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Adoption Application

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY:

Scout’s Honor Rescue, Inc. thanks you for seeking to adopt a rescue animal. Our goal is to place our rescued pets in permanent, loving homes. We understand this application/contract is lengthy, but it has been formulated through years of experience and with the assistance of veterinarians to ensure the permanency of placement and to minimize the risk of a failed adoption. Please complete this application/contract so that we at Scout’s Honor Rescue can assist you in finding a special, compatible companion to join your family. We do not adopt dogs or cats on a “first come, first served” basis, but rather make every attempt to match families with the most compatible pets.

The customary adoption fee for pets is $150.00 for dogs and $85.00 for cats. Scout’s Honor is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) animal rescue organization, and your adoption fee is tax deductible (a receipt will be sent to you within the calendar year of theadoption). Because Scout’s Honor Rescue is a non-profit organization, we exist solely on donations, and these fees help Scout’s Honor Rescue defray the costs of spaying/neutering, testing, and vaccinating our pets. However, these fees rarely cover all of our expenses. Our pets are heartworm tested and placed on heartworm preventative. As the Adopter, you agree that if the pet is heartworm positive, Heartgard® (or its ivermectin equivalent) is the only preventative that may be administered to kill the heartworms (what Scout’s Honor Rescue commonly refers to as “soft heartworm treatment”). Any other type of heartworm preventative or treatment could cause the pet to become seriously ill or even die. A Scout’s Honor Rescue representative is happy to answer any questions you might have about such soft treatment.

Please make checks payable to “Scout’s Honor Rescue.” If applicable, adoption fees may also be made via this donation link. As a general procedure, if your application is approved and the adoption is consummated by the signature of a Scout’s Honor Rescue representative, you will receive copies of your new pet’s vet records via email within approximately seventy­two (72) hours so that you may schedule a visit with your veterinarian. Although all Scout’s Honor Rescue pets are fully vetted, Scout’s Honor Rescue strongly recommends that you take your new pet to your regular veterinarian as soon as possible to have a physical exam and to get your pet started on heartworm and flea preventative. Heartworm preventative MUST be administered to your pet once a month. As a next step, Scout’s Honor Rescue will then send via regular mail or e­mail a signed copy of this application to you, along with the “hard copy” vet records and rabies tag, within two weeks. Please keep this information in a safe place.

Because the animals in Scout’s Honor Rescue’s adoption program are rescued, we do not know their actual ages. The approximate age of the pet in which you are interested is estimated using our experience and the advice of our veterinarians. Often times, different veterinarians may approximate different ages for the same pet, which may appear on their respective records. Scout’s Honor Rescue thus uses reasonable efforts to approximate an appropriate age, but makes no affirmative representation that the approximate age is the actual age of the pet. Furthermore, any adopted pet, whether rescued or not, needs time to adjust to its new home environment. Our pets are typically kept in foster homes, and our foster parents use best efforts to housetrain/crate train each pet, although be aware that your new pet may require an adjustment period. Because of a shortage of foster homes, some of our pets are kept in a kennel, and a little extra work may be required to acclimate your pet to its new home. Scout’s Honor Rescue has handouts on housetraining and crate training that we can provide to you to help in the initial transition period. 

I hereby give permission for any veterinarian providing service to me to release medical information on any and all of my animals to Scout’s Honor Rescue-Houston.


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Please state the breed, sex, etc. of each pet, including whether it was spayed or neutered and on heartworm preventive, how and when the pet was acquired, and why you no longer have the animal.


Adoption, Release, and Indemnity Agreement

A BINDING AGREEMENT is made as of the date set forth below (NOTE: A binding agreement is only consummated once a Scout’s Honor Representative signs). WHEREAS, Adopter wishes to take custody of the herein mentioned pet above.

Enrollment in pet recovery services provided by HomeAgain or Avid is included in your adoption fee. Scout’s Honor Rescue will remain as the Primary contact and Adopter will be enrolled as the alternate contact.

NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of Scout’s Honor Rescue’s relinquishment of custody of Pet and other good and valuable consideration provided to Adopter by Scout’s Honor Rescue, which Adopter acknowledges is good and sufficient consideration for Adopter’s agreements herein, Adopter hereby gives and grants unto Scout’s Honor Rescue, as a basis on which Pet is released, this Adoption, Release, and Indemnity Agreement, and promises, covenants, and agrees as follows:

HOLD HARMLESS/ INDEMNIFICATION
SCOUT’S HONOR RESCUE (AND ITS OFFICERS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, VOLUNTEERS, AFFILIATED ENTITIES, AND/OR AGENTS) SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO ADOPTER ON ANY THEORY OF LEGAL LIABILITY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE NEGLIGENCE OF SCOUT’S HONOR RESCUE (AND/OR ITS OFFICERS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, VOLUNTEERS AND/OR AGENTS), FOR ANY INJURY, DEATH OR DAMAGE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY CAUSED BY PET. ADOPTER DOES HEREBY RELEASE SCOUT’S HONOR RESCUE (AND ITS OFFICERS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, VOLUNTEERS AND/OR AGENTS) FROM ANY AND ALL LIABILITY, CLAIMS, SUITS, OBLIGATIONS, DEMANDS, OR CAUSES OF ACTION, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, FORESEEN OR UNFORESEEN, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING IN ANY WAY TO PET OR SCOUT’S HONOR RESCUE’S RELEASE OF PET TO ADOPTER. IT IS THE EXPRESSED INTENTION OF ADOPTER AND SCOUT’S HONOR RESCUE THAT THE RELEASE PROVIDED FOR IN THIS PARAGRAPH IS DESIGNED AND INTENDED TO PROTECT SCOUT’S HONOR RESCUE (AND ITS OFFICERS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, VOLUNTEERS, AND/OR AGENTS) FROM ANY PERSONAL INJURY CLAIMS BY ADOPTER OR OTHERS AND FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY HARM, BEHAVIOR, OR OTHER ACTION BY PET, AND FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY ACT OR OMISSION OR NEGLIGENCE ON THE PART OF SCOUT’S HONOR RESCUE (AND ITS OFFICERS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, VOLUNTEERS AND/OR AGENTS) IN OBTAINING CUSTODY OF PET, IN PROVIDING CARE FOR PET, IN TRAINING OR NOT TRAINING PET, OR IN FAILING TO PROVIDE TIMELY OR ADEQUATE WARNING TO ANY PERSON CONCERNING PET.

ADOPTER further promises, covenants and agrees (please initial by EACH applicable promise, covenant, and representation):

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YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 23 YEARS OF AGE TO ADOPT. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO DECLINE ANY APPLICATION.

My signature below affirms that I have read and agree to all the above conditions: