Adoption

You’ve fallen in love with one of our dogs and want to offer him or her a loving home? You are ready to take care, to take the time and patience and to never part with your furry nose again? Then write us a message to info@placeforstrays.de. As this questionnaire is the basis for the following initial interview, we would be delighted if you could answer the questions here in as much detail as possible!

Even if you already have a certain dog in mind, we will be happy to advise you on the selection of a suitable dog. Which dog suits you depends on your person, your circumstances and your ideas. We know our dogs very well and can tell you a lot about their character and behavior. Open and honest advice during the selection process as well as the preparation of our dogs for their families are a matter of course for us. As a matter of principle, we only put dogs up for adoption when we feel that they are socialized and will do well in a home, family environment.

All our dogs are tested for possible diseases, especially tick bite fever, leishmaniasis and heartworms, and, of course, treated against it in case of illness. They are dewormed, vaccinated, spayed and protected from ticks, fleas and worms. Thus we give to the best of our knowledge and belief (except for dogs suffering from leishmaniasis) only healthy animals.

Basically, we only release dogs for adoption when we believe that they are socialized and can cope well in a home-like, family environment.

If you have decided for a furry nose, a preliminary control will be carried out at your home in any case. We will check whether the conditions for keeping a dog in a species-appropriate manner are given. The preliminary inspection is carried out by one of our team members. Currently, these preliminary checks take place online. If everything fits and all questions are clarified, nothing stands in the way of an adoption.

After a positive pre-check, Elena and Katja are the operators of the PLACE for STRAYS. release the dog for adoption.

After the approval of the adoption, the dog will be examined again at the vet. In addition, your pelt nose will receive an EU pet passport and a microchip. The chip will be registered with your data. For this we need a photo of the front and back of your identity card. Parallel to these preparations, we will organize the transport of your pet.

To partially cover our costs, we ask for an expense allowance of

• 350, – Euro for adoption abroad and
• 200 euros for adoption within Portugal.

The following benefits are included in this allowance:

• dewormings (about 15 €)
• Seresto collars or other protection agains vermit (about 28 €)
• SNAP and Leish test (37,50 €)
• all vaccinations including rabies vaccination (53 €)
• castration / sterilization (about 55 € males / about 80 € females)

In addition, the dog gets the following on his journey:

• leash, harness and collar (25 €)
• EU pet passport (11,25 €)
• microchip and registration (15 €)

The cost of transportation varies between 120 € and 200 €.

Since we pay the costs for the medical care of our doggies from the donations of our Facebook support group, we use the income from the adoptions for feed, straw, water, electricity, equipment and maintenance of the PLACE for STRAYS.

Your furry nose is usually brought to Germany by land transport. * *For this transport we work exclusively with recognized and reliable transport companies. On the day of arrival, you or a person commissioned by you will arrive punctually at the agreed pick-up location. There you will receive your furry nose with pet passport, vaccination card, collar, harness, leash and the best wishes from the entire Place for Strays team for a happy future together.

The journey is very exciting and exhausting for many of the dogs. Add to that the new environment, new faces, sounds, smells. It is perfectly normal if your fur nose does not eat, let water or be stroked. Some fur noses hide at the beginning even. Please give her the time she needs to arrive.

Initially, we recommend only short rounds of gas near your house, which can expand slowly. Furthermore, we recommend to secure the dog twice in the first two weeks, so with collar AND safety harness.

For all questions or problems that occur, we are of course with words and deeds aside.