AWS Shih Tzus Update

As reported this week, AWS is caring for a number of shih tzus taken in by the state’s Animal Welfare Program last month. We are pleased to announce that the dogs are receiving much needed veterinary care at our Community Veterinary Clinic. Many will ready for adoption very soon. In the meantime, our amazing foster families have opened up their homes to these dogs, showing them love and compassion, teaching them basic skills on how to be a family pet, and giving them a home-like setting liked they’ve never experienced.

We have received a lot of inquiries into the shih tzus. We are grateful for the interest, and thank you for your support and well wishes. Please show patience as we get the dogs ready for the next chapter of their lives. Some have significant medical hurdles to overcome. Others simply need a little more time to decompress in their foster homes. We post all adoptable pets on our website as soon as they become available. Therefore, we encourage those interested in adopting one of the shih tzus to keep an eye on our website https://animalwelfaresociety.org/adoption/dogs/

As with all our adoptable pets, when you see a dog online that you’d like to meet/adopt, please follow the instructions on how to adopt from AWS. All adoptions at AWS are first come, first served. We will not be taking a list of names or offer “pre-applications” for any of the shih tzus. https://animalwelfaresociety.org/adoption/how-to-adopt/

Our Adoption Center is open daily (closed Thanksgiving Day) from 10 am – 3:30 pm. We are located in Kennebunk, Maine. Thank you for helping us, and our fellow Maine shelters, to support the state of Maine’s Animal Welfare Program when they needed us most. We know these shih tzus have a wonderful future ahead of them!