Rescue dog! Big let down!

mrcol1000

Jules22 wrote: »

i think the point here is the fact the dog was returned within a week having attacked a resident dog.
if the rescue had any sense of reality and compassion then the donation should be returned.........hoping another dog could have a potential home with this family.

i've been through a similar situation with a 10mth old dog who, after 3 days, attacked my OH.
on returning the dog we were told it had been assesed and it was reccomended that the dog had 'professional help' as it didnt like men. i was never told that beforehand.

after that i wouldnt go down the rescue route again. the saying 'once bitten' holds strong with me.

i would ask for my donation back too, as this is given in good faith.

But why should be the donation be returned??? Just be thankful that it was a rescue and that were willing to take the dog back. Many breeders (but obviously not all) would have refused to take the dog back if it had problems.
I really think your being a bit small minded by saying your never go down the rescue route again.

suki1964

mrcol1000 wrote: »

But why should be the donation be returned??? Just be thankful that it was a rescue and that were willing to take the dog back. Many breeders (but obviously not all) would have refused to take the dog back if it had problems.
I really think your being a bit small minded by saying your never go down the rescue route again.

REPUTABLE BREEDERS INSIST ON THEIR DOGS BEING RETURNED

DO NOT confuse breeders with puppy farmers and what we call back yard breeders ( those that let their pets have litters out of ignorance)

alleycat`

I was under the impression that reputable dog rescue / charities insisted that the animal should be returned to them if there was a problem or the need to re-home.

I know the documents from the rescue i signed explicitly state something similar to this.

For Jules:-

My rescue dog was evaluated as not liking men.
They were quite surprised when he was fine with me over several days of visiting.
The difference is that they a) told us about this & b) evaluated him with me for several days before they let us take him home.

It turns out he didn't like a certain "type" of man (smokers who are older and quite tall).
To this day he still will not go near a few of our friends who fall into this category.

It still appears, based on the information supplied, that the rescue place have done the animal and themselves a massive disservice.

The loss of a potentially good home (for dogs to come) makes it even more sickening (as with what has happened with jules).

Kim-DogsBlog

alleycat` wrote: »

What a load of old hooey.

I have a rescue dog and my family have had dogs pretty much all my life.
Some rescue places are very good and some are shockingly bad.

The ones i visited that i believed were bad didn't put me off looking for the right dog for myself and my family.

If a rescue place is more interested in the money than the dogs welfare they need to be named and shamed.

There will always be accidents / misplacements in dogs with no/poor history but the bottom line is the "charity" has a responsibility to both the dog and the family it is going to.

This charity appears to have totally failed in that duty of care and should rightly get a good kick in the pants for it.
I'm not sure they should be looking at giving the money "back" but they have totally failed in making any sort of effort to work with the poster.

Very true.

Just like you can't judge all dogs the same, rescues are similar. It's quite hard to speak for them, in fact impossible really as you don't know the circumstances surrounding.

Normally rescues donations are worked out on the basis purely to cover costs involved in spaying, neutering, microchipping, feeding, kennelling the dog etc. Sometimes a dog may be only with them a short time, sometimes years but typically the costs can be a standard cost regardless of that.

It is a donation, but as with the rescues we work with through DogsBlog, I'm assuming there's a logic behind the donation fee. I do feel for the OP, but I feel more that the cost has become the issue perhaps rather than the welfare of both dogs and the circumstances, which is a bit of a shame.

Not to say the cost should be discounted all together, but the circumstances in handing back etc are only one sided just now.

Jules22

mrcol1000 wrote: »

But why should be the donation be returned??? Just be thankful that it was a rescue and that were willing to take the dog back. Many breeders (but obviously not all) would have refused to take the dog back if it had problems.
I really think your being a bit small minded by saying your never go down the rescue route again.

i'm not small minded just wary and mistrustful.

i'd rather go to a reputable breeder for a puppy so i can train and socialise him/her to my requirements. Which i have done with the 2 dogs i've got.

i'm not saying ALL rescues are to be avoided as most do a wonderful job but there are some which are more questionable.

anyway, its my choice where i aquire my dogs from. each to their own.

mrcol1000

Jules22 wrote: »

i'm not small minded just wary and mistrustful.

i'd rather go to a reputable breeder for a puppy so i can train and socialise him/her to my requirements. Which i have done with the 2 dogs i've got.

i'm not saying ALL rescues are to be avoided as most do a wonderful job but there are some which are more questionable.

anyway, its my choice where i aquire my dogs from. each to their own.

Rescues also have puppies too. You should bear that in mind.

Kim-DogsBlog

Jules22 wrote: »

i'm not small minded just wary and mistrustful.

i'd rather go to a reputable breeder for a puppy so i can train and socialise him/her to my requirements. Which i have done with the 2 dogs i've got.

i'm not saying ALL rescues are to be avoided as most do a wonderful job but there are some which are more questionable.

anyway, its my choice where i aquire my dogs from. each to their own.

I can understand being a bit shy of rescues after a bad experience, but again it's not all rescues and it's not all rescue dogs who end up their due to something they've done. I'd say in my experience 80%, particularly at the moment, is out of their control as to why they're ending up in rescue.

But just as you say not all rescues are to be avoided etc - this could be mirrored for breeders.

Best of luck with whatever you choose though.

consultant31

KatP wrote: »

This is a charity, they took the dog back at no expense and rehomed it. How tight are you to seek to get your donation back! Would you ask for a refund on your red nose at comic relief if it broke???????

If you'd bought a puppy from a breeder you would have paid a lot more and had no come back if you didn't like the dog after a couple of weeks.

I think the sentence in bold red above was the bit that made the other poster say your post was disgusting. There was no need for a sarcastic reply at all.

Equally, she didn't want to return the dog because "she didn't like it after a couple of weeks". It had attacked another animal with no provocation and caused severe wounds! With a child in the house, OP would have been very irresponsible to have kept it?

Mistymaid wrote: »

... and I'd still like to know why the OP felt the need to post this here when she'd already posted it at 2.30 in the consumer section - and had 8 responses ...?
... and lots more since.

Perhaps you should have read the other thread properly before sighing and asking a pointless question, then you wouldn't have had to apologise.

What is it with people on the pet's board? I'd think long and hard before asking any questions on here when irregular posters are treated with such unpleasantness.

OP, I'd contact the chairman of the charity again and tell them you'll go to the local papers if I were you - surely any charity wouldn't want any bad publicity.

mrcol1000

alleycat` wrote: »

I was under the impression that reputable dog rescue / charities insisted that the animal should be returned to them if there was a problem or the need to re-home.

Some will have you join a waiting list to return the dog to them as they will have filled the dog's place and may have to wait for another dog to be adopted before they have space to take the dog back.

mrcol1000

consultant31 wrote: »

What is it with people on the pet's board? I'd think long and hard before asking any questions on here when irregular posters are treated with such unpleasantness.

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I think the actual problem is that some people have some different ideas on this board and when the majority disagree with them they don't have the ability to appericate that their views and ways of doing things are in a minority and assume that people are ganging up on them. Its an open forum with a wide range of posters. If you don't like the responses you get and get that upset by it then you need to join a more specialised forum that is more for people with similar views to yourself.