1. You write to us
There is a form on the adopt page. It asks about your home, the other animals in it, the children in it, who is there during the day, and why this dog. A person reads it. A person writes back.
We are not looking for a perfect house. We are looking for an honest description of a real one.
2. We tell you the truth about the dog
If the dog you asked about has already gone home, we say so and introduce you to the ones still waiting. If a dog is nervous around men, or hates the car, or has never seen a staircase, you hear it before you decide, not after.
3. What it costs you
We pay for everything.
The veterinary treatment. The medicine. The vaccinations and the paperwork. The transport. The flight. There is no adoption fee, and there is nothing to reimburse.
What we ask for is the one thing we cannot buy: a home, and someone in it who intends to keep them.
4. How long it takes
Longer than you want it to. A dog leaving Turkey needs its treatments finished, its papers in order, and a flight that will carry it. Doccio himself could not fly until he was six months old, and he spent that wait in Istanbul. We will not rush an animal onto a plane to make a week look better.
5. What arrives at your door
A dog who has lived outdoors. Who may never have been inside a house. Who will need a few weeks to understand that the food is not going to stop coming. Most settle faster than people expect. All of them need the first month to be quiet — there is a whole page here on that first month.
The part nobody asks about
There are more than two thousand dogs in our care right now, on open land, with a veterinarian and local people who show up every day. There is no heating in winter and no shade in summer. For a dog, that is still the street — only a street with someone on it who cares.
More than three hundred have already gone home. Every one of them left from the same ground the others are still standing on.
