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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS...
How much does it cost to adopt one of your dogs?
The adoption donation is $250, which helps to offset the cost of vaccinations, spaying/neutering, vet visits, physicals and any needed medical treatment. Any amount of a dog's adoption fee left over after these services is applied to another dog whose care requirements are more costly.
How can I adopt a certain dog? What is involved?
Anyone interested in a CBR dog should read our Views and Policies and, if in agreement, fill out and submit an application. During the processing phase, all references will be checked including vet and landlord (if renting). As long as there are no negative references and the application does not contain any information contradictory to our policy, a homevisit will then be scheduled. After the homevisit, the applicant is either approved to adopt, approved with contingencies or denied. At this point, we begin the process of matching your family with one of our boxers.
What is a homevisit and why is it needed?
A homevisit is a meeting between the applicant and a CBR volunteer. Our volunteer will come to your home to meet you, your family and any pets in the house. We will ask to see your yard, where you intend to keep the dog when not at home and get to know a little about your existing pets. A homevisit is required to ensure that our dog is entering a safe, friendly and healthy environment.
Can I adopt a dog that hasn't been spayed or neutered?
No. If it were not for the number of accidental as well as planned breedings of these dogs, the shelters wouldn't be overrun with them, they wouldn't be getting euthanized and they wouldn't need rescuing. In addition to those reasons, it's also much healthier to spay/neuter a dog to decrease its chances of cancer and other diseases related to being intact.
I live in a house but don't have a fence. Can I still adopt?
Yes, although we do not adopt to families who leave their boxer tied up outside unsupervised (against the law in many counties) or left outside in a pen. Dogs who are not on-leash can be stolen, lost, hit by a car, reported to animal control or fight with other dogs. Adults, children and other animals can access and taunt a dog who is tied out and unsupervised. We do adopt to applicants with invisible fences. However, realize dogs can and do escape from invisible fences, and they do not keep other dogs from entering your yard.
Does this mean that a dog can't escape a 6' privacy fence? No, not at all. But the chances of the dog getting out or someone coming in to tease or steal the dog are much smaller than if the fence were not in place. We do have require families with multiple dogs to have a fence.
How soon can I adopt?
The adoption process typically takes three weeks. The time period depends on a number of factors. First, please realize that CBR is a volunteer-run organization. Most of us have dayjobs, so we must check references as time permits. Secondly, it's often not easy to reach all personal references in one or two evenings. Once all of the references have been checked, we have to locate a volunteer close to you to conduct a homevisit. The meeting will be scheduled at a time convenient to both the applicant and the volunteer.
After an applicant is approved, we contact you about the boxers you are interested in as well as ones we feel would be a good match. If you are approved and we do not have the perfect match at that time, we will continue searching, giving you first choice when a dog that is a match arrives into our program. We've had approved applicants wait up to three months for the right dog while we've also had approved applicants take home their new family member in a matter of a couple of weeks from the date of application approval.
How often do you get puppies in your program?
We rarely get puppies in our program. They are a marketable commodity to many and as such will be sold in newspapers to the first person with ready cash. We do get a number of grown puppies and adolescents (ages 6 to 18 months), mainly because their original owners made an impulse decision to buy a Boxer. The pups are typical, energetic, full-grown Boxers who have the attention span of a pea in most cases. The previous owners didn't research the breed or train the pups and found that what was cute in a baby is now problematic in a full-grown adolescent. Making the decision to adopt an adolescent Boxer means that you'll need to spend a good deal of time working on basic obedience skills. You'll also need to have both a patient, fun-loving nature and a fairly active lifestyle.
Is it true that adult dogs don't bond as well as puppies do?
Absolutely not. In our experience, rescued dogs no matter the age bond tightly with their adoptive family. As most any adoptive family will tell you, the dogs honestly seem to know they were saved and spend the rest of their lives thanking you for it. The only time we recommend that you purchase a puppy instead of adopting is when you have an existing pet in the home who doesn't do well with strange adult dogs or who is very dominant in personality. In cases like these, it is sometimes better to introduce a puppy to the home to avoid provoking the existing dog's protective, possessive or domineering instincts.
Why don't you adopt to non-Carolina residents?
There are several reasons we do not adopt to applicants outside of NC or SC. In order to do homevisits, we have to have a volunteer in the vicinity of the applicant. If you don't live in the Carolinas, then we won't be able to do the homevisit. We have a return policy on all of our dogs, which means that should the adoption fail or an emergency arise, we need to be within reach for the adoptive home to return the dog. Lastly, there are Boxer rescues covering just about every state. They have plenty of dogs that need homes, and it wouldn't be right to ship a dog several states away when there are already many Boxers looking for great homes. While each dog is different, the same Boxer personality exists in all of them.
Please click on the the link below for more information: http://cbr.homestead.com/surrender.html
