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Post by Lisa on Dec 31, 2003 17:38:23 GMT -5
I will have a word with a couple of the rescues to see if anyone is willing to squeeze them in but if they arnt in a pts situation im a little worried that they may not agree with buying them out! Will keep you posted
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Post by cookie on Jan 1, 2004 8:58:30 GMT -5
The thing is we don`t really know if there is a chance of them being pts?? They won`t give you a strate answer as to what happens to these dogs! If seems to me that you pay for a dog and if no one pays for it and they need the room, i think they would rather pts, than give to a rescue! I know a few other people get the same feeling about this!
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Post by Lisa on Jan 1, 2004 12:34:59 GMT -5
Im going to give them a ring myself tomorrow and try to get more out of them on the situation! Ive heard before of rescues that will pts a dog before they will gift it out! The thing is really is it ethical for us to be paying to get these out? My local pound is full of greyhounds and lurchers and again they wont gift dogs only to one or two people and if they are full then the dogs stay there. Im going to speak to them tommorow and ask them there reasons for not passing dogs on BUT in all fairness we dont know whether its the fact that they dont know any of us from adam. I know if I had a dog in my care I wouldnt just pass it on! Just worry that if we went down the road of buying dogs out of pounds that we dont know for sure are in a pts situation where do we end?? Ask any rescue they will tell you they dont need to go looking for dogs! Gaps funds are there for dogs we know are going to die and the people who donate money to us do it for that purpose
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Post by WendyJ on Jan 1, 2004 13:01:32 GMT -5
Lisa, please don't ring yet. They are closed today, but my dog warden friend is going to ring them in the morning and see if she can negotiate the same sort of deal that we have with the other pound. The person who runs the pound doesn't like either of us, but she has to work with the dog warden and might listen to her. She has helped with funds to buy out the other ones and is anxious that these are moved on too. Could we let her have a try first, please? I think Jessie has arranged foster homes and, if necessary, we will buy them out ourselves. But, as you say, where does it all stop? I know that the manager of the pound has a very good relationship with the gypsies and takes their dogs in - presumably at no charge and she also gives them cheap/free vaccinations. There is a neverending stream of dogs from the travellers. A lot come to me, but that is just the tip of the ice-berg. We need to find out exactly what the policy of the Cardiff pound is before we criticise them too much. I would be surprised if many pounds did homechecks. There's no money in that, is there? Wendy
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Post by Lisa on Jan 1, 2004 14:50:56 GMT -5
If she is taking dogs in via the gypses and helping them to care for the ones that they keep she sounds like she does alot more for them than most pounds would As Wendy stated its not fair to run down a rescue until we know and fully understand there policies and even then if they are making some sort of a difference to the best of there resources is it right to criticise? As I said before in all fairness they dont know that by passing dogs on they are doing them a favour and we could be homing them unscrupulously unneutered to the wrong kind of people! Im going to lock this thread until people dealing with it have all the details and the facts straight IF it turns out that these dogs are in ANY danger can someone please pm me and I will unlock the thread. Lisa
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