Talking about this issue, I really have something to say. I for one have never bought a puppy until now. I had always adopt and took strays home. When I came here, I didn't want to buy one either thinking I can give a nice home to a dog that needs a home and is sitting in the shelter waiting for an owner so I looked at the petfinder for weeks and put in applications...nothing came back to me, not even a yes or no or in process and each time I checked, the dog's picture is still on the website so I call and call..most of the time no one answered and it went in to voicemail. Finally one day I got a call and the lady was pretty rude when it comes to me staying in a condo. She ask and ask if my condo allowed dogs and I am like yes because my condo do allow dogs. Needless to say, I was told to wait and never got a call back. Then, I tried the yorkie rescue. Again, it was all about me living in a condo and again, no return calls, no one told me its a yes or no and kept me hanging. The reason about me living in a condo is because they cannot guarantee that their dogs won't bark but I am at home 90% of the time. If not, I have a friend in the same building that can be with my dog and if she is not available, I will look for doggie daycare or in-home boarding and that will be the leftover 10% that I will be out. I gave them my honest description that I am at home, the dog won't deal with anxiety because I am at home, I will bring them out for walks, hubby and I have decided never to have kids, etc but I really find the whole experience disturbing. On one side, they are encouraging people to adopt and poor innocent dogs are being put down and time is running out for them but on the other side, I think these people are taking so much time to scrutinize people who sincerely want to provide a secure and good home to the dogs in 'fear' of them being abused again...I just find the whole thing weird. I would really like to adopt in the future when I am going to have another dog but I don't think its fair when people say you are rejected because you live in a condo...again, it is pretty degrading when people say that to you and my condo is a nice new building, not some crappy ones. |