We have been adopting out dogs for decades and have found it necessary to lay out the following guidelines. This helps us to get a better insight into you and your family and to determine which dog would be best for all involved. Most if not all, of your questions about adoption, should be able to be answered here.
We don’t mean to insult anyone or invade anyone’s privacy, but judging from experience, these questions we ask on our adoption application are necessary. If you choose not to answer any one of the following questions, please feel free to ask us about it and we will be more than happy to explain the necessity of that particular question.
FEES/COSTS
- Our adoption counselors spend HOURS AND DAYS, interviewing adoption candidates and spending a countless amount of time trying to pair up the right dog for your family so PLEASE make sure you are seriously and currently interested in adopting. We do not process applications for “the future”
- Our adoption fee is $300.00. For your adoption fee, the dog will be spayed/neutered, fully vaccinated, micro-chipped, heartworm free and receive a FREE “congratulations on your new dog” training/behavioral session via phone or Zoom. The adoption fee is NON-REFUNDABLE.
- Once we receive your application, if it is approved at the preliminary stage, one of our adoption counselors will make contact with you and ask for information about your yard, landlord (if applicable), etc. Please be patient as this process can take up to 2 weeks.
- The next stage of the adoption process is to match you up with the right dog and one of our other adoption counselors will spend quite a bit of time with you, sometimes requiring multiple phone calls, etc. BE PATIENT!!! We take pride in our through adoption process and we want this to be FOREVER!
ADOPTING WHEN YOU HAVE AN EXISTING DOG IN THE HOME
- If you currently have an existing small breed dog in your home, we will not adopt out a larger breed dog (this includes our Pit Bulls) into your home. From time to time, we do have some non-Pit Bull medium to smaller breed dogs that may work out. We do this for the safety of your dog. You may be asked to bring your dog to Louisiana to do an preliminary introduction with the dogs but that can be discussed with our adoption counselor especially if it is a long distance adoption. “Blind dates not always successful. Depending on your dog experience, we may be able to adjust the guidelines for this type of adoption.
- If you have an existing non-Pit Bull in your home and you want to adopt one of our non-Pit Bulls.….we may ask you to make the drive to have the dogs meet first. “Blind dates” aren’t always successful so this will depend on what you and our adoption counselor discuss about making the adoption work out, especially if it is a long distance adoption. Depending on your dog experience, we may be able to adjust the guidelines for this type of adoption.
- If you have an existing Pit Bull in your home and you want to adopt one of our Pit Bull type dogs, you must be within an 8 hour drive from our facility and it will be on a “case by case” basis. The reason for this should be obvious but I will explain. The “bully breeds” can be somewhat tenacious when it comes to other dogs. It is not uncommon for them to get along with a dog one minute and then what seems like “all of a sudden” they are no longer friends. For this reason, we need to be within a close driving distance just in case things should not work out. If you are one of our former adopters and have a successful past track record with us, then of course, the distance factor may not be an issue. Depending on your dog experience, we may be able to adjust the guidelines for this type of adoption.
- If you have an existing non-Pit Bull in your home and you want to adopt one of our Pit Bull type dogs, you must be within an 8 hour drive from our facility and it will be on a “case by case” basis. The reason for this should be obvious but I will explain. The “bully breeds” can be somewhat tenacious when it comes to other dogs. It is not uncommon for them to get along with a dog one minute and then what seems like “all of a sudden” they are no longer friends. For this reason, we need to be within a close driving distance just in case things should not work out. If you are one of our former adopters and have a successful past track record with us, then of course, the distance factor may not be an issue. Depending on your dog experience, we may be able to adjust the guidelines for this type of adoption.
- WE DO NOT ADOPT TO:
- Homes with cats. We do not have the means to properly cat test our dogs. We will not take a chance on the safety of your cat and put one of our dogs into this situation. This is not to say that cats and dogs won’t get along. Of course they can but again, we do not have the proper set up to test our dogs with cats in in a responsible scenario.
- We do not adopt to homes with children under 5 years old. We do not have the proper set up to temperament test ourdogs for this scenario.
- We do not adopt to homes that are under HOA guidelines unless we are able to receive in writing that you are allowed to have the dog you are interested in adopting from us.
- Although we do not require a fenced in yard, if you do have one, it has to be at least 5 to 6 feet tall (depending on which dog you are interested in.
- We do not adopt our dogs out for the purposed of making them into “service dogs.” With too many people/trainers fraudulently obtaining fake service dog vests and unscrupulous trainers claiming that they are “credentialed”, we do not want to have our dog put into a situation that they are not qualified for.
- We do not adopt out of the country.
- We do not fly our dogs. Each dog is driven by our staff, to your home.
HOW THE ADOPTION PROCESS WORKS
I cannot stress this enough. We are thorough. We are understanding. We want what’s best for our dogs and also what’s best for you. We get adoption applications from all over the country. Sadly most are just from people who are “fans of the TV show” and want to adopt some sort of “trophy dog” from us. Unfortunately it is very time consuming for us to go through all of these applications to finally find a good one. All we ask is that you be patient and understand that we are doing this because we love our dogs that much. And when you adopt a dog from Villalobos, you will have a support system for a lifetime. Once a Villalobos dog, always a Villalobos dog!
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