I’m registered and approved with two local rescues but they seem to have huge demand at the moment, which is great. I expressed interest in four dogs over the last week but application levels were so high that I didn’t even receive a response and the dogs were marked as “booked” within a few hours. Great that the demand is so high and dogs are being rehomed quickly.
The first “Christmas Day puppy” in one of the rescues was surrendered on December 27th 😡
There also seems to be a lot of pregnant bitches and mothers with newborns being surrendered because the “breeders” don’t have the demand for the pups. Most of these seem to be expensive mixes with fancy names- doodle etc.
We did get to see one pup a few months ago but it just wouldn’t have been a good match. That was with a different rescue and they weren’t entirely truthful about the mix of breeds so we opted not to take that pup as it would likely have been a poor match, unfortunately.
Our situation is that we already have a dog and she just loves other dogs so would love a sister or brother. We don’t have children, live rurally, have a big and very secure garden, both work from home so always have someone around during the day. Very flexible about the age and size of dog we take- our current dog is a large breed so something medium-large would probably make sense, but happy to look at smaller dogs who are a bit more robust and happy to have a giant sister. Would love to take on a former breeding dog to give her a lovely life, but open to puppies also.
Our current dog is quite boisterous but very well socialised and perfectly gentle with smaller dogs, but it’s hard to know how a dog who has had a traumatic life would deal with such an enthusiastic playmate.
Not in any rush- figure there’s a dog out there for us and we’ll hopefully meet them soon.
Is anyone else hoping to adopt this year?