Obedience Classes & Clinics

Level One Obedience

A seven week class for dog and owner. Basic skills that all puppies and adult dogs should know are taught in this level one class.

Class Dates: May 15th - June 16th

Price: $110 or $80 for dogs adopted from GAHS.

Sign-Up: Marie Gagnon, Lazy L Kennel, 539.9188

Classes are every Wednesday for 7 weeks.

Nail Trimming Clinic's

Nail trimming clinics have been stopped until further notice. Please check back in the fall.

Ongoing Microchipping & ID Clinic

Microchips are a permanent form of identification for cats and dogs.

Times: During shelter open hours.

Price: $10.00 Microchips & Free ID Tags

All registration paperwork is comepleted by GAHS staff.

For the safety of pets and people, please have cats in a carrier and dogs on a leash.

Canine Adoption Process Tips

We want to make your adoption experience the best that it can be, we also want to find you the perfect match. Below is a list of things that will help speed up you adoption process and assist you in giving your new friend the best care you can.

- Have another dog at home? If yes, bring them along for a meet and greet, so we can introduce them and the dog you might want to adopt.

- Make sure everyone in your family is on board with the adoption. We ask that you bring your children along, but it’s not required.

- Bring a leash or collar with you. The shelter is running low and can’t send dog’s home with them. We also sell Lupine collars and leashes in the retail store, adopters get 10% off.

- Printing off a picture of the dog(s) you are interested in will help our adoption counselor’s speed up your adoption experience.

- Plan for a forty-five minute to an hour and half wait on days that a large group of dogs go available for adoption.

- Have you done any research? Crate Training: http://aspcabehavior.org/articles/92/Weekend-Crate-Training-.aspx House Training: http://aspcabehavior.org/articles/3/House-Training-Your-Adult-Dog.aspx Training Your New Dog: http://aspcabehavior.org/articles/89/Training-Your-Dog.aspx

- Think you might have questions? Bring along a list of whatever you would like us to try answer. Our adoption counselors will be happy to help you!

- The adoption fee for dogs over 5 years is $100; for dogs 1 year to 5 years is $130.00; dogs 6 months to 1 year is $180.00; for dogs under 6 months it is $300.00. We accept cash, checks, and major credit cards.

100K Challenge Recap Video

Is your Pet Go Kit packed??

Everyone in your family including your pets needs to be prepared for emergencies.  With Irene possibly traveling over Maine this Sunday we all need to be prepared for the worst.

   Click here for more information on your Pet's Pet Go Kit.

Humane Society is awarded $110,000 in Grants for "Community Kitten Program"

Read SunJounal's article written by staff writer Lindsay Tice

www.sunjournal.com/city/story/973545

Addtional info can be found on the Shelter's Financial Assistance page

www.gahumane.org/financial-assistance

Outdoor Playtime Video

You can now follow us on Twitter and Facebook!!

You can now follow us on Twitter and Facebook. It’s a great way to find out what is happening at the shelter. Follow the links on the bottom left and join the Humane Society as we continue to grow.

Transfer Puppies!

 We have started to transfer puppies from the south states and Ohio for a few reasons. The first reason is because we are saving their lives, unlike Maine and some other New England states puppies are still being euthanized because they have too many. The Greater Androscoggin Humane Society does not euthanize dogs because we don’t have room and for those who have been looking to adopt a puppy know it’s not easy finding one at the shelter. The second reason we are transferring the puppies is to have them available for adoption at the shelter.

We hope to be doing this a few times every month and we are proud to be able to be saving so many lives.

Click here for an adoption application in PDF