Animal Shelters In North America

Context

For over 25 years, Petfinder has helped find forever homes for loving animals across North America. In addition to its searchable adoptable pet database, Petfinder also provides a directory of over 10,000 animal shelters in the United States, Canada and Mexico. This dataset contains the extracted data from the shelters available in the Petfinder database.

Content

The data contains the following columns and information:

• Address1
  • The main provided shelter address.
• Address2
  • Additional shelter address information.
• city

• The city location of the shelter.

• country
  • The country in which the shelter is located.
• email
  • The given email of the shelter.
• id
  • Unique shelter ID given by Petfinder.
• latitude
  • The latitude coordinate location.
• longitude
  • The longitudinal coordinate location of the shelter.
• name
  • The shelter's name
• phone
  • Shelter's phone number
• state
  • The state in which the state is located.
• zip
  • Zip code of the shelter. Note, due to the CSV conversion, some zip codes that begin with a 0 may have this value stripped.

Acknowledgements

All the data presented here was obtained through the Petfinder API using the petpy package. The data was originally scraped on 4/2/18, and therefore should be up to date. I plan on scraping the database regularly in order to update this dataset. To learn more about the Petfinder API, please see the documentation.

Inspiration

The Petfinder API enables users to find a wealth of data on shelters and adoptable animals throughout North America. It is my hope that providing this dataset will help spread awareness of the data available through Petfinder and its API.