I think I've had to sign agreements with adoption orgs, but like others say above, once you are approved they will not keep up; they cannot possibly have staff for that. When I got Friday (from the Chatham animal rescue), they did come over once before I took her home, but were not intrusive, they just wanted to see my house and make sure she was going to a safe home. Some rescues have odd (to me) requirements for dogs, like you must have a fenced yard? I've never had a fenced yard, and don't leave pets outside unattended. What do they think people in apartments/cities do?
Anyhow, with the cats from IAR in Durham, I think they required that the cats be indoor-only, which was my plan anyhow, and the foster parent came over to deliver them, and we hung out for a while while they got settled, but it was very low-key and we just talked about pets and played with them, and I guess I didn't have any bad-owner red flags. Sophie's foster mom was pretty attached to her and would have kept her if I (or someone else) was not the right situation. I got Dutch from the vet's office; there was a last-minute form to fill out, but they knew me and my other pets, so just a formality.
With Andy, I got him from a rescue in Greensboro (through Petfinder, which has good filtering on their site, so I could look at only cat-friendly small dogs in the age-range I chose) so did not have a home visit, but probably agreed to some intrusive things that never happened (oh, I think I agreed that if I needed to re-home him that I would call them first and they would take him.) I never got his chip transferred to my name; it involves some weird mailing in of stuff from the rescue that I never did; I really should do that.
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Anyhow, with the cats from IAR in Durham, I think they required that the cats be indoor-only, which was my plan anyhow, and the foster parent came over to deliver them, and we hung out for a while while they got settled, but it was very low-key and we just talked about pets and played with them, and I guess I didn't have any bad-owner red flags. Sophie's foster mom was pretty attached to her and would have kept her if I (or someone else) was not the right situation. I got Dutch from the vet's office; there was a last-minute form to fill out, but they knew me and my other pets, so just a formality.
With Andy, I got him from a rescue in Greensboro (through Petfinder, which has good filtering on their site, so I could look at only cat-friendly small dogs in the age-range I chose) so did not have a home visit, but probably agreed to some intrusive things that never happened (oh, I think I agreed that if I needed to re-home him that I would call them first and they would take him.) I never got his chip transferred to my name; it involves some weird mailing in of stuff from the rescue that I never did; I really should do that.
Donkey rescue?