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How to Adopt

Our goal is to create a lifetime match for you and your new pet. We’ve learned that good relationships lead to successful adoptions, and rely on communication, education, and lending a helping hand to make adoptions last.
Here’s how it works:
  1. You can check out our available cats & dogs here on the website, but visiting the shelter is the best way to see if any of our awesome animals are right for you. A visit is also a good time to talk to one of our staff members about what kind of pet you’re looking for.
  2. FOR CATS: Because of limited space in our cat rooms, visits to the shelter will be BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.  Please fill out our adoption questionnaire (link below), then follow-up by emailing us at info@animaladoption.com
  3. Complete our Questionnaire BEFORE COMING TO THE SHELTER.    Fill Out Our Dog Adoption Questionnaire Here,  Our Cat Adoption Questionnaire Here and Our Small Animal Application Here. Feel free to use your smartphone or other connected device (tablets included). Our adoption questionnaire helps us learn about your lifestyle, so we can match you with the perfect pet. Filling out your questionnaire will make your time at the shelter more productive and it gives the staff a means to observe social distancing recommendations. If you haven't filled it out prior to coming to the shelter, you will be asked to step outside and fill it out on your personal device.  We have a public Wi-fi that you are more than welcome to use to fill it out.
  4. Once we contact you with your approval,  you can visit the shelter, please bring all of the members of your household.  If you have a dog or dogs, bring them, as well.  This will allow us to complete our process in a timely manner.  If you do not have an application in or bring your family and/or dog(s) with an approved app, you can walk through the kennel and view the dogs, but we won't be able to bring anyone out for you.  
  5. If you rent your home, you will be required to submit your landlords name and phone number so that we can contact them. We want to make sure that we follow your landlords guidelines for allowing a pet.
  6. If you indicate that you own your home, the staff will use readily available public records to confirm ownership.
  7. We are a small staff so please be patient, especially on busy days.
  8. Part of our adoption agreement includes taking your new family member to the vet within 14 days of your adoption for a check-up, and….
  9. That’s it!​
Note: All of our pets are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, and ready to go home!
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If your pet is lost or you’ve found a pet and you need more information on the next steps, read through in information below.
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Lost Pets
  • Call your local animal control office to report the lost animal. Municipal animal control offices are a central location for lost and found pet information and are usually the first place that a good Samaritan will look when he or she has taken in a stray pet. Municipal animal control offices also pick up and house stray pets. It’s also a good idea to physically visit your local animal control office to verify whether or not your pet is being housed there.
  • Look on this page for a matching listing for your pet. This page is a shared database of lost/found pets reported to Animal Welfare Association, Animal Adoption Center, Homeward Bound Adoption Center and Voorhees Animal Orphanage. In South Jersey, specific animal shelters are responsible for lost and stray pets within corresponding townships. View the list here. Be sure to contact the appropriate shelter if a match is found.
  • Your pet may be at another shelter in the area. Be sure to contact all area shelters including Burlington County Animal Shelter,  South Jersey Regional Animal Shelter and Gloucester County Animal Shelter.
  • Call Animal Adoption Center at 856.435.9116 to list the pet this page, which is a shared database of lost/found pets in Camden County.

Found Pets
  • Call your local animal control office to report the found animal. Municipal animal control offices are a central location for lost and found pet information and are usually the first place that a pet owner will look when he or she has lost a pet.
  • Look on this page for a matching listing for the pet. This page is a shared database of lost/found pets reported to Animal Welfare Association, Animal Adoption Center, Camden County Animal Shelter and Voorhees Animal Orphanage. In South Jersey, specific animal shelters are responsible for lost and stray pets within corresponding townships. View the list here. Be sure to contact the appropriate shelter if a match is found.
  • The pet’s owners may be searching at other area shelters. Be sure to contact all area shelters with a found report including Almost Home Animal Shelter, Burlington County Animal Shelter, Cumberland County SPCA and Gloucester County Animal Shelter.
  • Call Animal Adoption Center at 856.435.9116 to list the pet this page, which is a shared database of lost/found pets in Camden County.
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