Putting dogs up for adoption is not an easy task.
Sometimes life situations make it difficult for you to continue caring for your dog. If you have two dogs, there may be situations that make it downright impossible to keep them. Illness, allergies in the family and economic hardships are just a few reasons why you might have to give up your dogs. While this might be the best thing for them, it will only be good for your dogs if you take the time to put them up for adoption the right way instead of just giving them to the first person who offers.
Instructions
1. Get your dogs ready for the adoption process. To make them most attractive to potential adopters, get them neutered or spayed and update their vaccinations.
2. Take pictures of your dogs. If you want a potential new owner to adopt both dogs, make sure they're together in the photos.
3. Gather information about their personalities. Write up this information in an informative paragraph that includes phrases like "playful and loving," "great with kids" and "needs lots of exercise." Include the age, weight and breed of the dogs.
4. Research animal shelters in your area. Choose the one that has the best reputation and that has the most effective, careful process for adopting out dogs. For example, a good process would be thoroughly interviewing potential adopters, checking to make sure they have a yard and veterinarian and following up after they adopt a dog. Reputable shelters will always take dogs back, as well, regardless of the situation.
5. Bring the photos you took, the information you gathered and recent vet records for your dogs to the shelter. Talk with a shelter worker about putting your dogs up for adoption. Many shelters will advertise the animals on their website and interview potential adopters for you while you keep your dogs until they have a good home to go to. Don't forget to let the shelter know if you want the dogs to stay together.
6. Keep looking for a suitable adopter or adopters yourself. Make a flyer using the photos you took and information you gathered. Add that your dogs are fully vaccinated and spayed or neutered to the posters. Hang them up at local pet stores, veterinarian's offices, doggy daycares, kennels, groomers, community centers, your local library and anywhere else you can think of.
7. Direct potential adopters who contact you to the shelter. It's best to allow the shelter to actually interview adopters to determine their eligibility for caring for your dogs and to let the dogs be adopted out through the shelter. That way, if there are any problems in the future, the dogs can be returned and protected by the shelter.
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