Adams County Dog Pound
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October 2008 RESCUES AND ADOPTERS NEEDED!!!!!!
 
Our dogs are all adoptable and would love to be placed in a forever home. If a dog is not suitable for adoption, it is not posted to our site. PLEASE NOTE, we are happy to work with all approved rescues* but if a private adopter wishes to adopt a puppy/dog we will let them go to their forever home. For their sake, the sooner the better. *How does a rescue become approved? We need a copy of your adoption contract, a current vet reference and your petfinder/adoption site.
 
   
Dogs
 Who We Are: 
  Now known as the The Little Pound That Could, the pound employees & volunteers work tirelessly towards improvements. Please be polite to our staff. We are doing the best we can and while you might be sitting at your desk making a call, we are probably in the trenches somewhere saving yet another pup. Adams County is the 2nd poorest county in Ohio, so funding and manpower to operate our homeless shelter is very limited. We are not a "no kill" as much as we would love to be. We are a county operated facility with very little funding, we cannot possibly hold and keep healthy the amount of dogs that come into our pound on a weekly basis, although we do try very hard by placing them in foster homes and boarding them when possible. If you are interested in adopting a dog from our site PLEASE do not wait until we are full, we never know when 10 dogs will come in and make it necessary for us to euthanize! We DO NOT gas our dogs, they are humanely euthanized by a trained technician.
Our adoption fees are:
$42.00 for all adult dogs over 6 mos of age (many already vetted completely)
$52.00 for all puppies under 6 mos of age
Please understand that although we vaccinate and care for the dogs in our shelter to the best of our abilities we cannot guarantee their health or temperament. Any dog/puppy can be carrying diseases such as parvo, corona, kennel cough or distemper without it being obvious at the time of adoption, they may also be carrying various easily treatable internal parasites that a veterinarian can diagnose on your first visit. All dogs/puppies need to be seen by a vet within 48 hrs. We do not give refunds regardless of illness or death after adoption. Many of the dogs/puppies coming from shelters have been abused/neglected by humans, please allow them time to adjust once you take them into your home.
Dogs
 How You Can Help:
There are many ways you can help You can foster, sponsor or donate and especially adopt and SPAY/NEUTER your pet!, By opening your home temporarily to a homeless dog, you will most definitely save the life of another. By sponsoring a dog for their vetting (spay/neuter/vaccines), you will give that individual dog a boost by making them more adoptable and more likely to get out of the pound. By donating anything from clorox and detergent to vaccines and money, you enable us to keep our dogs healthier and once again help them find a new home. By adopting, of course, you save a pup and give them the second chance they deserve and last but not least, by spaying/neutering your pet you save many wonderful dogs by not flooding the community with more puppies while there are so many wonderful dogs & puppies already waiting for their forever homes!
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 NEWS....PLEASE READ!:
The Rascal Unit, A low cost mobile spay/neuter clinic is coming to our area monthly. It's the perfect opportunity for you to help the pet crisis situation in our county for less money than you would spend on 3-4 bags of dog food for the puppies born to your dogs! Please spay your girls, the health benefits are great and you never have to worry about putting her up or strays coming to your home and fighting in your yard again! And YES the males contribute too! Females cannot have puppies without them! I hear so many times "I only have males, no puppies for me!" That is not the solution, your guy will father a litter (or multiple litters) somewhere, even if it isn't at your home. So please neuter your male dogs, not only is it a wonderful health benefit for him, it is an awesome contribution to our county.... somebodys dog is the daddy to the many litters of puppies we see each month.
The next clinic date is Sept. 19. Please contact the Humane Society of Adams County, 937-587-2727 to request an appointment or information on the next clinic date.
Dogs
 How We Can Be Reached:
You can call us @ 1-937-544-2431, please be patient we may not be near the phone. If you have an EMERGENCY and get no answer at the pound please call 937-544-2314.
For rescue and transport information please email adamsctydogs@yahoo.com
For adoption information and information on the dogs in the pound please email adamsctydogs@yahoo.com
If you would like to sponsor a dog through the Adams County Humane Society please contact the secretary Karen Franklin @ 937-587-2581.
You can also send monetary donations to the address below, please mark your envelope "dog pound".
 
  Adams Cty Commissioners
  110 W. Main Street
  West Union, OH 45693
  937-544-3286
   
  Our usual *OPEN* hours are:
  11 am - 1 pm MTWF ,
  11 am- 1 pm Saturdays
 
Closed Thursdays and Sundays
( evenings, Thursdays and Sundays by appointment only)
   
Dogs
 Where We Are Located:
11260 St. Rt. 41. West Union, OH 45693. *The pound is located on Route 41 BEHIND the County Garage, across the street from Walmart and Long John Silvers.