Free to good home - Page 2

Along with the questions asked by Bob, I want to remind everyone little  children are a crap shoot, and there are no "bargains" in the long run.  If you are a serious competitor, and want to be sure you end up with university quality,  wait for older,  green kids so that you can appropriately assess their drives as well as obtain proper health clearances.

Funny, sueinc. I've always maintained that the reason I didn't have kids is that by the time I found even one potential candidate I felt would produce well with me I was almost too old to be bred. I was one of those people who thought kids needed and deserved a stable two-parent home, which I could not provide, so I opted out of the repro program.

I HATE the term "get rid of" when applied to dogs. The only things this woman gets rid of are old clothes, uneeded clutter, and poorly-chosen husbands. LOL

SS

Full Grip?

I was a foster mother (long story how that happened!).

When she came to my house, it was the second time her parents had let the three children go. 

I can tell you that people DO dump their children.

I can also say that "the idiots had done no training" and she was a female Dennis the Menace.

So, yes, people are willing to dump anything and anyone.  It's the disposable society.

Michele

All kidding aside we are unfortunely going to see more abandoned Pets and Children as this economy continues to sink, Thank god for people like Shelley Strohl and the rest of you that can take the steps you have to save some...

   

 I can take your kids in as a "rescue" only... I will have to rehome them for a fee when I move though. 

Grrrr.  You have kids, simple: don't look at apartments that don't allow kids.  You have dogs?  Well guess what.. do I have to say it?

ITA, people think of animals and children as too disposable.  Sad.

Many of us here on this board do what we can. Its just too bad we can't save all the deserving dogs we learn of, some too late to do anything for.
When I win the lottery I am going to build a huge resuce/rehab/training center with a dormitory for people willing to help and a state-of-the-art vet hospital on-site staffed 24/7 ala DogTown and an air ambulance service with (good-looking) helicopter and fixed-wing pilots on stand by to transport dogs in need post-haste.

We can dream... May as well dream BIG. Meanwhile, we just slog along, try to stay afloat, and help where we can.
Sighhh... Its gonna get a lot worse before it gets better.

SS

Saint Shelly wrote: The moving thing really bothers me. I hear it a LOT these days.
When my ex disenfranchised me for nearly everything I had ten dogs and almost NO money. Hell, I didn't even have a car. Still, I managed to find a place to rent where I could have my dogs... TWICE.


There's a LOT of reasons you are one of my favourite people on the PDB, and this is one of them!  Kudos to you, and to Hodie for the rescue work she does.

And the rest of you?

It's time some of you woke up, and realized that not ALL animal rescue organizations deserve to be lumped with PETA.
Some of them very much deserve, and desperately NEED our support.

It's time some of you woke up, and realized that you ARE part of the problem, when you breed too many litters, and have to dump the pups in homes that aren't right for the, before they get too big, and lose the 'cute' factor all young animals have.

I've only ever had one animal that I've been tempted to dump. My most recent cat was very, very skittish, and not overly bright. When I went away on vacation for 10 days, he started peeing in the bathtub, inside the front door, and in various corners of the house, causing considerable damage to the hardwood and rugs.

For a number of months, I worked to solve the problem. I closed off the areas he was urinating in as best I could. I bought special, expensive 'Cat Attract" brand litter.  I found an excellent new home for the other male cat I'd brought into the house, which was possibly causing the problem. I bought several different kinds of cat urine treatments, and doused the problem areas with them.

You see, this wasn't 'just a cat'. This was the black cat, that reminded me so much of the wonderful half Burmese cat I'd had as a kid. This was the cat that I adopted shortly before my husband died. He ran upstairs ahead of me every night, and after a brief cuddle time, settled to sleep in the hollow of my back. He helped to make that empty bed more bearable.

I finally started to get a handle on the situation. As long as I kept the bathroom door, the basement door and my closet door closed, he' d use the litterbox.

Then, the stupid git slipped past me one dark night, ran off into the fog, and got himself killed by a car....

What was I to do?

I was afraid that if I got another cat, it would smell the spots where Shadow had peed, and start peeing there, too.

So, I went out and  purchased a GSD puppy.... 

 Oh, I'm sorry, that wasn't meant to be a jab at rescue organizations!  Or those who rescue animals!  Not at all!

It was a jab at folks who give up animals due to moving, or any other reason to give up a member of your family... not making a real commitment... and sort of poke at folks who seek such abandoned animals to try to sell them for a profit.  Not for a reasonable fee to make sure the home can afford the animal, or is serious about committing to the animal, or to recoup costs incurred...

The emphasis should have been on the "when I move"...

I didn't mean it even in a little bit as a poke at people who rescue.  Or anyone here.  

jayne, no, that was definitely not directed at you. But I have come across people who seem to think because PETA and HSUS are so bad, ALL rescues and shelthers are bad. Rather than try to sort out the bad apples, they just decide to lump them all together, and not to support any of them.

And, of course, ANY legislation aimed at stopping puppy mills HAS to be bad, because it infringes on their rights to breed as many litters of pups as they wish...

Okay, most animal rights legislation is very poorly written, by people who don't know what they are doing, but my attitude is, I'd be glad to suffer some inconvenience or extra expense as a breeder, if I knew it was helping to put a stop to those horrible, horrible puppy mills!