I have never had to choose a dog. The first belonged to an old lady who was too ill to look after her. The second we just rang a re homing centre, told them we like Border Collies and they had just had one brought in, we went to see him and fell in love. The third one was saved from being PTS by the vet nurse who is the daughter of the owner of the livery yard where I kept my pony at the time.
We have decided we need a dog in our lives. We went to the 'local' re homing centre 30 minute drive away. I was expecting to see lots of dogs and having to pick one of them which would be difficult.
However, most of the dogs had been reserved, some were unsuitable (not good with other animals, need to wear muzzle at all time, too big etc) of the 50 plus dogs in there there we three that were suitable.
Lola was a collie/ lab cross ( like the one we had just lost) but she had just that morning been reserved.
Zilda (!!!!) a 7 month old border collie couldn't be re homed for another week as she was a stray and they allow 4 weeks for the owner to claim. We then found out that one of the staff was taking her anyway. Then we saw Max. A staffie, 4 years old and in the centre for 3 years. We asked about him, but decided against him as he had issues which explained why he hadn't managed to find a home. Feel so sorry for him though.
We were told that we need to go in very regularly to even stand a chance of getting a dog, the turnaround is so fast. We were told about one who will be up for re homing next week, a small German shepherd type. Need to ring back on Friday once they have had time to assess his behaviour and see if/ what issues he has.
Didn't think it would be this hard.
We have decided we need a dog in our lives. We went to the 'local' re homing centre 30 minute drive away. I was expecting to see lots of dogs and having to pick one of them which would be difficult.
However, most of the dogs had been reserved, some were unsuitable (not good with other animals, need to wear muzzle at all time, too big etc) of the 50 plus dogs in there there we three that were suitable.
Lola was a collie/ lab cross ( like the one we had just lost) but she had just that morning been reserved.
Zilda (!!!!) a 7 month old border collie couldn't be re homed for another week as she was a stray and they allow 4 weeks for the owner to claim. We then found out that one of the staff was taking her anyway. Then we saw Max. A staffie, 4 years old and in the centre for 3 years. We asked about him, but decided against him as he had issues which explained why he hadn't managed to find a home. Feel so sorry for him though.
We were told that we need to go in very regularly to even stand a chance of getting a dog, the turnaround is so fast. We were told about one who will be up for re homing next week, a small German shepherd type. Need to ring back on Friday once they have had time to assess his behaviour and see if/ what issues he has.
Didn't think it would be this hard.