Adopt & Shop

It’s great to see places like these who help shelter animals find their forever homes. By placing themselves in this high traffic upscale shopping mall, they make themselves easily accessible to many people. They also seem to be asking for reasonable prices for their shelter pets which seem to include their vaccinations, spay or neuter and microchip. Unlike other pet stores that get greedy and support puppy mills who charge you an arm and a leg for a pet. What still amazes me is that people will pay close to a thousand dollars or more for these cross breeds that seem to be the latest trend. You’ve heard of them, «Lhasa-​poos», «Labradoodles», and «Pomapoos» to name a few. To people in the animal medical industry, a mixed breed is a mixed breed.
I took a quick stroll through this cute store and was glad to see a few of the windows empty as the dogs and cats were out playing and being introduced to people who very well may be providing them with their future forever homes. I hope that businesses of these types do well and stay around for the community.
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This is a fabulous concept that should be spread everywhere.
As for Julie, she states that her 12″ dog jumped her 6′ fence TWICE. Rather than blame the good people at Adopt & Shop, perhaps she should ask herself why SHE didn’t realize after the first time that her dog should not have been left out there unattended. Just saying…

We just recently adopted the newest member to our family «Cutter» here. I knew I didn’t want a «pet store» dog and love the concept of the adopt and shop. Somehow our dog was meant to be with our family and he’s already made himself very much at home. Why buy when you can rescue, such a great way to save these dogs that otherwise might not have seen tomorrow.

This really isn’t a review I have never been there what I want to address is the negative reviews. i am an animal activist and do what is call posting and cross posting trying to cut down on the 1000 of dogs killed across this country each and every day. First these dog need time to adjust there scared, they seem friendly but they need time to get to know you and for you to know them. When a rescue does an adoption they usually take it slow but they have fosters who have kept the dog or cat in a family setting and know what’s up with the animal. This is a little different these dogs and cats are rescued and then they need to find them a home. Good rule of thumb take your time with the animal its been through a lot when it was at the kill shelter it could smell fear, death humans all those smells and it really makes them scared and almost a little crazy. But with love and patients that dog or cat will settle in and become one of the family. No they don’t know what the dogs past is they are just wanting to save it from dying. And this is for lady who spoke with the young women who did’t look out for the cats best interest. remember they are volunteers. It is possible that she was doing this for a class, courts or maybe be she did because it sounded cool. But please don’t let her faux pas keep a wonderful animal from having a home.

I have to wholeheartedly agree with Hamid and definitely have an issue with the comments that Julie F. posted. I feel sorry that her dog ran away, however to turn that into a fierce criticism of the Adopt & Shop store an its volunteers is too much.
The animals at Adopt & Shop are taken from kill shelters.
They literally were/​are on death row with only days left to live. This organization has taken it upon itself to rescue cats and dogs from certain death and bring them to the attention of mall shoppers who otherwise may never have thought of adopting a pet from a shelter. They are heroes in my book!

We adopted our dog from here last week and she has been a wonderful addition to our family! She is sweet and has such a great disposition. The shop is clean and you can tell they take great care of the animals there. The staff was very friendly and helpful and the volunteers were great!!! This Adopt & Shop is a fantastic concept and I wish them nothing but success. What a wonderful thing these people are doing!!! Keep up the great work!!!

THIS PLACE IS GREAT!
I recently adopted my new dog from here and she is wounderful and the staff was AMAZING!!! This place takes dogs from kill shelters shortly before they will be put down and gives them a second chance to find a loving home. They only bring in dogs that have the best chance of finding a home so they are usually good dogs.
For all of you that talked down on this place you should be ASHAMED of yourself. This place is run by volunteers that actually spend their free time saving animals lives… yes they may not have the longest personal history with the dogs but they provide you all the documentation from the shelter they were taken from and take their time in answering any questions you may have. Plus they will always take one of their dogs back for any reason. The fee is very reasonable and they give you a discount on everything in the store when you adopt your animal. My dog was fixed and had all her shots and we recently cleaned and groomed.
If you want to call yourself a dog lover, dont go to a pet store or a breeder, PLEASE ADOPT, and this is a great place to adopt from.

