Where is the Capital Area Humane Society located? What are your hours?

What is the adoption process like?

What do you get with the adoption of your new companion?

What are the adoption fees?

I work full time, does that mean I can’t have an animal?

What’s DSH?

What is a cross-breed?

What is Meet Your Match®?

Why are some animals more expensive than others?

Does my animal have to be implanted with a microchip?

Where is the Capital Area Humane Society located? What are your hours?

he Capital Area Humane Society is located at 3015 Scioto-Darby Executive Court in Hilliard, Ohio. For directions to the shelter, click here. The Humane Society is open Monday - Friday from 2:00 - 7:00 pm and Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 - 5:00 pm.

Note: Our Adoption Department will only accept holds on animals after 6:45 pm until we close on weekdays, after 4:45 pm until we close on weekends.

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What is the adoption process like?

hen you visit the Humane Society, you can walk through the adoption area to meet animals looking for a new loving home. All potential adopters are required to complete an adoption application and meet with an adoption counselor. The Humane Society strives to match people with animals that fit their lifestyles. We take our mission to care for these animals very seriously, and that includes taking the time to find loving, responsible and life-long homes. Suitability (which includes dwelling size, children and other animals in the household and size of animal) is carefully considered during the interview.

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What do you get with the adoption of your new companion?

• A healthy and happy animal, complete with initial vaccinations and microchip.

• A free "starter" kit loaded with coupons, important information about your new companion and a "little something extra."

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I work full time, does that mean I can’t have an animal?

If you are not home eight to nine hours a day, there are still many animals who will do fine in your family. We do not recommend getting puppies under 6 months of age if they will be alone for more than 3 to 4 hours at a time. Instead, consider a dog older than 6 months, or a cat of any age. As long as you are able to provide several walks a day for a dog, and spend plenty of quality time with your pet when you are home, as well as care for its emotional, nutritional and medical needs, you will make a fine “parent.” Those individuals who are away from home more than eight or nine hours a day should consider getting a cat or hold off on adopting an animal until the situation changes.

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What’s DSH?
his acronym stands for Domestic Short Hair, which is the most common type of cat to come into our shelter.

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What is a cross-breed?
These are basically mix-breed animals who come in all shapes and sizes.

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What is Meet Your Match®?

Meet Your Match® is a program, which allows potential adopters to find just the right pet for them through matching personality and canine-ality test results. Click here to learn more about Meet Your Match®.

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Why are some animals more expensive than others?

In order to provide top quality care for the animals at the Humane Society, we have instituted variable pricing in order to help subsidize the cost of keeping animals at our shelter as long as it takes them to find a home. The Capital Area Humane Society is a non-profit organization that relies on the generosity of the community to enable us to care for thousands of abused, abandoned and unwanted animals throughout the year.

The Humane Society values all animals equally. However, we know some animals are more desirable to the public. Having a high adoption fee for animals we know will go home quickly enables us to care for long-timer residents until they find their new home.

The Capital Area Humane Society is a non-profit but to remain viable we have to run like a business, which means we have a balanced budget every year and live within that budget. Revenues and adoption fees help us pay for programs such as humane education, dog and puppy classes and cruelty investigations to keep the animals of this community safe. If you have ever used these programs/services, you probably realized they were a tremendous value to the community.

Our adoption fees are based on an animal’s age, breed temperament, behavioral issues and physical condition. Click here to see all that is included in the adoption fees. It is truly an incredible deal!

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Does my animal have to be implanted with a microchip?

The Capital Area Humane Society microchips all of its adoptable dogs and cats..

Microchipping is a quick, non-surgical process that involves injecting a sterile microchip, about the size of a grain of rice, between a pet’s shoulder blades. The implanting procedure is painless and animals cannot feel the microchip afterwards.

Each chip has an unalterable ID code that emits a signal on a specific radio frequency that enables animal shelters to locate owners should a pet get lost. Each microchip has a code that becomes part of a database. When an animal arrives at a shelter, the animal is scanned to see if he or she has a microchip. If the animal has been microchipped, the code is read and checked for biographical information in the database. The contact information of the animal’s owner will come up and they can be contacted and their pet can be returned.

This preventative measure is particularly important considering that many shelters do not have regulations on how long they are required to keep a stray animal (in Franklin County, Ohio, statute does not regulate how many days a shelter must keep a stray cat).

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