Re-Homing Your Pet

Helpful Tips for Rehoming Your Pet

Deciding that your pet needs a new home is not an easy decision. Angel of Hope is here to support you and your pet. Finding a home for your pet on your own and keeping them out of the shelter is beneficial to both YOU AND YOUR PET.

A healthy pet is easier to rehome. Make certain your pet is up-to-date on all vaccinations. Provide copies of the vet paperwork. If your pet is not spayed or neutered, we highly recommend getting this done.

It is better for your pet if you are able to rehome them yourself. The shelter can be a very stressful environment for any pet. Ask people in person, but also leave a flyer so they can contact you if they know of someone or decide to adopt your pet themselves. Ask family, friends and co-workers if they know anyone who is looking for a new pet. Create flyers, post to local Facebook groups and Nextdoor.com.

Make colorful and creative flyers highlighting special information about your pet:

  • Location

  • Pets Name

  • Age

  • Breed

  • Sex

  • Spayed/Neutered

  • Vaccine Status

  • Flea meds

  • Brief bio

  • Good with Kids?  Other pets?  Favorite Toys?  Temperament?  Bite History?

  • Rehoming Fee

  • Recent photos

Pet Relinquishment
We urge you to exhaust all other resources and alternatives before surrendering your pet to an open intake shelter. This helps shelters ensure resources are available for the pets that need it most -- those who are lost, displaced, homeless, injured, or sick.

Angel of Hope Animal Rescue is not an open intake shelter.

Our current policy requires that intake must be by appointment only after a surrender application is completed, and we have officially accepted them into our program. If you have a stray dog or cat, please call 311 or your local impound.  We cannot take in strays at this time. Open intake shelters are run by a local government and accept domestic animals from the city/county they serve. Private shelters and rescue groups select animals from different sources as well as municipal shelters. Some private/rescue groups occasionally accept owner-surrendered animals directly from the public. We are one of those rescues. But they must be a good candidate for our program.

If you adopted your pet from Angel of Hope, please complete our 'Return' form on our website and make sure you use the name of the person who signed the adoption paperwork or your pet's microchip number, and the reason for the return,  so we can locate the info in our system and send you return information.

If not, did you adopt from any other rescue? Most rescues take their animals back. Just contact them.

Resources to Help You Re-Home Your Pet

  • Home to Home is an online pet placement platform that helps pet owners find new homes (permanent or temporary) for their pets. Home To Home believes pets that need a new home do best if they can be transitioned directly from their current home to a new, loving home and avoid the stress of a stay at an animal shelter. Help your pet find a new home or temporary foster care by creating a new pet profile. Click here to get started.

  • Rehome by Adopt A Pet The experts at Adopt-a-Pet.com have created a simple, reliable, free program to help you place your pet from your loving home directly to another. Rehome by Adopt-a-Pet.com is a user-friendly resource for those who are seeking to rehome or adopt an animal. Click here to get started.

  • Rehome with Love, offered by Joyful Pets, supports pet guardians through the challenging process of rehoming a cherished pet. The program aims to keep pets out of shelters by helping them find loving homes directly, while pet parents continue to care for their pets throughout the process. Rehome with Love provides full support, including creating profiles, screening adopters, facilitating introductions, and offering post-adoption care. Rehoming a pet is a loving decision, and Rehome with Love is dedicated to guiding and supporting guardians every step of the way.