Has anyone else had difficulty adopting a pet from a rescue
shelter?
We've been trying to adopt a 2nd dog for a few months now
but have been turned down by 2 different rescue shelters.
We already have one dog who we found wandering the streets
a couple of years ago. Although we tried for months to find her
owner nobody came forward to claim her so she's been with
us ever since.
So far the rescue volunteers have come to our home met our
dog and taken references from our vet which we were told
were excellent. The problem they have is we both work full
time and this was the sole reason we are not being considered
as worthy adopters.
While we do both work full time we both work locally and our
current dog is never left for longer than 3-4 hours. Our dog is
exercised every morning for at least an hour and gets a quick
walk during the day followed by a long session playing in the
park in the evenings and goes everywhere with us at weekends.
It seems crazy that there are healthy dogs either going nuts
in kennels or worse still being put to sleep while rescues wait
for a perfect home which might never be. While I understand
they want good homes for the dogs surely they can accept
that plenty of people who work still manage to provide a happy
loving home for a pet.
I would love to hear others experiences of adopting a rescue
pet and if you encountered any problems like we have.
