Shelters are often inundated with pet surrenders, and do not want to provide a simple outlet that takes away the obligation of responsible pet ownership. Therefore, they would prefer that people try hard to find a solution before resorting to surrendering their pet to a shelter. If you must find a new home for a pet, please try posting to our adoption portal before placing the burden on the shelter. Direct adoptions work well and allow everyone to share in the accountability of their community!
No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.
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posted by BarbaraShepardOrtiz,
on 2015-11-15 17:21:19
I have been trying to adopt a certain dog out of this shelter for over a month. When I ran the search yesterday, it said the dog was no longer available. So I wrote the shelter, and they said that she WAS still available. But, when I checked, it said she was not available. They have put a block in the path at every opportunity I have tried to adopt this dog. It turns out, the dog has never been adopted out, and in fact, has spent her entire life at the shelter (she is about 2 yrs old now). Poor little dog, doesn't have a hope of a chance to find a forever home. I have heard that some of these no kill shelters (which, don't get me wrong, I prefer to "kill" shelters) have the luxury of "keeping" some animals from being adopted, thus giving their staff their own "free petting zoo". I would think that they would want to adopt out their animals to make way for new, even needier animals. Since they are community funded, the management can do whatever they like, without having the pressure of being accountable to anyone, except the donors of the community. I feel so sorry for this particular dog - having lived her entire life there (2 yrs!) without ever being given the chance to adopt out. I consider myself in the upper 10% of qualified potential adoptors. I took our dog to drive the 3 hours to the shelter - and all we got was about 7 minutes outside the entrance to the facility - with all kinds of activity happening to meet the 2 dogs. I did not even get a chance to hold the dog's leash, let alone touch her. When I returned home, I researched the facility and found that this plush facility even has "meet and greet" rooms (where outside activity is limited). That, actually was not important to me - but I had expected a more private setting - dogs - especially kenneled dogs are not use to outside activity, thereby giving us -0- chance to actually meet and see if the dogs would get along.
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