Equine Adoption Policy

Prepare an Equine Adoption Policy for a horse shelter and rescue organization with this ready-made template.

The Adoption Policy is intended to ensure that all horses at the shelter are adopted out to suitable homes. It sets out the shelter's policies and procedures governing:

• application approval process for adoption of a horse,
• adoptive standards of care (medical care, pasturing, food and water, shelter),
• restrictions on breeding,
• recommendations for evaluation of the horse by the adopter's veterinarian and a trainer (if the horse will be used for riding),
• farrier requirements,
• euthanasia policy.

This Equine Adoption Policy template is provided as a downloadable and fully customizable MS Word document.