One Last Good Home Sanctuary & Hospice

Additional adoption info

Our adoption process works as follows:

1. Print off and complete an application for adoption that can be found on our web site at http://ocpoundhounds.com/how-to-adopt/

2. Submit the application by scanning and e-mailing;

3. Your application will be reviewed and if we feel there is a potential match a telephone interview will be conducted. If the telephone interview determines there is a good match we will check veterinarian, grooming and personal references provided on the application;

4. If the references are positive, we then arrange a Meet & Greet with all members of the family (and other dogs) at a neutral location;

5. If the Meet & Greet is successful, we then arrange for a 10-day in-home adoption trial to start. We recommend these start on a Friday evening to give you the weekend to adjust with your new family member;

6. After 10 days the adoption is evaluated, and if successful, the adoption is finalized. At this time all medical and vaccination information we have on the dog while in our care is transferred.

Each of our dogs have different adoption donation requests, usually starting from $250. This is a 100% Federal and CA 501 (c) 3 tax deductible donation under section 170 of the IRS code. We are listed on GuideStar.org. This donation covers some of the veterinary / medical costs for the dogs, housing food, board, flea prevention, micro-chipping and transportation, just to mention a few things.

We are an all-volunteer run organization who have full-time, regular employment and run the rescue after hours. Therefore we do not conduct individual dog previews. Please check our website for our Meet & Greets dates and locations.

Our dogs are not adopted out from Meet & Greets, and we do not place on a First Come, First Served basis.

We adopt out on the principle of what home is the best home for that dog, from what we determine by knowing the dog, his/her personality and learning about the lifestyle of the family interested in adopting .

All potential adopters must be over 25 years of age to consider adopting an OCPoundhounds. Please Note: We do not adopt out our small breed dogs to families with children under the age of 14 years, unless specified on the dog's profile.

We rarely place dogs with someone who is renting their residence. Our adoption restrictions have developed over time, and are a result of many years of working in the rescue world. We’re contacted regularly by people who desperately want to surrender their dogs to us because they rent and their Landlord no longer wants pets on the premises, or they are moving and cannot take their dog with them to their new residence. Hundreds of dogs are euthanized weekly in California shelters due to similar circumstances.