Breeding Dogs

[RabbitMage]

I have to agree that if you can't manage a small (say $150 or under) adoption fee for your new dog, you can't afford to care for it.

$150 might be four months of good food. $150 could easily be a single vet visit. $150 could be a spay surgery. If you can't save up the $150, what are you going to do when your dog eats a dead poisoned mouse at 7 PM on a Sunday night?

I also don't get the hate for shelters/rescues. There ARE unethical ones out there, but most are scraping along doing the best they can with what they have.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I have to agree that if you can't manage a small (say $150 or under) adoption fee for your new dog, you can't afford to care for it.

Are you actually trying to tell me that its better to put a dog down then to let it go to a loving home because something might happen to it at some point that they cant afford to fix. How in anyone's mind can that be better for the dog.​

 

[RabbitMage]

It might be better to put a dog down than to let it go to a home that can't afford to feed it decent food, keep it properly contained, or will let it suffer needlessly because they can't afford to care for in in an emergency, or give it simple preventative care. But that isn't what I'm saying.

What I'm saying is that even routine things are expensive, and if a $100 adoption fee is so very prohibitive for someone, they should really be asking themselves if they can afford to own a pet right now.

 

[lishah2000]

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Have you ever spent time at a shelter? Volunteered your time to help those animals? Spend some time with the wonderful dogs at a shelter. Sit with a senior dog someone dumped. While you are sitting with that old soul, watch as someone brings in a 6 month old dog they never bothered to train or spend time with. Then watch that same person go visit the kennels wanting to adopt another puppy.

Sit and cry over a wonderful dog that didn't find a home.

It costs money to feed, house and treat medical issues with those animals. A lot of the care that get while at a shelter comes from volunteers. The staff is usually overworked and underpaid. They do it because they love what they do. So add up the cost of spay/neuter, shots, medical exam, training and the cost of taking care of that animal while it was in the shelter. $85 dollars is looking like a pretty good deal.

I would say 90% of the dogs are owner surrender, maybe 9% stray and 1% cruelty.

 

[Terri]

if you can't afford the adoption fee, how are you going to pay for food, vaccinations, heartworm preventative, flea and tick control, dental problems, allergy problems, tumors, and many more problems. Most shelters are just trying to find a permament home for these animals. I work for a vet and have rehomed many animals with microchips from shelters. It is really hard calling the shelter, they feel like they haved failed in finding a good home.

 

[chinbunny]

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Have you ever spent time at a shelter? Volunteered your time to help those animals? Spend some time with the wonderful dogs at a shelter. Sit with a senior dog someone dumped. While you are sitting with that old soul, watch as someone brings in a 6 month old dog they never bothered to train or spend time with. Then watch that same person go visit the kennels wanting to adopt another puppy.

Sit and cry over a wonderful dog that didn't find a home.

It costs money to feed, house and treat medical issues with those animals. A lot of the care that get while at a shelter comes from volunteers. The staff is usually overworked and underpaid. They do it because they love what they do. So add up the cost of spay/neuter, shots, medical exam, training and the cost of taking care of that animal while it was in the shelter. $85 dollars is looking like a pretty good deal.

I would say 90% of the dogs are owner surrender, maybe 9% stray and 1% cruelty.

Yes as a matter fo fact I have. They had the same cats and dogs there all the time. It was our county non kill shelter. I also know people that work in animal rescue too. There are plenty of shelters that are charging wy more then $85 for a dog, making it impossible to get one. Anywhere from $150-$400 a dog. A local rescue charges $150 a dog and refuses to adopt out to anyone who breeds, or has an intact animal. I spoke with a pug breeder some time ago that was wrongfully raided by animal control. They seized everything they had including their rabbits. Intact rabbits were thrown together in a dog kennel. They used those animals to produce more babies to adopt to the public for money. They also turned around and resold the pugs for $400 each. Thse were healthy animals. There are some good shelters and rescues out there, but there are many more out there that are bad. Good animal shelters are few and far between these days.

 

[chinbunny]

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Its better to let a dog go to a home instead of rotting in a cage in a shelter. Just because they don't have the adoption fee for $100 does not mean they won't be able to pay a vet bill. I don't have a whole lot of money to go off and adopt a dog, yet I still manage to pay the bills for mine.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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I know more farmers, disabled, you name it that never have a dime to there name that take better care of there pets an know more about taking care of pets than any shelter worker I have ever met. I'm sorry but saying someone shouldn't have a pet an cant take care of one because they don't have a set amount of cash in there pocket is just plain bigotry.

 

[Terri]

i would love the link to that.

 

[chinbunny]

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I don't agree with this. Its like saying only the rich should be allowed to own a pet. There are plenty of people out there that have no money, yet still manage to take care of their animals. I happen to be one of them. Shelters need to be little lenient when it comes to selling animals. That means no rules against chaining, fenced yards, etc. That would help solve their so called overpopulation problem.