Sometimes I just don't understand people....animal re-homing rant

[debilorrah]

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I got ya!!!!

 

[OlliOlliOlli]

I had the opposite situation with Craig's List -- I had a 2 y/o dachshund that was not meshing well from the beginning with my family...last straw was when he flagrantly killed 2 poultry while my boyfriend was tending to them...we called a shelter because it was just the last straw. The shelter blew us off and said they didn't have room, wouldn't deal with the situation for a couple weeks, etc...and how we'd have to go through some bulltinky interview process, etc.

I went on Craig's List and listed the dog, complete with pictures and why we were looking for a new home. The first person to contact me? The shelter that evidently had no room for them, nagging us to hand the dog over to them since I couldn't possibly be qualified to find a new owner myself. I politely told them to back off, of course they didn't. I could only imagine the "adoption fee" that they thought they were missing out upon getting this dog adopted.

Anyway, he went to a fabulous home with everything we could have wanted (single-dog household, stay-at-home mom with 3 great kids, nice people, lots of room to run). I paid $400 for him as a 2 m/o puppy and gave him away for nothing -- these folks contact me regularly to tell me how much they love him.

 

[chickencoop31320]

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You weren't supposed to iron the BDUs either! (A regulation my husband loved to point out when individuals made E5 and started trying to throw their rank around

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I know it wasn't a regulation, it was something that was done because someone thought it would be a good "look" for the army. It was widely enforced as "the way a uniform should look" so even though it wasnt a regulation, it was followed as one.
I'd hate to be the person in uniform when they followed regulation and DIDN'T iron their BDUs! LOL

 

[australorpchick]

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On one episode of Dirty Jobs, the host visited a large pig farm out in Nevada. The farmer had contracts with several large casinos to pick up left over food from the buffets. The food went through a sanitation process and then was fed to the pigs. What a novel idea. I wonder if more farms do this and if it would be feasible (in a much smaller scale) for a backyard farm?

 

[emvickrey]

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Contact all your local shelters alot of time they will give pet food away to people with finacial proublems that has been donated that they wont use...

I know the ladies with our local Humane Society and when I need food they don'thave any. They are giving it away as fast as they get it. Last year I was able to get a few bags. That is how I got the St neutered. They are in with a Vet and a couple times a year she arranges a clinic and brings her trailer and its like production work. She does cats and dogs for a cheap price and also does tests and shots, dental and what ever they need at the time. But you have to catch it.

 

[geareduplyn]

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I love the little Pekingese in your avatar.
My sister used to have one just like him named "Brownie". He was the sweetest lil dog

That Pekingese is a purebred Tibetan Spaniel who only needs a couple of points to finish her Championship. Many mistake them for Pekes, but believe me the personalities are not even close.

 

[chickencoop31320]

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I love the little Pekingese in your avatar.
My sister used to have one just like him named "Brownie". He was the sweetest lil dog

That Pekingese is a purebred Tibetan Spaniel who only needs a couple of points to finish her Championship. Many mistake them for Pekes, but believe me the personalities are not even close.

Oh well I was close. If she were a Pekingese, she had far to big of a nose any how LOL Brownie was no show dog, just a great pet and looked like a twin to your Spaniel.

 

[emvickrey]

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I got ya!!!!

I understand also. Reminds me of most of the people that mistreat animals when I watch Animal Planet's Animal Cops. It just makes me sick. They say, well it's not my dog. And the poor thing is tied out in the yard with no food or water and nothing but bones. How can anybody do that to an animal. Those wives or husbands that don'r really want the animal but has to take care of it while it's owner is away, you know they aren't being nice to the pet. I wish I could stop all cruelty and put those people behind bars just like they do for humans instead of slaping them on the hand and giving them 3 months at most. It's a crime no matter who is the victim. Anyway, I am very sensative to the subject to having to rehome my pets.

I have been called by many people to help them find a home for a pet. They have even dropped them off on my door step becaue I know the ladies at the Humane Society. I was left with the deed to rid the pets. I was once called about 3 puppies found on the side of the road and one of them had been run over and hd a broken leg. After we helped get the leg healed we found homes for them all in 1 day. If all else fails sit in the Walmart Parking lot on a weekend.

I will not do that with my own though. They are grown and used to a certain way of living. Puppies will be trained by their new owners.

 

[PattiXmas]

At least the dog was a SPAYED dog. Whatever reasons they have to re-home the dog is THEIR reason. If you read the Craig's List ad, I think they cared for their dog. She was/is spayed, had been obedience trained and vetted.

How many dogs/cats are re-homed without being spayed? Without being vet checked? Without being trained? It sounds like this family put a lot into this dog, and to have someone "slamming" them on a pubic forum like this without giving the people an opportunity to respond is silly.

Would it have been better for this family to just turn the dog loose? To take her and abandon her on someone's "farm"? Then we would have the posts that someone abandoned their german shepherd, it killed my chickens, so I killed it. What is wrong with re-homing a pet? Sometimes things don't work out, and again, at least they are responsible pet owners because the dog is spayed so she will not be contributing to the puppy population. What about the "breeders" that breed without any concern for the betterment of the breed but post their cute puppy pictures here? What about the support they receive? How many "breeders" utilize this website alone as a method of advertising their puppies for sale? What does that make them? To me, it makes them a bit worse then a family that is looking to re-home a SPAYED dog because of circumstances such as moving.

 

[Wifezilla]

Again...it wasn't the rehoming...it was HER OFFER TO HELP THEM MET WITH A SNOTTY RESPONSE.