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Originally Posted by
megan57collies
Think the cost is appropriate. If people are looking to make the financial commitment for an animal then they'll find the money. The price is cheap compared to going out and paying the market prices for each breed. If you want something badly enough then you save up. If you work out what the cost would be to you anyway ie, you bring a pup home. By the time you've paid to have it neutered, wormed, flea'd that would add up to and beyond a £150 already. So you're actually only paying for the cost of the neutering anyway. I do realise that there are places that do it at a low cost. My point is as with every animal. It's not buying it, it's the cost of keeping it. If you find £150 a problem in the first place then i would say could you really afford to pay for all a dogs requirements in the first place.
At the end of the day the rescues need the money to keep going not only on a day to day basis but make sure they are looking as secure as possible for the future.
Totally agree
Originally Posted by
honeysmummy
I think that more rescues should be volunteer based to cut down costs and prices dropped to £30 cat and £100 dog..
But there is only a finite amount of volunteers out there, although many rescues are run exclusively by volunteers already, and a limit to the time they can give so to get rid of paid staff would mean the closure of some rescues meaning less dogs getting homes.
Originally Posted by
honeysmummy
So "joe blogs" gets one from a puppy farmer instead cos he gets a cute little puppy which he decides now is better than a rescue...therefore in turn supporting the puppy farming business...which then in turn leads to more dogs being bred and ending up in rescue!!!
See I don’t actually think this is the case as others have responded, IMO if someone is going out to rescue a dog they will not think its to expensive and go to a puppy farmer, in my experience once people have decided to rescue the will do the research and look on the web etc and that’s where the education about puppy farmers comes from, the rescue sites out there.
As I said I think if anyone decided to do that they are not the right people for a rescue dog anyway.
Originally Posted by
Helena54
I think a lot of people live from hand to mouth each week, especially in these hard times, and although they could possibly afford the weekly food bill, the vets being taken care of by perhaps the PDSA, so no worries there, I think to ask them to find a substantial sum such as £150 is asking a bit much.!
But if the credit crunch is taking effect on people being able to afford a rescue dog etc it’s the charities like the PDSA who suffer as people are less able to give to them. If dogs are being given to people who cannot afford vets bills its putting a heavy burden on other charities with more people using them and less money coming in.
Originally Posted by
Helena54
Apart from that, if they did have £150 to get their hands on, I would much rather see a nice new bed for the proposed dog and other things, than for them to have to hand it over to give a dog a lovely, caring home.
I would much rather see whatever the donation is go towards helping the next dog to come in, whether its neutering, medical attention or just being able to save a dog from being put down
Originally Posted by
Helena54
When you think of all the thousands of childless people dying and leaving loads of money plus their houses to these animal shelters, they should be rolling in it! The woman who died and left Georgie to me, left over £400K to the Dog's Trust, so that should last them a while shouldn't it! I'm all for charging a lot, lot less for these poor animals stuck in shelters to people who yearn for a companion but just can't adopt coz it's way out of their reach!
I don’t think there is that much money coming in from thousands of childless people – certainly not to the smaller rescues so how are they supposed to cover the costs if they are not charging enough to cover the costs of speys, treatments etc?
Surely if people can afford to feed the dog, cover routine medical bills etc they should be able to save that money in order to pay a realistic donation? Rescues have to be able to cover their costs or else go under and where does that leave the dogs?