Dog Adoption

[banker_frank]

1000's of dogs are in animal shelters in the UK looking for homes. Should people be banned from bringing rescue dogs from other countries back to Britain.?

[woofgang]

Rockrose, it would be lovely if that were true. Did you read my first link?

[Rockrose]

I didn’t sweetie but difficult as in the car and reading makes me boke

[woofgang]

Me too, horrible isn’t it

[jakep]

There are some people who find it trendy to say they have rescued a dog from abroad.
I am totally against it.
We gave an ex puppy farm Labrador from Wales a home with us. There are hundreds like her without the need to look abroad.

[Baldric]

// There are some people who find it trendy to say they have rescued a dog from abroad //

Sadly I suspect this is very true.

[anneasquith]

I agree jake, really sad ,;(

[ladybirder]

We should also allow only registered breeders to breed and sell dogs. Too many people breeding them in their backyards and selling on the internet. I know some people who are doing it and I would report them if it was illegal but I understand it isn't.

[Rockrose]

Woof, I found it, it was on Facebook so sadly probably it true after all!

[woofgang]

Ladybirder it may not be directly illegal but apparently the tax office are interested if they are selling and not reporting the income!

[ladybirder]

Hmmm, good point Woofy. Thank you.

[hereIam]

Do you know such people Jakeup ??

[woofgang]

Lactbirder its how they caught Al Capone

[Rockrose]

Anybody who cares for dogs would want to see the most abused helped.
The rescue I’m involved in brings 10 dogs over a year but concentrated on a spaying and neutering program in Serbia. The public shelters in Serbia are kill shelters and people are poor, we have had massive success with the program and its only been running 6 months.
I certainly don’t see it as trendy, in fact I think it’s an insult!

[woofgang]

Rockrose that is how it should be. There is a dog charity in Sri Lanka that focusses on the neutering and health of street dogs and on educating the local people. Its very successful too! Sadly I think that the comment about the trendiness of rehoming a dog from abroad has a lot of truth to it. It wasn’t aimed at you or at the rescue that you support but its a sad truth. As I said, There are “rescues” who ship dogs in by the lorry load and “rehome” them to anyone who can provide a “donation”. All too often the dog bites someone, or escapes or even more stupidly is let off the lead in a public place and runs away. Did you know that apart from the laws that cover every owner/carer of animals and tax laws if its considered that there is a profit being made, there is no british definition of an animal rescue and no statutory requirements or supervision?

[Cloverjo]

An abandoned dog needs a caring home wherever it’s from.

[hereIam]

Exactly Cloverjo, where there's a need ….

RR - good post.

[woofgang]

The problem is that a lot of the foreign dogs who are imported are not abandoned pets but feral dogs. The only life they have ever known is living free in a pack, their parents and probably grandparents too. They are forcibly removed from a stable life, the only kind of life they have ever known, shipped in trucks to the uk and made to live totally different lives. Rockrose’s organisation seem to have it right in that they are working to support healthy stable populations in their own places....where by the way they help to control the vermin population.