Don't buy your next Labrador Retriever from a breeder, a pet store or a puppy mill. A perfectly good Labrador is waiting for you at the Labrador rescue organization near you. Adopting your next pet is a great learning experience for children. Getting your next Labrador from Labrador rescue is a win-win proposition for you and your dog. You get a beautiful, purebred Labrador Retriever, and you get the satisfaction of knowing you're providing a home for a homeless dog that needs you. Your dog gets to become the center of your attention. Everybody wins.

Most Labs have nothing to do with the fact they end up as rescue dogs. For whatever reason, their owners have decided to surrender them to Labrador rescue. Some Labrador rescue owners have died or gone to an assisted living home. Others have new children, roommates or spouses who are allergic to dogs or don't get along with dogs for some reason. It's not the dog's fault that these circumstances occur, and yet it is the dog whose life gets disrupted. These dogs deserve loving homes.

When you adopt a dog from a Labrador rescue organization, you will be asked to pay a scaled adoption fee based on the age and health of your dog. This fee helps cover Labrador rescue's operating expenses. Labrador rescue organizations are independently licensed from state to state, but most if not all are 501(c)3 non-profit organizations.

Most of the expenses Labrador rescue incurs for your dog are the cost of medical care. Labradors are spayed or neutered if they are still fertile when they are surrendered to Labrador rescue. Adoption fees helps cover the cost of the operation and the expenses a foster family incurs to care for your dog while it recuperates from surgery

Labrador rescue works with families, owners, shelters, and veterinarians to make sure all rescue dogs are groomed, given a health examination, and are current in their vaccinations and heartworm medications.

Labrador Retriever rescue has offices in all fifty of the United States, and the Labradors available for adoption in each state vary from one location to another. Once you start looking at the dogs available for adoption, you'll see how many there are to choose from.

Foster homes for Labradors provide temporary housing for dogs that are being evaluated for suitability as a Labrador rescue dog and having their medical and grooming care performed. Homes that already have Labradors or Labrador mixes are preferred. Foster homes should have a non-electric fenced yard, and any children in the household should be ten years old or older.

If you want to adopt a Labrador from Labrador Retriever rescue, you must complete an application process that includes filling out an application and going through a home visit. Potential owners must be twenty-one years of age or older, provide landlord's written permission to have a dog if they are renters, and commit to get regular grooming for the dog. The application also asks about prior dog ownership and what kind of activity level the owner has. Your new Labrador awaits you at a Labrador rescue near you