Adoption

Policy On Age Ranges for Adoption:

It is the policy of SWFHR to make it possible for all to give their time to a noble cause. But we do have a policy on age ranges which are listed below: If you are:

• [18+] --> Can officially adopt
• [under 18] --> Can not officially adopt but an imediate guardian can. Provided they go through the adoption precheck and participation requirements too.
• Guardian units must be fully involved
• Official responsibility lies in the hands of the guardian

The need for your information helps in 2 ways.

1. it provides us with information so we may narrow your request so we don't waste each other's time showing you horses that don't meet your request
2. if we don't have anything for your request we can suggest for you join our OERA Project program for Horses In-need Of Homes, a program based on the principle that we can not take in every horse but we want to help.

We get calls all the time from people looking to re-home their equine(s) yet our capacity limitations are generally exceeded 98% of the time. The purpose of the Adoption Intent Form is to make it possible for the equines that we physically cannot take in to have a chance of being paired up with potential adopters that may not find what they are looking for at our facility.

If you choose to be part of our OERA Project program your request stays active for 1 month allowing the chance we might find a horse for you and your request.

After 1 month we will mark your request as not active unless otherwise requested.

Normal Volunteer Hours are either 7 or 8 am (depending on the day) to Sundown daily. In special circumstances, volunteers may start earlier than 7 am.

On average most volunteers come out 1 to 3 days a week.

The amount of volunteering time on any given day, depending on the shift a volunteer covers when they come out.

AM Shift is about 4-6 hours
PM Shift is about 2-4 hours
AM Shift - starts at either 7 or 8 am depending on the day.

We respect that not everyone has the property to directly possess a horse.  Boarding is a reasonable option that we may accept under these guidelines

• should any inspected boarding facility fail, the requester accepts to find a new place
• we understand boarding facilities may not be open to inspection from a horse rescue
  • if this is the case, you will have to find a new location
• we will not insist on a facility to repair or construct anything, beyond that which would be considered a respectable amount of safety failures. Detailed as:
  • Barbed wire on any part of the fence
    • yes even the old school top line barbed wire
  • Fence condition
    • rotten or weak points
    • mended or weak joins
    • loose or unsecured
    • protrusions of danger
      • nails
      • stapes
    • dangerous design
      • anything less than 3 rung fence is beyond dangerous for containment