Adoption Policies & Requirements

                              Little Feet Rest & Rescue

                   Adoption Policies and Requirements

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* Meetings with our fosters are arranged only for those with approved adoption applications.

* We adopt to indoor homes only.

* A secure and appropriate fence is a must - No exceptions!

(No underground fencing, open faced farm fencing, split rail, etc.)

* You must have an excellent vet reference with records of two or more years available.

* All other furkids in your care must be spayed/neutered and up to date on all vet required vaccinations.

* Homes with other furkids are considered individually, based on breed, temperament, personality, and placement needs.

* We do not adopt into families with small children.

* Our fosters are NEVER allowed to leave our care before they are spayed/neutered. Please do not ask!

* A home visit by a Little Feet representative is required before an adoption can be finalized.

* We do not ship or transport our kids to their new forever homes. You must be willing to travel their foster homes so they can be placed directly from their foster mom's arms into yours.

* A binding and notarized adoption contract must be signed before any foster will be allowed to leave foster care.

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Our polices and requirements are set by our five member Board of Directors and are not waived for any reason. Our foster moms have no control over these policies and requirements. Please be courteous to our moms - Do not mail them to ask that changes be made, to lodge complaints, or to ask for exlpainations concerning policy or requirement issues.

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Our new site is currently under construction and we are posting explainations for our policies and requirements below. These will be completed as soon as possible.

Meetings are arranged only for those with approved application because:

As a rescue group, we do not operate out of a shelter. All of our foster live in private homes where addresses are not made public. This is for the protection of the privacy of our foster parents, to avoid having our homes become "drop off zones", and the welfare of our fosters.

Meetings are set where there can be one-on-one interaction between the foster and the family applying for adoption, which often means each meeting requires the foster to leave his foster home to meet a stranger.

Each of our fosters may have many inquiries and applications before the perfect placement is found. Because we want out furkids to live as normal and settled life as possible until they find their forever homes, meetings are only arranged for those with approved applications & home visits who we know are truly suitable parents for our kids.

A secure and appropriate fence is a must - No exceptions!

We know there are many happy, healthy, and well cared for kids living in homes without fenced yards. We realize there are times wonderful homes are missed because of this requirement. We are aware that it appears we are discriminating against those who live in apartments.

We also understand the frustration (and sometimes anger) when someone falls in love with a face they see on our our site only to find they can't adopt because they don't have a fence.

What we ask you to understand is that the safety and protection of those in our care is one of our top priorities. Many, many of our fosters are saved from shelter death rows where they were picked up a strays.

We never know if these kids simply wandered away from home or were dumped by uncaring owners. We do know after roaming free once, they most likely will again.

There are other kids we look at with awe, knowing by their well groomed coats, trimmed nails, and loving dispositions there has to be someone out there who has lost their baby and we have no way to find them.

We receive on average 50 to 100 mails per year from individuals desperately searching for a lost little one they dearly love - And many more that tell us their kids were killed by cars or other dogs wandering in the neighborhood.

They "only turned their back for a minute". "She never pulled out of her collar before". "He saw a cat (or a rabbit or another dog) a chased it". No one ever thinks this will happen to them - But it does - Even to good parents.

We know we can't protect our fosters from everything that "could happen" in the future, but we love them, and we have to try to protect them from what we can. Requiring a fenced yard is something we feel in our hearts we have to do.