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My name is Matilda!

Posted 1 week ago | Updated 1 week ago

Adoption fee: $275

This helps Capital Area Rescue Effort (CARE) with pet care costs.

My basic info

Breed
Corgi
Color
Tan/Yellow/Fawn - with White
Age
1 year old, Young
Size
Small 25 lbs (11 kg) or less (when grown)
Weight
25 lbs (current)
Sex
Female
Pet ID

My details

Checkmark in teal circle Shots current
Checkmark in teal circle Spayed / Neutered

My personality

My story

Here's what the humans have to say about me:

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AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION - MATILDA

BREED - Corgi mix
SIZE - About 25 pounds
AGE - 1 year
GENDER - Female
MEDICAL CONCERNS - None known
BEHAVIOR CONCERNS - None known
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS - Meet our sweet and happy Matilda! She is the bestest girl ever and she's waiting patiently for you to come meet and play with her. She LOVES to run and play almost as much as she loves being right by your side with sloppy smooches! Matilda was recently found as a stray in a rural eastern NC county and taken to the shelter. Sadly no one claimed and her euthanasia date was scheduled. At the last minute we learned about this perfect girl from rescue friends and we jumped into action. Matilda seems to know that she is special and that we believed in her. She's been a joy to interact with and we are anxious to find the perfect home and family for her. At a year old she is fully grown, weighing in at 24 pounds. What a great size for most homes! She is long and low like a corgi, but is clearly a mix of something perfect. Matilda is in great health and is ready to find her perfect family. She is spayed, microchipped, and fully vaccinated. We are seeking a home with an active adopter who has the ability to work from home or be at home the majority of the day to spend time with this amazing dog! A home with a fenced, secure yard will provide her room to safely run and play, hopefully with lots of toys! Matilda is not well suited to small children or very small dogs who could be upset by his enthusiasm, but will fit nicely into many other homes.

Our adoption process starts with your email to carerescue@aol.com or Adopt a Pet inquiry. After we receive it, we will email you our prescreening questionnaire. Your answers will help us determine that your home and lifestyle matches the needs of Matilda and our adoption criteria. Once determined, we will set up a private meeting with you and your family to meet her at a park near our private kennel just east of Richmond. After meeting her and determining that she matches your preferences for a pet, we will accept your application. A home visit by one of our trained volunteers is required for all adoptions, and we will speak with your vet to ensure that you are a responsible pet owner. More information on our website at www.carerva.com.
Rescue
Capital Area Rescue Effort (CARE)

Contact info

Pet ID
Contact
Phone
Address
Sandston, VA 23150
Donation

Their adoption process

Additional adoption info

CARE Rescue is a private, non-profit, all volunteer organization. We do not have a public facility for you to visit, so the only opportunity to meet our adoptable animals is at a private appointment. We update our Adopt a Pet listing daily, so animals advertised as available are available for adoption!

Our adoption process begins with meeting the animal via appointment. We do NOT have an online application, but will offer you one after you have met the animal(s) you are interested in adopting and have determined that it is a good fit for your home. We are happy to discuss, at length, available information on our animals in person. Because we are a volunteer organization, we cannot always answer and respond to telephone calls and emails.

After the potential adopters meet an animal and complete an application, our adoption committee meets to determine which applications it has that meet our adoption criteria. Our adoption criteria is thoroughly discussed on Page 1 of the application. We reserve the right to deny an adoption to any one for any reason. Please understand that we know these animals and their needs well and our goal is to place them in the very best situation for each one individually. We do not place our animals in homes with preschool aged children and are careful with size differences in animals. A constructed fenced yard will be required for most adoptions.

We will request, and rely heavily upon, a veterinary reference. Your veterinarian can give us the information we need to determine that you are a responsible pet owner. We will check to see if your previous and/or current animals were spayed or neutered, kept up to date with vaccines, kept on monthly PRESCRIBED heart worm medication, and if you gave your animal the care your veterinarian recommended. This is the first step to our process

A home visit is required for all adoptions. Generally we require that this visit be done by one of our volunteers, so often it is difficult to place animals more than 100 miles of Richmond in any direction, although sometimes it is possible. The purpose of the home visit is to ensure that the home is safe for the animal being considered for adoption. We prefer to have all family members present for the home visit.

Most adoptions take place within 7 days. We ask that you not seek adoption just before a major life change (job change, wedding, divorce, relocation) or just before a planned vacation. Our goal is that our animals have several weeks to decompress and learn their place in their new families without additional stress.

Go meet their pets

Capital Area Rescue Effort (CARE) is a foster-based rescue in Richmond, VA. All our dogs are housed in private homes and kennels and are not available to the public except via appointment.

More about this rescue

CARE is an organization comprised totally of volunteers who donate time, talents and energy to placing homeless and abandoned dogs in loving forever homes. Our volunteers are a diverse group of people with many different skill sets who come together to form a very successful collective. We welcome volunteers 18 years and over to help at our adoption events and lend their talents to other areas such as grant writing, publicity, fundraising, transport and the like. Please let us know if you have an interest in volunteering with CARE.

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