Wooooahhh! I'm NOT slating any rescues, in my mind they do a fantastic job, I'm a dog lover remember?????? I just think, most of the LARGER RESCUE's should consider lowering their fees to enable an old dog to have a nice warm, comfortable home for the rest of it's life, rather than watch hundreds of people walking past it and deciding on a younger dog! That's my take on it!
I KNOW for a fact people leave legacies, very large legacies at that, to rescue homes. In fact, because we are childless ourselves, they'll all be in for a nice reward when we pop our cloggs! The woman who died leaving my current dog, left her entire house worth over £400K plus everything else to the rescue that took him on, on the promise that he would be found a very good home, which he has, with me!
Whilst we're at it, I
was going to rescue again, but having been let down, time and time again on the dogs I wanted, found it near on impossible to speak to anyone who actually knows anything about certain dogs, or one telling me one thing, another person telling me something entirely different about the SAME dog, and then to have to wait for a home check, and then be put off because they're too busy, well, I'm taking the puppy route now as much as I didn't really want to! I now remember why I bought my last puppy 12 years ago too!I'm not going to mention the particular rescues I'm on about because it's not necessary, but quite honestly, I think some of them need shaking up! Yes, all the volunteers are doing a fantastic job, but the idea is, to rehome these dogs in the most suitable environment, get them in a proper home a.s.a.p. and charge the minimal amount they possibly can to do said job, so SOME of them need to get more organised and on the ball imo. If they have thousands and thousands coming in via legacies, PLUS, they are charging fees to cover what is spent on the dog (and as I've said before A LOT of these dogs are already speyed, microchipped, healthy etc. etc.)then the money received should be more than enough to keep them going.
I'm sorry to hear the smaller rescue centres don't get enough funds in, in fact, my own local small rescue is now in the red after spending a fortune on a little miniature horse they rescued, but if they don't have what I want, apart from just giving them a donation now and again what else am I expected to do??? Maybe they should all be merged into
one big organisation then, is that the answer???? That way, everyone has to donate to the same charity, rather than a bit here and a bit there coming in for the smaller charities?
Quite honestly, I've had my fill of the ones around here, anyone would think I'm asking for the impossible offering a dog a very good home here, and it gets a bit wearing when you get answers like "oh I don't know what's happened with that dog" then you get somebody else saying it's gone and should have been taken off the website, or totally the wrong information when you get to speak to the fosterer who then tells you some information you really didn't want to hear. Oh it's all so stressful for me anyways, and if only, the little rescue man where I got Georgie from, came up with another suitable dog, then I'd take him in an instant, because I KNOW with HIM, it would be easy peasy, and I can't be a*sed to go through the rigmarole with some of these other concerns, I'm totally fed up with it now, so I'm taking the easy route, as I strongly suspect a lot of other people will! I'm fed up with spending hours,days on the phone, waiting for a reply back, then I e-mail, still wait for a reply, then get one from somebody who knows nothing about any of the dogs I want.... oh it's mind boggling! I don't have the time nor the inclination for it all I'm afraid, when all I have to offer is a perfect, warm, comfortable, caring,loving home, BUT, for the dog I like!!!
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