Need to Rehome Your Pet?
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We understand rehoming your pet can be heartbreaking - for you and your pet. We've compiled the following resources to help make rehoming your pet straightforward and judgement-free. We appreciate that you are making every effort to keep pets out of Waco's overfull shelter.
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Some pet issues have solutions: financial struggles, pet behavior, and pet allergies, to trouble finding housing that welcomes your pets, solutions may be possible.
How to Advertise Your Pet
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1. Check out Adopt-A-Pet for their FREE Rehome services and guide. Don't miss checking out their services!
2. The photos and information you include about your pet when trying to find a new home make all the difference. Animal Farm Foundation offers a FREE pet marketing guide. Many shelters and rescue organizations also use this useful guide for citizens needing to rehome their personal pet. Now, you can market your pet just like the pros!
Where to Advertise Your Pet
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1. Reach out to friends, family, and coworkers who know you and your pet to see if they can offer your pet a new home or know someone who can. Additionally, ask family, friends, and coworkers to help advertise and share your pet on social media sites for a new home.​​
2. Try the following FREE options for advertising your pet
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ONLINE
Waco Craigslist - Possibly consider also posting in Austin, College Station, Killeen/Temple, and Dallas/Ft Worth areas as well.
*Posting an ad on Craigslist is no different than any other FREE advertising resource like social media. There are many wonderful people looking to adopt pets via these resources and shelters/rescues also have great success. Use common sense when coordinating with interested adopters.
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SOCIAL MEDIA
Central Texas Pet Connect Group
Central Texas Animal Advocates
Pets of McLennan County Group​
Tips for Rehoming Success
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1. If the pet is not spayed/neutered/up-to-date on vaccinations, try to get them vetted before rehoming so the pet is most desirable to adopters, easier to rehome and more likely to have a better quality of life.
2. Rehoming works best if you have at least a couple of reasonable quality photos and/or a video of your pet along with personality and vetting information. You must spark people’s interest in your pet.
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3. If your pet is a purebred cat or dog, take a moment to google the breed name plus “rescue Texas” to see if there is a rescue who specifically focuses on your pet’s breed in Texas. If so, contact them with good quality photos, a list of any vetting your pet has had completed (spay/neuter, vaccinations, microchip, heartworm preventative) and personality information (good with other dogs, kids, cats; know any commands? Etc.) to see if they can help you advertise your pet.
Is The Pet You Need to Rehome a Found Pet?
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If you are not sure you have done a thorough search for the pet’s owner, see I Have Found a Dog or I Have Found a Cat. Never rehome a found pet without trying to find the owner first. Even if the pet seems in less than ideal condition, it may have been missing for an extended period and have a home who cares about it very much. Avoid making assumptions.
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If you are certain all options have been exhausted to locate the owner of a pet, attempt to find a quality home for the pet yourself to avoid surrendering the animal to the overcrowded shelter. See rehoming suggestions above.
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If the pet is not spayed/neutered/up-to-date on vaccinations (or if you are not certain if they are), consider getting them vetted before trying to rehome so the pet is more desirable to potential adopters and have a better life later.