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  • Dad has tried to re-home you, but it looks as if, for now, you'll stay where you are, covered in a tarpaulin and housing Mum's collection of terracotta pots waiting for plants.

    A letter to … our old family kitchen table 2011

  • Currently they are now splayed over the floor and the far staircase and will need another bookcase to re-home them.

    The shelf dilemma 2007

  • Currently they are now splayed over the floor and the far staircase and will need another bookcase to re-home them.

    The shelf dilemma 2007

  • When Marina Baktis of Mutts & Moms explained to her celebrity adopters that only Mutts & Moms could re-home Iggy, and that he needed to be returned immediately, it was the beginning of a surreal sequence of events that could only happen in Hollywood.

    Scott Sorrentino: The Other Side of the Ellen Story [Updated] 2008

  • BTW there are organizations that help fund vet fees or re-home animals with chronic health problems to families who can afford to pay for care.

    What Price Our Love? or Constipation Update Sage 2008

  • The shelter workers are doing their absolute best to re-home the animals — thus this emergency event — but overcrowding has hit critical mass and time is running out.

    take one down, pass it around 2008

  • The funds raised from selling these model cows will be divided into two part: the first will be used to rescue and re-home a calve who would be considered surplus and put down from the dairy industry and find it a suitable and safe home to live in, the second half will be used to fund similar projects in the future.

    Cowanunga, dude! But is it art? Thatsnews 2006

  • Please consider helping the wonderful people who rescue, adopt, shelter, re-home, and euthanize your local cast-off animals.

    250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998

  • Please consider helping the wonderful people who rescue, adopt, shelter, re-home, and euthanize your local cast-off animals.

    250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998

  • She told HuffPost about one of foundation's more recent challenges: "with the downturn of the economy and these troubled times, we have been called upon to re-home a dog we adopted out 10 years ago."

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

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  • MaryW commented on the word re-home

    A deplorable practice has emerged in the world of adoption. Adoptive families are now using the Internet to give their unwanted adopted children over to complete strangers, some of whom are traffickers, pedophiles, child pornographers, or worse. This practice is known as private re-homing. Through the use of online message boards and a simple notarized power of attorney document, adoptive parents are circumventing the adoption system-including its home study and background check requirements for prospective parents-and placing children in great danger.
    S. Megan Testerman, Note, A World Wide Web of Unwanted Children: The Practice, the Problem, and the Solution to Private Re-Homing, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 2103 (2015) (abstract)

    April 19, 2018