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

[GreekDogRescue]

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.

I completely agree. I saw one of the local dog rescue charities recently pleading on FB that they need more people to foster and adopt. I tried to adopt a Whippet from them, explained I had two children, 7 and 11 and was told no. We then approached another charity who told us we were the 'unicorn' of adoption, large and enclosed rear garden, older kids, no other pets. Long story short, we have our lovely dog from them, so it's the other charity's loss. I really wanted to comment on their post when I saw it, well let people bloody adopt then!

It would be great if you could give a shout out to this helpful charity. I’m sure they’d be delighted and it would help those desperate to adopt

Thank you I couldn’t agree more.
given that the charities all have a public profile they would be thrilled with these good reviews.
It would also save potential adopters having to wade through many ‘computer says no’ charities, getting disillusioned and buying from breeders.

Agree with @OP , that's why we went abroad and rescued from one of them. At least the dog has an EU passport though!

Just for info:
We have :
A large house & garden & fence & gate & pond

3 minute walk to the fields (farming village)

Previously had a dog

Own our house

DH works from home 3 times a week

I can take the dog into work with me ✅ as do 3 others

And yet the UK charities had an issue !!

@GreekDogRescue it was Phoenix French Bulldog Rescue

What was their reason for saying no?

@Muckysmucky we have three children under 12. Not a preference for quite a few charities.