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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not all of the shelters and rescues in the area make it difficult! Humane Rescue Alliance prides itself on being friendly to adopters - and so do the other local shelters:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/02/02/millions-of-dogs-need-homes-why-is-it-sometimes-hard-to-adopt-one/?utm_term=.a9e30d118973[/quote]

I last adopted a dog more than 14 years ago from WARL (before they merged with the Humane Society) and it was tough to get a dog from them.  You had to have a home visit before you could be approved and no one took an animal home the same day. I would not have called them "adopter friendly" back then.  I had no idea that they had loosened the process after the merger.

Having said that, I adopted two dogs through them despite the hurdles and it was totally worth it. [/quote]

Things have changed a lot in the last decade and a half. Very few shelters do home visits anymore - even private nonprofit shelters don't really do them now. They just aren't best practices. Some rescue groups still do. I'm sure WARL would not do home visits now, if they still existed as a separate entity from HRA.

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It sounds like it has!  Both of our dogs lived in to their late teens (one is still with us!), so we haven't looked at adoption practices in years.  [/quote]

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