Adopting a pet

Your new best friend is waiting for you! Come visit the Animal Shelter at 200 West Fairfield Drive, Tuesday through Sunday between noon and 6 p.m.

When you enter the lobby, please tell the staff that you are interested in adopting a pet, and you will be guided to the adoption areas for dogs and cats.

Strays, quarantined and legal hold animals are not available for adoption. We do not give out any information on the strays as we are still investigating for the animals' owners. The stray area is open only for those individuals looking for lost pets.

Before we can evaluate stray animals for possible adoption and legally transfer ownership, they must be held for a minimum of five full business days. This does not count the first day they arrive at the shelter, Mondays or holidays when we are closed to the public.

Information on the adoptable dogs is kept at the front desk and can be requested by simply telling the staff member which kennel the dog is in. We will tell you all of the information we have on any of the dogs in the adoption section.

The kittens and cats available for adoption are in the rooms off the front lobby. The details on these adoptable cats are also available at the front desk.

To accomplish the adoption, you must read, agree to and sign our Adoption Contract, pay the adoption fee and you will be ready to take your new pet home.

The adoption fee for cats and kittens is $30, dogs and puppies are $40. Spay and neuter fees for dogs are $25 (spay) and $15 (neuter), and for cats are $20 (spay) and $10 (neuter).

We cannot hold or reserve animals as all adoptions are done on a “first come, first served” basis. We can accept cash, checks, debit and credit cards.

We do all we can do here at the shelter to help ensure that the animals we adopt out are healthy. However, since we have no control over what an animal has been exposed to before arrival at the shelter, there can be no guarantees. For this reason, one of the provisions of the adoption contract is that you will take the animal for a veterinarian checkup within three working days after the adoption.

Thank you for considering adoption from our shelter.