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Originally Posted by yorkieangel This part of livingdust mops post bother's me....
"Now on to your comment about the $1000 rescue. Again each rescue is different but I see nothing wrong with this as this is a national rescue (Yorkshire Terrier Club of America National Rescue) and I can guarantee you that more $$$ flows out than in and when you get a dog that is as special as this one it is a way to recoup some of the expenses for the older, sick, injured dogs that are already passed through rescue or will be coming in with very expensive medical bills."
I guess my rescue is $hit then because it's not a NATIONAL rescue!!! 
I'm sorry but i found it highly offensive to say a national rescue should get more money for adoptions. Actually I believe the opposite. I get NO government help or help from big companies ,like rescues like you mentioned. Darn if I don't pay the vets bills and care bills and EVERYTHING bills just like they do!!!!!!!! So I suck up lots of losses from my own personal pockets because I charge minimal prices because I don't believe only people with money can love or care for dogs.
I also have never had a vacation the whole time I have been married(years and years), buy most my things at yardsales and have rarely bought myself or family anything unless on SALE. I pinch ,I squeeze and I beg. And yet i still keep the rescue year after year because I believe in it!!!!!!
So I'm sorry but I wholeheartedly disagree that National is Better and more reputable just because it's National. SIGHHHHHHHH I wonder how many of them working there will give away their vacations to feed the stray dogs or get a broken paw casted... not many I bet  (just wanted to say I'm sure SOME would though) |
Whoa - that is not what I am saying what so ever nor do I think I said that.
The rescue I have been involved with also is local and the $$$ I use is out of my pocketbook unless we raised funds through local business's or friends of Yorkies and yes I give up my vacations also. If you will go to their website they have many dogs for adoption at all different amounts based on each dog (anywhere from $150 to $1000 in this unusal situation) but at the end of the year it is not based on individual dogs but based on how much $$$ was spent and how much was raised and ideally they breakeven at the end of the year. As the rescue organization (YTNR) for the YTCA this organization could be (as I don't know)getting a puppy/young dog donated by a breeder to rescue (adopt out) to find a good home instead of selling the puppies themselves and keeping the profits. YTNR does not get government support or Corporation support as they are a 501c3 organization and everything they do is a volunteer basis the same as you and I. I know many members on YTNR who dedicate their lives to saving as many Yorkies as they can and spend (donate) a great deal of their own $$$ to do this and they help with fundraising. Many of the national (meaning across the whole US) will get many of the calls before local rescues will, to surrender their Yorkies so more ill and sick Yorkies will/may go through their programs. I can tell you that YTNR and UYR all started out as grassroots efforts (same as you and I) and through a great deal of hard work over the years have established their rescue programs and organizations that will support them. They have done the fundraising themselves to get to this point. We cannot fault National programs that have been established for years and who have all started out like you and I. Now, does this make them any more reputable than you and I - NO. When I refer to a reputable rescue I mean how each rescue handles their dogs - the bare minimum in my book is to spay/neuter each animal that comes through. There have been rescues that will take in (rescue) an intact animal and then start breeding it. I do not agree with this philosophy.
Each rescue has to determine what their policies are and what they will charge for their adoptions and if you believe that everyone should be able to adopt an animal then great and that is your philosophy. My philosophy is to try and breakeven so I don't go to the poor house and then have to stop rescuing because I simply can't afford it and then more dogs will die. It doesn't mean my way is the right way only what my friend and I agreed to do so we could continue with rescue.