by Adopt a Pet, | February 8, 2024
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You can put your bull terrier up for adoption online, locally, to someone you know, or with a shelter or rescue. It’s important to understand how each of these different options works, so you can be sure you’re doing what’s best for your dog. After all, you love your bull terrier and want her to have the best home possible when you can no longer keep her.
If you have to put your bull terrier up for adoption, it’s a good idea to speak with the people around you about adopting first. You might have a relative who has been looking for a dog and who already loves your bull terrier. If they have the means to take care of her, and you feel it will be a good fit, then it could be easy to find a new owner for your dog.
Just keep in mind that you don’t want to give your dog to someone just because you know them. They need to mesh well with her and it needs to be a good fit for their lifestyle.
You can also look at some of the online pet adoption sites and services online that could make putting her up for adoption easier. Rehome by Adopt-a-Pet.com, for example, is a site that’s free to use for owners. The people who adopt will only have to pay a rehoming fee that’s similar to what they would pay to a shelter or rescue.
Rehome lets you create a profile for your dog that can include videos, pictures, and a bio. This bio is important, as it lets you tell all of the would-be adopters all the important information they need to know about your dog. This would include her temperament, her likes and dislikes, her health issues if she has any, and more. Be as thorough as possible so only the right candidates submit adoption applications.
Once they apply, you can go through the applications to find the perfect new owner for your bull terrier.
It’s also possible to put your bull terrier up for adoption through a shelter or rescue, but it’s not the same as rehoming on your own. When you surrender your dog to these facilities, you no longer have legal rights to them. You can’t choose who gets to adopt her, and there’s no guarantee that she’ll even be adopted. While these facilities do their best to ensure that the dogs get adopted, it doesn’t always happen.
Regardless of how you choose to allow people to adopt your bull terrier, you need to be careful. Some people have bad intentions toward dogs, and they look for free dogs that can be exploited and sold to labs or used for fighting. You should always be sure that a fee’s charged to the person who is adopting to help reduce the risk to your dog.