Thanks liz! I was MAD!!!! But I'll bet you figured that out by my post. What kind of contract do you have to sign to adopt from the IHS? Like I said on the Indystar site, 2 of ours came from our shelter. You basically have to sign away your first born (in my case that would be difficult since I have no 2 legged kids, nor do I plan on having one). You have to agree to have the animal spayed or neutered and the vet has to send back a paper saying that they spayed or neutered the animal. They give you a certificate for $45 toward the process. They also give you a puppy pack with lots of goodies, they microchip the animal, and give you a $5 gift certificate to PetsMart. It costs $85 to adopt. When we adopted, it only cost $50 but they needed to up it because they were losing money on the process. We still have to put a lot of animals down which is so sad, but it's really not the shelter's fault, it's the stupid people who don't watch their animals. Our shelter in the 1980s, when our population was about 100,000 put down 16,000 animals and last year, when our population was 200,000 they put down 10,000. Still way to high but at least the trend is downward.