RESCUES - Page 2

Here are some of my Bengal cats.  They are descended from the Asian Leopard Cat.  They can be marbled or spotted.

MI GSD.........you have the prettiest cats...

Thank you:)  I love their exotic looks but mostly I chose them because of their doglike attitude.  I can't keep them out of the water and they run to the door to greet everyone.

Tracy

Domenic, nice to hear from you too. I know there are a lot of really great GSD's sitting in rescue. Our local rescue, Mid Atlantic GS Rescue, does a wonderful job. Their website is full of photos of really lovely GSD's and GSD mixes looking for homes. I've even seen titled dogs there. It's easy to tell which are Am lines, which imported showlines and workinglines. I think many GSD breeders either kid themselves into thinking there are only junkyard dogs and mixes sitting in rescue, not true at all, or that all these poor dogs are bred by BYB's so it's not their problem. Some are very well bred and discarded for every stupid reason under the sun. I love this rescue as one can sponsor a dog for only $30 per month until it's adopted, less than the price of a bag of food.

MI GSD, I am not a cat person; they make my eyes water, give me hives and the worst animal bite I have ever had in terms of pain was that of a Siamese. I could have happily choked that cat half to death.  However, those cats are the prettiest cats I've ever seen other than the big guys at the zoo. I had to laugh when I saw the photo of your GSD in that cat basket. It seems the tighter the fit, the better they like it. $50 sounds like a great bargain for a dog that can make you laugh out loud.

Abhay. so true. Frustrating, isn't it?

There is just a wonderfull one year old German Shepherd it looks like from German working lines at   www.gsrne.org   That is German Shepherd rescue of New England.  His name is Buddy he is just drop dead gorgeous. Just look at aviable dogs.  How a dog like this ever wound up at a rescue is a mystery to me.     I have become a buddy to him and hope he finds his forever home soon.

Somebody is going to get real lucky with Buddy.  If you just can't affod the going rate for a true quality German Shepherd this is your opportunity to get that German Shepherd of a life time.   Best of luck to Buddy!!!

Some dogs in rescue actually come with papers, or can be traced through tattoos or microchips to the original breeder.

Three of the four GSD's I've owned in the last 20 years have been rescues, but all were acquired by chance, not through a shelter. Still, they've been great dogs, and now that we can get a performance event number here in Canada for GSD's without papers, there's nothing to stop anyone from competing in tracking, agility and obedience with a rescue. You just have to jump through a few hoops in terms of paperwork, and get your vet to certify the dog is spayed/neutered. I'm sure you could also do schutzhund with such a dog, as I've seen a number of working line dogs for sale that don't even have pedigrees. You'll just have to forget about the breed survey...

Domenic,

The answer to all your question's is no.

If only we lived in that dream world you have in your mind.   I too dream of a perfect world but it's only a dream.

Unrealistic in the real world.   Yes people should check out the shelter's for pet's, I recovered a lost dog at the dog pound, thats what they called it.    14 day's,   an animal had fourteen days to be claimed then it was put to sleep,of course we also know that's another fantasy word (put to sleep).    Yes it's the human equation as Abhay pointed out.

We have over flowing shelter's because money can be made, and people do not live up to their reponcability to the animal world.  And then there is the bleeding heart which I do understand but disagree with.   I didn't start the thread.

Life can be very hard and cruel, to people as well as animal's, People have ways of taking care of their pains and problem's but animal's depend on us, we owe them as we rule their world and have this responcability for their live's.

It's hard I know but put yourself in the animal's place, not as a human but try to be the animal.   Your constantly scared, hungry, lonely, and you have no control over anything, you don't have any understanding of what's going on and even if some human is nice to you your still not in your correct place.   There is always a worry hanging over your head. Sent from one place to another never knowing why or where.  This is in-humane to me.

I would not allow this if I had the say, I would make every attempt to find the animal's home or at least a good home but not for long,  Its just not right to keep an animal in a cage, in limbo, waiting for something it doesn't understand just because I didn't have the stomach to do what's really the right thing to do.  I would empty the shelter's and dog pound's in a short period of time.   It's the only viable solution even if you disagree.

I truely love animal's and I do understand what they feel and what they must endure at the hand's of man.   Man's the problem here, not the animal's.

I'm sure I didn't suprise anyone with my post, I've never backed away from my responcability to my animal's, even when it hurt's me and have made my view's on this subject known before.

Brent.

Brent, while I agree with you that not all dogs are adoptable, I also believe more people could be making a difference. There is a type of snobbery about purebred GSD's that really turns my stomach. Working line people won't look at showline dogs, and vica versa. And, of course, if it's in the pound, it's fit only to be someone's pet, or be euthanized.

It just ain't so. Titled dogs DO wind up in rescue. And some of the dogs in rescue that aren't titled...well, if you don't care aobut pedigrees, just working ability, I challenge you to take one home, and see what it's capable of learning! My first rescue was in beginner OB class for only 5 weeks, then we did a novice level fun match, and she scored 175 out of 200 points. This was a dog that the vet had told me three months earlier 'might not live' because she was so severely emaciated (35 lbs. on a 26 inch tall bitch!)  My second rescue was an excellent tracker, and if we'd had the PEN number at that time, I'm sure she would have easily gotten her TDX. As it was, she did very well in both a novice and advanced tracking class. I didn't know beans about Schutzhund at the time, but I think she certainly would have had the guts for that, as she was quite hard and very protective of the house and car.  She would also go after any strangers who strayed onto our property, unless she was properly introduced to them.

Good post, Sunsilver. Also, many of the dogs used on TV and in films are rescues as are many that are trained as assistance dogs.  Did you see 8 Below? All those sleddogs were rescue dogs. 

Abhay,just noticed your picture for the first time.Thats too funny.