Adoption

Adoption Contract

Our goal is to find the best homes for the animals in our care. This entails interviewing potential adopters as well as observing adopters and the pets they are interested interacting at our facility. All adopters must sign our Adoption Contract

  • NOTE: Application for adoption does not guarantee acceptance for adoption.
  • NOTE: All CURRENT pets in a household must be spayed/neutered and up-to-date on vaccines before any adoption will be considered for approval.
  • NOTE: Hillside SPCA reserves the right to accept or deny any application or potential adopter.

Adoption Fees

Our Adoption Fees help us cover a small amount of the funds we spend on an animal from the time that pet comes through our doors until the day it leaves our care. Food, health care, vaccines, worming, and grooming are just some of the expenses we encounter in caring for every animal that is in residence. In addition to those individual animal expenses, we have operating costs and overhead that must be covered in order for us to stay in business and keep our doors open to the thousands of animals that need the Hillside SPCA in the 783 square mile coverage area we serve (all of Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania).

Animals Available for Adoption

Animals Available for Adoption can be seen here through our feed from our Adopt-a-Pet listings. Because of the sheer volume of animals at the Hillside SPCA awaiting homes, we list as many as we can, but always have many more at the shelter that are not yet on our site. We encourage potential adopters to visit us in person 7 days a week to see ALL the animals currently available.

Returning a Pet Adopted From Hillside SPCA

You adopted a dog or cat that you believed fit you or your family perfectly. Sometimes, though, things just don’t work out no matter how hard everyone tries. If, for whatever reason, you aren’t able to keep your new pet that you adopted from the Hillside SPCA, please note that you must return that animal to Hillside SPCA.