FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Our animals are rescued from the streets of Arizona, high kill shelters, owner relinquished, unclaimed strays, Indian reservation’s, Mexico and surrounding states including Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and California. We also do mission work and take animals off the Island of Puerto Rico throughout the year.

All of our cats and dogs are neutered/spayed before final adoption.

The adoption donation covers vetting from intake through date of final adoption to include all applicable vaccines, medical care, food, supplements, microchip for dogs and various other necessities required to make them adoptable for their loving forever home. It is the adopter’s responsibility to set up ongoing veterinary care for the adopted animal for yearly checkups, any outstanding vaccines which are required after adoption, and for emergency situations. Your new furry friend needs to know that all their medical needs will be taken care of for their entire lifespan.

Under certain circumstances, if your home is the "perfect home", we will place a pet in a home outside of the Phoenix metro area.

We do not place any of our rescue animals into your home until the adoption is finalized.

Yes, all our animals are placed in their forever homes no matter how long it takes.

Yes! They may be dropped off at any time. Please contact us for locations near you. You can also see our Wish List under the "How can I help" tab.

Animal cruelty may be reported also to Silent Witness at 480.948.6377. Anyone with information about a felony animal abuse case ANYWHERE IN MARICOPA COUNTY can call Silent Witness at 480.WITNESS. If you witness an animal being beaten, attacked or harmed in any way, IMMEDIATELY CALL 911! Other local numbers for reporting cruelty can be found here . To learn what to do when you witness animal cruelty, click here .

Yes. Maricopa County requires all dogs over the age of 3 months to be licensed.

Yes. Please contact us for more information.

Gestation is approximately 63 days. However, in keeping with the mission of Saving Orphan Souls Rescue, we encourage you to have our animals spayed or neutered in order to control the pet population. If your pet is already pregnant, please have her spayed as soon as possible to avoid another pregnancy.

Arizona offers various free and low cost clinics. Please contact us for more information. Spaying or neutering your pet is critical to controlling the animal population. For a list of places to go and numbers to call to schedule getting your pet spayed or neutered, click here.

Please contact us for resources at savingorphansouls@yahoo.com

Of all the repulsive habits our dogs have—drinking from the toilet, rolling in swamp muck, licking their butts— nothing tops the disgusting practice of dogs eating poop. Their motivation may not be to gross us humans out, but it certainly does. So much so, in fact, that poop eating is often a reason people try to rehome a dog or even opt for euthanasia.

There’s a scientific name for this habit— coprophagia (kop-ruh-fey-jee-uh)—and also both behavioral and physiological reasons why some dogs view dung as a delicacy. If you have a poop eater, don’t despair. There are ways to discourage the habit. Although not deeply probed by science — there are few studies on it — poop eating is a relatively common phenomenon. In a 2012 study presented at the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior annual conference, researchers led by Dr. Benjamin Hart, from the University of California, Davis, found that:

16 percent (one in six) of dogs are classified as “serious” stool eaters, which means that they were caught in the act five times
24 percent of the dogs in the study (one in four) were observed eating feces at least once.

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