Though you may have good intentions, please be aware that unscrupulous people frequent "Free to Good Home" advertisements and they may see the free animal as:

• Bait to train fighting dogs
• Bait to train greyhounds
• Fish bait
• Snake food
• Money from a research laboratory
• Sacrifice for satanic rituals
• Innocent victim for malicious pranks
• A breeding machine if not spayed or neutered

If you place a "Free to Good Home" ad, please do all that you can to ensure that the pet goes to a truly GOOD home!  The following will help you in placement:

• Charge an adoption fee
• Screen individuals thoroughly/veterinarian references are suggested
• Meet with the entire potential adoptive family, including children
• Spay or neuter animal before adoption
• Make a home visit
• Have new pet meet any existing animals in the home/check behaviors
• Require (in writing) that if the adoption does not work out, the animal MUST BE returned to you