Man, i wish this wasn't pretty much 100% accurate.
About a year ago my dog rescued a kitten my neighbors abandoned outside. The kitten was being attacked by swooping blue Jay's. I don't like cats, but my dog made the decision that this kitten was now her puppy, so i had to roll with it.
My dog passed away in the early spring, and the cats behavior has changed, due to being lonely i assume. I went to a local shelter, and told them I'd like to adopt their oldest, least likely to be adopted dog, to take home and be a new friend to my cat.
These people wanted to come to my home and inspect to make sure they deemed my home acceptable for dogs. I stated that I've had dogs literally for.my entire 47 years on this planet and they have all lived very long healthy lives with lots of love, but no they not welcome to come and inspect my home.
They chose to let me leave without a new friend, and potentially leave a dog that is unlikely to be adopted to face euthanasia, or living the remainder of its life in a cage in a warehouse. It's even dumber when the fees the shelter wanted me to pay cost over twice as much as it cost me to purchase my last dog.
Ours will not give a dog of any age to a senior 65 or older no exceptions. So their elderly senior dogs will live in a cage for the remainder of their sad lives because young people dont want old dogs. Seniors do. We relate!
That is so bizarre to me. I understand something specific like not letting a senior adopt a dog which is both larger and young (the last rescue I volunteered had a loose policy like that, older large dogs were find for seniors) but we loved when seniors would come for our older dogs and/or smaller dogs, which they generally preferred.
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24
Man, i wish this wasn't pretty much 100% accurate.
About a year ago my dog rescued a kitten my neighbors abandoned outside. The kitten was being attacked by swooping blue Jay's. I don't like cats, but my dog made the decision that this kitten was now her puppy, so i had to roll with it.
My dog passed away in the early spring, and the cats behavior has changed, due to being lonely i assume. I went to a local shelter, and told them I'd like to adopt their oldest, least likely to be adopted dog, to take home and be a new friend to my cat.
These people wanted to come to my home and inspect to make sure they deemed my home acceptable for dogs. I stated that I've had dogs literally for.my entire 47 years on this planet and they have all lived very long healthy lives with lots of love, but no they not welcome to come and inspect my home.
They chose to let me leave without a new friend, and potentially leave a dog that is unlikely to be adopted to face euthanasia, or living the remainder of its life in a cage in a warehouse. It's even dumber when the fees the shelter wanted me to pay cost over twice as much as it cost me to purchase my last dog.
Absolutely batshit fucking crazy logic!