unfamiliar with Reddit in that capacity. I will be doing a lot of research. We will be focusing on Adopt-A-Pet for now as well.

Hi

It's been a nightmare. 

Destroyed something that worked so good. 

Since they gone down the hill, adopt a pet got so much better, and we also post on  rescue group  and it's being distributed to many many other websites. 

Still, we're sorry about losing Petfinder. 

We are a rescue out of Mississippi. We heavily rely on Petfinder to market our adoptable pets to be transported to adopters in the Northeast.

Ever since the Purina merger (over a year ago), Petfinder has been glitchy.  We pay staff to post these profiles that are often wiped, reset, or our staff spend an hour just trying to stay logged in and are constantly kicked out. 

Update in Petfinder that occured 12/2/2025:

Adopters must now click on a box at the very bottom of the filters to be able to see any pets that are not in that local area. We spend 10+ hours weekly listing our animals for transport adoptions. Most rescues/shelters that do transport adoptions are in high-kill/overpopulated areas. Most people are not going to see this filter square midway down the page. What else is everyone seeing with this new Petfinder update? Any input?

I think they meant rescuegroups.org which has the ability to export to a large number of sites, including Adopt A Pet and PetFinder. It's free, and they also have a free API so we're able to list our pets directly on our site instead of embedding an iframe that we have no control over. We've been using it for years, however once PetFinder started having issues with exports we stopped exporting and started maintaining those listings manually since it was literally taking days for animals to be added or removed, an issue PetFinder has been "working on" for over a year at this point.

As of now, everything that we have gone in and corrected has been deleted. 

What rescue group are you posting on? We are looking for social media groups. Someone mentioned checking out Reddit. I am unfamiliar with Reddit in that capacity. I will be doing a lot of research. We will be focusing on Adopt-A-Pet for now as well.

Hi

It's been a nightmare. 

Destroyed something that worked so good. 

Since they gone down the hill, adopt a pet got so much better, and we also post on  rescue group  and it's being distributed to many many other websites. 

Still, we're sorry about losing Petfinder. 

We are a rescue out of Mississippi. We heavily rely on Petfinder to market our adoptable pets to be transported to adopters in the Northeast.

Ever since the Purina merger (over a year ago), Petfinder has been glitchy.  We pay staff to post these profiles that are often wiped, reset, or our staff spend an hour just trying to stay logged in and are constantly kicked out. 

Update in Petfinder that occured 12/2/2025:

Adopters must now click on a box at the very bottom of the filters to be able to see any pets that are not in that local area. We spend 10+ hours weekly listing our animals for transport adoptions. Most rescues/shelters that do transport adoptions are in high-kill/overpopulated areas. Most people are not going to see this filter square midway down the page. What else is everyone seeing with this new Petfinder update? Any input?

As of now, everything that we have gone in and corrected has been deleted. 

What rescue group are you posting on? We are looking for social media groups. Someone mentioned checking out Reddit. I am unfamiliar with Reddit in that capacity. I will be doing a lot of research. We will be focusing on Adopt-A-Pet for now as well.

Hi

It's been a nightmare. 

Destroyed something that worked so good. 

Since they gone down the hill, adopt a pet got so much better, and we also post on  rescue group  and it's being distributed to many many other websites. 

Still, we're sorry about losing Petfinder. 

We are a rescue out of Mississippi. We heavily rely on Petfinder to market our adoptable pets to be transported to adopters in the Northeast.

Ever since the Purina merger (over a year ago), Petfinder has been glitchy.  We pay staff to post these profiles that are often wiped, reset, or our staff spend an hour just trying to stay logged in and are constantly kicked out. 

Update in Petfinder that occured 12/2/2025:

Adopters must now click on a box at the very bottom of the filters to be able to see any pets that are not in that local area. We spend 10+ hours weekly listing our animals for transport adoptions. Most rescues/shelters that do transport adoptions are in high-kill/overpopulated areas. Most people are not going to see this filter square midway down the page. What else is everyone seeing with this new Petfinder update? Any input?

It has been AWFUL. I didn't think they could make it worse than it was, but I should've known. I still constantly get logged out or get various error pages. It takes forever to load still. There's now also a delay in removing animals from the active list after marking them as adopted. You can't type in dates anymore because it pre-populates it with a date that you can't delete or overwrite unless you use the datepicker. I can't reorder photos and when I upload multiple photos PetFinder randomly decides which one will be the first photo, so now I can only upload a single photo. I submitted a support request and was basically told "it works for me, so tough luck."

I so want to stop using it all together, but since it's still one of the most popular ways of searching for adoptable pets I feel like we'd be doing a disservice to our animals by not listing them there.

As of now, everything that we have gone in and corrected has been deleted. 

What rescue group are you posting on? We are looking for social media groups. Someone mentioned checking out Reddit. I am unfamiliar with Reddit in that capacity. I will be doing a lot of research. We will be focusing on Adopt-A-Pet for now as well.

Hi

It's been a nightmare. 

Destroyed something that worked so good. 

Since they gone down the hill, adopt a pet got so much better, and we also post on  rescue group  and it's being distributed to many many other websites. 

Still, we're sorry about losing Petfinder. 

We are a rescue out of Mississippi. We heavily rely on Petfinder to market our adoptable pets to be transported to adopters in the Northeast.

Ever since the Purina merger (over a year ago), Petfinder has been glitchy.  We pay staff to post these profiles that are often wiped, reset, or our staff spend an hour just trying to stay logged in and are constantly kicked out. 

Update in Petfinder that occured 12/2/2025:

Adopters must now click on a box at the very bottom of the filters to be able to see any pets that are not in that local area. We spend 10+ hours weekly listing our animals for transport adoptions. Most rescues/shelters that do transport adoptions are in high-kill/overpopulated areas. Most people are not going to see this filter square midway down the page. What else is everyone seeing with this new Petfinder update? Any input?

As of now, everything that we have gone in and corrected has been deleted. 

What rescue group are you posting on? We are looking for social media groups. Someone mentioned checking out Reddit. I am unfamiliar with Reddit in that capacity. I will be doing a lot of research. We will be focusing on Adopt-A-Pet for now as well.

Hi

It's been a nightmare. 

Destroyed something that worked so good. 

Since they gone down the hill, adopt a pet got so much better, and we also post on  rescue group  and it's being distributed to many many other websites. 

Still, we're sorry about losing Petfinder. 

We are a rescue out of Mississippi. We heavily rely on Petfinder to market our adoptable pets to be transported to adopters in the Northeast.

Ever since the Purina merger (over a year ago), Petfinder has been glitchy.  We pay staff to post these profiles that are often wiped, reset, or our staff spend an hour just trying to stay logged in and are constantly kicked out. 

Update in Petfinder that occured 12/2/2025:

Adopters must now click on a box at the very bottom of the filters to be able to see any pets that are not in that local area. We spend 10+ hours weekly listing our animals for transport adoptions. Most rescues/shelters that do transport adoptions are in high-kill/overpopulated areas. Most people are not going to see this filter square midway down the page. What else is everyone seeing with this new Petfinder update? Any input?