Prices of rescue dogs...

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Is there any logic behind them? I'm fully aware that they need to make money to keep rescuing dogs, vets bills, feed etc BUT... Mum has just gone to see a rescue dog and they wanted £180 adoption fee plus a £20 donation
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So for £200 Mum could have walked away with a dog of unknown temperement, no idea how it reacts to other dogs, cat, people etc and no house training when for the same money you can buy a pedegree or pegedree cross dog where you can meet the parents and see them in a family setting
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I know Many Tears want about £140 for a dog which still seems a little steep (although I feel very stingy for saying that - I know they do excellent work and need the funds)....

What is the 'accepted price' for rescue dogs these days? Do you think I'm being unreasonable saying £200 is too much?
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We paid £100 i think for Bes. I think it is a combination of the fact they are charities and also they only want people who are serious about taking on a dog for life. I would happily pay £200.
 
I gave an £100 donation for my last rescue greyhound - maybe the charity are trying to stop people adopting the dogs unless they are really serious???

Pedigree dogs seem to go for silly money nowadays, so £200 is maybe not that bad
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I prob wouldn't have minded so much but they have no knowledge of these dogs at all - they really don't know about reactions to other people, dogs etc. At least places like Many Tears find that out before rehoming....

There are dogs in the local paper for £200 - £300 for pedegree and pegedree x dogs... The silly thing is Mum found the perfect dog for them but it was deaf and because they live within so many yards of a road they couldn't have it, even though it's a tiny lane and their garden is very, very secure
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Now that is really stupid, rescue places seem to be so black and white with their rules
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At least the greyhound people come and home check you so they can see the situation for themselves
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And they also do the proper stuff about matching the dog to the people really well
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I am sure your mum is already looking elsewhere, but I wouldnt bother with that place again
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We paid £50 for a patterdale from Gerry Green. We have had him quite a few years now.
£200 does sound a lot to me.
We tok Dennis as it was obvious he did not have a good temperemant and lots wrong. I thought no-one else would have him
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He is the first dog i have paid for. We had an Alsation and a two Jack russels at the time. My eldest daughter was 'owned' the younger jack russel and my youngest daughter decided wanted a dog of her own.
Hector was ancient and we said perhaps when Hector is no longer here. Well every morning she got up and asked "Is Hector dead yet?" Poor old Ecky trumps.
We decided to look into getting her one as it would not seem like we were replaceing Hector when he did pass on - 4 years later!
Dennis is the most expensive dog we have ever had. Always at the vets with something. The ones that have been pickled up off the streets have never had problems. I am wondering if that is why he ended up there. He is lovely though. He enjoys going to the vets and runs in - to see if there are any cats he can torement the naughty boy.
 
where i got my rescue dog they were very strick, we visted her for 2 months while she was spayed and they did a home check before they said yes, and another one to check we had made changes.

we then paid 120quid for her and they came round for another check to see she had settled in!
 
We charge £85 for our rescues both pedigree and non pedigree....we are pretty low in our area for donation and all ours are
vaxed
chipped
neutered
insured at time of adoption...this costs well over £200 to administer, then we have to home check on top of that, we also match dogs to homes and don't allow adoptees to just pick what they like, the home, people and environment has to be suitable for dogs needs.
I suppose if you look at the fact that a responsible owner would or should vax, chip, neuter it would cost well over the donation fee anyway.....but we like to keep ours as low as we possibly can.
 
Whippet that my mother in law got a few months back cost £200 he had only been in a few days and previous owner had him chipped,vacc and neutered so kennels had to pay for nothing. They would not budge on the price so paid it i would not of wanted to keep any dog at that kennels
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Whippet that my mother in law got a few months back cost £200 he had only been in a few days and previous owner had him chipped,vacc and neutered so kennels had to pay for nothing. They would not budge on the price so paid it i would not of wanted to keep any dog at that kennels
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t for ever dog that costs next to nothing and is rehomed fast there is at least one more tht costs hundreds to get right.

