Was Your Dog a Rescue?

frillint · 07-12-2009, 04:20 PM

My dog smokey was a rescue and my guinea pig was a rescue

bigblackdogs · 07-12-2009, 11:47 PM

my 1st dog Comet (RIP) was a rescue of sorts. we got him as a 2 year old from my aunt because she was going to put him in the pound. I loved that dog. he died just this january. he was a GSD/border collie mix.

my GSD puppy, Jazz, we got from the local shelter. she broke her shoulder less than one month later, and cost us $3,000 in surgery. she is finally recovering from that. she is 5 months old now. her estimated DOB is 2/3/2009 she is so cute, and I love her. I wouldn't trade her for the world.
this is her "evil eye" look

Charis · 07-13-2009, 03:06 PM

I have 3 animals I rescued. My miniature australian shephard was at our local pound and would have been put down the day after we adopted her. She had so many ticks that they would fall off of her when she walked. I counted 35 on the floor within a day of her being home (the number has since risen). She also has tracheobronchitis and with the vet's help we are battling both. (poor thing gets so excited to see you and then ends up almost hacking up a lung from coughing so hard) They knew nothing about her past except that she was picked up in the other county. Misty our siberian husky was a problem dog that animal control picked up. She was microchipped and they contacted her owners but they wouldn't take her back. She had an extension placed on her so luckly was not put down before we found her! Our cat was born to a feral cat out on my parent's farm. She's only a rescue because living indoors with us she doesn't get hit by cars, posioned, covered in fleas and ticks, starved and whatever else feral cats go through. (in fact she is spoiled rotten :P) Our labrador was adopted from an ad in the paper. I have no idea what would have happened to him otherwise.

JediRach · 07-13-2009, 03:26 PM

Cooper is from the Central San Diego animal shelter and Scout we got from someone who was going to take her to the pound so we consider them both rescues.

MelanieElizabeth · 07-13-2009, 03:49 PM

Toby isn't a rescue. He's a craigslist doggie. The owners didn't have anytime for him due to both needing to work but would have kept him instead of taking him to a shelter. He would have lived 10 hours a day in a crate! He's a 18 month old yellow lab, that is no life for him!!

Anamarea · 07-14-2009, 01:31 PM

I consider my pup a rescue. I found him on our Alaska type of "craigs list" for sale, from a horrible lady that I believe stole him to sell for drug money. (It is a small town, you find these things out eventually)

She had on her add that she needed to get rid of them (she had 2 different breeds of puppies) by the end of the day or she was releasing to a pound.

A little before this time, I had been talking to a breeder about adopting one of her Pom-chi puppies. Long story short, she sold the puppy that I was waiting patiently for and had reserved for 5 weeks, with constant updates of his pics and schedule

So, I was heartbroken. (I tell you this to show that we have been wanting a dog for a long time, I didn't just suddenly make the decision to look at the classifies and pick one)

So then I found her add, and he was so adorable I called her about 5 mins. after she posted. Dogs do not last long in pounds here.

He was in horrible condition (underfed and unwashed, maybe never) So nervous and scared he drooled in streams... which, he always seemed to do with her she said... but with me it soon went away.

Ok, well, this post is too long, the topic isn't "Write a novel about your rescue dog" LOL

Foyerhawk · 07-14-2009, 01:35 PM

I've had and fostered MANY rescued dogs

My Whippet is from a reputable show breeder.

I have several rescued snakes.

Indy · 07-15-2009, 11:13 AM

We got our Indy from a shelter in northern Minnesota.

She was picked up as a stray with her sister and dropped off a police officer's house. He cared for them for a short time but already had two dogs and three human kids of his own so he surrendered them to the shelter.

The shelter said both dogs were adopted quickly, but our puppy was brought back by the people that originally adopted her. The shelter allows a two week grace period to bring the dog back no questions asked.

We've had her just a short time but can't believe anyone could have spent time with her and not absolutely fallen in love. She is so sweet and smart! She's great with kids and is a super fast learner. We're so glad we could give her a forever home!

MoonStr80 · 07-17-2009, 12:06 AM

Two of my dogs are rescues

A family had return a family dog they didn't know was preganat so the dog and box of litter was sent to a pound then tne no-kill animal shelter had rescue the momma dog along with her puppies. That's how I got Johnnie

Frankie was rescued from puppy mill and the rest is history

ipreferpi · 07-21-2009, 01:40 AM

My dog Scott was a rescue from the Humane Society. His surrender papers said he was not house broken, destructive, and dog aggressive. Thankfully he turned out to have none of those problems, and has been a wonderful dog (though I wonder what his previous owners were doing to have that behavior occur...) I think it's equally valid to say he rescued me though.

nekomi · 07-21-2009, 09:05 AM

All three of my dogs were rescues - Willow came from a private rescue, Bandit came from a "humane society" type shelter, and Jasper was pulled from a pound the day before he was scheduled to be euthanized.

