Date

Your Full Name

Phone

Email

Names, Ages and Occupations of all adults in the household:

Type of Residence:
HouseApartmentCondoTownhouseMobile Home

List names and ages of all people, including yourself, who will be living with the dog:
names

Pyrs are very tolerant and calm with young children. Their biggest problem being, that due to their large size, they can unintentionally knock over small children. Are you willing to teach children who come into contact with your dog how to behave, such as not pulling their hair, tail or ears, taking things out of their mouth, putting their face in the dog’s face, taking food away from the dog when it is eating?
yesno

If you have children who live or visit your home, what will you do to ensure that children will not open a door or gate, allowing the dog to escape?

Do you have a fenced yard?
yesno

If your yard is fenced, please describe the approximate size of the fenced area:

Height of Fence on all sides:

Type of fencing material:

Is the fenced area accessible from a door in your home?
yesno

If your yard is not completely fenced, how do you plan to contain your dog to your property?

Do you fully understand and accept the fact that a Great Pyrenees must never be intentionally allowed off leash unless within a fully fenced, secure area, and then never left unattended?
yesno

Do you also understand Great Pyrenees are bred to roam that no amount of training can ever ensure that a Great Pyrenees can safely be off-leash or unconfined and that not strictly adhering to this restriction will place your dog at serious risk of injury, or even death?
yesno

Why do you want to adopt a Great Pyrenees?

What do you know about the breed?

What other breeds of dogs have you owned?

Where did you get them?

What happened to them?

Great Pyrenees have very sensitive skin and often are allergic to dog foods with corn in them. We recommend you use high-quality dog food, with as few fillers (wheat, corn and soy) as possible in order to provide the best food for your dog’s overall health and one specifically made for large breed dogs as they contain joint supplements to help keep your dog agile. Higher quality food also reduces the size of the waste too. If you currently have a dog, what type of dog food do you feed them and how often?

Are you willing to provide high-quality dog food for your adopted dog that is recommended by the rescue?
yesno

How many dogs have you owned in the past ten years?

Please list the dogs currently in your household.
Name, Breed, Gender, Spayed or Neutered, Age

Please list any other pets, including breed, gender, spayed/neutered and ages living in your household.
Name, Breed, Gender, Spayed or Neutered, Age

Do any of your current pets have characteristics that IGPR should be aware of?

Have you ever had to give up a dog before?
yesno

If yes, please elaborate:

Do you understand that dogs must always be monitored when interacting with children, adults, and other pets, no matter how nice the dog?
yesno

Who will be responsible for the care and training of the dog?

Approximately how long would you expect your dog to be alone each day?

If needed, are you willing to obtain a crate and crate-train your dog?
yesno

Where will your dog be kept during time alone?

Where will the pyr sleep at night?

Are you willing to modify your daily schedule to accommodate a dog’s needs, such as going outdoors into a fenced area or walking on a leash to perform bodily functions at least four times daily?
yesno

Do you currently have a veterinarian? If so, please provide the contact information:

Veterinarian

Clinic Name

Clinic Address

Clinic Phone Number

What name are the records under?

Do we have your permission to contact your vet?
yesno

If no veterinarian reference, please provide two other references with contact information.

Do you own your own home?yesno

If you do not own your home, please provide the following information so we can verify you are allowed to adopt a pet.
Landlord Name

Address

,
Phone number

Do you plan to move within the next six months?yesno

Are you willing to keep a collar with a tag bearing your name address, phone number on your dog at all times?
yesno

Pyrs are bred to BARK to keep potential animal and human intruders away. It is their way of letting everyone know they are on duty. They especially can be barkers at night. Bark collars do not work on this breed, and asking a pyr not to bark is like asking a fish not to swim. Our adoption agreement does not allow for the dog to be debarked- have its vocal cords cut so it cannot bark. Are you willing to comply with the not debarking the dog?yesno

Are you willing to tolerate and manage the pyr’s barking by keeping the dog indoors the majority of the time and closely supervise them when they are outside if this is a problem for you or your neighbors?
yesno

Will this be a problem in your household?
yesno

Will this be a problem in your neighborhood?
yesno

Many neighbors do not like barking dogs. Can you accept this and manage the dog to reduce it’s barking by bringing the dog inside?
yesno

Some dogs can be poop eaters, and the only way to keep them from partaking is to keep their elimination area picked up daily. Would you be willing to do this? yesno

Great Pyrenees are large and intelligent dogs, and can easily reach counter tops and table tops. The top of the refrigerator is usually a safe place but is not guaranteed. Do you understand your food must be put away, and that you cannot leave food on the countertops and not expect the dog to take it, even if pushed to the back of the counter?
yesno

Great Pyrenees are guard dogs and will attempt to look out windows to protect their territory, even those with expensive window coverings and custom blinds. Do you understand that for windows the dog can easily access, the window blinds should be raised all the way to the top of the window frame or at least halfway, or the drapes left open or pulled aside to give the dog accessibility to the window, and that they can destroy curtains and blinds unintentionally while trying to do their job?
yesno

