Adoption Policy
Habitat for Horses has an aggressive adoption policy for placing horses in qualified homes. All applications will be considered based on your ability to provide the best home for the horse. The adoption fee helps us recover some of the cost of caring for the horse while in our care and allows us to continue our operation to rescue, bringing back health and finding homes for other horses.

·Financial responsibility
·The Details
·Adoption Application
·Visiting Foster Homes

·Financial responsibility
We do not have FREE horses. The average adoption fee is $600, (Read more about HfH adoption fees.) more for a well-trained horse, less for disabled horses. We do not rent horses, provide horses for rodeos, sell horses, offer horse rides or have mares for breeding. Horses can be very expensive. Other than the initial cost of stalls and fencing, there is the ongoing cost of worming, shots, farrier bills, hay, feed, medications, supplements and hundreds of items that you will eventually need to purchase. At some point you will probably be faced with a large vet bill. Like people, horses can seriously injure themselves or get very sick. One case of colic can cost you up to $5,000, with no guarantee that he will live through it. We expect you to have the financial ability to handle these costs.

·The Details
You must become a member of HfH to adopt a horse. Applications will only be considered after the payment of a non-refundable membership fee, when all the required information is complete and all letters of reference are received. At that time we will start the investigation and evaluation process. The final determination on your application should occur within two weeks.

If, during the inspections, we find areas that are in violation of our regulations we will advise you on how to bring them up to our minimum standards. Failure to meet the minimum standards will result in the rejection of your application.

During the two-year trial period we will conduct periodic inspections. It is important to note that the horse belongs to Habitat for Horses, Inc. during that time and that, if there is a failure to abide by the regulations or if we feel that the horse is in an unsafe environment, we will remove the horse without recourse.

Horses adopted from us cannot be sold, transferred, moved without notifying us, or leased at any time during the two-year period. If you decided that you no longer want the horse for any reason, it must come back to us. Read our full adoption policy here. Adoption Policy - Download .pdf

·Adoption Application
We strongly suggest that you read ALL the terms of the adoption contract and application to avoid any "Oops! I didn't know that!" problems. To request an adoption application please contact us at  adoptions@habitatforhorses.org or call 1.866.HFH.LSER(866.434.5737).

·Visiting Foster Homes
Visitors to foster homes are required to be "approved adopters" before the equine can be seen due to liability issues. "Approved adopter" means you must be a member, submit an adoption application and pass the required property inspection. Visitors are welcome at the ranch by appointment only, but adopters must still become members before their adoption application will be considered.