I think £200 sounds about right tbh,steep enough to stop people picking up a dog on a whim but not too high if you do really want a rescue.
OFC there are still people like Cala who are very low,but most seem to be trying to get as much back as they can when the dog is rehomed( fair enough IMO).
 
I personally wouldnt want to pay that much, when as its been said, you dont know really what you are getting
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Poor dogs, they probably have to stay in the homes for longer waiting for people who dont mind paying, therefore costing the home more in the long run
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Yep...you are right anima....for everyone thats goes out in no time there is always those long termers that have to be funded for
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And the ones who cant be rehomed for whatever reason and have to stay with the rescue for life.
Donations only go so far and running a rescue is always going to need more money then you have.

Sadly,answer will only come if people stop breeding dogs for the sake of it.
Was shocked last week to hear one of R's nursery teachers say they had a litter from their (nice but very run of the mill) bitch because the children wanted to so what its like to have puppies
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Fine for the first few weeks,but wonder how many ended up in a rescue?
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I know it's sort of irrelevant but our local no-kill charges between $150-$200, depending on the age of the dog and whether it's a purebreed or not. To be honest, they are a well-funded organisation with lots of celebrity backers, so they don't charge a great deal for the dog, but the do rigorous checks--vet refs, landlord refs, home check--before a dog gets adopted.

Things tend to be more expensive with breed rescues. French Bulldogs, for example, which cost $2500 as pups, go for $400-$500.
 
The place I got my current dog (Last Chance in Edenbridge) charged £100. For that he was wormed, neutered, chipped, first jab and insured for 6 weeks. To be honest I think that was far too little to pay and sent them another £50. They have a no destruction policy and therefore have quite a few long termers to fund, let alone the frequent trips to Wales to collect dogs with destruction dates.

Not only did I want to give this little fella a home, I also wanted to give something to the actual charity.

They did a home check before we collected him and two weeks after that and then another at three months.

I think they try really hard and hats off to them.
 
If you get a puppy you have the costs of microchipping vaccinations and neutering, all of which are way more than £200. And they have to sometimes cover fuel costs etc for home checks - initial and maybe follow-up.

Temperament is probably easier to see in an older dog from a rescue than in a puppy. Many rescue dogs are housetrained aready although some may forget a bit in kennels.

Also bear in mind health issues, we had a pedigree pup and £000s of vet bills within 6 mths due to various conditions, so next time we got an 18mth old rescue dog so at least those early onset health problems were ruled out!

The Mayhew in London where we got our Doberman boy charged (about 2 years ago) £90 ish which I think was very good indeed.

The danger of rescue fees heading over the £200 mark is that peeps may be tempted to go for a pup instead, but the downside of that is that it is encouraging dog breeders to breed more litters; there are too many already.
 
Hmm maybe it is about average then.

To the people who PM'd me
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- they are NOT looking for a cheap puppy - they are looking for an older dog (5 yrs +).
 
I paid £100 for my rescue Yorkie. He had received treatment and care costing well in excess of that so I did a bit of fundraising and sent a further donation later.

I think £100 is fair, and anything else should be voluntary, or there is a risk of putting genuine people off offering a nice home to a dog in need.
 
I know its different since its a cat but we got our cat 4 years ago from a rescue. they didn't have any space for him so we got a call asking if we wanted him. they gave me a cat carrier, litter tray, bowls, food and some litter and only asked for £20 donation - they said it was usually £30 but since he was old £20 would be fine
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He came with a list of likes and dislikes from his previous owners and off we went with our new cat in the back of the car. I wouldn't part with him for any money - best £20 I have ever spent - he is beautiful.
 
Going rate with rescues is about £100 for a dog.

Bear in mind the costs of looking after these dogs plus any vet bills. They then come chipped and spyed/castrated so really they are not ripping people off.

Most castrations are in excess of £130 these days
 
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I personally wouldnt want to pay that much, when as its been said, you dont know really what you are getting
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I don't think that is totally true - this is the information about Bes before we got her

http://www.lurcherlink.org/llink/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15039&highlight=bessie

I don't think you'd get that from a private home.

