Half-Way Home Animal Rescue

TLDR: This “rescue” facilities illegal adoptions for profit. Ask for vet records up front - DO NOT WAIT. Do not allow them to “email you in a few days”. They won’t. If they do, verify these vet records by calling the vet office directly. Better yet, avoid these money hungry frauds & adopt elsewhere.

HWH prey on caring pet lovers who are ignorant to local adoption laws. I am no longer ignorant to the various ways they have broken the law (225 ILCS 605) aka the Animal Welfare Act.
My experience with them specifically violated Section 2, Section 3.2, 3.5 (A/2) & 3.5 (B). (Please search these statutes for further information.)

To be brief, these dogs are not vaccinated, spayed/neutered, or microchipped as promised & listed on Pet Finder & other aggregate sites. Representatives promise to send medical records that never come, because they do not exist. When pushed for records they don’t even try to provide fake or falsified documents, only take the dog back, to sell it again to the next kind-hearted person wanting to do good.

Their organization has no physical address & no phone number. No one from the rescue signs off on the adoption paperwork, which in & of itself is illegal. There are no identifiers that tie the individuals running this scam written anywhere. They know what they are doing & have been getting away with hundreds, possibly thousands of fraudulent adoptions.

Finally they are clearly for profit. Where does the $500 adoption fee go, if not to caring for the animals? This “rescue” does not give the animals vet care of any kind. If they did, they would gladly provide paperwork to prove it.

HWH discredits & devalues a system that should be helping animals, not exploiting them for profit. There are so many rescues doing it for the right reasons, please avoid this sham.