Looking for a pet? Download the ARL's app to receive notifications when a pet comes available that fits your criteria! You will also find the ARL's hours and locations, upcoming events, ARL For Love of Animals podcast, and more!
This app can be found in the Google Play and iTunes app stores. With this system, you can receive notifications by species, sex and age!
Follow the instructions below to download and set notifications to find your next pet!
- Go to Google Play* or iTunes App store and search for “Animal Rescue League of Iowa”.
- Install the ARL of IA app.
- Once installed, open the app and click “Pet Notifications” in the orange button below the photos.
- Click the plus sign in the top right corner to add a notification.
- Choose your pet preferences by selecting species, sex, age – or any combination of those.
- Click Create.
- Repeat starting at step 4 to add more notifications.
Make sure your notifications are turned on for the ARL app in your phone settings. When a pet matches your specifications, you’ll receive an alert. You may also search for pets on the app (and online). Adoptable animals are updated every half hour on the app.
Please note:
- Animals may only include info about age, breed, and sex at the time you receive a notification. If you’re interested in the pet based on the info available, we'd encourage you to visit the animal in person. Many of our pets are adopted very quickly, and it's not unusual for pets to be adopted before they ever have photos or bios.
- The ARL's shelter software requires that we choose a primary breed for our dogs. Visual breed identification in dogs is unreliable, so for most dogs we are only guessing at primary breed. We get to know each dog as an individual and do our best to describe each of our dogs based on personality, not breed label.