Home To Home gives pets a smoother transition into a new home.
After you have exhausted all other options, we may be able to assist you in placing your pet with another owner, if we have available space available at the shelter. We accept surrenders by appointment only. Please call us at 509-525-2452.
Before it gets to that point,
We would love to help by sharing your pet online, while they are still in your home!
We can help your pet find a new loving home.
We use Home to Home™ as an interactive tool to help families with pets in the Walla Walla Valley and surrounding areas. The website gives pet owners who can no longer keep their pets the opportunity to find new, loving homes without having to surrender them to the shelter.
Pets can go from one home right into another, which means less stress for animals and humans alike. This offers potential new owners the opportunity to communicate directly with the current owners, providing firsthand information about the animals.
People needing to rehome pets fill out a brief form, upload a picture, and hit submit.
People seeking a new pet can browse the site and find their perfect match.
Here’s how it works:
Home To Home is free to use. There are two rules:
No money is allowed to exchange hands. Rehoming fees don’t lead to better outcomes for pets, but quality communications will.
Pets listed on our page must be spayed or neutered.
Once you submit your form, we’ll review it to make sure it meets these requirements, and post the listing (it may take a day or two for us to get to your submission! Please be patient). Then, we’ll promote your pet’s Home To Home listing on our Facebook page to help generate interest.
Potential adopters will reach out to you directly.
While rehoming pets through Home To Home will alleviate some pets’ need to be surrendered to the shelter, it won’t be suitable for all animals. If you need to surrender your pet to BMHS, please contact us to talk about your situation.
Home to Home is a big help to BMHS too.
Home to home offers significant benefits to Blue Mountain Humane Society:
Frees up valuable shelter resources of labor, time, and money, leaving more shelter resources available to animals with no other options, such as strays and those suffering from neglect or abuse.
Allows us to help more animals and people in our community
Home-Home.org can rehome ANY animal
Reduces owner surrenders to our shelter
Empowers owners to find the best new home for their pet
Opens new avenues for us to connect and engage with our community in a non-shaming positive way.
There has been a steady increase in owner surrenders over the past several years. We see the immense stress people are under when they need to surrender their dogs or cats to us. As much as we think of our shelter is a happy place, it isn’t home and can be stressful for the animals.
The number one reason for surrendering pets is an unavoidable change in living situations. A perfect opportunity to use the Home To Home tool would be within the time frame of finding out relocation is necessary and the actual moving date. If the pet isn’t rehomed before the moving deadline, we can then coordinate surrender into the shelter or foster care until the pet finds a new home.
- Sara Archer
Our participation in Home To Home is due to the generous support from a Maddie’s Fund Grant, #ThankstoMaddie. Our share of the Maddie’s Fund Grant covers the cost of our own Home To Home™ branded website and a year of web hosting.
Home To Home is a national program that is used among shelters and rescues across the United States.