Applying to Adopt a Pet
If you are interested in adopting a cat, dog, or horse from us, please read the following information before you complete an application.
Thank you for considering a pet from PPI. We want to place these pets in homes where they will receive loving care for the rest of their lives. Please read the following points and think carefully about your ability to care for this pet for the next 10 or 15 years.
Responsibilities to Consider. If you adopt a pet, you should be prepared to be responsible for it for the rest of its life. That could be 10 or 15 more years. Your pet will need loving attention every day. Is your family ready for a long-term commitment?
A pet is not a toy. Animals are living creatures with personalities and needs of their own. If you do not yourself want this pet, please do not get it just for your child! You will be the one paying the vet bills, buying food and supplies, and caring for the pet when your child has other responsibilities or loses interest. If you don’t really want a dog, you could offer your child a frog, fish, hamster, or other small animal that requires less money for food, vet care, and training.
Puppies are very cute, but it takes many hours of patient training to house-train a puppy and to teach it not to chew forbidden items, nip people, and jump on people. All these behaviors can be curbed, but it take a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it. Are you willing to spend lots of time training a puppy? Will it drive you crazy if Puppy messes on the carpet, chews on your furniture, and asks to go out in the middle of the night?
Adult dogs, on the other hand, generally house-train quickly as they have the physical capacity to hold-off elimination for longer periods. Dogs that are two years and older have also mostly out-grown chewing people’s belongings and other destructive behavior.
Adopting a “Perfect” Dog. The perfect dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It instantly learns to pee outdoors only, never menaces or frightens children, plays gently with other dogs, won’t jump on people, never rolls in gross things, and never chews anything not meant for him. This dog does not exist. The peddling of “perfect” dogs amounts to a multi-billion dollar annual industry in the U.S.
A surprise gift of a pet can be a terrible mistake. Pets are a big responsibility, and it’s not fair to “give” a person a responsibility they are not expecting. The person to whom you give the pet will have to spend thousands of dollars over the years on vet care and food. The pet’s owner will need to spend time with the pet every day. Please don’t place a living creature in the hands of someone who may not really want it or be willing to spend time and money on it.
Financial Considerations. Routine vet care costs $200 to $300 per year. Emergency care can easily run into thousands of dollars. Are you willing to spend this much money on pet care? Quality food for small dogs and cats can cost $15 to $25 per month. Food for larger dogs can cost $35 to $50 per month. Are you willing to spend this much money on pet food every month?
Cost to Adopt. PPI is a non-profit 501(c) organization and your donation is tax-deductible. Each pet incurs individual veterinary care before adoption. The donation fee depends on what the pet needed. All our dogs and cats are current on vaccinations and are spayed or neutered. They are tested for any and all maladies if symptoms are present. The fee to adopt a pet is normally between $150 and $250. Your adoption donation helps these pets have a healthy life and find loving homes. Additional donations of any amount are gratefully accepted.
Proceed to the adoption application. The first step of the process is to fill out and submit the application form. Please remember some important points: PPI’s only interest is in the safety and welfare of the pets in our care. We will take every step possible to make sure they are adopted into loving forever homes. We take time to process each application to make sure we are finding the right homes for these pets.
After you submit an application, you should hear from the Adoption Committee within 24 to 48 hours if your application is approved. This is sometimes delayed if we are unable to reach your personal references; please verify email and phone numbers for them.
After you submit an application, you should hear from the Adoption Committee within 24 to 48 hours if your application is approved. This is sometimes delayed if we are unable to reach your personal references; please include email or text message addresses for them if possible.
Please click the “APPLY” button below to fill out the form. Please fill out every field on the form. Thank you!
