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Originally Posted by Buc23  I keep hearing walk a mile or if people would foster a dog... The problem is willing candidates are not given the opportunity to HELP! For whatever reason rescue organizations do not take advantage of candidates who are willing to adopt. How many post, here alone, complaining about ZERO responses to their applications? If I was runing a rescue operation I would encourage my applicants to foster or even more, to go ahead and get involved with, even for short time, with my daily operations.
In short, my strategy would be to bring in as many candidates as possible as to increase awareness of the "problem" our society is suffering as to make people want to get involved. It certainly would not be to ignore candidates to the point of frustation. Frustation that most likely would turn them to BYB or mills and thus contributing to the never ending "problem" . |
So, you would adopt to just anyone? How do you think that would solve the problem? Do you know how many of those dogs you would place to just anyone would end up either lost on the streets or in shelters?? The vast numbers of people who are "rehoming" their dogs because they have decided they cannot keep them because they are married and don't have time, have children and it is not fair to keep the dog, or are moving and cannot take the dog where they are moving are ridiculous. You would not solve a thing by recruiting just anyone. That is the problem now....backyard breeders, stores and mills don't give a darn who they sell to......and then we have all of the oopsies and the people who want to educate their children about the miracles of birth. Oh the list is endless of people who in my humble opinion should only have stuffed animals.