Lady near me looking to get a gsd - Page 7

SportSchGuy,
You wrote:
I am certain what you rescue people do makes you feel good about yourselves but you are not doing a damned thing to fix the problem.

I don't know anyone that has rescued for any amount of time that thinks they are "fixing the problem".
We are just people trying to make a very small difference by rescuing and rehoming animals.

The "problem" can't be fixed for a couple of reasons. One is, you can't fix stupid! You should know this you talked about rural America. If rural America would quit "human linebreeding" on their favorite "Uncle Bubba" then we might have a chance. Do you know where 75% of the animals in rescues and shelters in the Chicagoland area come from?............................................They get transported here from rural America.
Feel free to go to the county pound in rural America and see what goes on. They desperately try to get rescues and shelters in large metropolitan areas to take the animals from them that irresponsible, rural America brings to them on a daily basis. For the most part these places are cat and dog slaughterhouses because of the irresponsible people in rural America. I know of counties in Kentucky with very small human populations that send their county pound more animals in a year than what goes through the City of Chicago pound.

For interest, these are the statistics from the shelter in the city nearest to me. The biggest city in my state has multiple shelters.

Last year alone, this shelter took in more than 9,000 cats and kittens. Few lost cats are ever returned to their families and only 4 out of 10 cats that come to the shelter are adopted.
Each year, 11,000 purebred and mixed dogs and puppies come to the shelter as unwanted or lost pets; because they have an active program to find adoptive homes and because this city is a pet friendly city, approximately 70-80% are adopted.
This single shelter houses more than 23,000 animals each year. Annually, 9,500 animals are at risk for euthanasia.

There are also several other rescues in the area that house a number of dogs, many of whom are also brought in from rural areas. The rural areas of the state generally cannot hold animals for adoptions and many are put down very quickly if not claimed.

And what does any of that have to do with trying to find a dog for someone? With the topic of this thread? I am trying to get one of those dogs connected with a good home.

Then do it. The point is that there are hundreds of dogs in shelters who have few adoption requirements and you won't have to put up with any rescues refusing your request. Surely there are dogs near you who need homes.

Uncle Bubba?? LMAO  Thats pretty good but you really should expand your horizons a little.


 So let me get this right. If someone lives in the country they are automatically suspect (not to mention dumb and inbred)? If they dont have a fenced yard then they are definitely out!if they have (gasp) farm animals then thats a definite red flag.  Ok I got it now. Thanks for educating my poor dumb country ass. I think I will go see if I can find my hound dog. I just saw him a couple days ago but the UPS truck is supposed to be coming today and I need to tell him to stay out of the way. LOL 

 Hey  (OGBS), did you ever think that some of these dogs are intentionally DUMPED out there and do not really originate from there? Do you blame "highway people" for dogs running loose on the highway? Additionally, many times a dog gets sent to a shelter in a metro area is because the rural areas don't HAVE shelters! 

I think it was Hans who said we are just enabling people to be irresponsible by cleaning up after them. If they had to deal with the consequences of their irresponsibility and stupidity, then perhaps they'd think twice. 

And I had a really good, long response to your earlier post to me (which was so flawed) and it's not showing up!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

SportySchGuy,
You were the one who brought up rural America and how upset they are that rescues and shelters aren't fixing the problem. I just pointed out to you that rural America is an enormous part of the problem.
As for yourself, you are just helping prove my point by the fact that you are incapable of comprehending what I wrote. The rest of the drivel you wrote is ridiculous and has nothing to do with what is being talked about.

Jen,
Flawed? What is flawed? You took in Stark, I helped you find a home for him. That was how we met. You brought the dog to my house for me to see him. The people who own him contacted you because of me and my friend Pat.
The other dog came from MP, you told me he was placed with your co-worker by you, they couldn't keep the dog after a couple of years, they were put in touch with me (not by you) and I found a home for the dog with a family in Iowa. Pretty simple!

 OGBS, I wanted to put Stark down; he was a POS, still is. YOU wanted to save him and said you had a home for him. I decided to allow you to do so, since I don't think he's a maneater, just your average POS dog that would be better destroyed to make room for a good, deserving dog that is homeless through no fault of his own. That is not how we met, but let's not go there. As far as the other dog, I had nothing to do with that. That was pure coincidence.  I fail to see your point. It could be because I would now classify myself as living in rural America.

WTH are you talking about? You allowed me to do adopt the dog out?
You handled the whole thing. I sent the people to you.
I'm not saying that anything you did was wrong in either situation, but, I disagree with your assessment of all the rescues in the Chicagoland area and gave you two examples. It's pretty simple!

OGBS you are correct. I do not comprehend what you are talking about. I am the one that said they are not fixing the problem in an attempt to get people to think about how to fix the problem instead of feeding the cycle which IMO rescues and shelters do. I simply stated that many people in rural america who would  make great homes for some of these rescues feel that it is rediculous to be turned down for something like having "farm animals" or not having a fenced yard or having an unaltered animal on the premisis. I have some shocking news for you OGBS.....all of America is a huge part of the problem. The stats you gave are worthless. Stats are often twisted to align with certain agendas.

The rest of what I wrote is relevant because YOU made it so by implying everyone who lives in a rural area is a dumb inbred hick. I would not want to disappoint. ;)