General in Alabama

weimdogmom · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:00 pm Post subject: General in Alabama

Very nice looking one year old...

http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=11631126

(They do euthanize for space)

Tonia · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject:

Weimaraner Rescue of the South has been in contact with this shelter and are planning on pulling him.

Thanks,

Tonia

weimdogmom · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject:

Oh, great! Thank you for letting us know.

amazonstarlight · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject:

FL-weim-fanatic · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:57 am Post subject:

if you are associated with a rescue you dont have to pay. we just pulled an 8 month old male and it was free. now we have another weim.

weimdogmom · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:17 am Post subject:

I think usually rescues do not have to pay a shelter when a dog is released to them. But the times I have pulled a dog, I have needed to show the rescue license. Sometimes, though, owners want to be paid in order for their dog to go to rescue.

Tonia · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:10 am Post subject:

It just depends on the shelter, most don't charge fees when we contact them but some do charge for the fees they were out for shots HW test etc. If they help transport the dog to our boarding facility I usually try to give them a donation to at least cover their gas.

Tonia

Phoenix1705 · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:52 am Post subject:

A lot of the humane societies won't ask for anything. I have had animal shelters, animal control pass on releasing an animal to us unless we are willing to pay the fee. I think that is absurd. Considering how much we put forth to get the animal homed, but I am sure there is things going on behind it that I don't know so I shouldn't judge.

ChuckDC · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject:

Phoenix1705 · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject:

amazonstarlight · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:56 pm Post subject:

With our shelter that I help at we will call a rescue nearly immediately if we have any sort of breed dog. It makes no since to keep a dog to try and get an adoption fee from it if a rescue can take them. It's about giving the dog the best home possible, and if that means calling a rescue then that's the route taken.

I figured that there were probably some scuffles with different shelters. I know that a lot of times the mentality is about how much money can the organization make rather than finding the right home for the dog. And, simply put, that's just wrong.

FL-weim-fanatic · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject:

the shelter we just pulled from just asks that we send papers back to them showing either spayed/neutered and rabies was done asap. that way we dont have to pay.