Find your Best Friend

Our Adoption Process

1. Ready to adopt? Fill out our adoption application

All applications are reviewed to ensure a family is the right fit for a dog. We often receive several applications for one dog. Unfortunately, we can only pick one home. However, we may find that your application is an even better fit for another dog in our care!

2. Reference and Vet Checks

Underdog Rescue Ranch completes a background check that includes contacting personal references, as well as a veterinary check, to ensure our dogs are in safe hands.

3. Phone Conversation

Should your application be selected and your background checks return clear, our Adoption Coordinator will reach out to you and discuss the dog that you applied for. The conversation allows us to learn more about you and provides you a chance to ask us questions too! 

4. Virtual Home Visit

A virtual home visit is required to ensure your home is a good fit for the dog. This can be done several ways, but generally we will ask you to provide pictures of your home. Virtual home visits are generally scheduled at the time of the phone interview. 

5. Meet & Greet

Meet and Greets are the best part! This is the chance for you to meet the dog. This is generally coordinated between the foster and potential adopter, and approved by Underdog Rescue Ranch. It can be done at the foster or adopter’s home depending on everyone’s comfort levels. Should you and the dog fall in love with each other, we can plan for the adoption!

Please note: applications are processed on a first-come, first-serve basis and adopting is given priority over fostering.

Underdog Adoption Stories

  • Maggie

    Adopted 2/29/24

    Maggie is a 6 year old gal that found herself in an overcrowded shelter in Detroit. She was adopted by a wonderful woman that fell in love with her immediately!

  • Odin

    Adopted 3/4/24

    Odin is a sweet 2 yr old boy that found himself at the Detroit shelter with severe trauma to his eye. After removing his eye, he is now learning to navigate the world in a new forever home where he is spoiled with parents and fur siblings who love him so much! Did we mention he gives the best hugs?!

  • Levi

    Adopted 3/9/24

    Coming out of an overcrowded shelter, Levi was scared, skinny, and unsure of human touch. His story turned into the happiest ending when his amazing foster parents, who showed him what love is for the first time, decided to adopt him!

  • Sterling

    Adopted 3/14/24

    Sterling was a long time resident in an overcrowded shelter that lucked out with the best mom ever! She lives in the U.P. and drove hours to meet us at the Mackinac Bridge to adopt this boy! It was love at first sight!

  • Ruby

    Adopted 3/15/24

    Ruby was a stray that ended up at the shelter in Detroit. At first, we thought she had an injury to her leg since she was limping. It turns out with a little TLC, she is completely fine and living her best life in her new home with a family that loves her so much!

  • Beans

    Adopted 3/19/24

    It didn’t take very long for Beans’ foster parents to fall in love and adopt him! Just look at that cute face! We are so happy for this little guy because he went from ending up in a shelter to being the luckiest boy in the world!

  • Milo

    Adopted 3/21/24

    The little boy with the really big ears! Milo was rescued from the shelter and given a second chance at life. His foster parents couldn’t resist this sweet pup and adopted him! We love happy endings like this one!

  • Sienna

    Adopted 3/23/24

    Sienna was a scared girl that ended up at the shelter in Detroit. She wasn’t doing well in that environment and desperately needed a foster home. We had this feeling that this one might be a foster fail…and we were right! Sienna ended up with the best family ever an we couldn’t be happier!

  • Teeling Blu

    Adopted 3/23/24

    This girl was a shelter favorite in Detroit and we know why! She is just the sweetest pup ever! We took her to a last minute adoption event and she ended up finding her forever family there! Talk about fairytale endings! She is so loved and cared for!

  • Frank

    Adopted 3/24/24

    Frank is just too cute! He was rescued out of the shelter the same day as his buddy, Milo. He went straight to a foster home where he was able to decompress from shelter life. It wasn’t long before his foster mom’s best friend fell in love with his sweet face! The rest is history!

  • Gunner

    Adopted 3/25/24

    Gunner ended up at the Detroit shelter. A fellow rescuer reached out to us to see if we could rescue this boy for her Doberman-loving friend. We couldn’t say no! This pup is one lucky dog! He is with a furever family that loves Doberman’s so much!

  • Max

    Adopted 3/28/24

    Max found himself in an overcrowded shelter in Detroit. He was becoming a long time resident, so we decided to take him to a last minute adoption event. Would you believe it if we told you that he went to a wonderful foster family that very same day?! t only took a week or so before they decided he was the one for them!

  • Rose

    Adopted 4/2/24

    This girl is a STAR! She was one of Dog Aide’s outreach dogs where she lived outside on a chain and did not receive proper medical care. This resulted in her eyes becoming infected and she now has limited vision. You would never know the adversity this girl has been through because she is one of the happiest dogs we’ve ever met! She even went to Ford Field for a special photoshoot before ending up in her forever home with the best family ever!

  • Bodhi

    Adopted 4/8/24

    Bodhi found herself at the shelter in Genessee County and we knew she needed out badly! She has been adopted by someone that adores black labs and we could not be more excited for this girl!

  • Margot

    Adopted 4/11/24

    Margot was just a little pup that ended up at the Detroit shelter. She was so scared and one of our very own team members fostered her! She waited a while to find her perfect mach, and we are so glad her dad found her! She is the perfect companion!

  • Zeus

    Adopted 4/14/24

    This puppy was absolutely terrified in the shelter, so we got him into a foster to adopt home as soon as we could! He could not have found a better family. They fell in love with him so fast! His new parents are teaching him Spanish! ¡Finales felices!