Giving Up Your Pet

It is a very important decision to give to your pet, no matter how long or inform the period of ownership. Remember, for any reason you are not choosing to keep this pet, you are the person in this world who love your pet more than anyone and you no longer want your pet ! First ask yourself if there is something about pet behavior or personality wise that could be worked in order for you to keep it. It is extremely difficult to find good permanent homes for teens or adult animals ( as are realizing first hand ). There are some things you need to do to be responsible, down to the last possible moment:

Take your pet to the vet for a checkup, vaccinations, and most importantly spay / neuter ! If you were thinking that your pet could make a good breeding animal, STOP ! Why breed an animal that nobody wants? Why make more unwanted animals in a world where even large pets dont stay long in their first home? You want someone to adopt your pet as a companion, not because it might make a good and profitable livestock. You are much more apt to find a responsible, permanent home by placing a pet and sterilized. Get it done: its the least you can do, and the best we can do.
Neutering also reduces the risk that your pet will flee their next home, and helps ensure your pet urine to mark your new home and therefore quickly become unwanted again!
If your pet is already spayed or neutered, and has not bitten anyone, try to find a new home for your pet through advertising. Put an ad in your local newspaper, and detect any callers carefully. Be completely honest about all of your pet's behavior, good and bad. Animals are not perfect, and people are more likely to adopt a pet they know about, for better or for worse. When calls are monitored, tell every caller that someone has come to look at your pet but are still taking names and numbers and references in the case, so you can call them back. This gives you an instant if you think that the caller is not right for your pet, and No Ones feelings hurt.
Take a good, color photographs and make some posters. Include the name of your pet ( you customize... ) and include your best features, most endearing qualities, and some guidelines for the best possible home: ie, no small children, someone whos home a long time, no other domestic, good animals dog owner experience, etc.
Be careful in choosing an animal shelter. Visit the kennels, meet the staff, familiar with the policies of the shelter. A No Kill policy might look good at first, but if your dog will end up living your life in the kennel. Dogs can deteriorate very quickly emotionally and mentally in a shelter, even a refuge, and no dog should suffer that kind of stress without end, month after month, living in a run kennel concrete, with the hope that the magic, the perfect home.
If your pet is aggressive, or cut or bitten someone, ever, please get a professional behavior assessment before giving your pet. Consult state and local laws also about responsibility in the relocation of a pet with prior knowledge of aggression. Do not try to find a new home for aggressive without professional help animal.
If your pet has a behavior problem, which will take him to the next house. Many problems are feasible, or at least manageable. Contact a trainer or behavior counselor and see if you can not fix things for you to keep your pet.