Surrendering Your Pet

Grey Face Rescue can offer many resources to keep your animal in your home. That being said, we are aware there are times when an owner can no longer care for their pet, or has found a stray in the community. Our surrender application contains the necessary information we will need to determine if we can place your animal in our foster system.

Although we would love to help all pets, we are a foster based rescue and need to assess our current foster home availability before making a decision to accept your pet into our foster program. While filling out our pet surrender/return application does not guarantee that we will be able to rehome your pet, Grey Face Rescue will be happy to provide additional resources that may assist you in the training or rehoming of your pet. Please see the following conditions before completing the surrender form.

We cannot guarantee acceptance of your animal. We do not accept animals with the following:

  • Animal aggression issues, including dogs and cats that must be the only animal in the home due to behavior issues

  • Human aggression issues, including children and adults

  • Multiple bite history of a person or other animals

  • A Dangerous Dog or Potentially Dangerous Dog declaration by the county

  • Severe separation anxiety

  • Cat urination/defecation outside of the litter box

  • Animals from states other than Minnesota

Criteria for Surrendering to Grey Face Rescue

  • We are a foster-based rescue which means we can only accept animals into our program if a foster home is available. We cannot give a timeframe of when a foster home will open for your animal.

  • You are required to provide veterinary records following your submission of your surrender form. We ask these be sent directly from your veterinary clinic.

  • You are required to pay a surrender fee via invoice prior to your appointment. Fees are as followed:

    • Unvaccinated + unaltered cats; $150

    • Vaccinated + altered cats; $75

    • Unvaccinated + unaltered dogs; $150

    • Vaccinated + altered dogs; $100

  • Surrender appointments take place on Sundays at our office in St. Joseph, MN one Sunday each month.

We apologize for the inconvenience but we are not accepting cats into our program at the moment.