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Great Basin Dog Rescue

Burns, OR 97720

Contact Claire Larson
Email greatbasindogrescue@gmail.com
Phone (541) 493-2473
Website
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Areas Great Basin Dog Rescue serves

Oregon, northern California, northern Nevada, western Idaho

Great Basin Dog Rescue's adoption process

1.

Submit Application

We are in a remote area, no adoption events. If a dog is appealing, we can start a conversation.

2.

Interview

We want to make sure the dog to which you are attracted is a good fit for your lifestyle.

3.

Home Check

We know which dogs are diggers and which are jumpers. We see problems you might not notice.

4.

Meet the Pet

Because we're a long way from anywhere, we are willing to meet partway for meet-and-greets.

5.

Approve Application

6.

Sign Adoption Contract

Our contract details what the dog knows, any health considerations. You agree to be responsible for the well-being for the life of the dog.

7.

Pay Fee

Half the adoption fee goes to the correction facility youth who worked with the dog. All dogs are spayed/neutered, chipped, vaccinated.

Additional adoption info

Once you take the dog home, we then check to make sure the training is working in the new home and you have help through any problems. Our contract requires that the dog not be rehomed or taken to a shelter or animal control. If it's not working, the dog comes back to Great Basin Dog Rescue.

About Great Basin Dog Rescue

Great Basin Dog Rescue is located in a remote area of Eastern Oregon, 130 miles from the nearest shelter. It was started with the approach that training for the dog and education for the caretaker is of paramount importance. A dog cannot be considered truly “rescued” unless it is successful in its new adopted environment. Such success is dependent not only on the dog’s household manners, but also the caretaker’s understanding of the dog’s needs for physical and mental health. Our strengths are in our willingness and ability to take the time to work within the dog’s level of acceptance. We can take the time to change the dog’s emotional reaction to situations that have frightened him in the past. Great Basin Dog Rescue pairs with a group of incarcerated youth at Eastern Oregon Youth Correction Facility for part of each dog’s training. Our training includes household manners, such as waiting at doors and going to place; leash etiquette (loose leash walking, sit/down/stand, recall, stay); crate training; impulse control, appropriate take or release of food or toys; acceptance of grooming and body work; socialization, in particular to men.

Great Basin Dog Rescue's adopted pets

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Why should you adopt?

Dog adoption and cat adoption saves lives. Adopt a dog or adopt a cat and you'll have a friend for life.

What is the difference between adopting a dog, adopting a cat, adopting a kitten or adopting a puppy versus getting dogs for sale, cats for sale, puppies for sale or kittens for sale from a dog breeder or a cat breeder?

When someone is breeding puppies or breeding kittens, they are creating new dogs and cats who need homes. Some people are interested in a very specific breed of dog, cat, puppy or kitten and they think the only way to find that specific breed is to buy a dog for sale or buy a cat for sale from a puppy breeder or a kitten breeder. Yet animal shelters are filled with dogs and cats who must find homes.

So rather than buying a dog or puppy for sale from a dog breeder or buying a cat or kitten for sale from a cat breeder, we encourage people to adopt a dog, adopt a cat, adopt a puppy or adopt a kitten at their local animal shelter, SPCA, humane society or pet rescue group.