THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT OUR LISTINGS:

• URGENT dogs are listed because we do not have enough foster space to put the dog in foster care and is in danger of euthanasia.
• “in ME” or “in NE” are dogs that are in foster care and available to meet.
• PENDING dogs have a pending application but have not yet been picked up from foster care.
• Cross-posted dogs are still in an Arkansas shelter or foster home waiting for a foster or adoptive home.
• Each dog has an adoption coordinator assigned to it. Currently AHR has 3 coordinators. For availability or questions, please e-mail the e-mail address of the coordinator listed in the dog’s specific listing.
  General questions can go to: info_ahr@yahoo.com , undecided applications can go to: adoptions_ahr@yahoo.com

THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT RESCUE DOGS:

• Each breed usually has typical breed characteristics. Please research the breeds of dogs you are looking at. Even mixes.
• Rescue dogs are usually wonderful dogs that end up in shelters due to the lifestyle and circumstances of their former caregivers.
  Please don’t hold that against them!
• Rescue dogs are loyal and loving pets that need loving and patient families to help them adjust to a new life.
• Many dogs have not experienced things like: love, toys, bones, the inside of a house, or how to climb stairs.
• They adjust with patience and love over the course of a couple weeks or months. They do not adjust in just a few days. Do not expect perfection. It doesn’t exist, either in pet store dogs, breeder dogs, or rescue dogs.
• All dogs, rescue or otherwise, should go to obedience training, for the dogs sake, as well as yours. Obedience training is much more than sit, stay and heel. Many adopters have regretted not going to formal obedience training. No adopter has ever regretted going!! All good dogs have good trainers.
• Rescue dogs are WORTH IT!!! Many of our past adoptive families say, “ they seem to “know” that YOU are their rescuer.”

If you have the social responsibility to adopt a shelter dog as your new family member, you are also accepting the responsibility of acclimating your pet to it’s new surroundings, family and resident pets. Please put yourself in your new pets position.

Thank you for considering saving a wonderful, loving homeless dog! Good luck finding your next best friend!