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Question Regarding Adoption
A friend of mine is looking for a good home for a cat she's been
fostering. She has a prospective adopter. I am wondering if anyone who works in rescue or otherwise has a list of questions one would ask a prospective adopter. It seems to me that someone had posted such a list a while back but I couldn't find it through a search. Thanks, Lauren |
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Question Regarding Adoption
If you want, I could email you a form I recently filled out for a shelter
when I adopted a kitten. Let me know if you'd like it. Sue "PawsForThought" wrote in message oups.com... A friend of mine is looking for a good home for a cat she's been fostering. She has a prospective adopter. I am wondering if anyone who works in rescue or otherwise has a list of questions one would ask a prospective adopter. It seems to me that someone had posted such a list a while back but I couldn't find it through a search. Thanks, Lauren |
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On 7 Apr 2006 16:21:57 -0700, "PawsForThought" wrote:
A friend of mine is looking for a good home for a cat she's been fostering. She has a prospective adopter. I am wondering if anyone who works in rescue or otherwise has a list of questions one would ask a prospective adopter. It seems to me that someone had posted such a list a while back but I couldn't find it through a search. First I would ask if they have had pets before and if so the name of the vet. Then I would check with the vet and see what kind of care they took of the pet, |
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Question Regarding Adoption
"PawsForThought" wrote in message oups.com... A friend of mine is looking for a good home for a cat she's been fostering. She has a prospective adopter. I am wondering if anyone who works in rescue or otherwise has a list of questions one would ask a prospective adopter. It seems to me that someone had posted such a list a while back but I couldn't find it through a search. I adopted a cat on Monday from a shelter. They required 2 forms of ID (one photo, one with proof of address) and I filled out a form that asked stuff like: who else lives with you; any other pets; vet name; job info. 7 years ago when I got Stinky & Harriet from North Shore Animal League, they also asked for names & phone numbers of two references. NSAL also asked about past pets my family had when I was growing up, and what happened to them! -- Liz |
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Question Regarding Adoption
"PawsForThought" wrote in message oups.com... A friend of mine is looking for a good home for a cat she's been fostering. She has a prospective adopter. I am wondering if anyone who works in rescue or otherwise has a list of questions one would ask a prospective adopter. It seems to me that someone had posted such a list a while back but I couldn't find it through a search. Thanks, Lauren You need to find out where they live. If an apartment, do they have permission from the landlord to have a cat. Who lives with them? Is the cat suitable for the situation? Have they had animals before? What happened to them? Vet reference. Ask vet about the care other animals get. Any injuries that might indicate the cat is an outdoor cat? Do they cough up the cash to take proper care of any other animals (you define proper care. It's your foster, you make the rules) Ask for personal references. Do they think the person is a good pet owner. Is the applicant in a stable situation? (ie. student living off campus who might be moving back home in another year and may or may not be able to take the cat with them - not stable) Why do they want to adopt this animal? If it's a first time pet owner, did they grow up with pets. What happened to those animals? This isn't as clear cut because just because someone's parents are a**holes and aren't the kind of pet owner you might want your kitty with doesn't necessarily indicate this person will be. They you need to open up conversation with the applicant and see what their attitudes toward pet stewardship are. I'm sure there are other questions - de-claw, inside outside etc. but the trick is not to directly ask some of these questions. Questions must be carefully worded so you don't reveal the answer your looking for. If you catch them in a lie, no matter how apparently insignificant. deny the application. You can't trust anything they tell you then. You have to be tough or these guys stand the chance of ending up back on the street. Too many people see animals as disposable. I hate to tell you how many cats we've had recently who were left outside to fend for themselves because their people moved and just left them behind. W |
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"Wendy" wrote in message
... You have to be tough or these guys stand the chance of ending up back on the street. Too many people see animals as disposable. I hate to tell you how many cats we've had recently who were left outside to fend for themselves because their people moved and just left them behind. When I was at the clinic with my cat yesterday, a man came in with a HUGE carrier. I thought he had a dog, but it was just a lone cat inside. He said that a neighbor was getting rid of the carrier so he took it, because he needed something in a hurry. He had just moved into a new apartment and said it came with two cats. The previous tenants were college students who were evicted because they couldn't pay the rent. The man said he told them to leave the two cats, because he figured the kids would just end up abandoning them somewhere since they didn't even have a new place yet. He had a male cat with him that day and said the other cat was female, and pregnant. College students should not have pets, whether they live on or off campus!! I thought it was fantastic that this man decided to keep the cats, and now he's going to have a litter of kittens that will need homes in a few months. -- Liz |
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These are the types of questions the shelter asked me. And they did contact
my veterinarian to check to see if I had my other animals vaccinated, etc. Sue "Wendy" wrote in message ... "PawsForThought" wrote in message oups.com... A friend of mine is looking for a good home for a cat she's been fostering. She has a prospective adopter. I am wondering if anyone who works in rescue or otherwise has a list of questions one would ask a prospective adopter. It seems to me that someone had posted such a list a while back but I couldn't find it through a search. Thanks, Lauren You need to find out where they live. If an apartment, do they have permission from the landlord to have a cat. Who lives with them? Is the cat suitable for the situation? Have they had animals before? What happened to them? Vet reference. Ask vet about the care other animals get. Any injuries that might indicate the cat is an outdoor cat? Do they cough up the cash to take proper care of any other animals (you define proper care. It's your foster, you make the rules) Ask for personal references. Do they think the person is a good pet owner. Is the applicant in a stable situation? (ie. student living off campus who might be moving back home in another year and may or may not be able to take the cat with them - not stable) Why do they want to adopt this animal? If it's a first time pet owner, did they grow up with pets. What happened to those animals? This isn't as clear cut because just because someone's parents are a**holes and aren't the kind of pet owner you might want your kitty with doesn't necessarily indicate this person will be. They you need to open up conversation with the applicant and see what their attitudes toward pet stewardship are. I'm sure there are other questions - de-claw, inside outside etc. but the trick is not to directly ask some of these questions. Questions must be carefully worded so you don't reveal the answer your looking for. If you catch them in a lie, no matter how apparently insignificant. deny the application. You can't trust anything they tell you then. You have to be tough or these guys stand the chance of ending up back on the street. Too many people see animals as disposable. I hate to tell you how many cats we've had recently who were left outside to fend for themselves because their people moved and just left them behind. W |
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Question Regarding Adoption
Thanks so much everyone for the great responses. My friend has found a
woman who wants to adopt the cat (which is a bengal). She is going to be meeting with the family today to see what they're like, etc. Apparently it is a husband and wife, 3 children (young) and they also have a 3 year old female cat (can't think what they're called but one of those hairless kind). Sue, if you could email me that form, that would be great. She says the people sound good but she is concerned about the fact that they have 3 young children. Also, this cat (a 2 year old bengal neutered male) was living with 10 other cats and was stressed so he was spraying. She has told the woman about the peeing/spraying problem. Thanks again, Lauren |
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