rescue ...

[bobm]

In today's Portland , Ore. TV news, they showed several hundred stray dogs and cats flown by charter plane from Lousiana flood areas by the local Portland rescue . I am sure that some local Louisana folks are feaverishly looking for their loved pets, but they are now in Portland. The reporter stated that the rescue is looking for donations for food, pay for the charter plane and more volunteers to do the dirty work of caring for them.

 

[so lucky]

I wonder what's going to happen when those people in Louisiana get all dried out and ready to have their pets back. Did they have to just surrender their rights to the due to the flood? That doesn't make sense to me. Why not house them closer to home, so they might be reunited with their humans?

 

[journey11]

That's sad. I'd hate to have a situation like that separate me from my fuzzy friends. Or even having to move and not being able to find housing that allows them. Unless they were voluntarily surrendered, I can't imagine any justification for shipping them off so far away. Probably difficult to find enough foster homes in the meantime though. It's a poor area and probably not a lot of homes willing and able to take them on a temporary basis. I'm sure they're looking for people with money to adopt and foster. Sad anyhow.

 

[bobm]

On tonight's local TV news, the rescue is going to have a telethon next weekend to adopt out as many dogs and cats as they can. Also, they are asking for MORE MONEY with a sob story to subsidise all of their doings.

 

[Nyboy]

That s why micro chipping is so important. No matter where in the country your dog ends up, he can still be traced back to you.

 

[bobm]

In our last night's mail ... there was a letter to " come , sit, stay " ( hey , I am NOT a dog ) to partisipate in their telethon and ... a request to put on our credit card a donation for $ 30, $ 50 , $100, $500, $1,000 . $ ? .................. NOT a penny from this kid !!!!

 

[Beekissed]

It's a crazy ol' world in which we live...just madness.

 

[bobm]

Just think ... they get the dogs and cats for FREE by raiding a distressed and vulnerable population , then they pay for a charter plane, add a couple hundred bucks for feed ( could be donated ), FREE labor from volunteers, FREE telethon TV ( public service messages) staffed by volunteers. So for a measly few bucks and a sob story to tug on one's heartstrings ... they charge the "adoptors" hundred + bucks each, then add on the spay and neuter , sell feed, crate, collar and leach, offer training lessons and any other add ons that the "rescue" can convinse the adoptor to part with. Oh yea, don't forget about the letter to donate money on your credit card. Con job, maybe. Example: Our next door gay couple neighbors that purchased their house about 10 months ago , baught a mutt + add ons from the last telethon for just over $400. This mutt ( lab mix ) , has NO manners, and is NOT house trained , destroyed their furniture, chewed holes in walls and carpets, goes potty anywhere and anytime as well as barks and howls constantly in the house. ( my wife and I are ready to shoot it ) . How many dollars will it take to repair the damage to the house only time will tell. Isn't it about time someone sues this type of "rescue " for damages from defective "merchandise".

 

[Beekissed]

Imagine just how traumatized that dog really is...displaced from its familiar, transported(always traumatizing, no matter the circumstances), caged alongside many other overwrought and nervous dogs, handled by many strangers in many different situations, jabbed with needles, possibly put under for surgery, then....last but not least, it's possibly been adopted by people with more money than sense and who let their emotions guide their lives(translate that into nervous and ineffectual owners), overly lavished with attention a the wrong times because it was a "rescue"~which to most folks, it means they were in some kind of abuse situation, then it's expected to react mannerly and calmly to the new environment of a house when possibly this is a dog that lived its whole life in the freedom of the outdoors.

And that's what the world calls "love" towards animals....again..it's madness.

 

[Nyboy]

Bob please tell your neighbors about crate training. No way the dog could do that damage if using crate.