A Place Fur Paws We are just starting out to rescue puppies and dogs from owner turn-ins, puppy mills, pounds, etc. We believe every dog should be a member of your family and treated as it he/she were one. When you adopt from us, we want your dog or puppy to come already prespoiled and loved. Please fill out the application below and email to paws10@yyahoo.com. A Place Fur Paws Application Name_________________________________________ Address________________________________________ Address___________________________________ Home phone __________________________________ Are you married____________________________________ Age_________Children and ages____________________________________________ 1. Why are considering adopting? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Do you own or rent your current home? ________________________________________________________ Landlords name and number ________________________________________________________ 3. Do you currently own any animals? If so please list all animals you own. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 4. Do you animals visit your vet regularly? Are they spayed, neutered, and kept current on all vaccines? If no please explain why. We will call you veterinarian and verify this information is correct. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 5. Are your animals on heartworm prevention? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 6. Do you completely understand that adopting an animal is a full time commitment? Are you also aware it will take a while for a new animal to adjust to you and your family? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 7. Have you ever given away or rehomed any animals you have had in the past? If yes please explain why… ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 8. Who is the Veterinarian that you use regularly? If you do not have a vet please call and establish an account with the vets office you plan on using. Please also call and let your vet know that A Place Fur Paws will be calling them because you applied to adopt an animal. Failure to do this could result in immediate denial of your application. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 9. Please provide us with 3 personal references names and phone numbers and relationship to you. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 10. How do you plan on house training this animal? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 11. Where will this adopted animal stay? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 12. Have you adopted before, if so from who and when. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 13. How did you hear about A Place Fur Paws? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 14. What would you do if you had to move and could not take any of your animals with you? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 15. Have you ever been convicted or any crimes involving or against animals? Do you also give us permission to contact the proper officials to verify this? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 16. Are your current pets micro chipped? If so with what company? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 17. Do you have a fenced in yard?____________________________________________ 18. Are your animals licensed?______________________________________________ 19. Have you ever bred any animals? If so how long ago? What animals? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 20. Do you have an experience in pet ownership? ________________________________________________________ 21. Have you ever worked with any local rescues or dog pounds? If yes please list the rescue or pound and provide us with contact info for each person or rescue listed, ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 22. Have you ever owned any animals that you tied outside? If so why and when? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 23. Please tell us about yourself and why you think you would be a great home for one of our adoptable animals. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 24. Are you willing to let us visit your home and see that it is fit to place one of our animals in? If you live out of state would you provide us with pics of your home and possible video if needed? We would also need a reference to verify this information if needed. ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 25. Can you financially and emotionally take care of an animal if you are granted the opportunity to adopt from us? Dogs and cats can live several years do you have the time to commit to this? Medical care can be expensive and sometimes quite costly. Will you be able to provide an animal with all the proper care if needed? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 26. What do you plan on doing if you have issues with this animal? Housetraining, aggression, leg lifting, chewing, etc? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 27. Do you have a fenced in yard? If not how do you plan on exercising this animal? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 28. We recommend walking a dog/puppy for at least an hour a day are you able to do this? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 29. If you adopt an animal from us and for some reason you can not keep it what would you do with that animal? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 30. Is this animal going to be a gift? If so to who and why? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 31. Do you agree that all the information you rprovided us to you knowledge is truthful and accurate? Do you give us permission to contact everyone listed on this application? If so please sign and date the bottom. ________________________________________________________ A Place Fur Paws We at A Place Fur Paws are very dedicated to our animals. We screen every applicant and will only home one of our animals to an Approved home. We rescue all animals. We are not breed specific or animal specific. Most of our puppies and dogs come from puppy mills, auctions, and local pounds. We are volunteers only. If you would like to foster for us or donate any items please email us at paws10@yahoo.com.