
Pre-Adoption Application |
ADOPTION DONATIONS: ( Phar has had to add gasoline cost to home visits and deliveries, cost depends on distance)
Adoption donations (not a price tag on the animals but the cost of our services) are based on but not limited to: breed, health, age, and sex of the animal. Adoption donations range from $65-$300. You may ask, "Why would you charge an adoption fee? Why not just place the animal into a good home?" The answer is: because we rely heavily on these adoption fees in order to be able to take in other dogs and cats in need.
A young, healthy dog may cost us $100-300 in vet care, and have many homes interested in adopting him/her. An older or sick dog, or one with health issues can easily cost $500-1500+ in veterinary expenses. He/she may require months of foster care for rehabilitation or expensive surgery; yet we can only ask a minimal adoption fee. Often times these are also the same dogs that don't receive as many inquires for adopting and stay with us for many months sometimes years.
Please keep in mind that the adoption donations of younger, healthy animals help defray the higher costs of the veterinary care of older, injured or sick animals.
Please contact us! E-mail is the best and usually quickest way. If you do not receive an answer try again sometimes messages don't get to us.
Most of our volunteers work during the day in other
jobs. Please leave a message if you can't reach anybody or e-mail ( this
is the quickest and easiest), if for some reason you don't get a response,
please try again. We are very busy but always want to hear from you!
Email: cat@pets-haven.com
P.O. Box 10766
Fort Smith, AR 72917
Pets-Haven welcomes all new applicants, but also reserves the right to refuse any applicant.
Be forever a responsible guardian of your new companion, never neglect or abandon your new friend. Remember, if you wouldn't like it, chances are your dog or cat won't like it either (food excepted).
"...for better or for worse, in sickness
and in health, until death do us part."
Our Adoption Process
1. Read " Am I ready" to acknowledge that you read it and agreed.
2. Pick an animal from the adoption list that you would like to have in your family.
3. Then fill out our
Pre-Adoption Application.
4. You will hear from us within
1 to 3 days.
5. You will be interviewed in your own home.
6. The chosen animal will be allowed to visit during the interview
if you are in close driving distance.
7. Then after final evaluation a contract is signed for the animal's benefit.
8. The animal will then stay with his/her new family.
9. The first 3 weeks
are considered a trial period during which each party has the right to annul the
contract. During this period we expect the new guardians to stay in close
contact with Pets Haven.
10. Of course we always love to hear from you, even years later.
Click here for a list of pets at this rescue!
