Rehoming Fees are a filthy practice, grossly unethical, and people who extract them should be shamed for doing so. Should be restricted from having animals in their home period.
First, and really this is as far as most of you need to go. Ask yourself this question: Are dogs people? If you think "it's only a dog" then leave. I won't convince you and really this message isn't for someone like you. Enjoy the rest of your day.
So, if you're still here this means you believe dogs are people. Well, friend, you don't buy people and you sure as shit don't sell them. But dogs are expensive! So? So what? You have no right to a fee of any sort or kind. None. Absolutely none. You knew that your puppy would be expensive when you invited him into your home just like you don't get reimbursed for taking care of your own child.
More importantly the fee you extract for your own benefit reduces the resources those in the puppy's new home have to care for that puppy.
"Well I charge a rehoming fee because I want to make sure the dogs aren't being used for dog fights." Bullshit. You charge a rehoming fee because it puts money in your pocket.
Don't believe me? Here, has it ever ONCE occurred to you that maybe instead of charging a fee to prevent dog fighting you... required a donation be made from those in the puppy's new home be paid towards a local animal shelter? Instead of you pocketing $200.00, your local animal shelter gets to increase a dog's kibble ration.
No? Never? Not once? Never once occurred to you to not put the money in your pocket? Because if enough people did it donating those rehoming fees would dramatically increase the health and well being of animals in those shelters.
"I'm a shelter!". No, no you're not. On your best day you MIGHT be a volunteer but truth is pretty much everyone reading this that sells family members for cash has more in common with a horror show puppy mill than an animal shelter. NOT ME! Yes, you. Especially you.
If you have ever once *charged someone money for possession of a family member* you're a terrible person.
And you're all pissed off and all upset but that just means you never really thought of your friend as a person but as an ornament. Property. You can't be friends with your property. Can you *love* someone you're willing to trade for a Starbucks gift card? I think not.
There is, quite literally, no justification for "rehoming fees". It's selling people.
But people adopt out children all the time! Sure, maybe, BUT PARENTS DON'T SELL THEIR KIDS TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH and then tell themselves how ethical they are. You would, rightfully, think of such a person as a monster.
BUT SHELTERS CHAR... Because a Shelter isn't a home, and a shelter isn't a family. A shelter has more in common with a hotel with medical care on the best of days or a literal prison on its worst. If *you and your literal family* are the only people that puppy sees on a daily basis that puppy will think of you as their family and it's indescribably cruel to sell that puppy for cash.
Literally, you can do EVERY SINGLE THING YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW... and do so ETHICALLY.. if any funds you'd receive as a rehoming fee is instead made into a donation for a shelter. Literally nothing you do has to change. Sure, might be a bit more expensive on your end but nobody said being good was easy.
But my guess is you're coming up with excuses and justifications and rationales as to why it's okay for you to sell people. Why your way is really the best way. Why you only do what you do *because you get reimbursed for it* and just couldn't manage it if you didn't.
Well you know who *could* manage it if you didn't? Your local shelter. Especially if they're getting an influx of thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to look after those future family members.
But but BUT... UM... UH...
You know what else would be shut down? Dog Fighting. Why? Because if everyone had to be linked to the animal shelter financially it'd be a HELL of a lot easier to catch them.
Look, if you want to pad your cash flow with "rehoming fees" I can't stop you, it's always been legal to sell people somewhere. I'm just saying you should at least have the courage to acknowledge what you are and what you're willing to do for a buck.
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