HOW TO Adopt an animal

Helpful Adoption Application Tips

  • Please make sure only one person in your household fills out an application. The person who fills out the application will be the person expected to come in and sign the contract for the pet if approved.

  • Please make sure you fill out all fields. Any areas outlined in blue or with blue text are staff only please leave those areas blank.

  • In order to process your application faster, we recommend attaching proof of current rabies and distemper vaccinations for any resident cat(s) and/or dogs.

Fill out and Submit an adoption application

  • Click the button to download the application to your computer.

  • Open w/Adobe Acrobat/Reader and fill out. You need to download Acrobat Reader. This will not work properly in a browser window (required sections are outlined in red).

  • When you are done click the submit button and it will guide you how to email it to us.

  • We will process your application within 24 hours of receiving it.

  • If we’re not able to give your application a general approval or the animal you are interested in is no longer available we will reach out (typically by email) letting you know and going over what we still may need.

  • Adoption counselling is done over-the-phone between 1pm and 4pm each day. If your application was given a general approval and the animal you are interested in is still available, we will call within one to three business days to do that counselling.

  • Approvals for specific animals are only given once adoption counselling is done after which an appointment will be scheduled for you to sign adoption paperwork and officially take the animal home.

Please call 608-781-4014 if you have any questions.

You can also print it and fill it in by hand as well. If you fill it out by hand you will need to bring it in to us for processing.

The Farm Animal Adoption Application is reserved for goats, sheep, pigs, and poultry (domestic ducks, chickens, domestic quails, domestic turkeys, guinea hens, etc.) To download our Working Cat Application, click here. For all other adoption interests, please fill out the General Adoption Application.