How to Adopt
Do you think you’ve found your new best friend? Please download the Adoption Profile, fill it out, and email it back to adopt@mainelyratrescue.org.
By filling out the profile, we are better able to determine if the rat/s you are interested in will be a good fit for your household. During the adoption process you will also be given the opportunity to ask more specific questions to help make the adoption a success!
Thanks to our wonderfully supportive veterinarians, with all rat adoptions we are able to offer spaying and neutering at greatly reduced prices! As of August 1, 2009, neuters are and spays are each $75.00. Each rat will have a physical exam before surgery to ensure they are good candidates for the procedure. Also, when you adopt any animal from MRR you will receive a certificate for a free first exam with one of our veterinarians! In order to utilize this certificate you will be required to have your appointment within 7 days after the adoption. We hope to be able to add other vets in the future.
We love young people who love rats, but unfortunately we cannot enter into a legal contract with anyone under the age of 18. If you are younger than 18 we will need to communicate with your parents and they will need to sign our adoption contracts.
We reserve the right to deny any adoption at any time. All rats are adopted out as pets only. Any applications for rats desired as feeders or breeder rats will be denied. If you do not currently have rats of your own, rats will be adopted out in same sex pairs (with the exception of neutered or spayed rats).
Adoption Fees: Adoption fees are not set in stone and may vary depending on the animal and the adopter. This is a basic guideline we try to follow. If you choose the spay or neuter option we offer when adopting your new companion, all adoption fees are waived. We encourage sterilization in healthy candidates for many reasons including health, behavior and so as not to contribute to the over population of homeless pets.
Surgery fees are as follows: Spays $75.00 / Neuters $75.00
As of January 2009 we voted to raise our adoption fees to compete with local pet stores. We do not want people to think MRR is a cheap place to get their snake’s food!
Intact rats ages 5 - 12 weeks, $12.00
Intact rats ages 12 wks 1 day - 6 months, $10.00
Intact rats ages 6 months 1 day - 12 months, $8.00
Intact rats ages 12 months 1 day - 18 months, $6.00
The adoption fee for intact rats over the age of 18 months old is waived with any donation of food, goods, services or money.
In many cases we will choose to spay or neuter a rat for medical or behavioral reasons before he/she is chosen for adoption. If the rat you choose has already been spayed or neutered by us, we ask for a donation of money to help offset our out-of-pocket costs for the surgery. Since it costs us $75.00 each to have the surgery, we hope to recapture this amount to go directly back into our spay/neuter fund which helps us help more rats! We are always willing to work with families, however, depending on circumstances, so please don’t let this dissuade you from adopting.
Most importantly, we want all of our rats to go home. If you have any questions about our adoption fees or adoption process, please email us at info@mainelyratrescue.org.
