Adoption Process

We require this before we arrange a meeting between applicant and foster. Since we are a foster based organization, it is our priority to take the safety of our foster family into consideration.

This application will tell us about you, your lifestyle, and background with animals.

Our application review team will initially screen your application to determine if all necessary information was provided. After this initial review is complete, the application will be sent to volunteers who conduct the reference checks and home visits.

If it is determined that you rent your home, your landlord will be contacted to make sure you have approval to have an animal in your home; along with any restrictions on weight or breed.

If your landlord does not allow for an animal in your home, your application will be denied at this point in the process. 

If you have current pets, we require a veterinary reference. We ask if all of your current pets are sterilized and up to date on vaccinations. If you don’t have any current pets, we will ask about the veterinary care that your previous pets received. If you have never owned a pet, this step is skipped.

You must contact your vet prior to this step to authorize a release of record information to Furry Friends Rockin’ Rescue so we can complete this veterinary check.

If your veterinary reference(s) cannot verify the spay/neuter and vaccination status of current or previous pets, your application will be denied during this step.

Your personal references will be contacted to ask questions on you as a pet owner. This can take the most amount of time. Asking your references to return calls in a timely fashion will eliminate some gaps in the processing of your application.

If our volunteers have any concerns with you adopting a pet, your application will be denied at this point.

We require home visits to determine that the animal will be living in a safe environment. The volunteer will do a short walk through of your home and yard, point out any safety concerns, and advise any area of concerns they might have. All household members must be present for the home visit.

With our main location being in the Bismarck-Mandan area, we often run into distance as being a home visit concern. We have volunteers across the state who are willing to help.

If our volunteers have any concerns about your home visit, or you deny a home visit, your application will be denied. 

We are a foster based rescue. We do not have a shelter or a building to create an appointment time to meet animals. We will not arrange meetings between animals and adopters until an application has been approved.

Once you have been approved, a volunteer (usually the foster) will contact you about scheduling a time for you to meet the animal you are interested in. This meeting may occur at the foster’s residence or your home.

This meeting does not guarantee you to be the final adopting decision on the animal. We may receive multiple applications, where multiple meetings will have to occur for that animal. Also, if the volunteer involved in the meeting does not think you are a good fit for that particular pet, you may be denied adoption to that specific animal but can still be considered for another.

If you have decided to go forward with the adoption, after the approval has been given, you are required to sign the adoption contract and provide the adoption donation fee. If you adopt an animal that is too young to be sterilized, we will walk through the options we have for this situation.

If you decide the animal is not a good fit for your home, you are required to return the animal to our rescue. The adoption donation fee will be forfeited and considered a donation to the rescue. Please contact us if you have any issues with the pet you adopted.

If you adopt an animal that was too young to be sterilized prior to adoption, you will be required to have the animal sterilized by no later than six months of age, unless there is a health concern noted by a professional veterinarian.

Our adoption contract contains a clause that allows one of our volunteers the ability to perform a follow-up visit. We may require such a visit if we feel that the terms of the adoption contract are not being met. We are committed to the life, health, and well being of every animal we place for the remainder of their life. Should the adoption not work out or you need to rehome the animal, we require, by contract, that the animal be returned to us. Please notify us immediately at ffrrinc@gmail.com if this situation occurs.