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Cookie gets a new home

After visiting several shelters around Columbus trying to match a new family member with existing family members and calling the various rescue groups, I had given up the search for awhile. I can't believe what is expected of a person trying to rescue an unwanted dog these days. It is truly easier and sometimes more cost effective to just purchase a new puppy from a breeder. But I did't want to add to the overpopulation problem. Still, the thought of a long drawn out application process, including sometimes two home visits and a rehoming fee that was sometimes just ludicrous was not appealing either. Did I mention, all this trouble is to take an unwanted dog off of somebody's hands...Geesh. I know, I know, they don't want them back and they don't want them used in any dog fighting practice, but there has to be a happy medium.

Anyhoo, I decided that during our weekend visit back to my adopted hometown of Wooster,OH that I would stop by the Wayne County Humane Society for a peek at their pooches. We had recently lost our last WCHS dog last February to what appeared to be tainted dog food problems. Their adoption procedures were much relaxed compared to C-bus. The family decided on a new family member and I will be making the drive up tomorrow to pick her up and bring her home.

Posted by Delete My Account please on 12/17/2007 10:23 PM

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9 Comments on Cookie gets a new home

DEC

2007

Congratulations! As an animal lover myself, I can appreciate the frustration you have gone through. On the flip side, we have two cats we rescued, one from the "wild", a neutered black cat who had been living as a stray, and another 13 year old cat a family could not keep due to a foreclosure. They were both essentially destined for euthanasia due to unadoptablility. They are both amazingly gentle animals, the old female more spry than our third cat, a 6 year old male, and the "wild cat" crawls under the covers with our daughter on cold nights - he is so unsociable! ;) Sometimes common sense just needs to prevail.

Cookie is a cutie, and how wonderful to have a new home and family for Christmas!

I have heard of some challening adoption policies, though never experinced them myself at either the Pasadena Humane Society or the King County Animal Shelter where I adopted older cats.

Congratulations ... A great book for the holiday is Rescuing Sprite ... it is a fantastic story of how a rescued dog changed a families life.

I do agree that some of the hops you must jump through are tough ... but I think the biggest fear of a shelter is taking a dog that is eventually brought back, it does not do the dog any good.

My wife and I were told we were unfit to adopt a dog by the local humane society four years ago because we didn't have a fenced yard. It didn't matter that we lived in a townhome community on the side of a mountain with 30 miles of walking trails. We eventually did adopt a dog. Shortly after doing so, the dog's owner's sister sent us an e-mail asking for money. It turns out, our dog's original owner was in jail for animal neglect. We're now expecting our first child and my wife jokingly reminded me of the whole ordeal when she realized it was easier to have a baby than rescue a dog. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

DEC

2007

things must have tightened up in Columbus. I remember adopting from CAHS as painless and reasonably priced.

What kind of dog is Cookie? How old?

Thanks for the feedback all.

Maureen, yes I visited CAHS. They had no dogs that fit the profile we needed.(short haired and fairly small.) and I still couldn't believe the price they would want for a purebred boston terrier pup they had on old was $300+. At Wayne county you pay a flat $95 and can take the dog home immediately.

Oh and Cookie is about 7-10 lbs and is about 3 mo's. She is supposedly a boxer mix, but the only boxer I could see was her brindle markings on her back.

I know CAHS adoption costs went up just after we adopted a cat a couple of years ago, I wonder if they are competitive with the cat shelters in Powell and Clintonville. I think I adopted Buddy for about $ 80 to $95 but that was probably 8 years ago.

It is always hard to find a dog that is NOT huge at a shelter. Buddy was being adopted by someone when I saw him but I put in a "back up contract" on him and when the first deal fell through he was mine. Someone had already put in another "back up" offer on him in case I failed to close on the deal.

David, at risk of hijacking a blog here, as I read about recently, I have to agree with you. I know a private shelter in Ann Arbor, not the Humane Society (they do great work and are expanding tremendously shortly - we love our animals more than people in A2...) who scrutinize everyone who wants to adopt one of their animals. No one is good enough or the animal can't go. After I lost a cat to the pet food crisis last January, I was out looking and the shy cat I wanted from there was not really available. I think she would have done better with me than in a facility, very well run but cinder block with no windows, that was housing about 160 cats at the time! Animal warehousing, animal hoarding, I'm thinking. I'll turn to the Humane Society from now on. They seem to want their animals adopted out, if at all possible, no matter the age or limitations. I MUST put volunteering there on my "to do" list for 2008.

OCT

2008

I'm trying to adopt a dog and it is nearly impossible. Many 'rescues' would rather put a dog/cat back in a bad situation rather than adopt it out. Adoption fees???? How about $700 for a dog over 6 years old?! For $900 one can buy a puppy from a breeder. I'm glad to hear a success story about adopting a pet.

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