Im ready to adopt and have completed the application approval process, now what happens?
Once youve been approved to adopt from us, we work to match up the right dog to your family. If we currently have a dog in foster care that is a good match for you, we may let you visit him/her in the foster home (if you live nearby) or have you talk to the foster home to find out more info about the dog. If we do not have any dogs available at that time that are a match for you, we hope you will be patient and wait for the right one to come along, and inevitably, they do. When you adopt a dog, you are required to fill out an adoption contract for the dog, and make an adoption donation ($200 for dogs 6 years and over, $250 for dogs 2-5 years, and $300 for dogs under 2 years old.) This fee includes the dog (of course), up-to-date vaccinations, worming (if needed), spay or neuter, a collar (and sometimes a leash and other belongings for the dog.) Monthly heartworm preventative is provided while the dog is in foster care. In some cases, the dog may have undergone heartworm treatments or o
