Adopt

Beagle Freedom Project is the world’s leading organization devoted to rescuing animals used in experimental research. Laboratory surviving animals require an abundance of patience and compassion from their adopters as they come from extremely traumatic pasts. These animals will often have severe anxiety, immense generalized fearfulness, and no previous training–and that’s just the beginning. However, with an understanding adopter’s help, laboratory surviving animals are often revealed to be the most loving, loyal, and joyous companions! For this reason, Beagle Freedom Project maintains a thorough process when considering animal adoption applicants,

If you would like to be considered to adopt one of Beagle Freedom Project’s available animals, please fill out BFP’s adoption application with as much detail as possible. A member of BFP’s Rescue Team will review your application once submitted, and you will then be contacted when/if there is an available BFP animal that we feel you may be a perfect adoption match for.

STEP ONE: Submit BFP’s adoption application.

Please include as much information about yourself, your home, your lifestyle, and your other animals (if applicable) in your application as possible!

STEP TWO: If your adoption application is approved, the BFP Rescue Team will contact you when/if there is an available BFP animal that we feel you may be a perfect adoption match for.

STEP THREE: Once contacted by BFP’s Rescue Team, you will be asked for your soonest availability to complete BFP’s adoption onboarding process.

BFP’s adoption onboarding process includes a phone interview (this will help us further ensure which BFP animal is your perfect match, prepare you for being placed with one of BFP’s animals, allow us to cover BFP’s adoption terms, and provide you with an opportunity to ask any outstanding questions regarding adopting with BFP), virtual home check, and reference checks.

STEP FOUR: Once you have completed BFP’s adoption onboarding process, you will then review and sign BFP’s animal placement agreements.

STEP FIVE: Once The BFP Rescue Team has received your signed animal placement agreements, you will then be officially greenlit to begin a foster-to-adopt trial with the BFP animal that you have been matched with.

Standardly, Beagle Freedom Project does not facilitate animal meet and greets. Instead, we begin all BFP adoptions with a trial-period; this is called ‘fostering-to-adopt’. At BFP, we believe that the best way for an adopter to be certain that an animal is their perfect match is by giving them an opportunity to truly know each other before finalizing an adoption. As BFP animals come from such traumatic pasts, they can often be shy upon a first meeting. Foster-to-adopt trials allow these special animals an opportunity to decompress and show their authentic personality before an official adoption decision is made.

STEP SIX: Your foster-to-adopt trial concludes; you can now finalize your new companion’s adoption! Congrats!

Adoptions are made official by signing BFP’s adoption contract and submitting BFP’s adoption fee.

• Be at least 21 years of age.

• Be cruelty-free or willing to become cruelty free. Being cruelty free means that you do not purchase products that are tested on animals (with the exception of pharmaceutical drugs). Practicing a cruelty-free lifestyle is one of the biggest impacts that an individual can make in the fight against animal testing! As consumers, shopping cruelty-free allows us to convey to companies that we do not want to buy products that are developed by using, abusing, and exploiting animals.

• Embrace your new animal’s role as a Beagle Freedom Project ambassador by telling your animal’s story in an effort to educate other members of your community about Beagle Freedom Project’s mission!

If you have any questions regarding adopting an animal from Beagle Freedom Project, please feel free to contact us by email at ADOPT@BFP.ORG or by phone at 818-382-6500.