Rehome Your Pet

Creating the Best Path Forward

Rehoming a pet is never an easy decision, and we understand that every situation is different. Whether you’re facing unexpected life changes, financial challenges, housing restrictions or another circumstance, our goal is to provide support without judgment. Foothills Animal Rescue is a managed-admissions shelter, which means pets are accepted into our care based on available space and resources.

Complete a Surrender Application

The first step in the surrender process is completing the appropriate surrender application. You will be asked to provide information about your pet, including their name, age, breed, medical history, behavior, and the reason you are seeking to rehome them. Providing thorough and accurate information allows our team to best evaluate your pet’s needs and determine whether we are the right placement. Completing a surrender application does not guarantee intake of your pet.

Resources To Keep Your Pet

Arizona Pet Project focuses entirely on preventing shelter surrenders. They provide financial assistance, emergency veterinary grants and help for families experiencing housing crises or temporary instability.

Explore PACC911’s extensive network of Valley resources, including pet food assistance, low-cost veterinary care, temporary pet placement and other services to help keep pets in their homes.

Home to Home’s online platform helps you rehome your pets directly.

Intake Examination

If your application is approved to move forward, a member of our team will contact you to schedule an intake examination. The intake examination allows our staff to perform a hands-on assessment of your pet’s medical condition, behavior and overall needs. Scheduling or completing an intake examination does not guarantee intake of your pet. Following the examination, our team will determine whether we have the resources necessary to safely and appropriately care for your pet.

There are times when we are unable to accept a pet into our program. This may be because our staff cannot safely handle the animal, we have reached our capacity for medical or isolation cases or we do not have an appropriate foster placement available for a pet with specialized medical or behavioral needs. These decisions are never made lightly and are based solely on our ability to provide every animal in our care with the time, space, medical attention and resources they deserve.