Join us for the 2025 pets and housing awards online and you can meet this year’s winners by registering and joining us virtually on June 4, 2025.
Get ready to celebrate the best in pet-inclusive housing!
Michelson Found Animals’ Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative invites you to join us virtually on June 4, 2025, for the fourth annual Pets and Housing Awards. We’ll be honoring the individuals, properties, and programs leading the way in pet-inclusive housing nationwide.
Awards to be presented include:
Best Leap Forward
Most Impactful Adoption or Foster Event or Program
Most Innovative Pet Amenity or Amenity Group
Most Innovative Pet Marketing Campaign
Most Pet-Inclusive Property
Vanguard Award
NEW THIS YEAR!
Paws & Progress Nonprofit Award
Pets & Housing Policy Advancement Award
Join us in celebrating the champions who are creating a future where pets and their people thrive together.
Register now to join us virtually on June 4.
Click Here to Register for the Big Event
About the pet-inclusive housing initiative:
Dr. Gary Michelson started Found Animals in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Found Animals established the first free microchip registry to help lost pets find their way home. With a commitment to continue keeping people and pets together, he turned to the next scalable solution: increasing the availability of truly pet-inclusive housing.
Teaming up with the Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI), the Michelson Found Animals Foundation commissions research to better understand pet-related housing issues and find the right solutions to help keep people and pets together.
From this research, the Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative develops resources, partnerships, and actionable tools to increase the availability of truly pet-inclusive housing. We are working hard to increase pet-inclusive housing because everyone should have access to the joy of pets. After all, pets help communities grow stronger.
