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Originally Posted by kjcmsw  I was trying to quote the quote you quoted...and all that came up was yours...sorry for that.
Some shelters/et al DO play down issues just to get the dog moved.
Maybe the rescue you're connected with doesn't but many do and that's a reality at others. That's unfair to the dog and unfair to the potential new owner.
Some people trust what the shelter people say...yes, they should know to do research and probably take what the shelter workers say with a grain of salt, but some people judge by what they see...a dog acting differently in such an environment. Underneath that sweet timid dog at the shelter may lie a vicious thing. I know my dogs sometimes act completely different when thrust into a new situation.
Sometimes the shelter people don't know, and how could they truly know the dog's history or how it will react in a different situation.
I did go back and reread the first post...what I got from it was someone took in a rescue dog with issues (were all those issues made known to her...we'll never know, were all those issues even known by the shelter/rescue workers, we'll never know) but what we do know is the dog had issues which appeared to manifest itself greater post the birth of her child. This woman tried to do the right thing by taking in a rescue dog and the woman accepted those issues were greater than she could handle and she chose to find the dog a more suitable home for the good of her family and the good of the dog. Her sin appears to be having tried where so many others wouldn't. |
I have three rescues and there was a written contract with each adoption. In that agreement it was very clearly stated that if at ANY TIME I was not able or willing to continue ownership that the rescue should be notified and that the dog be surrendered back. It's not just YHR (none of mine are adopted from YHR) and this is a pretty across the board contract. When rescues rehome a dog they make it their responsibly to ensure that dog have a forever home. So above all, when I reread Patti's original post it jumped out at me that this dog should have been returned to the rescue and not taken to a shelter. This is my real rub with this entire situation.
Now let me also add that there are plenty of people that call them selves rescues just to profit. The newest scam is puppymills claiming to be rescue and cleaning out their breeding stock. Not that long ago there was a thread in the Rescue Forum of just this happening and with a little investigating it was discovered what really was going on. This woman was driving up from Missouri with vans full of dogs and puppies (pet store returns) and claiming they were rescues. She would meet people in the parting lot of a gas station or McDonald's and accept money for what these people believed to be rescues. As a matter of fact, one of the people that "rescued" from this woman is more a foster with YHR. She had no idea she was scammed and believed what she was told. It wasn't until she put the pieces together that she realized that legitimate rescue do not meet you in a parking lot with a van full of dogs. She told me that literally there were 50 families lined up taking home their "rescues" many of them sick or deformed and unsellable.