I would have been ruder than that lady. I have to admitt I get very upset when someone strings me around about getting one and then says,but I thought you wanted to give it a good home,cna't you just let hiom go for 20$. NO! I honestly do not think you should adopt a dog without an extra 500 handy at that moment.At that isn't much at all. YOu will wan tto take the dog into the vet,buy things for it,and expect some problems at the house. I've always told everyone to be prepared for cleaning bills,chewing things up,etc for the first week just because you never know what will happen in the first week. You don't know if that dog will be sneaky and get away eitheir. Now I personally don;t think rescues and well bred dogs should cost the same,Unless all of the fee is accounted for.
Rescueing is hard and the worse thing is to have someone bring the dog back or say they don't have the money to fix the broken leg it got when it somehow got loose and hit by a car. It may be discriminating in some way but if people look like they are stretched on cash they are not getting one of my dogs. I don't have the money to fix whatever problem they may cause while they have the dog. I wish I could run credit checks,if employers get too, someone adopting a new dog should have to have one done
And I have to say that this rescue probally thinks you bought from a byb,not a good breeder. If you bought from a good breeder contact them,have them vouch for you,they should be involved in rescue. To me there is no diffrence between a byb dog and a mix. A byb dog may make it in agility but not in conformation. They are on the smae level to me.
Now my trainer got a rescue dobe in and the girl originally bought him from a good breeder(can't remember her name but apparently its good ) and she spent 2 thousand soemthing on him. Yet the rescue fee for him was the regular 400 dollar fee eveyone pays that rescue. It wasn't more because he was a great dog.
Rescueing is hard and the worse thing is to have someone bring the dog back or say they don't have the money to fix the broken leg it got when it somehow got loose and hit by a car. It may be discriminating in some way but if people look like they are stretched on cash they are not getting one of my dogs. I don't have the money to fix whatever problem they may cause while they have the dog. I wish I could run credit checks,if employers get too, someone adopting a new dog should have to have one done
And I have to say that this rescue probally thinks you bought from a byb,not a good breeder. If you bought from a good breeder contact them,have them vouch for you,they should be involved in rescue. To me there is no diffrence between a byb dog and a mix. A byb dog may make it in agility but not in conformation. They are on the smae level to me.
Now my trainer got a rescue dobe in and the girl originally bought him from a good breeder(can't remember her name but apparently its good
) and she spent 2 thousand soemthing on him. Yet the rescue fee for him was the regular 400 dollar fee eveyone pays that rescue. It wasn't more because he was a great dog.