- I agree to provide a good loving home for the Dog, including appropriate food, water, shelter, exercise and regular veterinary care for normal maintenance of the Dog. The Dog has been given required vaccines, including rabies, tested for heartworm, and given heartworm preventative, which I agree to maintain and keep up to date, in accordance with recommendations of a licensed veterinarian.
- I agree to provide a fenced yard to keep the Dog safe and secured on my property or under my direct control at all times. The Dog will not be chained, tethered, or allowed to roam unsupervised.
- I agree that it is my responsibility to know, understand, and comply with animal control ordinances in my county of residence and especially if I am adopting a dog with defined "bully breed" characteristics, and will not knowingly place a dog adopted from PTKCP in danger of being confiscated or euthanized.
- If any veterinarian, animal care agency, or society contacts PTKCP about the ownership, welfare, or care of the Dog in the future, I understand and agree that PTKCP may either"
- Consider me to have abandoned the Dog, and forfeited all right and interest in ownership of the Dog, and PTKCP will resume ownership of the Dog, to make it available to another adoptive owner, or
- Condition return of the Dog to me, contingent on my improved care for the Dog
- While in training, the dog has been a companion animal, living both indoors and outdoors, and the Dog has been provided an appropriate-sized crate for safe containment indoors when not attended. The Dog has slept in a crate near its handler at night. I understand the continued use of the crate is recommended until the Dog is fully acclimated to the new situation.
- I realize that all dogs have individual personalities and agree not to have unrealistic expectations for my new pet because the results I may experience with the Dog in a new home environment are totally dependent upon how I reinforce training for the Dog when it leaves PTKCP. I may contact PTKCP at 719-269-4650 for advice, FREE alumni classes with a PTKCP instructor, and reduced fee refresher training, or I may return the Dog to the program.
- I agree to attend a 90-minute "Go HOME CLASS" including both the lecture and hands-on demonstration portions of the class to provide the best chance of success for me and the Dog.