Gold Ribbon will consider adoptive families in the Austin / San Antonio and surrounding areas only. This is simply due to logistics and distance of travel for our volunteers. Our goal is to make the best rescue match taking into consideration the background and your family's needs. Every dog is different: personality, temperament, energy, comfort with kids and other animals, medical needs and more. We take all these factors into consideration when making a furever-home match. We are very careful about the placements we make. We do our best to match the right dog with the right adoptive home because we want this to be the pet's permanent home.
"Mike and I wanted to send along a huge THANK YOU for all the time, effort, and care that went into matching us with Rain (now Lady Bird). You all took exceptional care to ensure our expectations with a rescue were set, training resources were there and we received the right match for our family. We are so grateful and our hearts are so full. We are both so taken with Lady Bird and she has already brought so much joy and color into our life.
- Mike and Hannah
We appreciate you wanting to bring a Golden Retriever into your home. In order for us to find the right pet for you, we need you to submit an adoption application and pay the non-refunable application fee. We only place dogs in homes to people living in Austin/San Antonio and the surrounding central Texas areas. If you live outside the central Texas (Austin and San Antonio) area, before applying, please email us to determine if we have volunteer resources near you to do your home visit.
Telephone Interview. A volunteer will contact you to schedule a telephone interview which will take approximately 45-60 minutes. This interview provides us with more information on the right dog for your lifestyle. All applicants should participate in this interview.
A volunteer will contact you to schedule time for a personal home visit. The home visit will take approximately 60 minutes and the volunteer will bring his/her Golden or GRR dog to the visit. The home visit gives you a chance to ask many questions and learn more about the Golden Retriever breed. All residents of the home must be present during this visit. All resident dogs must be present as well. In some cases, we may require non-resident persons who will have regular and/or extensive interaction with the dog to be present at the home visit.
The search for your Golden begins. A matchmaker will contact you to better understand what you are looking for in a Golden. While we likely won’t have the right dog for you immediately, we will be looking and contact you when we find him/her.
We match the dog to the family we believe is the best fit. We do not match a family to a dog. Our goal is to find the forever home for the dog based on his or her needs.
ALL family members (including family dogs) are required to attend the intial meeting of the dog.
Even after the adoption is final, Gold Ribbon Rescue will continue to be a resource whenever you need us. We hope that you will keep in touch – as you are now a member of one big happy Golden family!
Things you should consider: Energy level, your lifestle, male or female, personality, appropriate age. The more specific you are, the longer you will wait.
Things matchmakers consider: Appropriate age for you, your lifestlye, dog's personality, compatibility of GRR dog with your pets.
All adoptions are given a 14-day trial period in which the dog may be returned for any reason. If this occurs your adoption fee will be refunded. Your matchmaker will discuss options at that time to determine in another dog may be a better fit for you/your family, provided the dog was returned in the same or better condition the dog was adopted and that there is no evidence of neglect or intentional misconduct. Note…
