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Help with Keeping Your Pet
Pets come into our lives in many different ways, but sometimes life makes it challenging to keep them. Many shelters and rescues are full and have no available foster homes, making it difficult to accept displaced animals. Fortunately, there are more and more resources available to pet owners to help them keep their companions. Here are some resources that could help you.
Veterinary Care Assistance
TEXAS COALITION FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION (TCAP)
Food Assistance
Behavioral & Other Resources
The Humane Society of the United States
Dallas Pets Alive PASS Program
Returning Your TMHPR Pet
If you adopted your pet through TMHPR, please fill out the application below. If you have the original pet name or any of the original paperwork, please indicate that as well. Regardless of how long it has been since their adoption, TMHPR will accept pets that were adopted from us as soon as we find them an available foster home.
Rehoming Your Pet
If you can care for your pet while finding it a new home, you may try the home-to-home online sites. These sites allow you to create a profile for your pet that can be viewed nationally. Two of the larger ones are Home to Home Animal Adoption and Adopt a Pet.
It is also worth checking with your city’s animal shelter. Some have high success rates for rehoming pets. Some are even no-kill shelters.
Searching the internet for local rescues, including breed-specific rescues, may give you additional options.
Please be aware that Take Me Home Pet Rescue is running at full capacity and must decline most surrender requests.
Every foster pet we support lives with and is cared for by a volunteer family, and most have several animals and often children. For the good of all our animals and volunteers, we try to match each animal with a suitable foster home. For this reason, we are unable to accept animals that have shown aggressive behavior.
If you would like to be on our waiting list, please fill out an intake application. Though you may not receive a response from us, we do review each application and will contact you if we have an opening.
About Pet Abandonment
Pets that have come to rely on humans as caretakers are not always able to adapt to the wild and often live the remainder of their shortened lives in constant fear.
In Texas, abandoning an animal is considered a serious animal cruelty offense that carries strict punishments. Penalties for abandoning an animal is a Class A misdemeanor in Texas and, if convicted, a person can face up to a year in jail and up to $4,000 in fines.
Though it is not a pleasant option, surrendering your pet to a shelter may be a more humane option than abandonment. This is a very personal decision, and a very difficult one, but one worth considering.