The Animal Care League has many animals for adoption.  Listed below are our adoption guidelines, hours and adoption fees. 

Guidelines

• All adoptors must be 21 years old to adopt an animal from the ACL
• All family members must visit with an animal before it can be adopted.  This may be done at different visits to the shelter, but all members must come to meet a particular animal before it can go home.
• All animals are spay/neutered, dewormed, receive distemper and rabies vaccinations and microchipped.  If an animal has not been spayed/neutered or received its vaccinations at the time of adoption, the shelter may hold the animal until these services are performed or the adoption can be completed with a monetary deposit which will be returned after the services are completed.  The decision of whether or not to send an animal home is the sole discretion of the Animal Care League.  Decisions will be made based on the animals best interest.
• Adoptors who rent their home must produce a copy of their lease agreement stating that the species and/or breed of animal they are looking to adopt is allowed in their home or a landlord's phone number may be given to shelter staff in lieu of the lease.
• While animals may be visited with up to closing time, adoptions cannot be completed within 1/2 hour of when the shelter closes.  Adoptors should give themselves a minimum of 45 minutes to visit with the animals and complete the adoption process.

Adoption Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday - 12 noon to 6pm
Thursday - 12 noon to 7:30pm
Saturday - 11am to 5pm  

2nd Chance Shop - Our 2nd Chance Shop at 159 S. Oak Park Ave not only sells gently used household goods and animal related products, but they also have cats for adoption.  See the 2nd Chance Shop page for more details.

Adoption Fees
Kittens (up to 6 months old) - $100
Adult Cats (6 months to 5 years) - $85
Mature Cats (over 5 years old) - $50
Puppies (up to 6 months old) - $140
Adult Dogs (6 months to 5 years old) - $125
Mature Dogs (Over 5 years old) - $75

We also run special Mature Adopter pricing programs throughout the year.  Please be sure to ask an adoption counselor about this program if you are 60 years old or older.

Offsite Adoptions
In order to better serve the communities that support us, and in turn better serve our animals by increasing their exposure, the ACL takes some of its adoptable pets to offsite events virtually every weekend.  Some locations we visit every week, while others we attend only when an event is taking place.  Listed below are the upcoming locations where we will have some of our animals for adoption.  Because we adopt animals at the shelter during the week, we won't know until just before each event which animals will be present.