text: The Pros Every one of the adoption workersvolunteers I interacted with was unbelievably friendly and helpful to the point where it actually surprised me I have found that at a lot of shelters the employees and volunteers have this attitude like you are somehow inconveniencing them by trying to adopt an animal I never once got this feeling from the employees or volunteers at Lied Animal Shelter The kennels were clean except for the very recently soiled ones Each dog had plenty of its own food and water The dog is uptodate on hisher shots when you adopt microchipping and neuterspay surgery is performed the day after you adopt your dog so although you cannot take your dog home the same day you adopt unless heshe has already been fixed at least you only have to wait until the following afternoon to pick himher up You receive a free lb bag of Science Diet dog food and a certificate for a free vet exam although most vets in the Las Vegas area perform free wellness exams for new clients regardless of where or how you got your dog The dog I adopted a chihuahua was very healthy when I took her to the vet She had a mild case of kennel cough but just as the vet said it was mild enough to go away on its own and it did after about a week or so Everything else looked great about her and it appeared as though the shelter had been taking good care of hernnThe Cons It is quite difficult to find an adoption counselor who is not already helping someone else with their adoption It seemed like there were only a handful of adoption counselors floating around and it just was not enough for all the people who wanted to take a dog out of its kennel to bond with and for the people who were ready to adopt There is not a take a number and wait your turn system so you pretty much have to keep an eye on an adoption counselor and pounce on himher as soon as she is done helping someone else otherwise you could end up waiting all night The walkin shot clinic takes a long time to get through and it is quite disorganized You sign in on a clipboard if you even see it The woman behind the counter kept picking it up and pacing back and forth with it then setting it back down and fill out a patient information sheet Then you wait for the cashier to call your name and hope you can hear it over the screaming children who are running all over the place You turn in your information sheet pay for your dogs shots and then you are assigned a number You sit back down and wait for your number to be called for your dog to receive hisher shots There were only about or other dogs in the shot clinic when I arrived with my dog to get her booster shots but for some reason I was there for over an hour It took just as long to wait for the cashier to call my name as it did to wait for my dogs turn to get her shots It was only for her full set of booster shots so I am not upset about the long wait But I will probably just she will out the extra at my local vet next time because the long wait at Lieds shot clinic is hard to understand since there are not very many animals there at a time and the waiting area is just as headacheinducing as the DMV even though there are fewer people