13/06/2025
🐾 SAFE REHOMING GUIDE 🐾
If you're faced with the difficult decision of rehoming your pet, it's crucial to ensure their safety and well-being. Rehoming a pet requires careful planning and consideration to avoid potential risks and find a loving new home.
This post will serve as a guide on safe rehoming, including tips, precautions, and resources for this group.
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Tips for safely rehoming your pet:
💛 Start by asking family and friends if they can offer temporary accommodation or a permanent home for your pet.
💛 Please ensure you do a house inspection before handing the animal to anyone. If it’s too far, do a video chat and have them walk through.
💛 Always get your pet desexed prior to rehoming if not already, to ensure they are not going to be used for breeding.
💛 Ask for ID, and include a small adoption fee. It doesn’t need to be a lot but to ensure the safety of your pet, if they refuse to pay a fee, they may not be the right home for your pet.
💛 Request a veterinary reference from potential adopters to confirm their ability to properly care for a pet, or call their vet yourself.
💛 Have potential adopters sign an adoption contract that includes agreements on care and microchipping.
💛 Research and contact breed-specific rescue groups through directories like Pet Rescue (www.petrescue.com.au). These groups may offer advice, advertise the animal, and provide additional assistance.
💛 If you adopted your pet from a registered breeder or a rescue group, please ensure you contact them to see if they can take the animal back or offer help.
💛 Microchip/ownership can be transfered 2-3 weeks after rehoming. Go for a visit and make sure your beloved pet is happy and safe in their new home before transferring ownership
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Precautions to take:
⚠️ Please DO NOT use gumtree as a site to advertise your pet, and AVOID advertising your pet as "free to a good home" to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.
⚠️ AVOID giving away your pet to someone who is unwilling to provide a veterinary reference or unwilling to allow a house inspection. The right person for your pet, would happily do these checks to prove your pet will be going into the right home.
⚠️ Be cautious of anyone who is overly interested in your pet if they are being advertised for free, they may have intentions to use the animal for dogfighting, bait or other harmful and illegal “activities” if you suspect someone is involved in dogfighting, please let the admins know and report them to the police and RSPCA.
⚠️ Please note that dog fighting rings are a VERY serious and real issue in Australia. Sadly, these people create fake profiles and land themselves on these sites posing as the perfect family, hence why we advise you to do the above. You wouldn’t want your pet to go from living with you, to going to a harmful and dangerous environment, so please ensure you take the right steps for them, they deserve that.
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Reasons for Rehoming and Alternative Solutions:
💛 Moving/landlord issues?
If you're considering rehoming your pet due to moving or your landlord not allowing pets, please contact the RSPCA (9770 7555) or Animal Welfare League (8899 3333). These organizations have programs in place to assist with these situations.
💛 Behavioural issues?
If you're rehoming due to a behavioral issue, please consult a qualified trainer or a vet behaviorist before making a final decision. Many behaviors can be easily resolved with professional help.
💛 Allergies?
Please consider getting tested by your doctor to determine the origin of the allergy and explore possible solutions, rather than rehoming your pet.
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The Rehoming Process:
Rehoming can be a lengthy process, often taking up to 3 months or more. If you have a time limit for finding a new home for your pet, consider putting the animal into temporary boarding or have someone temporarily care for the animal until a permanent home can be found.
By law, your animal must be microchipped before going to a new home. If you're rehoming a litter, all animals must be microchipped and vaccinated, and ensure all vet work is up to date, including worming and flea treatment. Ideally, have the pet desexed to prevent unwanted litters.
Remember, rehoming your pet is a significant decision, so it's important to consider all options and make an informed choice.
Thanks for reading,
Admins.
