General Information
All adoptive homes are screened before an animal
is placed. Adopters must provide personal references, a veterinary
reference and have a home visit prior to approval. There is a minimum
age requirement of 21 yrs old for adopters.
VonderZenn Rotts standard adoption fee. This fee
is to cover the costs of veterinary care and spaying or neutering. Once
an adoption is approved, we will arrange transport to your location.
If you know of a Rottweiler in need, please
contact us. If you are surrendering your personal dog, VonderZenn
Rescue Rotts requires that you spay or neuter prior to surrendering.
If you are unable to adopt at this time, would you
please consider making a donation. A small amount goes a long way in
helping us in finding the dogs a forever home.
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Foster for Rescue Rotts
Thank you for deciding to open your heart and home
to Rottweilers in need. Without volunteers like you to provide a place
for the dogs to stay while awaiting adoption, our work would be limited
and many dogs would suffer.
Foster homes play an integral part in the success
of rescuing Rottweilers. We do not use a shelter to hold our dogs.
Instead, all the dogs must spend a minimum amount of time in foster
care.
VonderZenn Rescue Rotts dogs come from many
different situations. Animal Control Officers call us on strays,
shelters call us when Rottweilers are brought in to a shelter, and
occasionally we will also take on a limited number of owner surrenders
when the circumstances are extreme. Many dogs enter our program under
weight or over weight, under socialized, and in need of basic training
& medical care.
Our Evaluation Team performs a rigid temperament
evaluation on each dog in order to determine whether or not the dog is
a suitable candidate for our program.
Foster homes provide the dogs a second chance to
find a forever family. VonderZenn Rescue Rotts dogs are placed in a
foster home for a minimum of two weeks before being adopted, sometimes
dogs are in foster care for much longer until that perfect family comes
along. Being in foster care allows the dogs to learn how to live
harmoniously in a family environment. The dogs are taught house
manners, house training, crate training and some basic obedience.
Training guidelines will be provided and you will be kept in contact
with us. If you have Internet access, VonderZenn Rescue Rotts has an
email list for foster care providers that enables the entire foster
group to communicate with each other quickly and efficiently.
You will be responsible for filling out the foster
update questionnaires, taking updated photos of your dog for the
website and keeping the dog's bio up to date. If we have an approved
adopter that is interested in your foster, you will be talking to the
family to give them more information on the dog and to set up
appointments for the family to come meet your foster.
Dogs are matched to prospective foster homes in
the same fashion they are matched to permanent homes, including
reference verifications and a home visit. We ask that you carefully
communicate what types of situations are acceptable to you, and have
all members of your family understand their importance in fostering a
dog. Kids in particular play a very important role in foster homes as
they give so much of themselves to these animals. They are also the
saddest in the family to see their foster dog go. However, children
should NEVER be left alone with any animal, particularly the foster
dogs. Our goal is to have these dogs succeed.
If you should decide to apply to be a foster carer your application will take 2-3 weeks to process.
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Adoption Application Form
This application must be completed in its
entirety. All applicants will be thoroughly screened and a home check
completed, without exception. It is only to insure the safety and
well-being of all those entrusted in our care that we strictly adhere
to these rules.
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