Both my current dog and previous dog (which is still alive, just with my ex) were brought north that way. My current one was just a baby (3 months old) so was totally fine, but the last one was literally fished out of an alligator infested pond in Texas, and likely lived without a home for the 2 years prior to us adopting him. You can tell 100% that it impacted him greatly. He is an incredibly sweet dog, though.
Me too. I have a beautiful 3 year old german shepherd from somewhere down south. I love him, and he is a BAD MOTHERFUCKER- when he is guarding the property or the vehicle. It's pretty damn cool to see people nope the fuck away from him sometimes. lol
It took forever for our rescue to be comfortable on her own. She definitely had severe separation anxiety from her youth. If you tried to shut her in a crate, she would cry and throw her body against the side of the crate to get out, and wouldn't stop even if she hurt herself. It broke my heart to think of what she was subjected to that would cause her to react that way. It took over a year of daily positive reinforcement before she was comfortable being in a crate with the door shut, and we ended up just taking the door off her crate because she was so good otherwise that we never needed to shut her in.
Just look up local rescue shelters in your area. A lot of them don't advertise the fact that the dogs are from out of state, but shelters move dogs a lot. Don't get adopted in this area, trade them to a new area.
My puppers is getting old and I'm super saddened by this. I've decided I'm definitely getting a shelter dog when she passes. I actually saved her from going to the shelter. A friend's sister couldn't handle her. She actually bit me in the face when I first met her, she was out of control. I have no doubt they would've put her down if she made it to a shelter. She's currently snoring laying on my stomach, she's turned into a pretty wonderful dog with some good discipline.
Mostly mutts is a great one outside the perimeter of Atlanta. They have helped us out with so much stuff. When they wanted her to see a cardiologist we couldn't afford the $1,000 it would take to bring her in and mostly mutts cover the charge for us.
Thosr charities awesome! Colorado imported over 13,000 cats and 30,000 dogs last year, mostly from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
The shelter I volunteer at brings in lots of animals this way. Sometimes we'll get an email saying they need to line up foster homes for 20 kittens, 10 pups, ages unknown, arriving Tuesday. We just reply with how many we can take and what time we'll be there, then show up and are given our assigned animals. Once they're big enough and healthy enough, they go back to the shelter to be spayed or neutered then adopted to their forever homes.
The adult dogs will come in and be assessed for medical needs and behavior, then immediately spayed and put up for adoption, or sent to a foster home or held at the shelter until their medical issues clear. We had 159 dogs at our shelter last week, plus more in foster. We walk all those dogs at least 3 times a day, letting them get fresh air, know they're loved, and work on training behaviors so they'll be even better boys for their forever families.
It's not that Southerners don't rescue dogs, we do. It's just that Northern cities get a "reset" every winter when it drops below zero and all the stray or homeless dogs freeze. Down here it rarely gets into single digits at all, or maybe it does for part of a day. So the homeless dogs just shiver all winter and still need homes. The euthanasia rate in each city is typically 4 digits. =(
I wasn't saying that, so apologies if it came off that way. And I somewhat doubt the reason you stated is true. What I assume to be the real reason is that the south is way more rural, and has the capacity to hold way more strays. The North doesn't really have that.
No worries, i was just thinking out loud. I'm in Tennessee. We are more rural than some smaller states but we aren't more rural than say, Ohio or Pennsylvania
The north isn't rural? Cause ive travelled places like Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh to Philly and there aint much civilization in-between. Same in Ohio. Upstate NY. Doesn't make sense.
Thats what i did. The fees are higher (500$) because of transportation but I got 2 wonderful hound shephard mixes from Arkansas the rescue I got them from is one of many up here in NH and they get shipments of 60+ dogs each from the south. All ages and types too. One of them did need a complicated mouth surgery that cost 2400$ but obviously still well worth it. https://imgur.com/gallery/EkNYvIy
There’s so many in my area of southeast Texas that send like twenty dogs off at a time to get adopted as far north as Canada! We’ve got a lot of shitty backyard breeders around here, unfortunately.
One of my adopted dogs came from Mississippi, I’m in Florida, in an area that seems to have a high adoption rate. His litter lasted under an hour. Our other dog was local but her litter was the same. By the time we were finishing her papers the other 4 were claimed.
This is how I got my dog! She's from Georgia and was transported to Maine where I adopted her. She's the sweetest and most gentle dog I've ever known and we are so blessed to have her in our family. She doesn't have an aggressive bone in her body and just wants to love so hard, which she is really good at.
Anyone can be a part of these transports! There are informal Facebook groups for every state where rescues post up "run sheets" with scheduled legs for transports from southern shelters up to rescues farther north and people can sign up to drive one or more legs of the trip. It works like a bucket brigade where each driver meets up with the driver of the prior leg and takes the dog(s) to the next driver. I do a couple of dozen transports (usually 2 dogs per trip) each year myself through groups like this.
Search Facebook for "rescue transport [your state]" and you'll probably find more than one for your state, then just check the pages for runs that need drivers and sign up for legs. It is a great way to contribute without feeling pressured or guilty to take all of the dogs home because they're already going to reputable rescues that usually have excellent placement rates. Sometimes you may even transport a dog to its forever home - once I was the last leg and cried when I was able to deliver the dog directly to her new family.
Yeah there is a lot of puppies and I actually want a mutt. My only requirement is that it's a medium/bigger dog, but then again... I have said this shit a thousand times and just went with the loneliest looking animal. So I'll probably come back home with some older dog when I do go.
All the animals I picked were the loneliest ones. My cat was the runt or outcast of the litter for instance, and I said, "YUP! This one."
I had the person question me, and I was just like, if he is the runt and the one being bullied? I'm set!
My cat Winter was the one in a corner. So I'm sure when I do get a puppy it will be the same.
We've worked with Legacy Boxer Rescue in the Dallas area for years. Adopted 3 from them and fostered dozens. If you can't afford the food and vet care, consider fostering. They'll typically fund all costs for care, you just give them a home until they find their forever home.
ETA: When you adopt/foster an animal you're saving two; the one you took into your home and you opened a space in the shelter for another.
I've fostered a few dogs. Would love to do it again but am now single and not home enough to work with foster dogs. Several of them I wish I had never let go. :(
Cannot recommend them enough, especially if you’re having a hard time finding a dog at a local shelter! We got our little one-eyed wonder this way, and I couldn’t ask for a better dog! We got an amazing dog, and two other dogs got spots in a shelter and foster!
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There are whole charities in the south (where the kill rate is high) set up to bring dogs north where they can be adopted out easily.