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Originally Posted by
Jen
RE the BIB. The non home checking policy was rolled out nationwide in the last couple of years. They announced their change at the ADCH conference earlier this year and explained their reasonings behind it.
They have also, as you stated, implemented a closed kennel policy whereby anyone interested in a dog must fill in a questionnaire and look through a catalogue of animals and they will be matched to any suitable that they like. Only then will they be given the opportunity to meet the dogs one at a time away from the kennels. I can fully understand why they have brought this policy in and I will be interested to hear their feedback of how it has improved the kennel environment and their rehoming rates.
I agree with the closed kennel policy but not the no home check one. They're basically just taking people at their word then that there home is suitable.
Originally Posted by
Mattie
It depends on the circumstances if I would rehome any animal just before Christmas, not everyone parties the hole time, some have very quiet Christmas's which is really suitable for an animal going into the home.
At 6 weeks old the pups are too young to be rehomed but as they have already left their mother not a lot will be gained by keeping them but Christmas is not a good time for puppies going into a new home if the home isn't quiet.
It doesn't surprise me this is the Blue Cross, when I worked for a rescue they pts several dogs we sent them, said they were aggressive, these were lovely cuddle monsters but they had problems rehoming them. It was January so not saying any more, you can work out yourselves why.
I did ask why, was told it was aggression, I asked how they came to that conclusion and was told their behaviourist found them aggressive. I then asked why normal girls who worked for peanuts at a boarding kennel found these dogs cuddle buns but their behaviourist found them aggressive, they should change their behaviourist as they were not capable of doing the job. I never got a reply, I wonder why.
It's all a bit odd. My behaviourist friend stopped assessing dogs for them, I think, it was because they weren't taking the advice he gave them on some assessments.
I walked one dog one day, and it seemed a bit odd and tense. I didn't like the rigid body posture and flicking tip high tail it was displaying near other dogs but stupidly was convinced by another volunteer to join her on a walk with a cavalier she was walking. My dog, a lab cross, grabbed her dog round the neck....but not a grab and let go, it went totally psycho and was trying to hold the fav between its paws and rip it. We were on a main road by then and the dog would not let go. I had no idea what to do as I was expecting it to grab and let go and we would be able to get the cav out. Even though I knew I would get I tried to open its mouth, and got accidentally bitten by them both...eventually I grabbed what was left of its balls and yanked. Not something I would do now, but at the time I was just 20 and was pretty sure this dog was going to kill the little one. The dog just let go and flipped back to a happy "normal" waggy looking lab. What disgusted me was that both dogs were rehomed the next day, to the families that had already gone through all the checks, and neither family were told anything about the incident!!
Thankfully the cavi was a big chunky one with lots of loose skin and no real damage was done. I had stitches in both hands...nothing serious.
But the lab went on to have all sorts of odd issues. The couple took him to my friends classes and he couldn't cope with being in classes, so had one to one assessments where Kev advised that he felt there was something neurologically wrong with him and advised medication. They didn't want this so he referred them on to a well know, but I can't remember who, APBC behaviourist.....who came to the same conclusion and advised medication. They didn't want that so, as they couldn't afford to keep seeing the top man, were referred back to Kev. He worked with them for a very long time. The dogs behaviour and the woman's dedication to sorting the issues out, even though two behaviourist had told her he was basically incurable, put a massive strain on their marriage and her husband left her. Eventually a dog walker she hired didn't follow her golden rule of using the hall door and front door as an air lock type system so the dog could never get out the house off lead, and he ran into the road ..was hit by a car and killed instantly. A blessed relief really. He was never happy and was truly unpredictable, trying to kill something with minimal warning signs one minute and then flipping back to a happy go lucky dog with seemingly no memory off the incident the next second.
Before he had attacked the cav he had only need in kennels a very short time and was acting fairly normally and the couple took on what they thought would be a fairly easy family pet who they could take everywhere ....and ended up with something completely different.
I left at that point, I was disgusted they weren't told a both the incident and allowed to rethink their decision to adopt him with the new information.