Find Your Perfect Four-Legged Companion

Adopting a dog is a rewarding journey that brings unconditional love, companionship, and lifelong memories. At Pure Paws Haven, our mission is to connect rescued Shih Tzus and other deserving dogs with loving families who will provide them with safe, happy, and permanent homes.

Our Adoption Process

Step 1: Adoption Application: Search for available cats on the available Dog page. Once you’ve found your interest, complete the Adoption Application form/Contact us form.

Step 2: Our Adoption staff will be in touch with you to answer your questions and provide you with more information’s about your potential new pet, as well as guiding you through the adoption process.

Step 3. Once your choice is made and adoption finalized, Adoption fees will be paid upfront, and then you’re ready to take your newest family member home! The Adoption fees help defray the cost of providing housing, care, and food for the animals, as well as all necessary vet medical care, including spay/neuter and microchips. The adoption fee is payable through one of our secured payment options, (Payment Details will be provided at the time of payment).

Step 4. Get ready to bring your new pet home. Our adoption process is quick and easy, and it’s tailored to find a great fit for your family. It’s important to remember, though, that these steps are put in place to help protect both animals and adopters. 

Step 5 – Conclusion. A Contract of Adoption/Transfer of Ownership will be emailed to the new adopter to finalize the adoption process. You can choose to Book an appointment Meet & Greet if you are closer or you can simple choose to have your new pet delivered straight to your home address at a very small fee. We use a Profession pet delivery service with volunteers offering both Air (Flight Nanny) and Ground transportation(Driving, Delivery Van).

Adoption Requirements

Important Adoption Information

In order to be considered for an adoption today, you must:

• • In order to be considered for an adoption today, you must:
  • Must be at least 18 years old.
  • Must be Mentally prepared and committed to provide a forever home for a cat in need.
  • Must be responsible and caring to animals.
  • Must be financially able to provide for the cats basic needs, medically bills and food.
  • Verify that your landlord Allows pets.
  • Must provide a safe, indoor, temperature-controlled space and adequate food.
  • Must stay in contact with your Foster and Adoption Agency.
• If you are unable to keep the dog in the future, the dog must be returned to Pure Paws Haven rather than surrendered to a shelter or rehomed independently.
• We reserve the right to deny any application if we believe the placement is not in the best interest of the dog.

Our goal is to ensure every rescue dog is placed in a loving, responsible, and permanent home where they can thrive for years to come.

Pure Paws Haven is a private, nonprofit organization that relies on individual donations, grants, and our own fundraising to operate. Adoption fees help offset some of the costs associated with providing for the cats and kittens in our care—this includes housing, food/litter, medical care, enrichment, behavior modification, and more.
To better support our communities, we offer discounts to military & seniors, disability & for emotional support.
Our Adoption Fees.  We have a standard adoption fee for each puppy in our Owner Placement program is $350, (Free dog food pack and Toys inclusive to help the adopted puppy transition to its new home). The adoption fee helps cover some of the costs associated with providing for the puppy in our foster care, this includes housing, feeding, medical care, spaying/neutering and more.
Why? By Paying an adoption fee, the new adopter shows Commitment & Seriousness: It ensures the adopter is serious about adding a pet to their life and It demonstrates an understanding that pet ownership comes with financial obligations. These fees usually go directly toward the medical care, vaccinations, spaying/neutering, and boarding for the cats, and helps the organization to continue helping cats in need.
Adoption fee includes: Spay/neuter; microchip; distemper vaccination(s); flea/parasite treatment; rabies vaccine.

A common question among pet adopters is why are put adoption fees? Shouldn’t adopting a pet be free, or at least super cheap?

When you purchase a purebred dog from a breeder you may be paying anywhere from $1000 or more but often that’s all your getting for that cost is the pet and maybe it’s first vaccinations. When you adopt a pet from a shelter or cat foster, your adoption fees are going to pay towards the cost of care your adopted cat has received while at their premises. Here is a break down of what a we have already put into your pet before you even adopt.

