Adopt a Friend:

Dogs can be visited and adopted by appointment with their volunteer foster family. Saturday adoption events are unlikely to be planned in the near future. Sanctuary Plus Rescue down-sized significantly this month (9/06), reducing its rescue, foster, and re-homing efforts. Unfortunately, one of our foster homes was the object of a too-many-pets and possible neglect raid on 9/7/06. Rather than co-operatively working together with the foster home to obtain a permit and make desired changes, county and state officials chose to confiscate the pets. Some of the confiscated pets have been transferred to other rescues; and unfortunately some have been terminated despite being interactive and ambulatory. In SPR's opinion and the opinion of several other rescues, there were MUCH BETTER way to accomplish the desired changes.

Rescue Efforts:

Help save lives --- foster a pet. SPR mostly rescues pets in the Minneapolis metro area, but we occassionally rescue pets in other areas, including the Katrina disaster area. Several organizations particularly helpful in the rescue, re-uniting, transport, and re-homing of Katrina animals include: Animal Ark, Best Friends Animal Society , Triple R Rescue ... and our little group.

Please provide a loving permanent home to one of our wonderful pets. We hope you find a wonderful companion pet to ADOPT at one of our adoption days, which are usually held each Saturday at a Petco in the Twin Cities area. Come meet our great foster pets and our hardworking volunteers! An adoption day is a great way to meet several pets at a time, learn more about a particular pet or breed ... and meet some of our wonderful volunteers.

Adoption Considerations:

Adoption Fees range from $125 and up depending on the breed and age of the dog. The adoption process includes the completion of an adoption application, usually a home visit, an adoption contract and adoption fee. All dogs are temperament tested, vet checked, vaccinated, and spayed/neutered if 6 months or older.

To pre-qualify for adoption of a pet (or to visit a pet one-on-one by appointment rather than open-house-style at an adoption day), e-mail us with the responses to the questions in our Pre-adoption questionaire, which is available on the lefthand-side of this page. We do our best to provide a good match for you and a good match for your pet. The questionaire helps ensure that a pet adoption is for the lifetime of a pet. Our pre-adoption questions help us match you and your home environment with the right puppy or dog. Our adoption fee helps cover the medical and care costs we incur for rescued pets. NOTE: Pets must meet each other. To ensure that your existing pet is happy with your choice of a new pet, we require your new pet to meet your existing pet prior to completion of an adoption. NOTE: A pet must be adopted in person by its new owner. We will NOT ship an animal.

Please be patient with us when inquiring and working thru the adoption process. We are a small organization and our hardworking volunteers are very busy -- not only with rescue activities, but their families, jobs and other obligations. The application process usually takes about a week ... and helps ensure you are matched with a great pet and that the pet is matched with a great owner.