Rehoming

Rehoming

Need to Find a New Home for Your Pet?

Here Are Ways You Can Start This Process To Avoid Shelters & Rescues

Consider the cause of the issue. Issues with your pets can leave you feeling like the only option is to rehome your pet. Before going that route, consider some of these resources in order to help you with the best possible outcome: keeping your pet.

Behavior

Many behavior problems can be caused by a treatable medical condition. For example, a house-trained pet may begin urinating in the house due to a urinary tract infection that a veterinarian can diagnose and easily treat. Always start by taking your pet to the vet to rule out a physical issue. If no medical issue is present, consider a trainer in order to find tips and tricks that might be easy fixes to your particular concern.


Housing or Financial Concerns?

For some great info on how to keep your pet in your rental housing, click here. If you are having trouble finding housing that takes your restricted breed dogs, check out mypitbullisfamily.org for lists of housing that accepts various breeds. If finances are an issue, check out some of the charities in our area that provide assistance for medical care. This can be found in the resources section.  Assistance with finding resources by zipcode can also be found here.


For other solutions to financial concerns, check out some suggestions from HSUS. For help with housing, food, paying bills and more,visit findhelp.org, type in your zip code and then click on the relevant topic.

Being deployed? Seek temporary pet fostering while you are gone, so you can be reunited when you return!

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Allergies?

Check out these resources for help on managing allergies with pets.

Finding A New Home For Your Pet

If you feel you have exhausted all of your options and still need to rehome your pet, here are some considerations:

  • Your home is always the best place for your pet while you look for a forever home for them. Please consider fostering the animal rather than handing them off to someone else and causing undue stress.
  • Make the pet more adoptable by having it spayed or neutered and up to date on vaccines. This makes the prospect more appealing to potential adopters.
  • Get good, clear photos of the pet. Include a short bio, likes and dislikes and if they are house trained or good with other pets or kids.
  • Advertise through friends, neighbors and local veterinarians. You can get the most publicity by posting to your personal pages, asking friends, or having flyers at the vet. You can also post your pet at https://rehome.adoptapet.com/ for a wider audience.
  • Be transparent about the pets needs, quirks and reasons you are needing to rehome them.


If none of this works for you, contact your local rescue or shelter or fill out a dog or cat relinquishment form. Please consider fostering the animal while they are adoptable with us if you can, as often the wait to get in is simply due to lack of open foster homes or space.


We suggest you submit relinquishments to various rescues for your best chances of getting into one. Here is a list of dog and cat rescues.

Help Find Your Pet a New Home With Columbia Second Chance in Columbia, MO.

I found a stray, what do I do?

First, do not assume a loose cat is stray! Many cats are “community cats” which means they are fixed and have a caretaker watching and feeding them. Some cats also get to go outside and have homes. Do not take a cat from an area before being certain that it is stray. 

If you find a dog or cat you feel strongly is a stray or lost, please call your preferred vet or animal control to have it checked for a microchip. Many pets are chipped and the company can help reunite the animal with its owner.

If you have found a pet and it is not chipped, contact animal control and your local humane society and notify them you have found an animal, along with description in case an owner is looking. Posting to your social media, neighborhood apps, or even posting flyers are good ways to let others know you may have found their pet.


If you have exhausted all options, you can pursue rehoming the animal after 10 business days have passed for a stray hold. We will not take in stray animals who have not been held for stray hold and an honest effort at finding an owner has been completed.

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