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We know that it is a difficult decision to make to surrender your lab. While we will certainly work with you in finding a new home for your Lab, we do encourage you to visit the following link: www.wonderpuppy.net/canwehelp. Additionally, BLESSED BONDS offers temporary assistance to persons who want to keep their animal companions but are having difficulties that interfere with their ability to meet their pets' daily needs: network.bestfriends.org/groups/blessedbonds/default.aspx

After you have visited the above links, if you feel you have no other option available, we need information regarding your Lab to find a new forever home. Please complete the form below and note that all fields in yellow are required.

If we feel your Lab meets our adoption criteria, we will make arrangements for a GLLR volunteer to evaluate your dog. During the evaluation, the GLLR volunteer will need to see the dog, any medical records (please obtain a copy of them from your vet), AKC papers (if applicable) and any other paperwork you feel is pertinent to your dog. Our Surrender Coordinator will later contact you regarding our decision and advise you of the expected date we could take the dog. When it is time, arrangements will be made to meet with a volunteer to surrender your dog. For safety reasons, your Lab must have a current rabies vaccination and rabies vaccination certificate at the time of surrender (which is available through your vet's office). You may also donate any of your dog's food, bedding, crate, bowls, collars, leashes, heartworm preventative, medication, etc. The volunteer will ask you to sign a  surrender form, and will collect the surrender fee of $50. Signing the surrender form legally transfers ownership from you to GLLR.

We will not release the name of the adoptive families to the surrendering families. We are very careful to screen our adopters and to match the right Lab with the right family. We provide after adoption counseling and will continue to visit the adoptive homes to insure the care and well being of our Labs. In the rare event an adoption doesn't work out, the adoptive family is required by contract to return the dog to our Rescue. We will make every effort to place your dog in an environment that will make him or her happy and will provide the dog with humane lifetime care. Be assured that once accepted into Rescue, the dog will stay in rescue until a proper adoptive home is found.

After submitting the form, please wait 10 days to hear from a GLLR volunteer. If you have not heard from someone within 10 days, please contact us to let us know that there is a problem with your application submission. Remember, we are all volunteers, with no paid staff, so please be patient and wait the ten days. Thanks!
 
Name
Address (please note we can only do the greater Chicago tri-state area. We will refer you out if we cannot cover your location.)
E-mail
Phone
Best Time to Reach You
Please list the Lab's Characteristics.
Name Purebred Age
Gender Color Spayed / Neutered
Anything else we should know about your Lab?
Has this Lab ever bitten anyone?
Date of most recent Rabies vaccination
Date Tag Number
Date of most recent Heartworm test
Date Test Results
Name, address & phone of current vet
Why are you looking to surrender your Lab?
Would you be willing to owner-foster your Lab until a new home is found?
What have you done to find a new home for this Lab?
How did you hear about us? Please be specific.
Any other comments/questions.
I am at least 18 years of age.
I am the verifiable owner of this Lab and all of the above information is true.

I,    , do hereby surrender to Great Lakes Labrador Rescue, Inc. this Labrador Retriever named . I certify that I am the owner of this dog, free and clear of all other interests. The information I have provided about the history of this dog is true and complete to the best of my knowledge. I authorize Great Lakes Labrador Rescue, Inc. to place this dog into a new home of their discretion and according to the ability to locate a suitable owner. I also understand that should the dog have a medical condition requiring extensive or expensive medical treatment, or should the dog prove to be aggressive toward people or other dogs, or should the dog exhibit any other characteristics that make it un-placeable , Great Lakes Labrador Rescue, Inc. will have the dog humanely euthanized. I irrevocably relinquish to Great Lakes Labrador Rescue, Inc., or its agents, all rights, title and interest in and access to the dog surrendered. I hereby hold harmless and indemnify Great Lakes Labrador Rescue, Inc., its board of directors, its members, officers, agents and volunteers from all claims demands, actions, causes of action and liability of any kind whatsoever arising as a result of or in connection with the surrender or subsequent adoption or other disposition of the surrendered dog. 

I certify that I have read, understood and willingly agreed to the terms of this document. I agree that if GLLR takes my dog into the Rescue program that my Lab will, at that point, be under the care of GLLR. GLLR will find it a home and I can not give my surrendered dog to anyone. I will direct interested parties, including family and friends, to fill out an adoption application on the Great Lakes  Lab Rescue website.

I Accept These Terms

Typing your name below, acts as your legal signature and commits you to comply to the terms of this agreement.

Signed: Date:

 
 
 
 
 
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