Jamie. I wasn't suggesting that you were not being honest. I was just suggesting that just because someone is asking an adoption fee does not mean that it's written in stone. As I said a lot of people will place their dog with an adoption fee not because they want money but because they feel that this is the safest way to be sure that their dog does not end up as a lab rat. What I was suggesting is to not rule out the dogs with an adoption fee because sometimes once the family speaks to the potential adopter and knows that their dog will be provided a living home with vet care etc. that they will end up waving the asking fee. Many years ago my parents bought my boys their first dog. It was a Golden Retriever and we had not idea that our little guy had asthma triggered by dog hair. He was very very sick from Bogart and we had no choice but to find a home for him. We had him advertised in the paper with a price and had him sold but in the end would not follow through with the sale because he would be crated all day while the person worked. In the end we found a family through our vet that had just lost their old Sheepdog and in the end we chose to lose the $700 that was spent on him and just give this family Bogart because we knew he'd have the perfect home. This is all I was saying. That you should not rule out those asking a fee. Unfortuanetly while you may be upright, many many are not and Labs look for free dogs and they send people posing as a person looking for a family dog and these poor people end up handing their dog over to what they believe is a good home, only to find later that the dog ended up in a labratory and this is why in a lot of cases a person will put a high fee on their pet, but sometimes once they talk to you the fee disappears. I admire you are looking to rescue. I have four that are rescues.
Elaine |