Underdog is a foster-based rescue located in North Seattle, servicing the Greater King County area. We prioritize intake for urgent community needs, as well as high-risk shelter animals that may need extra support or time. Our priority is to help full shelters and stressed people find support for their animals in need.
Underdog is a group founded by rescue professionals who have seen the need first hand for dedicated, experienced rescues to provide support to overburdened communities, rescues, and shelters.
Among our board members and volunteers, we have experience in most professional animal industries: shelters, rescues, veterinary hospitals and clinics, day care, dog socializations and training, and more. We want to use our experience to help animals needing that extra time, resources, and love to get the outcome they deserve.
Mission and Vision
Our mission is simple: to do what's right for animals and their people. Whether that's behavioral rehabilitation, surgery, medical treatment, long-term care strategies, etc, Underdog makes sure to take the time and energy to treat these animals and their families the way we would want ours to be treated.
While that may sound simple, that's not always what's done because it's not easy. But that's why we're called Underdog; it's all about the come back stories.
We take the time to assess every animal in our care behaviorally and medically, give them time to blossom in foster, and make the right adoption pairing to last a lifetime.
And we mean a lifetime; Underdog will provide behavioral support, guidance, and more for the life of your Underdog. We also provide behavioral services such as animal pairing specific adoptions (meaning an Underdog counselor will meet with your existing pet and work to find a good match), animal introductions for new family members, and more.
Adoption Policy
How it works:
1. Select a pet from our available animals!
2. Complete the Adoption Application.
3. An adoption counselor will screen your answers and reach out via phone if it's a good fit. We get tons of applications and cannot reach out to everyone. We use a selective adoption system (we are NOT first come, first serve) and will only reach out if an application is selected for review.
4. Via phone call, the counselor provides extra details, answers questions, and if ready to move on, schedules an in-person (or contactless via Zoom) adoption meeting with the foster home.
5. We arrange a meeting with their foster home.
6. Should all go smoothly, we sign any necessary adoption paperwork, collect the adoption fee, and send you on your way with your new family member! Select the "finalize adoption" button above.
Adoption fees:
Our adoption fees are by age and need:
DOGS:
Puppies: Starting at $400, price set by puppy's needs
Adult dogs: Adoption fee depends on dog, ask for individual fees. We often send dogs home with more equipment, such as crates, training resources, leashes, so price changes depending on what must be sent.
Underdog Dogs come with:
-Age appropriate vaccines (DHPP, Bordatella, Rabies)
-Blanket/prophylactic deworming
-Revolution flea treatment
-Microchip (registered by us to you upon adoption)
-Spay/Neuter
-Medical exam
-Behavioral evalution
-Basic training (intro to leash and kennel training)
-Food to start
-Favorite toys
Some dogs come with further supplies or offers such as:
-Crates
-Training resources
-Leashes or collars if needed
-Misc.
All animals come with the option to have Underdog help with introductions with children, existing pets, new pets, etc. We will alawys take our animals back. In the event you are unable to continue to care for your Underdog pet, please contact us and we will take them back or, hopefully, work with you to help keep them in their forever home.
Adoption requirements:
We require all adopters to consent to follow our standards of care and adoption agreement, including but not limited to:
-Providing lifelong food, shelter, veterinary check ups and care, grooming when necessary, and medical care.
-In some extreme cases, we may require a home visit (this will be specified on their adoption description if so).
-In some medical or behavioral cases, we may require you sign a behavioral adoption plan and waiver, or a medical plan and waiver agreeing that you have been informed of the animal's current status and needs, and agree to uphold the plan we've set forth that was developed by trainers and medical experts.
-All adopters must be over 18 and the final decision maker for the household.
-Proof of landlord consent may be required.
Dogs:
-All dogs must be housed indoors (no exclusive outdoor dogs).
-No medically unnecessary physical modifications such as ear cropping, tail docking, debarking.
-If you have another dog, we require dog intros prior to adoption.
-In some rare cases dog adoption may require proof of partnership with a trainer to ensure future success.
Should the standards of care and terms of the adoption agreement fail to be met, for the safety of the animal, animals may be reclaimed in cases of violation of this agreement.
https://www.underdogpetswa.org/adoptadog
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