Cancel

    Open app

    Search

    Help a Dog Smile

    4.6 (12 reviews)

    Services - Help a Dog Smile

    Pet adoption

    Help a Dog Smile Photos

    You might also consider

    Recommended Reviews - Help a Dog Smile

    Your trust is our priority, so businesses can't pay to alter or remove their reviews. Learn more about reviews.
    Yelp app icon
    Browse more easily on the app
    Review Feed Illustration

    Reviews With Photos

    In case anyone wonders, Champ is the best LBD, little brown doggo

    I have worked and adopted from Help A Dog Smile for more than seven years. What a wonderful rescue! All of our families dogs have been HADS graduates. Currently I have Champ, a little brown dog found on the street after being hit by a car and left for dead. I also have Arlene, found abandoned in desert, covered in cactus spines with a broken jaw and serious anemia. Both are doing fabulous, have good health, love taking walks, are great 'welcomers' to new/foster friends and benefit my life in so many ways. The all volunteer AHDS team works together to ensure that foster placements are appropriate and the right fit for both the dog and foster family. This prepares dogs to be adopted into their 'forever' families - a lot of healing and socializing happens during the foster time and boy, does this make a difference in everyone's lives AND most importantly, ensure that the adoption is permanent and the right fit for the four leg and two leg family members. The volunteers of HADS work hard and spend so much of their own time, resources and heart in rescuing all kinds of doggos from all over Arizona. Their adoption fees are reasonable and barely cover all the vet care that is provided to ensure that an animal if as healthy as possible, no matter the age or circumstance of the rescue. HADS has my heart, loyalty and donations!

    Tavey, one of the dogs we met in the a play yard
    Taylor H.

    Best rescue I have looked into adopting a dog from. Extremely impressed by the facility they keep their dogs in. It's called Heidis Village and I really haven't seen such a large beautiful rescue facility like this one before with spacious meet and greet dog rooms, a doggie water park, many walking paths and a staff including vets all around. The Help A Dog Smile representative was nice enough to show us around and even gave us a chance to walk and play with the dogs we are interested in. She was able to give us a history of where they rescued each dog from and what the caretakers at the facility had notated as essentially the training or skills the dogs already knew and what each dog needed to work on which definitely will help in our selection process. They also required a home check, are a NO KILL rescue, have any and all breeds and said they allow home trials for dogs to make sure it's a good fit when we do chose a dog which I really loved about them. Happy to see rescues like this one going above and beyond to make sure it's the right fit for not only us but the dog.

    A Loving Dog

    I was very satisfied with the care concerns about me adopting my dog, which I have had for over 4 years. I really appreciate it when I was interviewed prior to see the dog that I now have and he's precious. His foster mother was able to give me his background, history and temperament. She did everything as promised when she visited his future home to see if it would be conducive when she brought him to me. I am so glad that I used HADS instead of adaption at a shelter. I knew that he was well taken care of when he was living with his foster mom because it took him awhile to adjust when she let him with me. He actually cried when she went out of the door.

    See all

    Photo of Paige
    0
    16
    0

    3 months ago

    Helpful 1
    Thanks 0
    Love this 1
    Oh no 0

    2 years ago

    Helpful 1
    Thanks 0
    Love this 1
    Oh no 0

    1 year ago

    Helpful 1
    Thanks 1
    Love this 1
    Oh no 0
    Photo of Eddie N.
    375
    107
    18

    3 years ago

    Good people longest rescue. and trust me my experience has shown that there are a lot of bad rescues out there

    Helpful 1
    Thanks 0
    Love this 1
    Oh no 0

    5 years ago

    Helpful 2
    Thanks 0
    Love this 3
    Oh no 0
    Photo of Taylor H.
    295
    141
    110

    5 years ago

    Helpful 2
    Thanks 1
    Love this 4
    Oh no 0

    5 years ago

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 1
    Oh no 0

    5 years ago

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    5 years ago

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    12 years ago

    Helpful 4
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 1
    Photo of B L.
    0
    17
    0

    5 years ago

    Helpful 0
    Thanks 0
    Love this 0
    Oh no 0

    6 years ago

    Helpful 1
    Thanks 0
    Love this 1
    Oh no 0

    Ask the Community - Help a Dog Smile

    Review Highlights - Help a Dog Smile

    The organization should be selective in their process to ensure the dog's happiness and longevity in the home.

    Mentioned in 2 reviews

    Read more highlights

    You might also consider

    Verify this business for free

    People searched for Pet Adoption 688 times last month within 15 miles of this business.

    Verify this business

    Pratt's Pets - Glendale

    Pratt's Pets - Glendale

    (101 reviews)

    We have always been supporters of Pratt's but they have seriously let us and all their animals…read moredown! My fiancé had a ranch about 20 years ago and used to go to Pratt's all the time to buy animals for his ranch and sell his babies to Pratt's. There was a good old time family vibe then. They educated people about the animals they purchased and were very helpful. Now, my fiancé and I have a ranch together and we were starting from scratch. We went to Pratt's to get the same camaraderie and care that he had from Pratt's in the past. But we had found out the hard way that it is absolutely nothing like it used to be! Their animals are always sick and stressed and in bad living conditions. All of the chickens we have purchased from there were sick with a very contagious virus. They have respiratory distress and very lethargic and their eyes swell up and fill with puss. We gave them antibiotics but that did not help them. Every single chicken we bought from there had died. And the worst part is it spreads to the rest of our flock. Once the flock is infected you cannot get rid of it. U literally have to start fresh with healthy chickens. My fiancé had told Oscar the manager about this issue. At first he was understanding and willing to replace the chickens. Once we sent him pictures of the birds that perished he changed his tone and said "Why are you the only ones with birds dying?" We have stopped buying chickens from there but have continued to buy feed from there. We can't help but to go and look at all the animals and unfortunately they are always in poor living conditions and clearly very sick and even dead birds in the cages. The staff they have there at this point are very unhelpful and uneducated about the product they sell and uneducated about the animals they sell! We ask them a question about an animal and they look at us like we have a third eye growing out of our heads! They walk away without answering our questions or even getting our feed for us. We are out so much money from what we have bought from there and all the loss we have had from the sick chickens infecting the rest of our flock and they died. We had bought a female goat that was supposedly pregnant and they just wanted to get rid of her before she gave birth... well she wasn't pregnant. Then We had bought another female goat from them against our better judgment because she looked miserable and we wanted a companion for our first goat but She was "Not for sale" due to being sick... We said we want her to give her a fighting chance. She coughs and sneezes and has discharge from her lady parts. Pratt's just does not care about the health and well being of their animals! We will never purchase any animals from them again!! It's such a shame that these animals have to suffer!!

    We purchased 1 peacock and 2 peahens from pratts, one of them the day we brought her home, left eye…read morestarted blowing up right away. We took her to the exotic bird vet place, and got antibiotics for her. 375.00 later. So 300 for the bird, then the day after another 375.00 Oh, and it gets better, even though we kept her in seclusion from the other animals some of my 300 chickens started dropping dead with swollen eyes. As of right now I am down around 100 hens, and 6 roosters. I can't fill the orders for eggs that I have building up. Looking into talking with a lawyer about this. Because they sold me a bad peahen, I am out literally 1000's of dollars.

    Help a Dog Smile - petadoption - Updated May 2026

    Loading...
    Loading...
    Loading...