One of our volunteers does not get her pets shots every year either. But she does get her animals tested to see if they need the shots. With us if you kept records and had the labels from the bottles we would probably adopt to you. But we would do a home visit and see what your animals looked like and how they were taken care of. We have had to be so careful adopting out animals. I just don't understand why someone would pay a $150.00 adoption fee and then mistreat an animal or not care for it. That's a lot of money to me. The only thing we absolutely insist on is heartworm meds every month. And that just takes a second to be infected and the animal doesn't have to go outside for it to happen.