Are you interested in adopting a specific animal who is in a foster home with the Atlanta Humane Society?  Applications are on a first-come, first-served basis. Many animals may receive multiple applications, so please note that filling out this adoption application does not guarantee your adoption.

Looking to adopt an animal currently located at our shelter? Click here to view the adoption process for in-shelter animals.

Foster Application Process

1. Pre-Adoption Application: Your first step in new pet ownership is completing your pre-adoption application.
2. Application Received: You’ll immediately receive an email notification letting you know we’ve received your application. Please note that we will only use your email for communication about your adoption application and will not add you to any mailing list. To ensure you continue to receive email updates, be sure to pull the email from any ‘other’ category into your main mailbox and add our email address to your list of contacts.
3. We’ll be in touch with you: Depending on the number of applications on the animal you’re interested in, one of two things will happen:
   1. You’ll be placed into an email queue: If the animal you’re interested in has other applications ahead of you, we’ll let you know and inform you when the animal is adopted or the application ahead of you fell through. Please note that the timeline for this process varies, but you’ll continue to receive emails updating you on your queue status. We will be in contact when we remove you from the queue, and you will be removed from the queue as soon as you are scheduled for a meet and greet or to let you know that the animal was adopted by someone else.
   2. Or we’ll email/text you: If you’re the first person to submit an application on the animal, you’ll receive an email or text notification about how to set up a meet and greet. We ask that you respond within 24 hours to schedule your meet and greet appointment. If we do not hear from you within 24 hours of calling, we will cancel your application and move to the next adopter in the queue.

Interested in more than one animal?

Our virtual process works best if you have one active application at a time, and we ask that you only submit an application on the animal you are most interested in. If the animal you apply for is no longer available or has other applications on them, our team will let you know. We encourage you to apply for another animal at this point. We appreciate your excitement around adoption, but please do not submit multiple applications on multiple animals at once. Doing this complicates our system and creates longer adoption processes for all.

Coming from PetFinder or Adopt-A-Pet?

Unfortunately, our animals do not sync in real time to these pages and an animal you just saw up for adoption on other websites like Petfinder and Adopt-a-Pet may no longer be available for adoption. Before submitting your application, please visit our dog page or cat page to be sure the animal you’re interested in is still listed. If the animal is no longer listed on our pages, it means that they have been, or are in the process of being, adopted.