Spay & Neuter
The average cost for veterinary care varies greatly depending on your geographical location (city vs. country), the size of the size and age of the animal requiring care, as well as their overall picture of health and how it influences the complexity of treatments. That said, the average spay or neuter can range from $50-$175 for an animal shelter. However, this doesn’t include the cost of pain relief medication that the shelter will also be responsible, which is another $10-$30 dollars. If you were to get your adopted cat or dog spayed or neutered on your own it could cost you anywhere from $200-$500 plus depending on said variables.

Shots/Vaccines
The cost of intake vaccinations and Rabies vaccines can cost approximately $100 for the animal shelter, if not more. In Dogs, the suggested intake vaccines are If your adopted animal has been in the foster for a few months they’ve most likely received a monthly booster to keep them safe from shelter related illness. If you were to pay for these vaccinations yourself you could be paying anywhere from $100 to $200.

Microchips
All our dogs are microchipped. Although a lot of pet owners insist that their dogs will never get lost, we see it happen all the time – whether it be as a result of a natural disaster, an unfortunate accident, or the meter reader leaving the gate open. The cost for a shelter to microchip their animals is approximately $80.

Food, Care, Shelter & Comfort . The cost to feed a dog for a month in a foster or shelter can range greatly based on the needs of the animals in the shelter, but a general ballpark estimate is round $50-$80. This does not include special diets for pets that need food for specific digestive needs. Then there are toys, treats, bedding, kitty litter and other necessities that the shelter provides.

Extras
We provide you with a bag of food to go home with so you can slowly adjust your new pet to they brand you’ve chose to feed them. Collars, ID tags, litter box or tray and some toys.

Remember most non-profit organizations do not receive any kind of government funding. Adoption fees make caring for the dogs possible. But the regular day-to-day operations like building utilities (gas, water, electricity, telephone) laundry and cleaning supplies, trash pick-up, the cost for fostering agents, veterinary staff, etc., gets paid for by the foster’s ability to fundraise and acquire donations rather than through adoption fees for the animals.

 How to Schedule/Book an Appointment.
Approved Adopters can now schedule an appointment to visit and meet our Dogs. All new Adopters will now be required to put down a Refundable Deposit of $100.00 towards booking an appointment to meet and greet. This ensures commitment, reduce “no-show” appointments that waste valuable volunteer time, and ensure that dogs are adopted into committed homes. This process also helps to eliminate overcrowding, minimize pet stress and this allows us to prepare our facility and create enough time for you(Adopter) to spend with the dogs before choosing the suitable companion for them. The Appointment will be done at your convenience. We will only schedule meet and greet appointments for approved applicants who have put down a refundable deposit
The $100 refundable deposit applies to the adoption fee and adopters will only complete the remaining fee once the adoption is finalized/completed.
The Deposit is fully refunded/Reimbursed incase of early cancellation or now show up. Most appointments end with immediate adoption and Adopters are able to take their new companions home the same day.

Fill Adoption application form with your details and choose the option ‘Meet and Greet’.
We will reach out to you immediately to help you choose a day and time most convenient for you.
Next, you will be provided with information’s and details on how to pay the refundable deposit. (Payment details will be provide after the application is approved).
Confirmation: Once the deposit is paid, you will typically receive a confirmation email for both the payment and the appointment.
You can choose to hold/reserve a particular Dog(s) once your appointment is approved.
This deposit goes towards the adoption fee. The remaining balance is paid on appointment day once the adoption is finalized. Most appointments end with an immediate adoption.

Reserving and Holding a Dog/Puppy.

We strive to make the dog reservation process as smooth, transparent as possible. A Refundable deposit of $100 must be placed to hold/reserve a particular dog for a specific period of time. The deposit applies towards the adoption fee and can be completed upon delivery or pickup on appointment. We will not hold/reserve a cat without a deposit. This Deposit is fully refundable incase of cancelation and it can be applied to adopt another kitten. The Deposit ensures commitment and shows the Adopter’s intent to adopt the Cat/kitten. To Reserve a Dog, Fill the Adoption Application form including the name of the Dog/puppy you want to Adopt/Reserve and we will get back to you immediately on what to do next.

All new Adopters will now be required to put down a Refundable Deposit of $100.00 to book an appointment to meet and greet. We schedule meet and greet appointments for approved applicants who have put down a refundable deposit. This process ensures commitment, reduce “no-show” appointments that waste valuable volunteer time, and ensure that cats are adopted into committed homes.