Also you can see how long she was up for rehoming, i'm guessing the £100 we paid didn't cover that time
 
£200 is way too much and as for putting people off I think that is just not applicable, some people totally unsuitable for a dog will go and pay a lot of money for a pedigree and end up binning it because they cannot cope, ergo the two examples below!

It cost me a lot of time and effort and money at dog training to undo all the damage done by people with money to burn, surely it is the quality of a home and it's suitability to help that particular dog that counts not how much money they can or cant stump up.

Personally I would rather give a dog to people without money to burn that will be best for that dog than send them away because they can't afford £200 for an unknown quantity.

I've seen dogs with people living rough in better condition and with a happier outlook and life than some owned by very rich people.
 
I'd pay £200 on the principle that I'd rather give a rescue my money than a breeder, and I like the idea that you don't always know what you're getting. Who wants a boring predictable well behaved dog!

I paid £100 and £125 for my Many Tears dogs, but had to neuter them both myself because of health problems they had when rescued, and £125 I think for my Bristol RSPCA dog. And I couldn't have spent my money better anywhere else as my dogs are all delicious
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But you still dont really know...... these dogs have historys that we cannot know about..... what about the people who are sick of their yappy, snappy dog, but dont tell the truth when handing the dog in.

Just like horses, dogs take a while to aclimatise to a new home and then they can start pushing the boundaries and throwing their weight around.

I am sure that the homes do a good job of assessing these dogs but they can never know the history of every dog they rehome.

That said they do a wonderful job and Your dog, Bessie looks lovely
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Thank you, Bes was picked up as a stray about a year before we got her. she was in two foster homes so they got to know her quite well. To be honest she could have been a nightmare and me and my OH would have still been happy. we wanted a dog for ages but had to wait for our own place together. we didn't view her before we took her on, we decided she was the one (because she was one of the longest to be there), we got home checked and then we went to pick her up. we didn't want anything but a rescue and were prepared to do training and take advice on any problems we encountered. She's been very rewarding. Also we couldn't have had a puppy so there was always a risk of sorting out issues. I think the best bit from getting a rescue is the support from her fosterer's and the rescue place itself, we wouldn't have got that with a pedigree i don't think. Also the reward of seeing them improve and build trust. bes didn't like being touched around her bum when we got her, she loves being stroked anywhere now. Dom would put his tail between his legs if you approached too quickly/made sharp movements, he's not scarred anymore - it's a great feeling that we've built that trust. We have no clue about Bes's history which is a shame but we got Dom straight from his owner so we know that the owners son had started kicking Dom so it made it easier to deal with his nervousness.
 
IMO I think that £200 is a bit too much....however, on the other end of the scale;

My whippet X *insert breed here* cost £50 from a rescue that was very poorly run.

They knew nothing about him, not even the very basics...I wasn't expecting to be told his preferred thread count for bedding and his views on classical music...but they couldn't tell me anything. They had nicknamed him 'fugly' and explained that no-one wanted him as he was too large to pull off the 'so ugly he's cute' thing, too small to be of any use as a yard dog and too 'wiry' to be a pet....

Well....how could I leave him?!

I managed to find out if he was good with cats as they led him 'round to the cattery part that they ran and gauged his reaction....

He wasn't neutered, nor was it stipulated that he must be. They wanted no proof of ID/address, no homecheck, they didn;t even ask where he would live...for all they know he could have been left alone in a crate 23 hours of the day.

We had so many problems with him, he was very dominant, attacked your feet and if he managed to get you on the floor he would bite, he'd jump on the table of kitchen worktop and just wait for you, then stare you out....just daring you to touch him or make him move. We spent a fortune on experts etc....training, and never did get him out of legging it down the road as soon as the door opened, despite passing recall tests at training with flying colours!

I personally would rather have spent more and known what I was taking on...
 
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