rescue dogs, so far too much trouble to deal with

[LiLWaynE]

I'm leaning hard toward a puppy, I found out that the last choice of mine for an adoption dog has some poo-poo issues after speaking w/her foster mom.


a puppy's going to have some of the same issues but at least it's not going to be due to health/kennel conditions.......

if you are a diligent, caring, attentive, educated owner then your puppy should only have "accidents" every once in a while within the first month...these "accidents" will probably occur when you least expect it (when your hitting a bong, or grabbing some munchies). if you take the pup outside every 45 minutes while its awake, and make sure you only have food and water down when its time to eat/drink then you should be able to get the dog trained QUICK.... when you give food/water then you take dog out...... routine.... not for the lazy man, but for the man who demands an awesome, headache free companion......

hell, if you are SUPER MOTIVATED, once you get the shit/piss thing down, then you can take it to the next step and train your dog to locate drugs.... a simple walk in the park/crowd could turn out to be a VERY nice day....

 

[supermanlives]

buy the pup outright. i went through a few hoops too to no avail. finally i just paid cash. got to see the parents and the mom bit me LOL. handed over cash and left. my old male dog is definately getting a workout.i got a female and they seem to be harder to potty train and impossible to stop em peeing once started. but atleast it goes straight down.she makes a few mistakes but its in the tile bathroom atleast.first dog i looked at was an escape artist , second didnt like other dogs,third had a medical condition i would of had to pay for without an estimate of cost,4th hated everyone

 

[Stoner4Life]

I just hadda share this one, what are the odds?

Just my luck, when I show up to meet this
one I gotta hope it doesn't bite me.......​

 

[greenmatter]

dog probably hates tweekers ..... not stoners. not even a high energy dog can deal with that shit.

 

[greenluv707]

save a soul and adopt,beagles are fun.

 

[GanjaPharma]

my 2 are breed rescues, they are both 14 years old this year, and i got em when they were 2 so its been a while since the interview/screening, but i remember thinking they were over the top.

in the interim i got pretty involved in breed rescue, and came to a better understanding of why all the fees, and requirements are in place. these are dogs that were purchased as puppies, till the novelty wore off then they were pitched out like an old sofa. Rescue reps, dont want that to happen to em again, and one way to be sure is to interview and examine potential owners, another is to charge a fee that 1)helps to fund alteration, vaccination, and supplies, for rescue and 2) weeds out anyone who isnt serious about the adoption.
i wish it was a simpler process, because i applaud your efforts to get a rescue dog in the first place. that level of scrutiny is usually a breed rescue thing, and you will have none of that if you find a good mutt from the pound.
either way, a dog that has walked the green mile makes the best pet ever once they have learned to trust people again. i hope you go that rout instead of a pup. i am so glad that i did.

 

[Papulz]

stoner mi amigo, make a trip to one of the pounds man.

our dog is a hound/rott mix... they are givin them away out here. 34 or so dollars for the animal.. and shes the coolest of course.

 

[LiLWaynE]

lol has a great nose for smelling drugs and doesnt like people who use drugs... .


looks like the people know ur looking S4L and they left you a little message !

 

[LiLWaynE]

i would personally never get a beagle....

they are cute and all that, but they are extremely hard to make tame.. their noses are their brains and they just TAKE OFF when they smell stuff... VERY VERY hard to keep them in check...

did i mention they are also escape artists?
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no joke... they are seriously escape artists...

 

[greenmatter]

i would personally never get a beagle....

they are cute and all that, but they are extremely hard to make tame.. their noses are their brains and they just TAKE OFF when they smell stuff... VERY VERY hard to keep them in check...

did i mention they are also escape artists?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2iQUomByi8

no joke... they are seriously escape artists...

LOL great video ...... i wonder how long it took the owner to figure out how the hell the dog kept getting out

 

[LiLWaynE]

LOL great video ...... i wonder how long it took the owner to figure out how the hell the dog kept getting out

good question.

 

[paladin420]

good question.

The really 'smart' ones break back in in time for dinner....

 

[Strainhunter]

LOL great video ...... i wonder how long it took the owner to figure out how the hell the dog kept getting out

'till he had that cam up to film it!?

 

[Strainhunter]

OP see if you find a suitable dog on www.Petfinder.com

Maybe there's a place where you live doing adoptions w/o mandatory home visits.

 

[Stoner4Life]

I've had so many roadblocks in my efforts to adopt that I'm taking it as a sign from above to wait awhile longer, of course if the right opportunity presents itself in the near future I'll consider it kismet and follow that route.......

