Adoption Fees

Any and all fees are subject to change at any time with or without notice.

  • NOTE: Application for adoption does not guarantee acceptance for adoption. Hillside SPCA reserves the right to accept or deny any application or potential adopter.
  • NOTE: All current pets in a household must be spayed/neutered and up-to-date on vaccines before adoption will be considered for approval. 
All adoption fees include PA State sales tax
SMALL CRITTERS
$20
 
CATS
$100 cats & kittens
$80 senior cats ages 10+
Fees include Feline Leukemia and AIDS (if 6 months or older), veterinarian-style testing, plus deworming, rabies and FVRCP shots. FVRCP boosters may need to be completed by the adopter in some cases after adoption.
DOGS
$325 dogs & puppies
$100  senior dogs ages 8+
Fees include spay/neuter (if applicable), microchip, deworming, flea/tick preventative, Distemper, Bordetella & Rabies vaccines. Distemper boosters may need to be completed by the adopter in some cases after adoption.
A licensing fee is not included in the adoption fee. All dogs must be licensed upon adoption.

All potential adopters are required to complete and submit our Prescreen Form.

IMPORTANT: We do not refund fees if you return an animal – no exceptions.

Information regarding adoption fees:

Why do you charge a fee at all? isn’t it just better to find the animal a home?
Fees help to cover many costs incurred upon intake which include, but are not limited to: distemper and bordetella vaccines, deworming, spaying and neutering if not already altered, feline leukemia testing, food, shelter, and veterinary care, state sales tax. Often animals that come to us are in very poor health and require extensive veterinary care or they are here as a result of an extensive rescue effort. The cost to care for each individual animal increases every day they are at our facility. Hillside SPCA is otherwise funded only by donations, we do not receive funds from any national humane organization or SPCA, either, and in fact, are not affiliated with any other SPCA, or Humane Society, local, state, or national. Adoption fees help us cover the extensive cost of running a shelter the size of Hillside (close to one million dollars annually.)