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Many of your questions can be answered by reviewing the information on our Adoption Center, and information about our pets are contained in their profiles on our Pet List. We request that you review these resources first. If you cannot find the answer to your questions after a review of these sources, send us your request on the form below and we will respond as soon as possible
Important information:
Please allow 24 - 48 hours to receive a response to your email, as well as direct emails to any Tara's House volunteer. Tara's House volunteers work during the day, and will not respond to emails on Wednesdays or Fridays - considered us closed these two days. Every other day we will check and respond to emails in the evenings. Be assured we will work to get to your email as promptly as possible and we appreciate your patience.
Tara's House is a 'virtual' animal rescue, meaning we do not have a brick and mortar shelter available for public visitation, or that houses our dogs. Instead, we are a network of volunteers who allow our rescued dogs to live with us in foster care until they are adopted. We harness the full power of the Internet to adopt dogs by using email for correspondences (we do not accept phone calls or return general inquiry phone calls), and accept only online adoption applications. We do, however, hold monthly adoption shows, the location of which is advertised in our calendar and upcoming events page. Operating as a virtual shelter allows us to run lean operations and put a higher percentage of adoption fees and received donations toward the care of the dogs we pull from high-kill shelters.
What does this mean for you? Well, it means we will primarily correspond with you via emails to answer your questions and take you through the adoption process. You will need to submit your Adoption Application online. Please do not expect or request phone calls for general inquiries or questions; we will call applications accepted by our Adoption Committee for a telephone interview, but all other communications will be email-based. We thank you for understanding our operations and helping us to run a lean organization so we can save more dogs and make them available for adoption in the Washington, DC Metro Area.