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Post by RealPitBull on Nov 18, 2011 8:20:58 GMT -5
I figured this could be theraputic for some of us. ;D Here's my vent for the moment: I was on an email thread a little while back where a couple rescues pitched a fit because some other rescue offered to take a few pups but leave the nursing mom behind. Really bums me out when rescues opt to leave the mama but take easily placed pups (these were "purebred blues")  (The mom and entire litter ended up getting pulled by a single rescue, thankfully.) |
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Post by sugar on Nov 18, 2011 11:17:40 GMT -5
Rescues should know better than anyone why its never a good idea to separate pups (especially nursing pups!) from their mama. How sad. Not really a rescue thing (because I don't rescue on that kind of scale, just an adopter) but most of my family gets me super irritated when they try to dump their dogs on me because "You love dogs!" I try to calmly explain I already have a dog and they try to convince me that 1) their dog is better should I should just dump mine and take theirs, and 2) If i don't take it it will probably end up on the street. How is it MY fault! I try to talk them out of getting dogs (or certain breeds, like my cousin who wanted to get a rottie pup, but they all work a ton and their youngest son has boundries issues with dogs). But when they get an idea in their head, I always end up getting a phone call a few months later asking me what they should do because the dog...is acting like a freaking dog! "Oh K, it barks all the time when he hears people coming, he doesn't walk well on a leash outside, he chewed up my son's toys that had been left on the floor and he's peed on the carpet because I got home late..."  |
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Post by RealPitBull on Nov 18, 2011 11:21:52 GMT -5
^ Along the same line, is people hear I do Pit Bull rescue and assume I can immediately place any dog I come across. I guess this is ignorance to the reality of the situation with these dogs (or homeless dogs in general). Still really gets under my skin.
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Post by sugar on Nov 18, 2011 11:24:13 GMT -5
Also, it annoys me when rescues don't give full disclosure on any issues the dog you want to adopt has. My example being when I tried to adopt a "bull terrier mix" that was 6 months and 35 lbs...that turned out to be 100% pitbull, 1.5 years and about 65 pounds. I was told he was deaf two days before I went to pick him up. He randomly attacked everyone in my family and drew blood with three of us (mental wiring thing, not behavioral.)
Well, I contact the shelter after trying for 3 weeks to make it work. Their "100% return policy, no questions asked" became an hour long conversation on why I was a horrible human being for giving up on this dog (I seriously cried). I had to fight with his previous foster dad who didn't want to take him back (thats when I learned they knew about his violent outbursts, they just don't tell people). A year later, I see him on petfinder with a new rescue and he is being listed as a "bull terrier mix, deaf, 9 months old and 40 lbs". Made me so sad.
This experience almost turned me completely away from ever wanting to deal with another rescue.
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Post by johnr on Nov 18, 2011 11:57:37 GMT -5
^ Along the same line, is people hear I do Pit Bull rescue and assume I can immediately place any dog I come across. I guess this is ignorance to the reality of the situation with these dogs (or homeless dogs in general). Still really gets under my skin. I frequently get asked, by people in the business no less, if I know anyone who is looking for a Pit Bull because their boss's niece's ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend "has to get rid" of her dog but doesn't want to take it to the shelter and of course this person's situation trumps everything and I should obviously direct the next Pit Bull applicant to this dingdong rather than to any of the 30 to 50 Pit Bulls and Pit Mixes we ALWAYS have in that are looking for homes. And this stuff comes from ACOs and rescuers and all sorts of people who have just GOT to know what we're up against ALL the time. And yet they expect me to call this three times removed acquaintance and coordinate the home-to-home placement of their dog - for free, of course. Hey, I never have anything better to do, right? |
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Post by sugar on Nov 18, 2011 12:16:29 GMT -5
For free? How very kind of them to waive their personal "re-homing fee"!
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Post by johnr on Nov 18, 2011 12:37:35 GMT -5
For free? How very kind of them to waive their personal "re-homing fee"! I remember way back when, someone put something up on one of the old Pit Bull email lists asking for a rescue to take their dog. But since the dog was registered, they "had to" ask for $250. Ask away, eh? Idiots. |
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Post by RealPitBull on Nov 21, 2011 8:59:36 GMT -5
For free? How very kind of them to waive their personal "re-homing fee"! I remember way back when, someone put something up on one of the old Pit Bull email lists asking for a rescue to take their dog. But since the dog was registered, they "had to" ask for $250. Ask away, eh? Idiots. HAH. The best are the emails with the headings of, "Available for rehoming". Gee thanks. |
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