A couple many years ago I volunteered at a local rescue here, while it was preferable people had experience with pets (especially dogs when adopting dogs & so on) and they have an established vet references, and personal references, often personal references were accepted and it was taken into consideration that personal references were of other pet owners. Some rescues are pickier than others, search around and especially if they do an in-home inspection often showing your want to adopt and ability, along with the effort you put in like going and meeting the dogs and so on will really be taken into account. Then again the non-prof rescue I volunteered at didn't even do home inspections as many do now. Many pounds also have a private adoptions section where owners can screen and re-home their own dogs and the pound simply offers a listing service in hopes to keep dogs from being brought there. |