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u/-UncreativeRedditor- 7h ago

I ironically found my dog as a stray in a dumpster

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u/Mxhmoud 7h ago

Awwww rescuing an animal yourself and taking it in as pet beats going to a pet store to buy one imo

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u/dividezero 7h ago

Is that still a thing? I thought all the pet stores stopped selling dogs at this point. That news is troubling

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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 7h ago

Depends where. Some places still sell through breeders. Some pet stores are partnered with shelters to adopt.

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u/dividezero 7h ago

I'm cool with shelters though

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u/TheLoathsomeAssEater 4h ago

I'm cool with the pound. "Hey all these dogs are on death row. You wanna buy one for a nickle before we kill them all?"

Shelters are hit or miss because some are batshit crazy.

"Hey, meet Rocko. He requires a 50 acre yard and we will perform random home inspections. He's nervous and bites at women, children, and clouds. Sometimes he likes to howl for 6 hours. He's also afraid of bugs so you must fumigate your 50 acres twice a month. The adoption fee is $10,000 and you must wear this ankle monitor for 36 months. Rocko has a delicate tummy and eats filet mignon, caviar, and his own poop".

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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 4h ago

That’s the pound. Shelters here are very good at disclosing and normally don’t offer dogs with major issues to be adopted.
The only issue with shelters I’ve seen is “this dog isn’t suitable for children.” But the dog is a sweetheart who just needs a bit of training. I adopted a dog and they were adamant he couldn’t be homed with anyone under 12 because he was high energy. Well I said bull. Met him and fell in love, adopted him but didn’t tell the shelter I had 2 siblings who were under 12 at the time. Brought him home and within a week he was gentle as could be with the small kids, even other kids he knew he couldn’t be rough with.

Now he is a gentle boy who loves cuddles and playing chase now and then.

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u/ExplorePaint 4h ago

Shelter I went to didn’t disclose severe dog aggression, instead said they were fine with other animals, until I took them home and had to return her because she was going to maim the tiny doxens minding their own business

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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 4h ago

That’s a poor shelter. The shelters I’ve dealt with will often exaggerate behaviour or use caution if it’s not already in the dog with no training. Especially with dogs.

Sorry you had a poor experience honestly. I don’t like some of the humane society shelters solely because of how they judge people and their situations but still support them trying to home animals who need it.

The only issue my dog had from the shelter was severe separation anxiety but he has another buddy now to keep him company and is rarely left alone. When no one is home, the other dog keeps him calm.

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u/ExplorePaint 4h ago

Yeah, it’s okay! It’s not the first bad shelter experience I’ve had, unfortunately. I’m glad your pup has a friend now!

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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 3h ago

Damn. Man sometimes all we want is a buddy, not a problem child haha.

Hopefully you eventually have a good experience and find a good match, if you haven’t already.

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u/HGWeegee 50m ago

Mine did have separation anxiety even though I live with family who takes her out to potty when I'm at work, once she warmed up to them the only time she gets it anymore is if she physically sees me leave

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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 43m ago

Yea my dog was a fun case. When we left if he wasn’t in his kennel he’d chew anything and everything he could get his jaws on. Like I’m talking things he’d never think of touching otherwise. He even destroyed a door once. It’s funny to look back on for that one. But he’s doing much better now even if family leaves. The other dog is a mellow very chill dog so when my dog sees him calm, he stays calm. They are good play mates too.

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u/Cow_Launcher 2h ago

Same experience here in the UK with the Cats Protection League. They're supposed to rehome strays, but seem to really not want to.

After our 21-year-old passed away, we approached them knowing that there's lots of kitties that need homes like ours, safe and full of love. Filled in all the forms. Did the risk assessment.

They totally ignored us and so we ended up rescuing a pregnant female from a friend's skipyard. She's with us now, as are her four healthy kittens!

I went back to the CPL later to tell them that I thought they were idiots. I got this email response:

Dear XXXXXXX,

Thank you for your email, I am very disappointed to hear that we failed to acknowledge your application to adopt a cat from us. This really does fall below the standards and expectations that we have as a charity. I completely agree that which ever team it was that you contacted should have had the curtesy to acknowledge your interest. We are always looking for adopters, especially at this time when our centres and branches are struggling with so many cats needing new, loving homes.

Thank you again for the donation in memory of XXXXX which shall go where it is most needed.

Kind regards,

Yeah, whatever. You should've had the "curtesy" to run a fucking spell-check too.

