Sunshine Golden Retriever Rescue - Sunshine Golden Retriever Rescue - working together with families in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, New York, and New Jersey to find forever homes for Goldens in need.

Sunshine Golden Retriever Rescue, LLC

Making the world a brighter place, one great dog at a time!

Adoption Information and Application

Adopting a Sunshine Golden
The steps to adopting a SGRR dog include:

Adopiton fees are as follows:

		$450 for “pure bred” Goldens under age 7;
		$350 for Seniors--over age 7--special
		needs Goldens, Labs, and Golden mixes;
		$250 for our “Golden Hearted” dogs--our
		non-golden friends.

1. Adoption

Application

2. Vet Reference

Check

3. Telephone

Interview

4. Home Visit

5. A

option

Committee

Approval

doption Fee &

Contract

If you do not include vet's phone number(s) your application will not be processed and you will need to reapply
with the complete contact information.

Please read the following information carefullybefore completing an adoption application

In order to be considered for one of our rescue dogs, you MUST complete an adoption application which can be found here
on our website. We ask that you provide as much information as possible about your family, lifestyle, previous dog
experience, and your needs. Applications which are incomplete will not be considered.

A vet reference check will be conducted as part of your application review to ensure that you have been a responsible pet
owner in the past. If you have never owned a dog before, we may ask you to provide personal references as well as the
name and number of the vet you plan to use.

Following review of your application, should we feel you are a good candidate for a rescue Golden, one of our volunteers will
contact you to conduct a telephone interview. This step allows us to get to know you better and provides you with an
opportunity to ask lots of questions!

The fourth and most important step in our adoption process is a home visit. Home visits are MANDATORY. ALL
MEMBERS of the household must be in attendance. The purpose of the home visit is to determine what type of dog will be
best-suited to your family. A SGRR volunteer will contact you to schedule the visit and will often bring a dog with them. This
visit is a wonderful opportunity for you to discuss your needs, expectations, and wishes. Many times applicants have had one
dog in mind, only to discover over the course of the home visit, that a different dog would be a much better match. Our
volunteers are skilled at helping to determine how a dog will fit into your routine, and which type of dog would be happiest to
join your family.

Finally, all information about your family – application, vet reference, telephone interview, and home visit report are
reviewed. If we feel we have a match for you, the Adoption Coordinator will contact you to discuss which dog is the best
match for your family. If that dog is fostered locally, we will arrange a meeting. If the dog we feel is the best match for you is
not fostered in your area, we will put you in contact with the person who knows that dog best. If you decide to adopt that
dog, transport details will be provided to you. We have many applicants who adopt “sight unseen” based on the best
available information about a particular dog.

Our process is thorough and can take some time. If you are looking to adopt a dog immediately, we may not be the best
avenue for you. It is always difficult to predict how long it will take before a match is found. The time frame is dependent
upon several factors – the criteria for the best match for your family (experienced applicants who are willing and able to take
on a dog with a variety of needs will likely find a match more quickly); our pool of available dogs; and scheduling. We are all
volunteers who donate most of our “spare” time to this work and must work around other commitments. We do our best to
move applicants through our process in a timely fashion. Some adoptions can take weeks or months, others can happen as
quickly as several days. Your patience and understanding are greatly appreciated!

We are committed to our dogs before, during, and after adoption. We provide ongoing support to our adopters. Our goal is
to find and help foster permanent loving relationships for each dog we bring into rescue. If there are issues after adoption, we
work with our adopters to resolve those issues. We do the best we can to learn as much about our dogs as possible, but can
never predict with 100% certainty how a dog will evolve within a home. There are many factors at play in establishing
relationships between dog and family – we do all we can to support the process and educate adopters as needed. In the
event that a match does not work out, we welcome that dog back into rescue and find a more suitable home.

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