Will your next dog be from a breeder or a rescue?

[Kimmikins]

Do you think your next dog will be adopted from a rescue or purchased from a breeder? What kind of things influence your decision?

For me, I think it will be a rescue again...if it can be a rescued Westie, so much the better! But ultimately it will be one in need of a loving home. At the moment, with me on a training salary we can't afford another dog, but when my pay goes up then we'll start looking for our newest family member. It would possibly be too expensive to buy a pup...in fact it WOULD be too expensive, because I research my breeders properly and will pay whatever it costs to support a legitimate, responsible breeder. I wouldn't rule it out entirely though

I'd want to meet the dog beforehand this time. We were so lucky with Sara, she had very few issues in terms of getting along with Scrumpy and house-training, but realistically any new dog would need to meet Sara...she has an incredible talent for winding other dogs up!

I might foster beforehand too, I think I'd like to help a dog along it's journey to it's forever home and see it go to it's new owner. That must be so rewarding.

[sparks01]

Rescuing a certain breed could have some issues I like to keep an eye on bullmastiff rescue and there have been some stunning dogs but if it's an adult dog you and the rescue team really must understand no one knows the dogs background. So the family that is its forever home must be, I would think , a family that are used to having dogs and not beginners.

[Kimmikins]

I completely agree that an adult rescue is probably not the best "first dog"; a puppy yes, but like you say you don't always know the history with adult dogs needing a new home. Fostering would be a good way to get an insight into different breeds.

[sarahhound]

Rescue, probably not a Greyhound, but I'll never say never.

[Dani]

I dont think I will be allowed another dog after Dodge    hubby has said this a lot of times now,I am just to OCD . . . . . . I did not think I would be like this but there we are,Dodge is my whole world and I cant bare to be away from him more then a couple of hours (apart from night time,sleep does not count like that haha!) its not even the dog with the SA,its me !!   


If he would have a change of heart >>> then I would love to get a rescue,or fostering sounds soooo rewarding but I would have a real hard time giving the foster dogs up,honestly . . . . the families would have to be special   . . .  . thats wrong isnt it,I probably moddy coddle dogs to much!!!!!

[Kimmikins]

The reason I want to foster, is to force myself to be able to let them go to their new homes. Sara was only ever meant to be a really short term foster...she was adopted by the time we'd got her home! I think more rescues should encourage foster with a view to adopt, which is what we did after we decided we wanted to keep Sara; we waited a month before getting the paperwork, just to make sure that she was a good fit. Dogs can change so much as they adjust, and what starts out as a cute lovely thing might end up as not a fit for a home, through no fault of the dog or humans. Fostering with view to adopt means that, even if the foster home isn't going to be the forever home, at the very least the dog can be assessed in a home environment, which will enable a better match to be found.

[Adrianne]

I seem to get offered dogs at least once a month and it's really hard not taking some of them. Some won't get another home because of their issues, others are just needing a home when circumstances change, in the last month I have been offered a Malamute Gsd cross, a mastiff, and a cocker. One day when I am looking for another I may take up an offer. But if it is to do Cupars job then it may have to be a pup and I really fancy a setter - an Irish red ( bit lacking in intelligence but as cupes has limited intelligence I won't notice!:-))

[Kimmikins]

Ooh, Irish Reds are stunning dogs, such gorgeous colours! Maybe they're the airheads of the canine world and aim to get by on looks alone?
You must have a will of iron, there's no way I'd be able to turn down every dog that was offered to me, I'm a real sucker! I have to hide pages that pop up in my news feed now; there have been too many times when I've gone, laptop in hand, to show him yet another dog that I think we should find room for!

[Jordan]

Definately a rescue for me, an older dog or one with special needs like being deaf, that wont find a home easily. Not sure I could foster for several reasons, I would find it impossible to give them up when the time came especially if id had them a long time and i'd want to continue to work with them if any problems were being dealt with so there would be no set back with the change. From a dogs point of view i think being settled into a home with a family and a routine then be uprooted must have a similar effect on them as it does on children...

[Kimmikins]

I agree with the uprooting aspect, but so many dogs struggle in a shelter environment to show their true colours. In a home environment they have a better chance of finding a home.

[Dani]

Jan 11, 2014 19:55:32 GMT Kimmikins said:

Ooh, Irish Reds are stunning dogs, such gorgeous colours! Maybe they're the airheads of the canine world and aim to get by on looks alone?
You must have a will of iron, there's no way I'd be able to turn down every dog that was offered to me, I'm a real sucker! I have to hide pages that pop up in my news feed now; there have been too many times when I've gone, laptop in hand, to show him yet another dog that I think we should find room for!

Totally with you there ! I have given up even telling hubby about stuff that I read now tbh xx

[Adrianne]

you wont want to see the wee roan cocker 4 months old clicker trained - toilet trained - crate trained on my fb page then! lol

[Kimmikins]

Jan 12, 2014 7:20:49 GMT Adrianne said:

you wont want to see the wee roan cocker 4 months old clicker trained - toilet trained - crate trained on my fb page then! lol

.....oh Adrianne you cruel woman! He's gorgeous, such a lovely face, and lovely colouring. Why does he need a new home at such a young age?

[Adrianne]

will p/m you

[baileysworkworld]

If anything ever happens to Bailey I would love to get another pup.

His breeders had a litter 2 years ago and we were very tempted but decided, in the end, that while Bailey is very tolerant of all the other dogs I bring into his house, he really enjoys the odd times he gets us all to himself. So for this reason, we won't get another dog while he is here.

If he goes -


~I really don't know how I would feel and what I would do. At the mo, I would still have all my client dogs to deal with so it is not like I wouldn't be surrounded by dogs.

If I got a puppy, I would like to do lots of one to one training, spend as much time as needed with him/her and I just can't see that happening with the way my life and work is at the mo.

If a dog needed a new home and it just seemed to fit, maybe that would work. Dogs do just seem to fit here so a rescue may just be 'the right dog at the right time'. I really don't know.

My really long term plan is to buy a property (I have one in mind but you would all think I am mad!!!), run a large scale, day care, boarding, grooming, vet, training, kennel care and dog warden (stray dog care) partnership centre!



Yes, I am a dreamer but that is my long term goal and I WILL DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Yes I need help!


If this ever works, I would have STAFF and then I could have a puppy as I could have time off and spend enough time with him / her.

BUT, if this worked I would like to foster a number of dogs from a local rescue, may be 3 -5, and once they were rehomed, get others in. These would be special case dogs, ones who don't cope well in kennel environments and need that little bit extra.

So if I did that, I would probably spend my extra time with them and not get a puppy.

So I will just have to wait and see.

But this is all very irrelevant as Bailey is going to live forever. HE WILL HE WILL HE WILL