Womens Humane Society
 

I felt this information on their website was worthy enough to post here and hopefully help out any rescues that need help with pulls. This shelter is located in PA, lower Bucks County. As you can read, they have a very high adoption rate. They have a veternarian clinic, and also provide classes for training, etc. etc. I attended one of these years ago when I adopted my first doberman and the trainers were wonderful.


See What, No dogs???'s Homepage

As of Tuesday, March 10, 2009 all dogs in the adoption kennels at the Women's Humane Society have an application in process or are awaiting surgery before going home with their new family.

Our kennel supervisor and shelter vet will assess the well-being of recently surrendered dogs prior to the start of adoptions on Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Pay attention to the last website notation below the menu on the left hand side of any Welcome to Women's Humane Society web page.

I can not emphasize enough the need to visit your local shelter at the start of adoption hours if you are interested in a young, friendly, and healthy dog with good habits.
Read any shelter or rescue group's adoption policies and procedures online because asking basic questions via email or phone message will likely result in the dog of interest being adopted before you get your answer.

Since the advent of the internet and our culture becoming more rescue/ adoption focused, highly adoptable animals remain available only minutes to hours before having a viable application in process.

While some groups capitalize on this by pooling applications, asking for application fees etc., most shelters remain first come, first served because they know the extra leg work of contact lists and pooling applications is not needed to place adoptable dogs.

If you want to be put on a list for a dog, you would likely have many more people ahead of you than an organization receives in dogs matching that criteria. No one asks to be put on a list for a large mixed breed mostly black dog who was surrendered for being too much to handle. People willing to adopt dogs with special behavior or medical needs have a wide selection to choose from without being put on a contact list.

If you check our Successful Adoptions pages, you will see that we continue to place our animals at unprecedented levels while maintaining our commitment to the adoption of healthy and friendly animals.

We are also actively pursuing overcrowded shelters within a 2 hour radius of our facility from which we can pull healthy and friendly dogs under the age of seven. When dogs are pulled from a crowded shelter and transported beyond this distance, the probability of the dog coming down with a contagious illness is significant as they were likely exposed to contagious illnesses in the overcrowded shelter and the stress of the transport breaks their immune system down enough that the illness takes hold. We do not offer Pits or Pit mixes.

Our kennel manager will work with your pull coordinator to bring animals into our custody and care and transport them to our facility in a fully air-conditioned and heated ambulance.

To learn more about our surrender and adoption philosophies, please review the applicable pages found on the Welcome to Women's Humane Society menu.

If you are interested in developing a pull relationship, please email us at whshelpline@aol.com or call our kennel manager at 215-750-3100 Ext. 27.http://www.petadoptiontracker.org/pet?25091&a=250&h=

Thanks for posting this!
So great to hear they're having such great success finding forever homes for the furbabies :) :)