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Originally Posted by TxVicki  ALSO another possibility, if she tried to adopt she may have been turned down for having unaltered pet's, not UTD on Vac's or not on HW Preventive.I know with my Rescue Group, we always do a Vet check and if they say the animal has not been spayed or neutered, has not had Vac's or on HW Preventive we do not adopt to them. We also do a Home Visit as well. You wouldn't belive the things that we have seen during a Home Visit. People at times are not honest on their app. |
That's the truth. I did one for someone else one time. While I was there people were in and out of her house. One person said something to her about her pup running out the front door and her answer was that it was ok...he was going to go visit the neighbor!!!!! I was horrified. This happened THREE times that the pup went out the front door while I was there. Before I do a home visit for another person, I always review the application so that I know what I am going to be looking for. Her previous pup had died that year and when I left, I called the person I did the HV for and asked her if she knew why the pup had died. She said she had not asked the vet....she should have, but never mind that. I told her that the pup probably either got run over or was stolen. Oh...he was run over alright...by his owner in her driveway!!!
Clearly she had not learned her lesson. Oh she flipped her wig over not being approved to adopt and I am quite sure her story about the horrible rescue she dealt with was not honest about WHY she was turned down.
As for someone else's comments about silly reasons...imho there is NO silly reason to turn someone down. Rescues have a right to standards. First of all, we spend a LOT of money and time on these pups. We are not shelters...we do more than they can do. Yes, a person can easily get one from there...I feel badly about that but nothing we can do because there are not enough foster homes to handle them all. The bottom line is that we are not in the business of making people happy...we are in the business of saving pups and doing our level best to be sure that they are out of the "system" forever. I don't like failures...these pups have already been failed. Anyone who thinks our reasons are silly really does not understand and should probably foster pups themselves to get an idea of how it feels. Be darned if I am going to adopt to a person I don't feel good about.