I think your rules are perfectly reasonable. The dog's well-being should always be a priority.
On the other hand though... seven weeks ago I adopted an adult cat. As this was to be my first animal ever, I thought it'd be best to adopt from a rescue group, because then I could get info on the cat's character, health and habits/peculiarities. However, I ended up adopting via our local equivalent of craigslist, from a woman who was moving abroad and was seeking to rehome her cat. As it turned out, she lied to me about the cat's health, so it's been an expensive month and a half, but that's a whole another story.
The main reason why I didn't go with a rescue group? All of them, in the adoption papers, required me to agree to two conditions I found unacceptable:
1) that I'd agree not only to a pre-adoption visit (obviously), but also to surprise unscheduled post-adoption check-ups.
2) that I would not rehome the cat under any circumstances, even if after a reasonable while we completely didn't mesh, and - at the same time - that there was NO trial period.
Now I'm thinking about getting a second cat in a few months. I'll have to search hard for a rescue group that allows trial periods, because it's not a given that the two cats will go along well.
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Date: 2017-07-14 10:44 pm (UTC)On the other hand though... seven weeks ago I adopted an adult cat. As this was to be my first animal ever, I thought it'd be best to adopt from a rescue group, because then I could get info on the cat's character, health and habits/peculiarities. However, I ended up adopting via our local equivalent of craigslist, from a woman who was moving abroad and was seeking to rehome her cat. As it turned out, she lied to me about the cat's health, so it's been an expensive month and a half, but that's a whole another story.
The main reason why I didn't go with a rescue group? All of them, in the adoption papers, required me to agree to two conditions I found unacceptable:
1) that I'd agree not only to a pre-adoption visit (obviously), but also to surprise unscheduled post-adoption check-ups.
2) that I would not rehome the cat under any circumstances, even if after a reasonable while we completely didn't mesh, and - at the same time - that there was NO trial period.
Now I'm thinking about getting a second cat in a few months. I'll have to search hard for a rescue group that allows trial periods, because it's not a given that the two cats will go along well.