Brian K.

I may be wrong, or read it wrong, but did you adopt the dog to NY because the person wanted a dog that was not spay/neutered? We, Stray Rescue, have adopted to out of state, but not often.... not counting IL which we are only miles away fr…
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I may be wrong, or read it wrong, but did you adopt the dog to NY because the person wanted a dog that was not spay/neutered?

We, Stray Rescue, have adopted to out of state, but not often.... not counting IL which we are only miles away from.

We do however try not to adopt out of state because we do Home Visits. We have had some long distance "HV" in CO, CA and KY. We have to send out an email within our group asking if anyone knows anyone in that area. If we do have some one we will have them check them out.

With the issue of hoarding we are very careful that we don't just hand over a dog without checking them out. People with problems will do anything for their fix. They will think that a dog in their home with 120 more is better than living in a shelter. I have only heard of three people saying no about home visits in 4 years. they did not get a dog from us.. total red flag!

We also have a 4% return rate because of the "HV". We take that time to talk with the people and make sure they understand what they are getting themselves into.

I think if you are careful adopting out of state that is a good thing. Maybe with the Zootoo.com connection the State-to-state issue will not be a big deal at all. Read Less