Klamath Humane Society - Adoption Information

Adoption Information

There are many animals available for adoption at the Klamath Humane Society Animal Shelter. To view a current listing of our pets available for adoption, please click here.

If you are thinking about adopting a pet ask yourself the following questions:

1. Are you ready to share your life with a pet? To adopt a pet is to make a commitment for his or her lifetime. Properly cared for, a pet can live for a long time.
2. Do you have the time to commit to your pet? Pets may have a reputation of being independent, but the truth is that they get lonely and bored when left alone all day and all night. If you have young children, are the children sufficiently supervised so they and the pet can play together happily and safely?
3. Can you make a financial commitment to your pet? Each year you will be responsible for veterinary care, food, boarding, and other expenses. There is no way to economize significantly on pet care basics. Quality pet food should not be replaced with table scraps. Veterinary attention and vaccinations must be kept current if your pet is to live a long, healthy, and happy life.
4. Is your home situation relatively stable? Pets, especially new arrivals, appreciate a stable routine at home. If you family is in a period of crisis, it would be wiser and kinder to wait until your problems are resolved before bringing home a new pet.
5. Can you provide a secure home? While most pets adjust to changing homes as long as they have their people and familiar household items as reference points, if you have a career that calls for international postings, you may be faced with the wrenching choice of leaving your pet behind with friends for a few years, or subjecting him or her to extended kennel stays in order to satisfy local quarantine laws.

If you answered "No" to any of these questions, you may want to rethink adopting a pet at this time. However, if you answered "Yes" to these questions, then review the information below.

In order to adopt an animal the Klamath Humane Society requires that potential adopters follows these regulations:

• Potential adopters must have a fenced yard.
• Potential adopters must sign an agreement to provide proper and sufficient food, water, shelter, and veterinarian treatment as the animal may require throughout its lifetime. The adopter agrees not to sell, give away, or abandon the animal, but to keep the animal in loving custody, and the animal will be a family member, where physical and emotional well-being are the objectives.
• If it becomes impossible for the potential adopter to care for the animal, they agree to return it to the Klamath Humane Society.
• Potential adopters must agree to give the Klamath Humane Society permission to review the animal's home at any reasonable time, and to remove the animal if the home is unsuitable, or if the animal has been mistreated in any way.

Potential adopters must agree to these conditions:
1. The animal will not be used for experiments of any kind.
2. The animal will not be permitted to run at large or become a public nuisance.
3. The adopter will retrieve the animal from the Klamath Humane Society Shelter if it is impounded.
4. The adopter will not hold the Klamath Humane Society responsible for any present or future illness of the animal, or damage that the animal may do to any person or property.
5. All pets must be spayed or neutered before adoption.
If you are interested in adopting an animal, please contact us:

Klamath Humane Society
500 Miller Island Road
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
(541) 882-1119
staff@klamathhumanesociety.com