I just wanted to give a shout out and say thanks Adpot a Shop for bringing Josie into our lives! We (my boyfriend and I) came here one afternoon after hearing that the Mission Viejo pet store opened up a «save innocent poor animals from euthanization at animal shelters like Orange County and LA» adoption shop. The store was pumping with people and the small windows were filled with little eyes looking to for a home. The staff was very attentive to our wants — we were looking for a female, tame, Chihuahua preferably. And low and behold a staff member pointed us toward Josie. They let us take her into a separate room and then we asked if it was possible to see what she was like walking on a leash. So she led us out of the mall where we got to see little Josie walking on a leash. We bought her right then and there.
Josie has been the best thing that’s ever happened to us. Thank you so much Adopt A Shop for saving her from euthanization. I recommend anyone looking for a dog, or cat, to come here. It’s not as stressful as going to the shelter and picking an animal out among all the little faces and you can feel good about doing it because you helped save a life, instead of prompting breeding.

I’m surprised at all the bad reviews. I reseaved wonderful service and adopted an incredible little kitty. We were able to take him out several times and talked to multiple people before adopting him. Everyone was very kind and informed. The adoption process was quick and painless unlike plenty of adoption places that allow their cats and dogs to sit there for months. The cages were very clean and the animals were very well kept. The volenteers were sincerly interested in the animals and cared for each very well.
The food they were feeding him was of good quality. The play rooms were stimulating for the cats and comfortable for the people.
The free vet visit was great, the vet office was close to us and full of very kind people. Russel checked out with a clean bill of health.
All and all I really enjoyed the adoption process and am in love with my new kitten.

Wanted to say thank you to the store manager Joshua for all of his attention helping us over the weekend. He went above and beyond.

I adopted a dog from the on FRIDAY JULY 27, 2013.
I brought my dog to the store to mingle with the potential dogs. We found on the fourth try a small doggie who interacted well with my small dog. I had my kids with me, we adopted her and brought her home.
This is my problem. The store knows NOTHING about these dogs. Seriously.
They are «adopted» from shelters and placed in the store inside cubbies of glass windows. They have no grass to run and play like at the shelter.
Thus, the STAFF knows nothing about the behavior of these dogs when off a leash to walk outside.
THEY claim to have no idea this dog I adopted, whos written description was 2 lines and a «sit here and let you pet me» SHE WAS A JUMPER. Literally, this 12″ tall dog jumped my 6′ wall which encloses my property completely. She jumped over it twice and was out running and now I have lost her and my kids are devastated. I called them and they had nothing much to say. SAD. I hope whoever found our dog is enjoying her because even with her chip has not been found.
AT THE SHELTER, dogs interact with the volunteers and many people all day every day. They have fresh air and green grass and huge play yards. They can tell you much more about the dogs and matchups with your dog.
Adopt and shop I feel like is just «rescuing and reselling.» I am very sad and hope people think about this concept. THE RESCUES where dogs are in FOSTER HOMES are better as well — these dogs are with a family and caretaker in yards not another glass cage pet shop.
We were looking forward to spending the entire month of August home, with my kids, bonding with our new dog before school started.

Love this place great concept. This is the perfect thing to replace that sadbpuppy mill pet shop that was here! Pets are brought from high kill shelters and given a second chance at life. Love this place volunteers are very friendly! Stop in and find your forever friend today :)

I love the concept of this store. BUT. I was in there the other day, found an employee and asked about cats. She told me that they at the back of the store. Yes, I was just back there (for about 10 minutes.) So I mentioned that I might be interested in adopting a black cat. She said, yeah, Colby is our black cat, then turned away from me. I tried to carry on a conversation but she wasn’t interested in talking to me.
So I found someone else. That person was only interested in having me hold the dog she was petting. I said I am really interested in a cat, and she asked again if I wanted to hold the dog.
Sadly, the black cat did not get adopted that day. They will have better luck adopting animals if they will listen to and assist interested parties!
If I don’t find a cat elsewhere, I might come back, but someone needs to tell the employees and volunteers to listen to their potential customers.