Adoption Process
Submit the Adoption Application on our website; see link at the end of this section. Your application will be reviewed by our director and possibly the foster parent. Then we contact your vet for a reference and call you for more information. A home check is scheduled prior to adoption.
The next step is for the entire family who will be living in the home and, if possible, their current pets to meet rescue dogs. If everything looks positive, the prospective adopter fills out and signs the adoption contract. Adopting families sign a contractual agreement to provide safe, loving and healthy environments. You must pay the adoption fee when you take the dog from the foster home.
Your dog then will be posted as “Adoption Pending” on the website. You will have 10 days to determine if this dog is a good match. If you still cannot tell if this dog will work for you after 10 days, let us know what the concerns are. We may give you more time or we may decide to return the dog to its foster home. Remember, our first priority is the dog and we must do what is best for him/her. Once we know the adoption is forever, we put “Adopted” on the website. If the dog still does not work out, the adoption donation will be reimbursed up to 30 days after the adoption date, but not beyond that date. We do not place dogs in homes that we believe will not work out, so please respect our decision.
Adoption Fee
Our adoption fee is a minimum $250, plus any more that an adopter is able and generous enough to give to help other dogs in our program or to help cover extra vet expenses of their dog. (As director Hope Hemperly says, our adoption donation is a minimum of $250 and a maximum of $1 million). You are required to pay the adoption fee (as well sign the adoption contract) before you take the dog home with you. To avoid complicating our bookkeeping, we do not take partial payments.
Adoption fees are applied to:
–Comprehensive veterinary physical exam
–Spay or neuter (even on puppies at a later date)
–Rabies shot
–DH2PP (Distemper/Parvo combo shot)
–Bordetella shot (Kennel Cough)
–Heartworm Test and 3 months’ worth of Interceptor tablets (Read more).
–Microchip
–Wormed
–Groomed
–Dental cleaning if needed
–Temperament evaluation
–A medical history record comes with each dog.
Adoption Application Adoption Contract
