I will tell you what I would do in her case.....of course I'll probably never get a rescue after saying this. I would read the contract (not that much to read from a rescue and I'm sure Ellen did too)then if I had a dog for a month and it was somewhat my fault that I could not get it to work in well with the rest of the family and I had to give it up, I would not want it to go back to the rescue to sit behind bars and maybe be put down. It would not take me a minute to decide to give my pup to a loving family I knew to take it in at that point. Of course I would think they will never know the difference but it could happen and this is what happened here I'm sure.
The main job of rescue is to make sure that a dog that has already been brought to rescue does not come back again, it is way too hard on the dog. Like I said before restrictions are way too strict but I see ours does it on a case to case basis which makes sense since every dog is different as well as every family. People also take on rescue animals to sell at a profit and this is another reason these rules are in place but I would not have cared a bit. I would have to suffer some of the consequences but this woman is seeing money signs and once all the law suits and counter law-suits are over we probably will know no more about the truth than we do now. I now found a link saying 14 was a part of the contract
