I agree, Sasha. It's getting ridiculous. I have a friend who quit Boston Terrier rescue because the rescuers were making the potential adopters jump through so many hoops that the dogs were languishing in rescue a year or longer than they should.
Another thing I noticed in some rescues is the foster parents or other volunteers adopt the best dogs and alert their friends and family to the prettiest, least problematic dogs. So the ones available for adoption tend to be elderly, sickly or with some major issue such as blindness or deafness. I encountered this 9 years ago with basset hound rescue. A foster mum flat-out told me that she loves the red and whites and snags them immediately when they come into the program. Those she couldn't take she would push to place in the homes of family members.
I wouldh't have cared personally, except they all lied about the age and condition of the dog I went to adopt. The poor thing was a LOT older than described but I didn't have the heart to cancel on her. We had her for a bit over a year and she died of natural causes. TOO sad.
Julie |