We recently came from owning a home to renting . We have one giant lab and within the first 10 people we emailed through trade me 3 said that was fine . These weren ' t ratty dumps either . Just reach out and try . Don ' t put too much in about the pets because that will make the land lords think something is wrong with them as your trying really hard to make them sound awesome . Best of luck . <| sep |> Time to quit this game <| sep |> Please don ' t take the negativity in this sub too harshly . Every family wanting to adopt has its own reasons , as does every birth mother wanting to adopt out her child . I think Shostakovich answered the basics for the most part . A few things that may help to also think about would be your motivations for adopting a child , and what type of child would you be comfortable raising . If you ' re looking to have a baby , and have all of the expectations about raising one as though you gave birth to it , then domestic , infant adoption is the best course . If you feel like you have the strength , energy , and patience to parent a child who may be dealing with tremendous loss and rejection , or could have significant behavioral problems because of previous life changes then adopting an older child either internationally or domestically through foster care is great ! Please know , however , that you very likely may not be able to go about raising an older adopted child from foster care the way you would have a birth child they may have very different needs . Be prepared to do a lot of educating yourself on how to raise a child in any of these situations . Lastly , if your desire to adopt is to save the children then please don ' t do it . This puts your child in a horrible position of having to be thankful to you for adopting him whether you do this intentionally or not .