To be honest we're not overly happy with how much it costs to have a dog neutered and vaccinated. As you can see from my quote, by the time adopters have paid the vets bill they are unlikely to give us a donation that covers even a tenth of what we pay out per animal. We don't begrudge our animals anything but when you get no funding or discounts, money is a huge issue. Most months we barely scrape by and adoption donations bring in a substantial proportion of our funding every month.
Any person that is looking to have an animal from us is interviewed and we DO judge which of our dogs would be suitable for them based on experience, lifestyle, family etc. The same as any other rescue shelter in the world. If we let anyone take any dog they wanted we would have most of our dogs returned within days as they would not be a suitable pet for that family. We don't just pick random animals - we all have years of experience working with rescue animals, training and animal husbandry and we do actually know what we are talking about!
Puppies are not rehomed to families unless there is someone who is around for at least 75% of the day. Would you rehome a 8 week old puppy to a home where it would be left on it's own for 12 hours a day? Adopters who have not had a dog before would not be suitable owners for any of our dogs that have behavioural issues or require an experienced owner. People coming to the shelter wanting "a small fluffy puppy that they can bring back in a couple of weeks" (and yes we get people asking if they can have a pup and return it when they get bored) don't get any further then the gate.
We turn away more people then we allow to adopt, and because of that we have a fantastic rehoming rate and rarely have problems with adopted animals.
Your comment asked about why we charge so much money and as I think you will see - I answered fairly and honestly. WE don't charge that but the vets do. Unfortunately we have a HUGE number of people who are not willing to pay the vets bill saying they want a free animal. If an adopter is not prepared to pay the costs for vaccination and neutering then are they likely to pay the costs if their animal is hit by a car and requires a QR2000 surgery? Probably not and therefore they are not a suitable adopter and would not be allowed to rehome an animal from us.
And we have a lot more nutcases come to the shelter then you might think!
To be honest we're not overly happy with how much it costs to have a dog neutered and vaccinated. As you can see from my quote, by the time adopters have paid the vets bill they are unlikely to give us a donation that covers even a tenth of what we pay out per animal. We don't begrudge our animals anything but when you get no funding or discounts, money is a huge issue. Most months we barely scrape by and adoption donations bring in a substantial proportion of our funding every month.
Any person that is looking to have an animal from us is interviewed and we DO judge which of our dogs would be suitable for them based on experience, lifestyle, family etc. The same as any other rescue shelter in the world. If we let anyone take any dog they wanted we would have most of our dogs returned within days as they would not be a suitable pet for that family. We don't just pick random animals - we all have years of experience working with rescue animals, training and animal husbandry and we do actually know what we are talking about!
Puppies are not rehomed to families unless there is someone who is around for at least 75% of the day. Would you rehome a 8 week old puppy to a home where it would be left on it's own for 12 hours a day? Adopters who have not had a dog before would not be suitable owners for any of our dogs that have behavioural issues or require an experienced owner. People coming to the shelter wanting "a small fluffy puppy that they can bring back in a couple of weeks" (and yes we get people asking if they can have a pup and return it when they get bored) don't get any further then the gate.
We turn away more people then we allow to adopt, and because of that we have a fantastic rehoming rate and rarely have problems with adopted animals.
Your comment asked about why we charge so much money and as I think you will see - I answered fairly and honestly. WE don't charge that but the vets do. Unfortunately we have a HUGE number of people who are not willing to pay the vets bill saying they want a free animal. If an adopter is not prepared to pay the costs for vaccination and neutering then are they likely to pay the costs if their animal is hit by a car and requires a QR2000 surgery? Probably not and therefore they are not a suitable adopter and would not be allowed to rehome an animal from us.
And we have a lot more nutcases come to the shelter then you might think!
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