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If you are interested in adopting a dog from CNWH you will need understand
the basic following procedures. Please make sure you agree with them
before filing an application to adopt from our organization.
- You will need
to print out an adoption application that can be found here on our website.
Once you fill it in, you will need to mail it to the PO Box listed on
the website.
- Your application
must be complete, and must be legible. If it is not complete, or we
are unable to read it, it will be discarded and you will be notified
that it has been received and is incomplete or unreadable. Whether you
wish to submit the application again will be up to you.
- Applications
are processed on a first-come first-serve basis, but dogs are placed
in the best possible matched home which may not be the first application
we receive for that dog.
- A
visit to your home will be required prior to adoption. Should we be unable
to visit your home you will not be approved to adopt a dog.
If we visit your home and feel that it is not an appropriate place
for one of our rescues you will not be able to adopt a dog from us.
- CNWH will make
every attempt to get the dog(s) you are interested and approved to adopt
to the foster home nearest to you to minimize the travel time that is
required. It is important for you to understand, however, that it may not
be possible to get the dog(s) all that close to you. At times, travel requirements
may exceed 5 hours one way, depending on where the closest foster home
is to you. (As an example, if you live in Rochester, NY and the closest
we can get the dog is to Binghamton, NY then you will be required to travel
to Binghamton even if it is a great distance from you.) If the distance
is too far for you to travel, then you will not be able to adopt.
- We do not ship
dogs, and we only arrange transport to new homes AFTER you have visited
the dog in one of our foster homes. We make no exceptions to the visit prior
to adoption.
You will be required to pay an adoption fee.
- The fee varies
between dogs, but is generally between $150 - $250. We only ask for an
adoption fee to make back part of the money we have spent on the dog
while it was in rescue. Those costs include spay/neuter surgery, vaccinations,
exams, medications, microchipping, other surgeries necessary, and general
care of the dogs while in foster care.
By no means do we make money in this process. We put an average
of $350 per dog out for medical and care bills. We need to make part
of the money back that we put out only so that we can help the next dog
that comes into our rescue. If we did not charge a fee we would not be
able to help other dogs needing our services
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