 If you would like to offer a new home to an Italian Greyhound, or Italian Greyhound cross breed, the first stage is to complete an Enquiry to Adopt Form, which you may download from here (Click here to down load).
The completed form should either be emailed or posted to our Rescue Coordinator. Please note we do not acknowledge receipt of postal application forms. If you require a receipt, please provide a stamped address envelope, or postcard.
Your application will then be held on our waiting list. This list is not operated on a first come, first serve basis, but rather concentrates on matching the dog to a home most suited to its requirements. Once a dog becomes available, the most suitable sounding home is contacted and a home check is carried out by one of our volunteers.  The home checker will take a good look at your garden and home to make sure it is a safe environment for an Italian Greyhound. This will include checking that the fencing is secure around the property. Also that there are no items that could be hazardous to the slender legs of the Italian Greyhound. Indoors the check will include access to stairways and any other perceived danger spots and what remedies will need to be made to create an Italian Greyhound safe environment. Ideally this visit would be made with all the family there to meet with the checker.
If everything is satisfactory at this stage, then arrangements will be made with our Rescue Coordinator for you to formally adopt the dog. You will be required to sign a form of adoption which outlines the conditions of adoption. At the time of adoption you will also be asked to make a donation to the charity to help towards the costs of micro chipping, veterinary treatment, neutering and transport.
Completing the form does not automatically guarantee that you will be considered suitable to adopt an Italian Greyhound, neither does it imply that we currently have dogs in need of adoption.
We do not home to people who work full time, have children under eight years of age, live in an Apartment unless it is a ground floor one with it's own enclosed garden (communal gardens are not acceptable), have large dogs or large numbers of dogs. Adopters must also be fit enough to regularly exercise the rescue and of an age where the rescue can hopefully see out it's life with the adopter."
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