I try to rescue a dog once a month. I pay the adoption fee (usually around 100) that covers all the shots, heart worm test and neutering. I "give" my rescue away BUT it is on the condition that the new owner will return the dog to me if it doesn't work out. I have to go to their home and deliver the dog myself to make sure they have a fenced yard. I keep every rescue I get for at least a week to find out what their personality is like so that I know what questions to ask the new owners...if the dog doesn't like kids, I ask if they have kids. Common sense says you have to be somewhat selective for the sake of the dog and the family getting the dog. I give my dogs away because people with lower incomes can make just as good a home as people who can afford to pay 150 to 200 to adopt (which in my mind is ridiculously high). I don't want these lovable dogs to be killed just because some one got bored with them!!! Something has to be done, it can't keep going on like this. And when "breeders" get soooo mad when you even mention to them to help - that just makes me distrust them even more. And when you all want to fight about "to breed or not to breed" or "you are picking only on breeders" or some other off the subject excuse - it just shows that you are so focused on your "business" that you CAN'T get your mind around the fact that SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE for the throw aways!!
So you keep breeding and we'll keep rescuing your dogs from euthanizia. You think your selling your dogs to the perfect home...how long has it been since you have walked through a dog pound. Every breeder should volunteer some time at a dog pound and not in the front office...in the back where the dirty work is done.
Personally, I don't care what kind of dog they get...it would be nice if it were a rescue!
If you haven't ever seen a “friendly petition†I don't want to run in the circles you run in! Have you never delt with cubscouts or children's baseball?
See this is exactly what I mean...rabbit trails...we have gone from one simple subject to me hating breeds, me hating breeders, me TELLING the Prez he MUST get this kind of dog, on and on....FOCUS PEOPLE. I can't help wonder why everyone is pulling out all these “rabbit trails†out of the hat instead of answering the simple question I'm asking. Are you honestly going to tell me that you would not be willing to stop breeding your dogs for 2 years if it would help in any way the over population of dogs in our pounds? THAT IS THE FOCUS OF THIS WHOLE DISCUSSION. YES OR NO!
One week is not enough to evaluate the temperament on any dog. There is a reason why most rescues foster a dog for a minimum of 30 days before placement.
If you are not having people sign a legal document before placing these dogs you have no way of enforcing anything. In addition unless they are permanently identified in some manner, with notation of this on the contract, you will also have great difficulty in enforcing any breach of said contract.
Giving dogs away with no monetary compensation is also not a good idea. Payment is imperitive to validate any legal contract or sale of property. If it is only a dollar, you should be
selling dogs.
You will never rescue anything I have bred, nor will you rescue anything that the majority of caring breeders breed/place because they do several things to ensure you do not:
First, they screen homes carefully before placement
Second, they guarantee that any dog they breed and place can be returned to them for any reason at any time, no questions asked
and Third, they microchip or tattoo the dog, and register this with their own contact information so that if the dog is ever picked up it can be returned TO THE BREEDER.
People who want a dog from someone like me do not look to shelters or rescues for their dogs because they are looking for something specific. There is nothing wrong with this. No, I would not agree not to breed my dogs for 2 years time. It would accomplish NOTHING to minimize the numbers of dumped dogs in shelters.