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Originally Posted by *******
Thank you peaches, you sound like one of the good ones  Yes, there should be applicatons, house checks, interviews, etc. The last thing the dog needs is another owner who is either an asshole or neglects their dog.
But there lots of these organizations who turn away thousands of potential great homes due to their "god complex" How many animals in shelters are not saved every year becase these anti social fucks rarely adopt out the animals? |
Let's make this clear - a shelter is NOT a rescue organization. In fact, pure bred rescue organizations also have troubles adopting from shelters. The shelter's reasoning is that they don't want just the "mutts" there, they want the purebreds too. Some will call the rescue groups right before they put a purebred down, some will not.
From what I've seen, people who work (not volunteers) in shelters are more interested in the business aspect, not the animal care.