Some Great Pyrenees can have wet mouths, so your furniture, windows, walls, accessories, guests, and clothes could get slobber on them. Even so-called “dry mouth “pyrs can be a bit slobbery after getting a drink, or if overly excited about something- typically when you are eating or when you have guests over. Are you able to live with a dog that may have these characteristics?
yesno

Most Great Pyrenees have double dewclaws on their inner rear legs. These dew claws are part of the breed standard, and require the same trimming maintenance as their regular toenails. Occasionally a pyr will get one of their dew claws caught on something, but, it is rare for this to happen. Our adoption agreement will require you to not unnecessarily remove the double dewclaws on the dog. Are you in agreement to not remove the double dew claws?
yesno

Pyrs SHED. Are you prepared to groom (brush the dog's coat, clean the ears, trim the nails, including dewclaws) frequently and accept that there will be white hair in your house and on you?
yesno

Great Pyrenees typically do well as inside pets, however, they do like structure, exercise and routine. Do you have the time to spend and energy to properly care for a Great Pyrenees? yesno

The yearly maintenance of a large breed dog is approximately $1500 with an annual vet visit, vaccines, heartworm and flea preventative and grooming, not including other medical treatment that may be needed. Are you willing to accept full care, cost and necessary burdens and responsibilities of owning a pyr? yesno

Our adoption contract will require you to provide veterinary attention beyond the yearly check-up, vaccines or titers, including monthly heartworm preventative, and flea preventative as needed. Do you agree to do this? yesno

Are you willing to accept that your Pyr may not like all of your friends or your children's friends, or that your friends may not like
your Pyr? yesno

Do you agree to safely contain the dog, either in a room with a closed door or a crate, if the pyr does not like certain people when they visit your home or property? yesno

Some rescue Pyrs are not housebroken. Some may have been housebroken prior to coming to their new home, but accidents will happen. The dog’s housetraining may regress for a short time period after transitioning to a new place. Are you prepared to work with the dog to teach them the door to go outside, and signals that they need to eliminate?
yesno

Do you have the time to house train a dog, if necessary?
yesno

Please describe your house-training method:

What is your method of disciplining a dog?

Do you agree to only use positive training techniques to teach your adopted dog?

No matter how much rescued dogs are evaluated by their temporary care families, they usually come with "baggage" we don't know about, and that the transition may take weeks or even months. Are you willing to give a dog at least two months to adjust to you, your family and their new environment, before you would even consider not keeping them?
yesno

What would you consider unacceptable canine behavior(s) which would cause you to give up your dog?

What would you do if your dog bit somebody?

Have you and your family considered that a Great Pyrenees generally lives to be 10 to 12 years old? (Note that many are living to 13, 14, and even 15 years.) Given that an adopted Pyr is a family member, are you comfortable with having to provide the type of geriatric care that a 'senior citizen" may need? Please describe how you will handle your dog's old age. Are you willing to accept that commitment? Please explain:

If you are applying for a specific dog or dogs, indicate it here:

If not, do you have a preference for a male or female?
malefemaleno preference

Do you have an age preference?

How did you find out about our rescue?

If you adopt a pyr, your pyr rescue coordinator would like to receive occasional updates on how your dog is doing in their new home. Will you be willing to provide this information? yesno

If you encounter problems with a Pyr you've adopted, our adoption contract requires you seek out advice from a certified animal behaviorist, not a trainer, before contacting IGPR to return the dog. Are you willing to do this? yesno

If you are unable to keep the dog in the future, you must contact the rescue to make arrangements to return the dog to IGPR, Inc. We will need to find a foster home for your dog, so do not expect us to take your dog back into rescue the same day you contact us. You are not allowed to rehome your adopted dog from IGPR on your own. If you find someone who wants your dog, they will need to complete our application, provide references and have a home visit and fence check. They will not pay the adoption fee if you find a new home for them. Your dog must be current on vaccines, heartworm and intestinal parasite tested before returning it to rescue. Do you agree to not rehome your dog on your own if you are unable to keep it?
yesno

If you must return your dog to IGPR, Inc., do you agree the dog will be current on vaccines, heartworm and intestinal parasite tested before surrendering the dog?yesno

I / We certify that the information contained in this application is true and correct, and further authorize Indy Great Pyrenees Rescue (IGPR) to contact any and all references, in order to verify the information provided in this adoption application.
Signature:

(For purposes of this application, printing your name in one of the spaces above constitutes a signature.)
Thank you for your cooperation. This comprehensive questionnaire helps us in placing the right dog with the right adopter and/or family. An improper placement, or one in which all the details aren't known, can end tragically — usually for the dog. Thanks again, and if you have met our requirements for adoption, we look forward to meeting you in the near future.

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