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Placement Assistance
North Star Rescue offers a Placement Assistance program to help owners find new homes for pets they can no longer keep themselves. This program is intended to help owners while the pet remains under their care, and is not intended for owners who immediately need to give up a pet. If you need to surrender an animal, please check our Surrender a Pet page.
Owners participating in the Placement Assistance program provide North Star Rescue with information and pictures of the animal(s) they are trying to find new homes for. We add a listing online to our Pets Available by Owner page, as well as run advertisements online on Craigslist. We also provide a flier in PDF format that owners can print out and post at local pet stores and veterinary offices.
Please note that your pet will not be listed on Petfinder.com. You may register with Petfinder.com to use their free classifieds ad section. However, it is against Petfinder's Terms of Service for us to add listings to our account for individuals.
During the time an owner is searching for a new home for their pet, they are welcome to contact North Star Rescue with questions about how to screen potential new homes before adopting out their pet.
Please read our Placement Assistance Program Rules and Guidelines before filling out a Placement Assistance Request. You will find the link to our Placement Assistance Request Form at the bottom of this page.
Placement Assistance Program Rules
North Star Rescue's Placement Assistance program is a free program, and is subject to a reasonable amount of use.
- Requests for Placement Assistance must be made for personally owned animals only. The legal owner or guardian of an animal must be the one making the request for Placement Assistance.
- This service is limited to animals that are personal pets. People involved in the intentional breeding of animals may not list animals with our Placement Assistance program.
- Rabbits in the Placement Assistance program must be spayed or neutered, or adopted out on a Spay/Neuter contract with their new owners.
- Owners must charge an adoption fee for the animals listed, which may not exceed North Star Rescue's adoption fees. This is to prevent those people who may be trying to sell animals for profit from abusing the service.
Placement Assistance Guidelines
- Owners are expected to actively work to find their pet a new home, both on their own and with North Star Rescue's assistance. We recommend that owners talk to local pet stores, humane societies, rescues, shelters and veterinary offices to help put the word out that they have an animal that needs a new home.
- Owners are expected to care for their pet and keep it in good health while they seek a new home for their pet. Owners are expected to provide adaquate socialization to keep their pet friendly during this time as well.
- Owners should recognize that animals with health or behavioral problems, or animals that are very elderly, are not as likely to be adopted. We do not recommend that owners put an animal up for adoption as a way of avoiding paying vet bills.
- While an animal is waiting for adoption, Owners should look for ways to try to make their pet more adoptable to a new family. Having an animal spayed/neutered, well socialized and healthy makes it easier for an animal to be adopted.
- Owners should make efforts to communicate promptly with interested adopters who call or e-mail. Be sure you have provided accurate contact information.
- It is important to take the time to talk with new potential owners and be sure that you are placing your pet into a responsible new home. You should ensure that your pet's adopters are prepared to care for the animal, and have reasonable expectations about the health, behavior and personality of their new pet.
- It is important to remember that when you are adopting out your pet, you must be prepared to let them go. While this may seem obvious, we hear of many adopters who have been put off on adopting an owner's animal because the owner requests to be allowed to drop by and visit, or has unreasonable expectations of their animal being cared for in exactly the same manner they would have cared for the animal. If you are not prepared for your animal to become a part of someone else's family, it is best to explore alternatives to keeping the animal in your own care.
- Owners should be completely honest about their pet's age, health, personality, temperament and history with potential adopters. If your pet has any issues, be sure their new potential family knows before they bring them home!
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Placement Assistance
