All 3 of my dogs have been rescues. 2 from pup and 1 aged 7 when we got him. I don't mind what mine look like etc and so long as they fit the household requirements.

When we adopted Sam the 7 year old Springer I was considering a breeder but then came across the breed rescue and was going to have a rescue pup from them. We ended up with a more mature 3 legged springer who was fabulous character and a lovely boy.

I don't think it is responsible breeders that are an issue and I can't really blame people for wanting to know exactly what they are getting either or who need to fulfil an exact requirement. It is the BYB who are the problem imo and until they are tackled there are always going to be an abundance of rescue dogs needing good homes.

Thanks for quoting me. You will notice in what I have written, I have not mentioned ANY breeder - responsible or irresponsible.
Please don't ask me to look at a different position re breeders when you don't know what my position is in the first place.

I answered the OP from a personal viewpoint as a pet dog owner. AS a pet dog owner, I stand by what I said.
Until there are none, rescue one!

Rescue`s for me, always. I don`t understand why so many think it`s a case of a rescue dog or a pup from a breeder - rescues are always taking in new litters, often with the dam, and also many take in pregnant bitches whose pups are born in rescue - they need homes too.

But even the pet dogs you get from rescue will have come from a breeder!!

So were would we get any dogs from (be it recue or breeder), if they had not been bred!!

Only speaking for myself, but the highlighted would mean I was looking for a persific pup i.e pedigree , with so much more involved.

If I was not bothered about showing or such like, and I just wanted a puppy (not particular of any type) then yes, I would look to rescue

My first dog was a rescue, he was found wandering as a small pup, ended up at RSPCA nobody claimed him so we adopted him.

I would buy from a breeder now because I would want to show and would also prefer to know what is behind it. If I wasn't planning on showing I would consider a rescue, but in my breed (thankfully) they very rarely come in.

If puppy farms and BYB stopped breeding for money there wouldn't be so many to rescue.

Rescue for me every time. Unfortunately there are hundreds of my ‘breed’ in rescue and until they stop breeding for the industry always will be. But even so I would always go the rescue way, there are some fabulous dogs in rescue and pups coming in all time so why would I need to go to a breeder.

I wouldn’t bother going to look for breeders if I was not considering buying a pup – what would be the point?

Which could also be a rescue dog - ie as a companion to a resident dog or a dog that has been in foster with kids or raised with kids and now in rescue due to circumstances.

You know the OH is right now dont ya

What a very bizarre rescue that must have been and sounds like they have very little experience with dogs!

So a dog growls at a child and that’s it its going to kill you all in your beds. To then say go to a breeder implies that no rescue could ever be trusted with kids is unbelievable. I feel very sorry for any dog in that rescue.


Couldnt agree more but it really beggars belief when even a rescue is doing it!

Well, of course I know that! I really am not that dense.
I just objected to being quoted and the reply going off at a tangent re breeders, when I hadn't even mentioned what I thought of breeders! If anyone inferred what I thought, it was only a presumption because I never stated.

To make it absolutely clear I will say something, though it wasn't the OP's question.

I am a one breed person - anyone here who knows me knows my heart lies with jack russells.
I have a friend in Holland who breeds jack russells, where they are a recognised breed. Her dogs are amongst the champions and always sought after. Her dogs never end up in rescue, she vets her homes well. I do know of two occasions where something changed in the circumstances and she took those dogs and found new homes for them. I admire her for that. She stands by her dogs. She asked me once, why I never ask for one of her dogs.
I told her, its quite simple. I adore her dogs, but as long as there is a jack russell in rescue I cannot in all conscience take one from a breeder. It is not that I am against breeding IF all breeders were like her - but it is I am pro life. And that's the stark choice. The dog in rescue may die if it doesn't get a home. I cannot in all conscience say "not my problem" when I love all jack russells.
Here is where that quote comes in, until there are NO jack russells in rescue, I will rescue one.
When there are no jack russells in rescue, I will have one from my Dutch friend. Simples

If the rescue had not told the adopters that the dog had growled at a two year old they would have been irresponsible.Once told the adopters can make up their own minds and sign a waiver (SP?)>

I may have been unlucky but of all the rescue dogs I have had none of them have been what I would describe as easy and most have been broken in some way, some have been very broken!

However I have acted as a halfway house for several rehome/rescue dogs and they have been very nice.

It really is horses for courses.

rune

Yeah, well, you know...there's rescues and there's <cough> 'rescues'.

More common in breed rescue but also found in general rescue are the unscrupulous who turn adoption enquiries into puppy sales.

Don't know what happened in the quoted case. As Rune says they are obliged to be transparent but to advise that only a puppy would offer security is balderdash.