AAS has a lot of really good dogs who are waiting for really good homes. Our adoption page has links to other groups too. Please pass this page on to your friends and family who are ready for another dog!

All AAS dogs are "inside" dogs, need good fences for trips to the potty, play with friends, and unless very elderly, need daily free-running exercise, and are family members.

No "Home Alone" dogs. Being alone for hours a day is too hard on dogs. They are the most sociable of beings and they suffer from isolation. Being alone can bring out anxiety-behaviours such as destroying things, barking, over-stimulation behaviours when someone does come home, obesity, and depression. But it is the dog that is punished by being given away, or muzzled, or crated, or kept in the laundry room, or being dumped at a pound. Dogs can be trained to accept being alone most of their lives, but that does not make it right. Puppies need full-time family for months, newly adopted adult dogs need someone at home most of the time, or to be taken out with their family, until they get used to be alone sometimes. But AAS will not give a dog to anyone who will consistently leave it alone all day.

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." - Will Rogers 1879-1935

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