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    Default The Dark Side of Animal Rescue

    When I was on craigslist looking for pups that need rehoming I stumbled on this interesting post, that was in response to another post:


    Your Ad sort of touched me ,and I am having a attack of conscious right
    now so I am going to let you know what happen to you. You see, I worked
    for a well respected Rescue for many years. What happened to you is
    that an employee got a phone call from the rescue during your adoption
    process. Your dog was sold from under your nose as you were signing the
    papers. This was something that I used to do all the time.

    I learned from the best. I had connections at every shelter up and down
    California to Nevada. I’d call these employees everyday to find out
    which dogs ware available. I wanted lap dogs, I wanted puppies, I
    wanted valuable breeds which I could pump and dump. After I made my
    calls I would take a wad of cash with me. The employees at the shelter
    would get a “Referral Fee” , most other people would say this was a
    kickback. This fee would vary depending on the age , breed, ect. A lot
    of times my contacts would just keep the dogs off the books so I could
    come and get them. It also wasn’t above us to check ads in the paper
    and the internet and respond to lost dog threads as the owner for
    valuable breeds. It amazing how flashing cash in front of someone as a
    reward made it so much easier to people to give up the dog to us.If
    they were micro-chipped we would just degauss it.

    We wanted small dogs and puppies because they were easy to care of
    and easy to move. Since we were a non profit we did occasionally bring
    in the older dog from a kill shelter. We called them our “Show” dogs ,
    as we pretty much just kept them in their cages so we can save face.
    They never got sold and usually died. They were there to make us seem
    like were doing the right thing. And we did think that but, deep down
    we knew we were just working a sales position.

    If you ever had a Job in sales you would know that selling is easy.
    The great thing about being a rescue is that people actually feel good
    about themselves when they buy a dog from us.” Adoption fees” maybe the
    greatest term ever for this business. You as the consumer are Adoptiong
    this poor little homeless animal .The dogs sold themselves especially
    when you threw in some sob story about where you rescued the dog from
    We would charge 200 – 500 dollars for every dog. And we always have the
    answer for any question someone might have.

    “why so much?” – this covers spayed/neuter, de worm, shots and
    microchip – this was already done by the shelter and didn’t cost us a
    thing. Even if it wasn’t we said that is was. Occasionally we said they
    had to have surgery for some unknown illness we just made up out of the
    top of our head. People bought it like crazy .

    Many people have asked me about saying “ We charge because we want
    to make sure you can afford your animal.” People are stupid but not
    that stupid. If a car salesman told you “we are charging twice amount
    for your car to make sure you can pay for gas” you would probably walk
    out of the dealership. I never brought this up and only would
    acknowledge it if the customer said something of the sort ( WHICH TOLD
    ME THEY WERE ALSO GULLIBLE)

    Never bring your kid to buy a dog. I would make sure you paid at
    least 400 dollars. We also would do other things like say we had a
    stringent adoption process , that way the customer felt like we sold
    quality animals and they were well taken care of under our care.

    Cash is king in the animal sales world. Most of my transactions
    were cash and never reported. I was making anywhere form 500- 2k a day.
    I quit because of a attack of conscious and competition from other
    Rescues was cutting into my profit margin.


    your ad
    Yesterday I went to a animal shelter to get to get a puppy for our
    family. My little 5 year old son was so happy. Inside the shelter they
    had this adorable little pug puppy with this one droopy ear. My son
    instantly fell in love. They wanted $175 for it , which I thought was a
    little high but, I jumped on it. As I was going through the adoption
    process I was told some horrible news, that the puppy wasn't available
    anymore as someone else had first dibs. My son was devastated and
    started to cry. I was a little suspicious as earlier they said they
    just got the puppy in and it was available but, overall I didn't think
    too much of it.

    Today I saw the same dog with the droopy ear being sold outside a
    store by a Rescue. They wanted 450 dollars for it. My son went
    ballistic, he is just so sad. My question is , is this legal for
    Shelters and Rescues to do this? Even though I didn't loose any money
    or anything, I feel lied to , scammed and sorry for my son. How can
    this happen???

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    Default Re: The Dark Side of Animal Rescue

    This makes no sense and almost sounds like they are defending breeders. Breeders are one step above murderers and pedophiles to me.

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    Default Re: The Dark Side of Animal Rescue

    This is a popular chain letter that gets spread every now and again...and is complete and utter bull.

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