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Originally Posted by celstu1  Ladyjane, I admire rescues and the work they do, I am not meaning to sound unappreciative of any rescue at all. I think you need to LISTEN to what others are saying. It is a COMMON occurrence that people are getting turned down for not having a fenced in yard, for working full time, for having other pets, or having children. Maybe YOUR rescue does not work like that, but other rescues in other places DO. I've heard it and read it on here time and time again. I, always, tell anyone I know looking for a dog to try a rescue first. I most definitely support them, they just didn't work out for me and others for the reasons stated above. 3 - 4 people on this thread alone have mentioned they were turned down for those reasons stated above. This does happen. I think you need to understand that too. |
First of all, it is a COMMON occurence for people to be turned down. That is not something we love, but it happens. Sadly, the majority of applications rescues get are not as great as people might think they are. It is a whole picture...not just a fence...or a stay at home owner. I have seen GREAT apps turn into nightmares once a vet check or home visit is done. Call a vet and find out that the FIRST time they saw someone's 14 year old pup was when they brought it in to be euthanized (YES that actually happened to me....and I DID tell the person because I thought that SURELY she had used another vet. Oh ...no....but she begged me for days on end to let her adopt my foster.....said she had learned her lesson. Well, so sorry, but my pups are not experiments. I have no problem saying no, heck no. Maybe she did learn her lesson....I told her to go to a shelter and find a pup. THere are SO many in need of homes. Not going to get one that I have spent my time rehabbing. I will not gamble with the life of a pup...ever. ) Do we miss some great homes? Probably....but rather that than to send a pup to the wrong one.
I do hear what people are saying and I also know that when people say it they often refer to rescues as if to say ALL rescues follow the same guidelines. I also know that they often times guess why they were not approved for a pup because many rescues do not give the reason why they are not approved. There is good reason for that.....once a person knows they were turned down for a particular reason, they will hide that from the next group.
The groups I know and work closely with do pretty much the same thing that we do.
What a lot of people do not understand is that rescues are not in the business of placing pups in homes just to make the people happy. Their goal is to place a pup in the home that best fits that pup.....the goal is to STOP the cycle of recycled pups! Of course if it fits the pup, it will fit the home and everyone is happy. Are we perfect? No, but we do our level best to be perfect and we will take back any pup for any reason. Now, in saying that, if we were turning them over to just anyone to make people happy, do you think we could offer that guarantee? Of course not....the numbers would be mind boggling. That is WHY there are so many homeless pups....because byb's and mills do NOT screen carefully the way that rescues do.
What I tell people who are turned down is to go to a shelter if they want a pup. The rules are less stringent in most.
Anyone telling me that they were forced to BUY from a breeder is just saying that for effect because there are so many ways to get one rather than pad the pockets of bad breeders. I don't buy that attempt to try to make rescues guilty.