Please consider adoption...so many homeless GSDs - Page 2

what? i thought a dog door would be great for a gsd? its not like a hawk is gonna come in and fly off with them in the yard lol It also sure beats them sitting in a cage in a shelter.

I understand the need for rescues to be careful who they adopt out to. I understand they care for these dogs as if they are their own...however...there are some rescues that truly believe a dog stuck in a crate all day long is better off than going to a house with a doggy door. And heaven forbid if you find a stray and try to get a rescue to take it. Talk about the spanish inquisition! My son caught a man dumping a Jack Russel puppy in a nature park and brought the puppy home. We were leaving for Montana the following Saturday to pick up a GSD pup from Steph and as cute as she was, we were not going to keep her and drag her to Montana and back. So I called a rescue and boy did I get bitched out! That woman could care less what I was telling her. She told me what she thought I was doing (which was dumping a puppy on the rescue) and read me the riot act for not wanting to take on the responsibility. Here I thought I was doing a good deed rather than take her to the pound. Maybe I caught her at a bad time but Jeez! I told her to forget about it, posted the pup on fb and an acquaintence immediately snapped her up. I found that puppy one of the best homes she could wish for in less than an hour. Nothing against JRs but we don't want anything but our GSDs. If the rescues would use their heads (like Steph does) and give good people a chance to adopt, more GSDs would have happy homes. Not every adopter is going to be able to walk on water. Some rescues are just obsessive and believe no one out there will do a good enough job so they just keep cramming crates full of dogs and complaining that no one is willing to help. I rescued a GSD from a culvert last year. She was on her last legs and a rescue sent someone to try and catch her. Well, I fed her raw, twice a day with fresh water for over 2 wks because they couldn't catch her. They showed up one afternoon while I was there and together we caught her. Then I was told I would have to put her in my car because they didn't have room in there SUV?? and I would have to find her a place to stay. Well, just so happens I had a place for her and took her there. Then I was told the rescue group were going to adopt her out and she hadn't even been spayed or taken to the vet! I said no and OMG you'd think I had broken some law. It got ugly with harrassing emails to me at work but I got a stop put to it and I adopted her out after she was spayed and put on some weight. She is a very happy girl now. So I do know of some good rescues but I have had run ins with nut jobs who claim to be rescues but I think in truth they are hoarders. We have to tread lightly and know who we deal with. I can't say enough about Steph & Marjorie and others on here that really go the extra mile to help our beloved breed. Deb

@ Starrcharr....the road to Hades is paved with good intentions....just commenting on fact people want these dogs out of these places, yet some of their policies actually discourage many good people from attempting.....that's all...it's like anything else the effectiveness of policies has to be judged by the results. Period. Most people know this but are too polite to speak on it. Sure there are people who have gone through the process and were successful, but if dogs end up living their life in shelters because policies for adoption are discouraging people then when does it become about the dog. I respect the job that rescue/ shelter people do, but the assumption that most people are abusive or ignorant thus necessitating us to screen you like your taking a firstborn human is not practical for getting more dogs into homes. That's just the way I see it....passion is good...but I have seen so many foolish policies perpetrated by passion.

Sooooo totally agree.  I stopped rescuing dogs in Texas (I do not want to get too specific) because of the headache and riot act I would get.  I was turned down because I had to have a dog PTS by my vet.  The rescue group did not care that PTS was the only opition.  

Until I started working with Steph and Marjorie, I was not willing to reconsider.    Now.....well, maybe in 5 years, as I am quiet full now.  (Steph, can you hold the reverse masked puppy you had that was the pretty blue silver for me? I'll have room in about 5 years)

Right now, I give what I can to those who are truly in it for the dogs and not the high and mighty angel points they think they are getting.

I guess I have just been lucky because I've dealt with a number of rescues, as well as our local animal contro and the humane society. Animal control is extremely lenient and they ask very few questions. The humane society screens a little better at screening. If they know your going to tie up your dog outside all day they won't allow you to adopt.  The rescue groups I've dealt with were very reasonable. I recently fostered a dog ( I personally pulled her from animal control- long story) and a rescue group helped me list her on petfinder.com. Someone from the rescue group went with me to take her to the potential adopter's house (I requested their assistance)  and the screening process was definitely nothing extreme. References were checked out beforehand. Again, the rescues are NOT the source of the problem and in my experience they have been very reasonable and do their best to get the animals adopted out. I do agree some of the examples here on this thread as to why people were refused as adopters are extreme. 

I have a doggy door!!! Darn they wouldn't let me adopt either then;....ROFL!!! Steph

Go to your crate, Steph ;) Do not pass go and you will NOT get a doggie treat!
  Marjorie
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Lol!
 To not allow someone to adopt because they have a doggy door is crazy! I see that as a positive! 

You and me both!!!!
LOL, Marj.......good one!!!!