Rehoming a dog...

jinky67

Awwwww honey...nothing practical to add......but you are doing the best for him and your family...I hope it doesnt have that bad ending

Dont be crying now:grouphug:

gettingready

Sorry, did not read the whole thread....

But I can tell you that .. we had a Rottie that needed home, we managed to find him one:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2137153

... but this was my first try on rehoming a dog in UK and... we were VERY lucky to find him a good home.

No rescue (apart from battersea but they would put Bruno to sleep) would take him on or help in any way. I will be cancelling some DD from my account right now.

All the best

Kimitatsu

Princess - as has been said you do need to take professional advice from both a vet and a behavioural expert, after all fairly soon you will have another little person added into the mix and that will take some getting used to. Do you have a crate that he can retreat into if he is feeling a bit under the weather? We still have crates up and my dogs love them, because they are places that they can go and not be disturbed as much as somewhere you can put them to give you a bit of a breather.

Gettingready - I just have to make a point that Battersea do not put dogs down as a routine, I know because I used to work with them a lot with breed rescue (and my breed has just as bad a name as yours!). They assess all of them and then call breed rescue to assess them too, and then they HOLD them until we can find them a space - well thats what they always did for us anyway. The only difference was they would not put them out onto the general kennel walk for the public to see as they were looking for specific owners who had breed knowledge. The dogs trust is run along similar lines too, but many others wont even consider large dogs.

gettingready

Kimitatsu - you are not the only one that used to work with Battersea.

I have several friends who have worked at Battersea, inside - not in association with.

Bruno, the way he was portrayed by the person who took him from - would have been put down as "dangerous" dog.

OP- sorry, did not mean to hijak your thread, hope you find a lovely home for the little dog

Fire_Fox

No arguments on Christmas eve, please my lovelies! :santa2:

gettingready

I never argue

I just state the facts... sometimes they are not what people like to hear or what they are led to believe - I can not be held responsible for ugly thruths....

PrincessPlaty

Kimitatsu wrote: »

Princess - as has been said you do need to take professional advice from both a vet and a behavioural expert, after all fairly soon you will have another little person added into the mix and that will take some getting used to. Do you have a crate that he can retreat into if he is feeling a bit under the weather? We still have crates up and my dogs love them, because they are places that they can go and not be disturbed as much as somewhere you can put them to give you a bit of a breather.

Thanks
I actually spent quite a long time reading the forums on the terrier rescue site yesterday and was reading the story of a little JRT who had apparently been running the house he was living in (all adult household) and everyone was scared of him he is now in a foster placement and i was reading the foster carers updates and she was talking about crating him as part of his training it wasnt something i had thought about before but its definately something worth considering!

He comes back to me tomorrow so i may well be using this thread to vent cry stress and cry for help at times! I know i still have a lot more reading up to do but im just going to take one day at a time and hope for the best and hopefully it wont be to long before i get a reply back from the terrier rescue people neither!

My friend didnt come round in the end yesterday but when she brings him back tomorrow i will be mentioning the vets to her and hopefully we can get him in with a vet and checked over asap to rule that out to

Thanks to everyone for all your help and wishing you all a merry christmas

WolfSong2000

A crate sounds like a really good idea...our JRT (Cracker) used to snuggle up under the chair covers, and as she was so small (runt of the litter), people would sit on her without reaising she was there...she soon made her presence known however, little banshee that she was. lol.

But yeah, terriers can be stroppy little gits...they're not always as "forgiving" as some other breeds of dog and can be less tolerant, so having an area that they can escape to and not get pestered would make sense

hethmar

Yes, my Ralph (Parson Jack Russell) is often like a stroppy teenager - "yeah whatever". Though Diggs, border terrier is very obedient.

slummymummyof3

hethmar wrote: »

slummy, certainly did - he was on death row in a northern pound. Wonderful boy, ideal companion for our disabled Parson Russell.

Oh my god he is gorgeous - I will have to post a picture of my little girl - she is very red and smooth haired.

OP have you got a good dog training person nearby who you could seek advice from?