27/08/2026
5 things that rescuers love and will DEFINITELY help your adoption application go to the top of the list.
1- make sure that you write on your application how s**t you think we are. A recent great example of this is “Why do you people make it so hard to adopt a dog. I have heard you are painful to rescue from” in the questions and comments section of our adoption form. Great questions, we will certainly lower our standards to make you more comfortable.
2- rude comments on our social media posts. “Too much s**t to go through” made us really think about posting our beautiful, highly adoptable dogs with a link to the online adoption application. Filling in a form from the comfort of your own home is clearly too much to ask for.
3- ringing/texting at all hours of the day and night (despite our posts having a link to the online form which is the first and only way to apply). There is nothing that exhausted rescuers love more than finally falling asleep before being woken by the phone at 10pm or 6am. We love to know that you are so eager to jump the queue that you don’t care about anyone else.
4- Not getting back to us about your application when we have attempted to contact you. Yes, of course, you were the only applicant for this highly sought after dog and they have been sitting here waiting for 2 weeks while you have been “busy”.
5- Rudeness on the phone. The more you talk over us, raise your voice, be pushy, get angry or refer to a dog as “it” the more likely we are to place an animal in your care. Our years of experience have taught us that the more volatile someone is, the nastier they are and the more arrogant they are, the more deserving they are of a rescue dog who has, perhaps, already been traumatised.
I hope this helps!
