|
|
|
Are You Trying to
Find a
New Home for Your Shiloh Shepherd?
- The first step is to be sure that this is really what you want to
do. We've got Shiloh Resources
and many people available to help you work with your dog and correct bad
habits so he is easier to live with!
- If you are indeed committed to rehoming your Shiloh, please fill out
our Placement Application
form. This will give us a great deal of information about your dog
so we can find the best possible match for your dog.
- We will keep your information on file and place a short summary
about your dog on our Dogs for Adoption
page and begin
interviewing applicants who are interested in your dog. We also
have a database containing contact information for other people that
have been interested in adopting a Shiloh. We will e-mail them
with the link to your dog's page on our website, in case they may
be interested in your dog.
- Whenever possible, we ask you to keep your dog there in her own home
while the adoption process is going on. It is much easier on the
dog than if we have to move her to a foster home, then to the final
adoptive home.
- If it is not possible for you to keep the dog with you, we will do our
best to find a foster home for your dog. We ask that you provide
the foster family with food and cover veterinary costs (if any) for the
entire time period that the dog is in foster care.
- Once we have the applicants sorted and know who is seriously
interested, we will send their Adoption
Application to you to review, as well as
sending your Placement Application
form to them to give them complete details about
the dog. The more information you and the adopter share, the
better the chance for making a good match for your dog.
- The final decision to place your dog with any of the adoption
applicants is yours. We strongly suggest that you talk to the
applicant in detail about the dog and make sure that you are comfortable
with the person. Remember that we are always here for advice or a
2nd opinion if you need us! But the decision who ends up with your
dog is ultimately yours.
- Once you have selected a person to adopt your dog, it is helpful if
you can arrange with them to visit with you and the dog at least once or
twice and then hand the dog off directly from you to that person.
This is always preferable to transferring the dog via a 3rd party
transport group, or shipping him to a complete stranger that he's never
met before. It gives the dog a chance to meet and get to know his
new owner and makes the transfer less stressful on the dog and all the
people involved. If you live close enough, you could even visit
their house with the dog to allow him to get to know it before he
actually moves there.
|