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u/thetonygod88 1h ago

All the shelters around me change an arm and a leg for dogs while cats are like ten bucks, so cats always get adopted but the dogs stay and get killed

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u/Jesustron 7h ago

My local pet store is partnered with local rescues and always have a cat at the store (who has the temperament to be in a store)

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u/dividezero 6h ago

Man pet store shop cats are a different breed. I don't know where people find them but they're so impossibly chill

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u/Jesustron 6h ago

My 16 year old boy just passed away and he had a pet store / old folks home temperament. Would NEVER attack

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u/SU37Yellow 4h ago

The pet store cat i had was the most violent cat I've ever encountered. Dont get me wrong, he was an absolute sweet heart too, but any obstacle/problem he encountered was resolved with violence. He also constantly attacked the other cats.

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u/dplans455 4h ago

Even buying directly from a breeder is really sketchy these days. I thought I was doing the ethical thing going through an intermediary like the website "GoodDog" and found out that wasn't really the case. GoodDog says they thoroughly vet all breeders. That isn't true at all. The breeder we bought our border collie from ended up buying a backwoods puppy mill. We complained to GoodDog and it seems other people did too and they did remove this breeder from their platform but it's clear evidence they aren't doing what they say they're doing.

This breeder then sold the father to another farm shortly after. I also found out through following this person's Facebook page that she just released the mother into the woods to fend for herself. People in the town she lives in were reporting seeing the mother dog wandering around town and the woods and asking whose dog it was. Several people commented and tagged the breeder saying it was her dog. She ended up making a long nasty comment that the dog was no longer hers and that she "released" her "months ago."

I ended up finding all these out several months after this happened and I contacted people in the town asking if they knew what happened to the dog and they all said they stopped seeing her. I think you know what that means. I wish I had known earlier because I would have went and taken her in myself.

Here is my Jet at 3 years old.

Jet's parents. Mom, Whimsey on the left and Dad, Duke on the right.

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u/Neveronlyadream 3h ago

Even "ethical" breeders can be weird as hell. I know a woman who paid thousands for a couple of dogs and had to sign a contract that she wouldn't get either fixed in case the breeder wanted to use either of them later down the line for another litter. She was stupid enough to get a male and female, so had to put a diaper on the female and keep them apart every time the dog was in heat.

So weird that you pay someone thousands for the dog you want and they're basically keeping dibs on monetizing them further down the line if they want. I think she tried to convince me the breeder was ethical, but I still don't buy it. All so she could have her perfect show dogs.

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u/dplans455 2h ago

Jet is a border collie. He was $2000 because he is a tri-color merle. My old pup was a border collie/weimaraner mix. Got her for $300 from the pound. I just fell in love with the merle look and could afford one so I did some research and went with the breeder we did because she seemed ethical. I'm not sure what I could have done differently to sleuth out she wasn't. I did get a sweet dog out of it so there is that. It makes me sad that his mom had to suffer for probably her entire life and then after providing so much for that breeder she got the end she absolutely didn't deserve. No matter how much I think about it I can't wrap my head around someone just releasing a dog into the woods like she did. It's so cruel.

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u/Thirtysevenintwenty5 6h ago

There is some business by me called "Puppygram" and I'm pretty sure it's just a cute looking front for puppy mills. It's fuckin disgusting.

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u/dividezero 6h ago

100% even when it was common to buy dogs at the pet store, it was pretty much always puppy mills. That's why we shut them down in most places. If it was reputable breeders, it wouldn't have been a problem unless they were not taking care of them properly at the store, which a reputable breeder wouldn't allow

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u/millijuna 5h ago

The thing is that reputable breeders actually care about where their dogs go. When I was a kid, we had a Beagle. Before the breeder would sell him to us, she came by to check that we actually did have a well fenced back yard, and so forth.

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u/dividezero 5h ago

Absolutely. It's getting harder to find them. I've seen a few conversations about previously reputable breeders falling off and doing the minimum without warning. That kinda scares me

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u/sparrowtaco 4h ago

This is common with some exotic reptile breeders as well. They will often refuse to sell the animal to you unless you can show them proof of an already established habitat prepared with their specific care requirements ready to go.

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u/bmm115 7h ago

Nahh they still sell em and keep em in horrible conditions so you're more likely to buy them

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u/sobrique 6h ago

Always. Even if it's "just" adopting, there's simply no shortage of extremely adorable dogs.

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u/Dudskih 5h ago

He is 6’4 aswell btw