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About Us
Adoption
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The Adoption Process
Our goal is
to find the most suitable home to meet the individual needs of each dog
for the lifetime of the dog.
In order to achieve this objective, our adoption screening process
is quite extensive. Due to
the logistical difficulties of providing thorough pre-adoption screening
and post-adoption follow-up outside of Vancouver Island, the Sunshine
Coast and the Lower
Mainland of British Columbia, we are unable to facilitate long distance adoptions outside of
these areas.
The
adoption process involves filling out an adoption application form,
followed by a telephone interview to discuss your application and to
answer any questions you may have about the particular dog you are
interested in adopting or the adoption process in general. Then we contact three personal references, including a vet
and grooming reference if possible. The
next step is to come and visit you in your home. The purpose of this visit is to meet all of the family
members and to ensure that your home will be a safe and suitable
environment for the particular dog you are interested in adopting.
Finally, we arrange for all of your family members to meet the dog
in order to ensure that everyone is compatible.
If we are quite certain that the dog is a good match for your
family, then the adoption is finalized, an adoption contract is signed and
an adoption fee of $250 is paid. The
adoption fee is used to off-set some of the costs we have incurred in
caring for the dog. In the
rare event that the cost of caring for the dog was less than $250, the
remainder of the money goes directly towards helping other dogs in need.
Post-adoption
follow-up is provided via e-mail, telephone or home visits, depending on
the situation, in order to ensure a successful transition of the new
family member into the home. We
remain in contact with our adopters and provide advice and support as
needed to help ensure that every adoption is successful.
However, if for any reason the adoption does not work out, we will
always take our dogs back into care at any time throughout their lives.
In fact, this is a condition of adoption which helps us to ensure
that none of our dogs will ever end up in shelters again.
If
you would like to fill out an adoption application form for one of our
dogs, please contact us via e-mail so that we can tell you a bit more
about the particular dog you are interested in adopting and answer any
questions you may have. We
reply to e-mails as promptly as possible, but please be patient as we are
all volunteers with jobs and families of our own, in addition to our
rescue work.
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