puppy taken back

[mischa]

im really upset and had to tell someone, one of my clients daughters got a 6month old collie from battersea dogs home the puppy cried all night for the first two nights and howled everytime they went out they even came back one day and found her sitting on the cooker I suggested they get a dog cage and place her in there when they went out and at night with some fluffy toys and gave her time to settle, they said they were going to take her back

I said that I would have her and she could live with my lab and springer farm walks every day and lots of love, I gave them my numbers and told them to ring me but they did t and they took her back to the home, poor little girl.

 

[Tia]

Well they would have to give her back wouldn't they? Isnt' Battersea an adoption centre? Therefore they own the dogs.

Why don't you go to Battersea and adopt the dog yourself?

 

[mischa]

I don t think its adoption as such when they went to choose the dog they said that they could take her there and then they did t even check were she was going and they paid for her so I don t call that a adoption. ive had two dogs from centres and both times I had a home visit, so I don t think they were that concerned were she went.

 

[Tia]

Hmm I have always thought that Battersea was a rescue centre. Oh well. You could just go and buy her back then.

 

[dun_in]

Battersea is a rescue centre though a lot of the dogs they have are actually given up by owners who can no longer keep them for some reason, rather than ill treated/abandoned dogs. You give a donation/payment (- the amount varies depending on if pedigree or not) but you don't actually get full ownership until the end of three months. If you fall out with the dog in this time you have to return it. This is to protect the dog from being passed pillar to post to people who haven't passed the vetting process.

 

[MagicMo]

Well it doesn't sound like they were suitable owners for a rescue dog. Like the others have said you could go and adopt the dog yourself.

 

[Pennyhp]

Our last dog was from an RSPCA rescue centre.
He ws adopted by a friend of mine and because of some of his rescue dog hang ups things didn't work out.

We took him on and the RSPCA did a home visit on us and we had him for 14 years until he died.
The irony is that as a Jack Russel X the RSPCA would not have allowed us to adopt him directy as we had children under he age of10 and their policy was not to allow terriers to go to homes with young kids.