Trying to adopt a rescue dog!

gettingready

sheramber wrote: »

As said if you want something enough you will put in the effort.

But that should go both ways - so rescue wanting dog rehomed should make some effort too - at least to have courtesy to deal with potential adopters in polite and respectful manner and that included replying to queries in a timely manner.

No wonder people just go out and buy a dog if this is how rescue rehoming works, sorry to say that but this is a fact. And that is why rescues in UK will always be full - very unfortunate for the dogs.

karcher

supersaver2 wrote: »

I must have the same way of thinking as you. The breed rescue I tried first I spent a long time filling the application out and it asked you to name a dog if you were interested which I did. A boy who had 'Urgent Appeal' next to him as he has a life limiting illness and has spent 18 months in foster care/kennels. He looked ideal for us, good with children and very friendly, he's only expected to live until he's 4/5 years and he's still on the website from September as an urgent appeal! Yet I've filled 2 applications out naming him! Maybe I should be emailing daily like some on here suggest (no number provided so can't ring them). The applications are very detailed though and they can see my history with the breed so surely that should give them some indication as to how interested/suitable you are. Emailing them the same application countless times is time wasting for me and them.

Could you not try phoning them or just visiting?

It's a shame the dog is being kept in kennels when he could have a proper home.

missbiggles1

janninew wrote: »

My experiences with rescues hasn't been great either. I do understand they are busy and volunteers but when I was looking I'm surprised they manage to re-home any animals, no responses for weeks and one I contacted wouldn't re-home if you had a job outside the home, so either retired or unemployed! Meanwhile back in the real world many dogs owners do work and manage to keep happy dogs using a spot of common sense.

The Cats' Protection League used to be the worst - unless you live in the middle of a field and never leave the house they don't want to know.:(

supersaver2

karcher wrote: »

Could you not try phoning them or just visiting?

It's a shame the dog is being kept in kennels when he could have a proper home.

Unfortunately you can't visit, there is no way to know where he is and there is no telephone number, just an email address.

Person_one

And that is why rescues in UK will always be full - very unfortunate for the dogs.

Rescues will always be full while people view dogs as disposable items or fashion accessories that can be got rid of when the novelty wears off or when it's slightly harder work than they expected.

Does it surprise you that people who see this behaviour and its effect on the animals every single day sometimes get perhaps a little bit jaded?

annandale

What about dogs trust.

Pollycat

missbiggles1 wrote: »

The Cats' Protection League used to be the worst - unless you live in the middle of a field and never leave the house they don't want to know.:(

Absolutely agree.

When our cat died and we rang them about a kitten, they said that because we were both at work they wouldn't even consider letting us have a kitten even though my OH explained that we both worked flexi hours and I'd leave home early and come home early and he'd do the opposite and also pop home at lunchtime - he only worked a 1 minute drive from home.
And the fact that I'd had kittens for the previous 20+ years even though I worked full time apparently wasn't relevant.

We ended up getting a farm kitten, the vet reckoned he was only about 5 weeks old when we carted him off to the vets after having him for less than 2 days. He had cat flu and pneumonia, the vet wouldn't/couldn't say if he'd pull through.
He cost us over £100 in the first week.

The Cat Protection presumably thought that somebody home all day, possibly with small children who may (or may not) be unintentionally rough with a kitten was a better bet than we were.

suki1964

We were so lucky with Arthur.

We were asked if we lived on a main road, which we do, but well set back surrounded by fields. We weren't asked if we were home all day

The home visit was really just to ensure we lived where we said we did and it was obvious we were looking a pet

It's terribly sad the amount of animals in rescue here. The rescue we went to has dogs tied to the railings for the volunteers to come into Because they have a no destroy policy they have dogs there that can never be rehomed, taking kennel spaces which are desperately needed They say this is the busiest time of year for them, people dumping older dogs ready for the new Christmas pup

When I was desperately trying to find a home for the wee springer I rescued I was actually going to rehome him to the IOW with the help of springer rescue as no rescues here had room. Luckily my mechanic was looking and he's had a lovely life just up the road from me

Dogs and cats no longer wanted are just dumped, Arthur was one such kitten


Our buy and sell pages are full of adverts of pups and kittens for sell

missbiggles1

Person_one wrote: »

Rescues will always be full while people view dogs as disposable items or fashion accessories that can be got rid of when the novelty wears off or when it's slightly harder work than they expected.

Does it surprise you that people who see this behaviour and its effect on the animals every single day sometimes get perhaps a little bit jaded?

Whilst your first point is obviously correct, it's also true to say that some rescues make it so difficult for genuine adopters to take on an animal that it can drive some people into the arms of backstreet breeders and those whose pets continually have "accidents".

missbiggles1

Pollycat wrote: »

Absolutely agree.

When our cat died and we rang them about a kitten, they said that because we were both at work they wouldn't even consider letting us have a kitten even though my OH explained that we both worked flexi hours and I'd leave home early and come home early and he'd do the opposite and also pop home at lunchtime - he only worked a 1 minute drive from home.
And the fact that I'd had kittens for the previous 20+ years even though I worked full time apparently wasn't relevant.

We ended up getting a farm kitten, the vet reckoned he was only about 5 weeks old when we carted him off to the vets after having him for less than 2 days. He had cat flu and pneumonia, the vet wouldn't/couldn't say if he'd pull through.
He cost us over £100 in the first week.

The Cat Protection presumably thought that somebody home all day, possibly with small children who may (or may not) be unintentionally rough with a kitten was a better bet than we were.

We already had a couple of cats but had previously had more and my husband was at home most of the time but they said we lived on a road that was too busy, despite having a long front drive and the fact that no roads on the IOW are that busy!