What about an application process? Is the group in question researching the adopter at all? Is there an application that has to be filled out, or is it "first come, first served?"

Typically adoption fees are at least somewhat less than retail prices. A rescue charging high adoption fees (based on market value) and placing few animals might be suspect of hoarding (charge a high fee so that few people apply and the animal is artifically "forced" to stay with the rescue rather than going to an "undeserving" home) while one charging high fees but having a revolving door of animals is suspect of being a dealer for profit.

Katrina

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