How do you rehome dog urgently

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Everywhere says fill in form and wait but it's super urgent. I picked her up this week (rescued) but my kiddos are absolutely petrified of her. What the hell do I do?

Where are you based? People might be able to suggest some rescues.

Have your children explained why they are scared? Is the dog aggressive towards them or have they had a bad experience with dogs in the past?

In the meantime do you have a family member or friend that could take care of the dog?

Rescued from where?? You give her back to where you rescued her from, most rescues have that policy in place?
How old are kids? What breed is dog? Are u in Uk?
Need alot more information and context.

You take the dog straight back to the rescue you got it from.
A decent rescue will accept it immediately !

Surely you return her to the rescue centre

I have rescue dogs, my contract with the rescue says that I cannot transfer the dogs on and that they must go back to the rescue if the rehoming didn’t work out

This makes me so sad . The thought of a poor dog being taken away from his family and the urgent part just makes it sound so cold . Personally I could never rehome my dog under no circumstances but I know everyone is different …
I hope you find the dog a lovely new home .Its better than you’re doing it now before the dog gets bonded with you 🥰

Did you get dog on a whim hence why you didn’t read the forms about only fostering the dog and returning the dog if things didn’t work out

What breed is she and what’s happening? Is she agressive?

@InMyHealthyEra no family. She is quite large and bouncy with a bark and reactive. I am south east, uk

@Wavescrashingonthebeach she is a cross rescued from abroad. The foster family won't take back. Nobody else is available to foster.

If anyone has any suggestions

When we adopted our cat we had a month’s “cooling off period” with Cats Protection to make sure he was a good fit for our home (he is, although he did steal a slice of bacon off my plate at lunchtime). After a month we had to confirm that he would be chipped to us instead of CP, and also that we didn’t want to change his name.

Presumably most rescues have similar?

Why on earth did you rescue a large and bouncy dog from abroad when you have young children????? Totally irresponsible.
How old are your kids? Keep them in separate rooms for now while you sort this out. No family or friends who could temporarily take dog in?

How far are you willing to travel to get rid of the dog.

Invest in some training for the dog and spend time building trust with the kids. You get out what you put in but think very carefully about that poor dog who will be confused and end up goodness knows where. If you adopt, surely you know you have to invest in them and give it time. It sounds so heartless to be giving the poor girl up when she’s probably nervous and confused.

Are the foster family fostering for a charity? If so then it’s down to them to step in or find another suitable fosterer. All dogs coming from abroad should have rescue back up.

I wish people would stop importing supposed 'rescues' from abroad. They are often bred specifically to send abroad. You can't send it back and that means yet another dog into our overflowing legitimate rescues centres.

I have an acquaintance who has had a similar experience. She got it from an organisation that supposedly rescues from abroad.
The little dog has strange behaviours. The organisation refuse to take her back and slso threatened her if she rehomed it elsewhere.

she has tried a leading trainer in our area but to no improvement. The owner is now a nervous wreck.

We have always had recue dogs and never had any problems.

I would try the RSPCA, Dogs Trust or Battersea.

Poor dog
You should never have taken a large and reactive dog on with kids
Do you have a Dogs Trust near you?
Try there if so.

Did you not think it through beforehand?!

DO NOT take it to The Dogs' Home Battersea or the RSPCA neither of them have a no destruction policy.

From Google-

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home does not have a complete "no-destruction" policy, meaning they do not euthanize animals solely due to space or time constraints. However, they do euthanize animals under specific, limited circumstances, primarily when they have untreatable medical or severe behavioral issues that make them unable to be safely rehomed.

Again from Google:

No, the RSPCA does not have a strict "no destruction" policy.

I know it’s a big no no but have you tried reaching out on Facebook? I’m not saying to rehome to any old person, but there might be someone who you know but haven’t thought about that can take the dog or make recommendations. I have a cousin that did this, an aunt and uncle from her other side of the family she hadn’t seen for years had just lost their old dog so took the dog for her. She’d had the dog about 4 years but her infant was allergic to the dog so she had no choice but to rehome.

Also ask in your community pages, I recently reached out in one of ours about a distressed animal I came across but wasn’t sure what to do, I had people responding in minuets with rescuers in the area I could contact.

In the South East you could also try Raystede, Barbie Keel, Last Chance, Kit Wilson, Lola's, Rescue Remedy, Dogs Trust Shoreham, Holbrooke, Sallipets, Happy Endings and Safe Haven.

Surely one of those can help you.

And don't get another dog.

Poor, poor dog.
What in God’s name were you thinking?

the dog home you got her from will take her back.

I used to work for a breed specific rescue in the UK - they are an excellent registered charity with funds behind them and anyone who adopts one of their dogs gets financial support for life for pre-existing conditions in their contract, and also behavioural support. That wont help you-it’s just an example of how a decent rescue charity works.
I was also involved with a couple of foreign rescue ‘set ups’ purely by virtue of my UK welfare involvement. Most of them are simply not big enough to support new owners properly, and many of the dogs have behavioural problems. I fostered a dog who was only five months old and became aggressive towards my own children - he was under socialised around humans as he’d been a street dog. He also resource guarded his food - because he’d had to fight to survive. These are behaviours no novice owner can deal with. And no reputable rescue should allow an adopter to be in this situation, but you yourself, have been incredibly thoughtless in this situation. And the ‘rescue’ organisation you have got the dog from should offer to take him back and either rehome more responsibly or be exposed for what it is if it is just rehoming dogs willy nilly without a proper home check.
Some of these charities just import dogs to make money-you don’t say whether you have paid an adoption fee?
It’s usually not the fosterers responsibility to take the dog back, or sort out logistics.
All I can suggest is that you put pressure on the person or organisation you got the dog from, or spend all day, every day, looking for a rescue who will take him. It’s not easy at the best of times, but right at the beginning of the summer holidays, even less chance. Poor dog. Please do not ever, get another.

This has to be a wind up.