ADOPTION AND VISITING HOURS AT ALMOST HOME

We want to give you a great experience but we are understaffed and unable to give callers and emailers the personal service we would like to give. (hint, hint - we would love you to volunteer!) So we have come up with a new system - and new hours - and hope this will help everyone! We ask that you come visit us then to see one or more of our dogs and cats and we'll answer your questions then.

Please fill out and print your application before you come in -  and make sure you put an animal's name on the application you might be interested in (applications are filed by animals' names, not by applicants' names!) Once we have your application, you will be officially in our books for a dog or cat you want now or in the future! There will be no reply to your application so just come in - we have made our hours very convenient!

Please continue to ask your questions on our Facebook page and if  Facebook volunteers know the answers, they will be happy to help!

Open M-F 12:00- 5:00 for Adoptions

Every Saturday 1:30-5:30 at the Haven

Every other Sat at Premier Pet Supply 1:30-5:30pm

Closed Sunday

We are desperately in need of foster homes for our darling special needs dogs. These are dogs who have come from an abusive past and are not ready to be placed in an adoptive family. Because the shelter environment is so stressful they cannot get the help they so badly need. The foster home for these dogs would have to have prior experience working with abused/scared dogs. Be willing to follow the guidelines of a trainer if necessary. They cannot have children in the home (precaution). Some do not get along with other dog/cats. Others would have to be kept separated from other dogs/cats to allow them to become comfortable in their new surroundings. And then proper introductions could be made! The foster home would need to understand that progress will be slow. But they are truly giving a dog their only chance for a truly fulfilled life.

DONATE YOUR VEHICLE - SAVE AN ANIMAL’S LIFE!

Donate your car to Charity Motors and you can name Almost Home as the charity you want the sale proceeds of your vehicle to go.  

All they need is our name, address, phone number and that we’re recognized as a 501(c)(3). It’s easy! Start by going to charitymotors.org

www.charitymotors.org

Black animals are stunning in real life, but for some reason they don’t photograph well in shelter photos. So they are the last to be adopted.

This May, throughout the entire month, we’re celebrating our black animals by allowing you lucky people to adopt them at half their usual adoption fee. Please take this unique opportunity to give a forever home to a beautiful black dog or cat!

This is a nationwide campaign organized by our friends at Best Friends in Utah. Please click here to visit the “Back In Black” site!

At left: Adam (adoptable!), a lab-staffie mix beautifully photographed by Dee Maggio Photography.

Do you have a black dog or cat? Send us their photo or post them on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/almosthomeanimals) and we’ll add them to our Wall of Honor, showing off gorgeous black pets!

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Bravo to the wonderful students at Andover High who put together a walk for our animals. Please support this event - they have done an incredible job and worked so hard on it!

Channel 7, WXYZ interview withGail Montgomery, founder of Almost Home.
Story of Whiskey Joe! Click here for full  story.

Just a note that though Whiskey Joe is with a foster family, we need to find him a loving, permanent home. Please share Whiskey Joe's story with your friends - especially basset lovers.  

YOU DID IT!

DANE WILL NOW GET THE TRAINING HE NEEDS, THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL, COMPASSIONATE AND SELFLESS PEOPLE WHO DONATED THEIR HARD-EARNED DOLLARS TOWARDS THIS DOG MANY DON’T EVEN KNOW. DOGGIE “BOOTCAMP” IS BEING ARRANGED AND IT SHOULD START SOON. WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED AND LET YOU KNOW WHEN DANE “GRADUATES”. WE STRONGLY FEEL HE WILL BE A STAR STUDENT! OUR VERY HEARTFELT THANKS GO OUT TO ALL OF YOU WHO CONTRIBUTED TO MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE IN DANE’S LIFE!

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT ALMOST HOME
MAY-JUNE

My name is Humphrey and I'm pretty much perfect. I am young (2 years old), incredibly handsome - gray with darker gray-brown patches, beautiful teeth and coat, and eyes. I'm a Lhasa Apso (maybe mixed with terrier) but I've been shaved down so my coat is short (though my foster mom says it suits me perfectly). I have a fluffy tail, which I wag all the time. I'm very active (being 2) and learning how to walk on a leash. I am good a potty. I sleep in a big bed with two other dogs.(I learned to use doggy stairs really quickly!) I come when my foster mommy calls me. The two dogs and Il get along. I also like the cat, but she is not fond of me. I love walking outside and playing in the yard, but I also love relaxing on the sofa or floor and having my belly rubbed (see photo above - you'll know it when you see it!) I rarely bark and never growl and seem to love everyone. I'm very gentle. My only fault, if you can call it that, is I cry when foster mommy leaves. But when she comes back home, she notices that I'm doing just fine. (She peeks at me to see what I'm up to by sneaking up to the front window and peering in - I'm sure people think she's robbing the house!) (update: Humphrey is no longer crying when I leave - after just one day! - I guess he feels safe.) I have been at Almost Home for two weeks and it's very odd, my foster mommy says, that I haven't been adopted already, cause I'm a real prize. I think I would do best with someone who wouldl play with me and take me for walks - and it would be great if I were not left alone all day- so maybe if my forever person is single, it would be nice to have another person there for me a few hours every day. Well, that's it. I am waiting for the applications to come rolling in! Love, Humphrey

ADORABLE ADOPTABLE OF THE WEEK

ADOPTED!

Will be trained

fostered!

Happy update: not only is Andrew adopted but he is friendly with children. And, Spuds turned out to be a wonderful family dog who was only a problem at the shelter because he hated not being in a home!