 

[supermanlives]

took me a while. one day i opened this magazine and it opened to an add for GS pups. jumped in car and got the pup and hour later

 

[Harry Gypsna]

I bought my Weim, been with us a year this month.
I did look into the Weim rescues, but I had no chance as Im not a country squire with acres of 8 foot fence surrounded land paid for outright. I understand the need to be strict, but surely an "adequate" home is better than spending years in kennels waiting for the "ideal".
Once my guy is castrated, Ill be going to the Dogs Trust to get a sturdy , but smaller playmate for him.
You will probably have better luck with local mixed shelters as opposed to breed specifics regarding the strictness, but I know how it is when you have a breed in mind-nothing was going to stop me being a Weimaraner Butler.
Also do look in the normal places where people advertise pups, as when I bought my guy, there were lots of dogs being advertised free to a good home or for cheap, usually under a year old-usually by totally naive owners who didnt grasp what they were getting into.

 

[supermanlives]

weims are great dogs . my last buisness partner had one .

 

[Kitana]

Pups are good route ,but if u have the time rescue is better.Thats if u have the time to work with the new dog

 

[SeaMaiden]

You can find puppies in the shelter, too. I rescued my Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, Hazel, when she was 6mo. She'd been turned in to the shelter TWICE, and labeled as an untrainable dog. One of the complaints was that she moaned at the entryways. Well, I got her home and let me tell you, it wasn't that she's untrainable, it's that she's too fucking smart! That was back in '05 and my old dog has been gone a couple of years now and I would dearly love to have a friend for Hazel to play with. We have just over an acre, far from traffic, but no fenced area. There *is* no fence that can keep Hazel unless we're talking concrete block sitting on concrete. So I use a radio (shock) collar and it works just fine, she knows the boundaries.

We used to have a beagle mix and she was a great little dog, even if she did have some odd habits. She was a great mouser/ratter, and ever time I saw her with a rat, she'd also have an avocado (homeland of the original Haas avocado) and she'd take a bite out of the rat, then a bite of the avocado. Bite o' rat, bite o' 'cado. Weird dog.

My precious little Kayla passed away last January and I still have her daughter Alice. Ali's getting a bit slow and so I figured I'd add to our family and get her a playmate, a rescue dog seemed the right way to go.


Dog #1 ~ a purebred beagle, I didn't qualify because I lacked a fenced in yard, that would go for all the dogs in their inventory as well.

Dog #2 ~ a beagle mix, the morning I was going to make the 400 mile round trip run to pick up this dog they spring a surprise home inspection on me by their local representative. to get to the area she needed to see I would have walked her right through my grow, I had to refuse her entry and they canceled the adoption.

Dog #3 ~ another beagle mix, I waited 2 days to hear back from them after completing the application for this particular dog but they claimed she was already spoken for. Likely just bad timing on my part.



I'm avoiding buying a puppy as my 9 yr old Alice would probably benefit from a dog w/more mature behavior instead of suddenly having a puppy chewing on her & in her face non-stop.

Now I'm wondering if a puppy isn't the best idea for us, I won't potentially be inheriting someone else's 'bad dog' issues.

As I look through the other ads a home visit is required by many & that just ain't happenin'; I can visit an out of state facility but we're talking 300-350 miles each way.

btw, the rescue dogs were priced @ $200 & $280 and the adoption fee for dog #3 went undisclosed to me.


I can buy a puppy locally from the same breeder that Kayla came from for $300.


what do you guys think I should do?

buy or continue on what seems to be an unrewarding path so far.......

That's about as bad as when I wanted to find a rescue kitty for my father-in-law after we had to put his (decades old) cat down. I literally had one outfit ask me for our tax returns! For a fucking CAT! For a fucking non-pedigreed, non-papered cat! I said fuck that noise, and found some folks with feral kittens, took the calmest one. She is now named PsychoKitty and she lets our (neutered, she's also desexed) friendly cat have sex with her in exchange for lizards. He catches the lizards and she lets him screw her for them. She'll let you touch her as long as you don't LOOK at her. Thusly, PsychoKitty.

In any event, how about the local SPCA shelter? You just tell them what they want to hear, pay the fee (usually under $100, and where I live it's now less because so many animals are in the shelter now) and you're on your way.

On one hand I understand that they want to be careful about placement, on the other hand, good Christ, why make it so difficult for someone to open up their home to an unwanted animal?????