MyBoyChe
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Jeremy Vine show discussing rehoming of rescue dogs....
radio 2 now
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RockinRudolph
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I heard about 5 mins of this earlier, and heard about the child's death in the news as well. I don't know all the ins and outs of it, but it sounded as though all the blame was being directed at the rescue place for not rehoming the dog properly. I just wondered if the conversation turned to the responsibility of the family? At the end of the day they chose to rehome this particular dog, and chose to leave it with the child unattended. I don't mean that to sound like I think it was their own fault or anything like that and I'm not trying to place any blame here, it just seemed obvious to me that everyone immediately wanted to have a go at the rescue place, and I'm not sure this was entirely fair? At one point it almost came across like all dogs from rescue centres are dangerous.
lexiedhb
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Didnt hear radio show but
As far as I can gather
Dog was not meant to be in the house- landlords restriction
Dog was rehomed from a new pound run place- so not a rescue in the general sense
Mother stabbed the dog to get it off kid
Media circulated pics of child with a DDB which was not the dog who attacked her, damaging the DDB's rep
Rescue dogs rep also damaged- as many are now saying only a dog brought as a pup is safe with kids- which will hike up the BYB's profits
VERY sad loss of life
As far as I can gather
Dog was not meant to be in the house- landlords restriction
Dog was rehomed from a new pound run place- so not a rescue in the general sense
Mother stabbed the dog to get it off kid
Media circulated pics of child with a DDB which was not the dog who attacked her, damaging the DDB's rep
Rescue dogs rep also damaged- as many are now saying only a dog brought as a pup is safe with kids- which will hike up the BYB's profits
VERY sad loss of life
MyBoyChe
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Lexie, I was sure in the pic of the little girl with the big gingery dog, it was a ddb so Im pleased someone else thinks/knows this was the case. I too wondered about the whole rehoming responsibility thing. My neighbour had a bad experience a couple of years ago with the local council runs dogs home. Turned up one afternoon and within an hour was home with an EBT which within a month had been destroyed fter several unprovoked attacks on her teenage kids. The pound point blank refused to take it back and said it was her responsibility. I have no idea how the council type places work but do they get paid per dog? Just a thought and would explain why they do seem keener to just offload them (IMO) I must admit though that I would never take on a rescue dog, I like to know that whatever my dogs faults may be, they are totally down to me. Its something I feel quite guilty about actually but I would never forget myself if anyone was hurt as a result of something one of my pets did. A very sad and difficult situation for all involved 
NikkiF
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I heard most of the show..........................I always get the impression that Jeremy Vine does not like dogs, he jumps on the bandwagon everytime dog attacks hit the headlines. Today all the people who phoned/emailed in had horrific stories of rescue dogs gone wrong, I was wondering how many people were trying to get through with tales of their wonderful rescue dogs.
Todays show will sadly have turned people off who may have been thinking of taking on a rescue dog.
Todays show will sadly have turned people off who may have been thinking of taking on a rescue dog.
CorvusCorax
Deary me...
Pounds are not rescues!! Dogs in pounds have seven days to be reclaimed, rehomed/sold or destroyed. Some facilities keep them longer. As time and money and resources are limited, the turnover of dogs is quite high. Staff do not have time to assess, homecheck, walk, etc, and only know the bare minimum of what they are told by the people who surrender the dog or if the dog is a stray, what they see in front of them.
You can't parade cats and kids and pet dogs in front of a council kennel block and hope for the best.
You turn up, you pay enough to cover jabs and chipping and sometimes neutering, and you leave with a dog (within reason) this is not a new phenomenon and the way council pounds have operated for years.
In this case the kennel was contracted by the local council to hold stray or unwanted dogs until they were reclaimed, rehomed or PTS.
You cannot 'take a dog back' to the pound, for example, if they are full. Dogs will have to be rehomed or PTS to make way. They don't want to 'offload' the dogs, they just get so many every week that they are full to bursting.
Blame the rubbish breeders and the people who cannot be bothered with their dogs and just foist the problems onto someone else, not the councils, dog wardens or pounds, they don't have the time or resources to painstakingly rehab other people's mistakes and they often do work very closely with breed rescues and mainstream rescues to try and reduce the pressure.
You can't parade cats and kids and pet dogs in front of a council kennel block and hope for the best.
You turn up, you pay enough to cover jabs and chipping and sometimes neutering, and you leave with a dog (within reason) this is not a new phenomenon and the way council pounds have operated for years.
In this case the kennel was contracted by the local council to hold stray or unwanted dogs until they were reclaimed, rehomed or PTS.
You cannot 'take a dog back' to the pound, for example, if they are full. Dogs will have to be rehomed or PTS to make way. They don't want to 'offload' the dogs, they just get so many every week that they are full to bursting.
Blame the rubbish breeders and the people who cannot be bothered with their dogs and just foist the problems onto someone else, not the councils, dog wardens or pounds, they don't have the time or resources to painstakingly rehab other people's mistakes and they often do work very closely with breed rescues and mainstream rescues to try and reduce the pressure.
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