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For being fed up that some charities make it it impossible to adopt despite insisting that they are ‘inundated’ with dogs?

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GreekDogRescue · 06/08/2023 12:05

A well-established dog rescue charity I used to fund neutering programmes for and supported big time are desperate for fosterers and adopters. When I moved to a house with a big (fenced) garden, I offered to foster 5 times (they put up beseeching posts all the time in social media) but they completely ignored me. I’m at home all day, am middle aged, retired, no kids visiting, have help but now foster and adopt from other charities as presumably they think I’m ‘not up to it’.

Then out of the blue 2 weeks ago they messaged to ask if I will foster a specific
dog; I agreed and said when would it be arriving from Greece. No response.

Now I see the same dog advertised on Facebook with no interest. Charity says they are desperate for homes but nobody is applying. Nice sister in law applied but was ignored. Go figure! The trouble is people end up going to breeders which compounds the problem.

Needless to say I no longer send them any money which I suspect was the motive for their message anyway. I now support rescues who have a pragmatic approach to rehoming.

But seeing this rescue plus others constantly posting about how desperate they are for homes while ignoring genuine homes is really maddening.

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Purplecatshopaholic · 06/08/2023 12:39

This drives me nuts too. I was refused dogs from local charities because I work, and I have cats. This seemed such a sweeping, inflexible decision. I WFH a lot, and when in the office my BF works here - my dogs are rarely alone; we carefully intro’d the cats to the dog(s) and there has never been an issue - it’s ridiculous to ban all dogs from all households with a cat! I am so sad there are so many charities that would rather dogs languished in shelters than consider a home that is allegedly slightly less than perfect.
I adopted dogs from abroad in the end, am so glad I did, and will continue to do so.

Whadda · 06/08/2023 12:35

I’ve told this story on here before but years and years ago I applied to a rescue. During the phone registration they asked if we had children in the home. I said no that we didn’t have children nor would we be having them.

I was turned down on the basis that I may change my mind about having kids!

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GreekDogRescue · 06/08/2023 12:26

Lamelie · 06/08/2023 12:23

Could you manage a Neapolitan mastiff?
There’s a long thread in my local south London Nextdoor from a woman who is desperately trying to rehome one. He’s reactive and no no kill shelter will take him.

Unfortunately I’ve got 7 now plus fostering for a Romanian charity so hands are full. Hopefully someone will see this thread who can help.

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Lamelie · 06/08/2023 12:23

Could you manage a Neapolitan mastiff?
There’s a long thread in my local south London Nextdoor from a woman who is desperately trying to rehome one. He’s reactive and no no kill shelter will take him.

Threecacti · 06/08/2023 12:19

Yep YANBU, has been going on for years. Ridiculously stringent criteria leading to more people buying instead

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GreekDogRescue · 06/08/2023 12:17

I always cut them a lot of slack as nobody takes a salary and most of them have jobs on top, but they e been going for over 40 years and are well established.
one of the problems is that the rehoming is run by very opinionated old ladies who have such a stringent rehoming criteria (no dogs in London; not near a road or rail away; not near an open body of water; must be home all day - one of them even refused to rehome to anyone who didn’t let their dog on the bed and as for children you can imagine what they think about them!)
I just regret we gave them so much money!

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JMSA · 06/08/2023 12:07

That's dreadful! I'd contact their manager and feed this back to them.