How to Interact with a Dog Before Adopting It
Visit the dog where it’s available for adoption., Visit an adoption event., Foster to adopt.
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Visit the dog where it’s available for adoption.
Dogs available for adoption are often housed in animal shelters or humane societies.
These organizations might be run as independent nonprofits, or in conjunction with your municipal government’s animal welfare department.
If you see a dog that seems to meets your specifications, you can ask a caretaker to allow you to interact with it.Before adopting a dog, you can usually check your local humane society or animal shelter’s website to see dogs available for adoption and read a bit about their personal histories.You might want to do this before heading over to the humane society or animal shelter to get an idea of whether or not you might be interested in the dogs being housed there. -
Step 2: Visit an adoption event.
Adoption events are like small festivals where all the local foster owners bring their dogs along and have them up for adoption.
You can meet and interact with many dogs there before adopting them.Contact your local animal shelter or humane society to find out if they have adoption events in your area.
Use the Petfinder Event Calendar, available online at https://www.petfinder.com/calendar, to locate an adoption event near you.
PetSmart offers four National Adoption Weekend events in Canada and the United States.
These events occur in February, May, September, and November., Foster to adopt programs allow you to take a dog home with you and foster it, with the option of adopting the dog if nobody else has expressed an interest in doing so before you.
Foster to adopt programs will give you the most long-term opportunity to interact with a dog before adopting it.
There is no guarantee that you will be allowed to adopt the dog you fostered.
Most foster periods are at least one month.
To locate a foster to adopt program in your area, contact your local humane society and ask if they offer foster to adopt programs. -
Step 3: Foster to adopt.
Detailed Guide
Dogs available for adoption are often housed in animal shelters or humane societies.
These organizations might be run as independent nonprofits, or in conjunction with your municipal government’s animal welfare department.
If you see a dog that seems to meets your specifications, you can ask a caretaker to allow you to interact with it.Before adopting a dog, you can usually check your local humane society or animal shelter’s website to see dogs available for adoption and read a bit about their personal histories.You might want to do this before heading over to the humane society or animal shelter to get an idea of whether or not you might be interested in the dogs being housed there.
Adoption events are like small festivals where all the local foster owners bring their dogs along and have them up for adoption.
You can meet and interact with many dogs there before adopting them.Contact your local animal shelter or humane society to find out if they have adoption events in your area.
Use the Petfinder Event Calendar, available online at https://www.petfinder.com/calendar, to locate an adoption event near you.
PetSmart offers four National Adoption Weekend events in Canada and the United States.
These events occur in February, May, September, and November., Foster to adopt programs allow you to take a dog home with you and foster it, with the option of adopting the dog if nobody else has expressed an interest in doing so before you.
Foster to adopt programs will give you the most long-term opportunity to interact with a dog before adopting it.
There is no guarantee that you will be allowed to adopt the dog you fostered.
Most foster periods are at least one month.
To locate a foster to adopt program in your area, contact your local humane society and ask if they offer foster to adopt programs.
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