All the cats, except Shade, are rescues - Ghost was a stray that I took in when I found her hanging out in the middle of the street. Big Boy, Frosty, and Starlet were feral kitten siblings whose mother was hit by a car as I was walking down the sidewalk.

Also, there is Yuki whom I fostered, and Lily (cat) whom I'm currently fostering.

I don't have anything against buying from a breeder, and I always say my next dog will be a breeder's puppy, but I keep rescuing instead.

Jenwards · 07-22-2009, 12:14 PM

I just adopted a rescue puppy brought into our local shelter from rescue wagon, which is a service that brings unclaimed stray dogs from high-kill shelters to humane societies with more room... the shelter called her Eve temporarily, but since she didn't respond to that name, I renamed her Riley. They think she is about 8 months old, and she is a german shepherd mixed with a smaller breed dog, because she is only about 30 pounds. She's very skinny, doesn't eat much (yet- I'm hoping she will once she is more comfortable. I've had her a week), and she is very timid but also very sweet. I don't know where she came from or who would let her go, but she is wonderful!

Andrea · 07-24-2009, 08:46 PM

Yes, I joined a rescue and became a foster home. My first foster dog was Buddy. We eventually adopted him.

They said he had a small eye problem. When I picked him up from the transport, we met on the side of the road, he had a eye ball hanging out of its socket. He had been like that for months.

The owners gave him up because the German Shepards were beating him up, biting him, etc. They left Buddy outside 24/7. It was awful. We had him looked at by an emergency vet. They didnt do anything....they said he had been like that for months and was blind in the other eye. Of course it was a holiday weekend. My vet saw him on Tuesday and removed the eye on Wednesday.

I remember they wanted me to come hold him after the surgery. I was like what, I dont even know this dog. I held him, he rested his head on my chest and I was gone. That was it. Often I would sit at the computer and he would snuggle in the crook of my neck. Just sit there. And he weighed a good 25lbs....

There were many other rescue dogs after him. Most were biters, which sucked. Then my last rescue was Lance. He came as one of the biters left to a forever home. When the dog bit the new owner and I asked him to be placed in a new home, the rescue got mad at me. Then my son was around 11 and this particular dog bit him everytime he moved.

So we started with Buddy and ended with Lance. A very, very sweet Terrier mix.

I also have Cookie, a cancer survivor (19 sessions of radiation treatment at Tufts University in MA), Ginger, a motherly type, and Oreo an eplieptic dog who had to have an eye removed due to injury from a series of grand mall seizures.

Saddly Buddy pasted away on July 19, 2009 from Congestive Heart Failure. He is so so saddly missed.

vmf1313 · 07-25-2009, 04:22 PM

Our pit-mix Chico was definitely a rescue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arqEBn3a-Ww

TD111 · 07-25-2009, 04:43 PM

Onyx is a rescue and I couldn't have asked for a better dog. 17 weeks now.

Pepper · 07-25-2009, 04:49 PM

Yes, both my dogs are rescues, two of my rats are rescues, and my African Fat Tailed Gecko is a rescue

StellaKin · 07-25-2009, 05:14 PM

Stella is a rescue puppy. We got her from Wright-Way Rescue in Niles, IL. She came from Kentucky with her brothers and sisters. We got her at 8 weeks old. She is now 14.5 weeks old.

.308 · 07-27-2009, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Inga

The shelter got a new director around that time and changed the adoption policy to adopt to anyone that comes through the door regardless of their record.

I sincerely hope the shelter has another director. I'm guessing no medical follow up as well for the animal?

Two rescue dogs own us. One I found as a puppy at a gas station which I thought was dead in a hot southern summer, and another one whose owner had lied about "finding" her tied to a chain and then "dumping" her on us at our vets office. Two more have been with us in foster care now for over two years, and they sure feel like ours

WOMAN2000 · 07-30-2009, 06:02 PM

My hubby rescued "Sheila" from the middle of the road. She apearded to have been hit by a car. He brought her home, I tended to her torn up pads and that seemed to be her only injury. When I could coax her into walking, she walked stiff legged. She saw my vet two days later and he said she was in good health (she started walking normal the night before). She is 9 months to 1 year old. We own a Jack Russel mix and a Lab and Greyhound mix. My first two dogs are tollerating Sheila and they are letting her know her rank in the pack.

We are going to keep her. Sheila is absolutely precious. The only problem I am having with her is she likes to bolt thru an open door and take off. The first time she came back in several hours and today she bolted for 20 min and the we saw her going to our side gate. I need help in breaking her from running Help me please if anyone can.

.308 · 07-30-2009, 06:33 PM

Woman

Invest in a "shock collar" that has an audible sound as well as a "negative stimulous repsonse".

Use the collar only as negative reinforcement at the time the bad behavior occured.

I've found usually after one "zap", the sound on the collar will suffice instead of "electro shock therapy".