Procedures
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Adopt a pet
Our cats, over the age of 4 years, are adopted free of charge to good homes; under the age of 4 years have an adoption fee of only $50.00.
Foster a pet
brief explanation coming soon
Surrender a pet
When Halfway Home Pet Rescue, Inc. accepts an owner surrender cat, we insist on this form being signed. It is our protection that the owner has given up all rights to this darling animal and have entrusted it into our care. We know that most people only give up an animal when life gets too tough and they simply cannot provide for it any longer. This fact generally doesn't change in just a few weeks. However, we do put a lot of time and money into giving our animal a fresh, happy and healthly new life and we cannot have people return a few days or weeks later to claim it as "their" cat after we have used valuable resources to help it. Once the cat is ours, then we concentrate only on the needs and best situations for that animal as we place it up for adoption.
We first require that the owner check with the humane shelter that their town is contracted with. If they have been refused help at this resource, at this point, we need to do our best to help them.
We then require that the owner provide us with proof that they have tried to place the cat themself through posters or advertising in the county's $1.00 ads of the Swap & Shop Guide.
We require that the owner provide us with health records for the animal. If shots are out of date, we ask the owner to update the shots before we accept the cat. If there is proof of serious financial reasons of why the shots cannot be updated, we do not make it an issue.
If the owner should return to reclaim the cat before an adoption takes place, it is our decision as to whether or not the cat will be returned to them. The normal adoption application and contract must to completed and reviewed by our president. The regular adoption fee will apply as well as complete reimbursement of all medical care.
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Get help with spaying and neutering
An adult female cat can have at least 3 litters per year and an unneutered male cat can easily impregnant over 100 females per year. With the early warm weather this month, HHPR cautions pet owners to spay/neuter their pets. These roaming unsterilized pets will be responsible for thousands of homeless kittens by late May and throughout the summer months.
Spay Maine
Spay Maine is a collaboration of Maine's animal shelters, rescues, veterinarians, animal control officers and individuals who support Help Fix ME.
Help Fix ME is Maine's state-wide low income low cost spay neuter program for cats and dogs. Help Fix ME is run through the State of Maine's Animal Welfare Program in the Dept. of Agriculture.
The goal of Help Fix ME is to reduce shelter intakes and euthanasia in Maine by helping low income households to spay and neuter cats and dogs.
If you are low income and have three or more cats or four or more dogs (no mix and match) that need to be spayed or neutered, contact HHPR (norma@halfwayhomepetrescue.org or 492-1722) gives us your name, address, phone number so that we can contact you. If approved for a voucher, the portion you pay for a cat is $10 and for a dog is $20. For more information about the program: visit Help Fix ME or Spay Maine.
Help Fix ME program 1-800 367-1317.
Marie Joyce Allen Free Pet Food Pantry
The pet food pantry is possible through the coordinated generosity of our volunteers. The Presque Isle Animal Hospital's Caribou Clinic on Herschel St., Caribou provides space to us free of charge. Product Recovery in Portland gives us donated food each month. A volunteer in Etna, Maine travels to Portland to pick up the supplies and then 2 other volunteers meet him in Sherman, Maine to transfer the load and transport it to volunteers who sort and package for shelter animals and food pantry. Paradis Shop and Save on High St. provides a shopping cart in the front of the store for people to drop in donated food and supplies for us. A store employee volunteer then transports to the food pantry. If a person is in need of food for their pet, all they have to do is go in on a Tuesday or Thursday afternoon and pick up food in accordance with the per-pet amount listed on the wall.
Donate food by dropping it off at Paradis Shop & Save, High Street, Caribou or the PI Animal Hospital's Caribou Clinic on Herschel Street
Note: Marie Joyce Allen was a reliable and steady financial supporter of the Halfway Home Pet Rescue, Inc. and in honor of Allen’s dedication to all animals in several different shelters, Halfway Home will dedicate a memorial plaque on site of the free pet food pantry located in Caribou which will now be known as the Marie Joyce Allen Memorial Free Pet Food Pantry. Allen’s family Jes & Patricia Olson of Fort Fairfield and her son, Archie Allen, of Kirkland, WA have continued to honor their mother with continued faithful financial support of the shelter’s programs. More info here...