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Before you decide to rehome your dog, have you considered other options? How about training – even if you didn’t get around to it before, dogs of all ages are able to learn! Maybe your GSP just needs more exercise - doggy day care is an option, as is a dog-walker. You might be able to barter services if finances are an issue, or find a high school student who needs community service hours.
You’ve come to the sad decision to give up a member of your family. Now what?
- Contact the person you obtained the dog from. Breeders, shelters, and rescue groups will take back dogs that have been adopted from them.
- See if family or friends will take the dog.
- Post a Petfinder classified ad http://www.petfinder.com/classifieds/postClassified.cgi
- Advertise on craigslist or in the newspaper.
- Screen potential adopters. Meet the entire family and visit their home. Collect an adoption fee (this discourages people looking for free dogs for fighting or medical research).
If your dog meets the following criteria, we can offer you an owner referral listing on our website for $35:
- Purebred GSP
- Spayed or neutered
- Has never shown aggression towards humans or other dogs
- Lives in California
To post your GSP with us, we will need:
- One or two good pictures (one of the face, one of the whole dog)
- Brief description including contact information
- $35 payable by check to NorCal GSP Rescue, PO 933, Menlo Park CA 94026 or click the button below and make a payment via PayPal
Potential adopters would contact you directly and you would be responsible for screening them (look at our adoption questionnaire for screening question ideas). We recommend that you meet the whole family, do a home visit, and collect an adoption fee - you can pass on the cost of the referral listing as part of your adoption fee. We keep your listing posted until the dog gets adopted or you tell us to take it down.
Since our priority is shelter dogs in danger of being euthanized, it is not likely that we will be able to bring your dog physically into our rescue program. If for any reason you do take your GSP to a shelter, please send a brief e-mail to info@NorCalGSPrescue.com letting us know where you took the dog.
Not in Northern California? Contact the GSP rescue group for your area, which you can find at http://www.gsprescue.org/contact.html
If you must take your dog to a shelter, you can give your dog a GREATLY, HUGELY, IMMENSELY, TREMENDOUSLY better chance at being adopted if s/he is spayed/neutered. Why?
- Many shelters do not place unaltered dogs up for adoption because they just don’t have room.
- Most shelters don’t have spay/neuter clinics, so in order to alter the dog, they need to pay for the service at a vet. This is often more than the shelter fee to adopt a dog. Since shelters don’t have enough funds to alter all incoming dogs, they choose the ones that will be easiest to place. GSPs are not easy to place.
- If a shelter does have a spay/neuter clinic, space is at a premium in the adoptable area for shelter dogs being altered before going to their new home, so incoming dogs that are already altered have a higher priority getting a spot in the adoptable area.
- Shelters with vet staff (but not spay/neuter clinics) do not have the equipment or space to handle dogs over 50 pounds, so adult GSPs left there would not be eligible for spay/neuter which then puts them at a lower priority than the smaller or already altered dogs.
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