Hello! I’ve seen many posts like this before. I’m so fed up. I’m 21, my mother is 49, and my father is 48 for reference. My family and I are looking for a dog to be a playmate for our German shepherd. We own 2 older dogs - a chihuahua and chihuahua mix - that aren’t into romping around the backyard anymore. We also have 2 cats that just stare at the German shepherd, waiting for her to get up from a nap so they can try to groom her and play with her.
We have a good sized fenced in yard and good vet references. They also required 3 non-family references, which made me a bit uncomfortable. I don’t really bring people into our home that often, only family, so they can’t really attest to how we treat our pets. I was able to put down my best friend of 12 years, her mom, and another close friend of the family that know us all well. I made sure to include that my mother was filling out the application with me (she’s not very tech-savvy so I saved her the trouble by doing it on my computer) because I know some rescues/shelters won’t adopt to anyone under 25.
The biggest problem I have with this process isn’t the home check. They can come see our house if they want or request pictures. It’s that like 75% of these rescues/shelters require us to bring our dogs (and some require the cats too) to the shelter to meet the dog.
Like, what?? I’m not going to stress my older dogs out by loading them in the car (they both get sick during car rides) then dumping them into a room at a rescue/shelter with a bunch of strange smells and scary sounds and expect them to interact with the puppy as they would at home. They’re going to freak out and hide in a corner or growl at the dog because they’re scared. Wouldn’t it be better to bring the puppy to my house to see how my animals react? I don’t even want to think about how my cats would react with dogs barking around them and then placing them in a room with no escape from a puppy.
I received a call back from a few rescues and they mentioned me bringing my dogs and cats there. I told them that was absurd, my smaller dogs and cats are going to be beyond stressed. I told them the shepherd would be fine with it - she loves car rides. But, not my other pets. They told me I wasn’t a good fit and hung up.
I feel like this a really weird requirement. We don’t have many shelters in the area, mostly rescues, and the only shelter that contacted me back told me I had to at least bring my dogs for a meeting.
Forgetting about the 7 page adoption application, why are rescues making it so hard to adopt dogs? I understand they want them to go to a good home, but a vet/home check and seeing how my dogs interact with each other should be enough. I shouldn’t have to haul everyone there and pray that my little dogs/cats don’t freak out.
What can I do to get around this? I’m on the east coast. I heard some shelters in Texas will ship puppies up, but it feels weird adopting a dog without meeting it first. Is it worth it?
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