Rehoming these orphans....advice please

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They're not due to go to new homes for another 3 weeks anyway, but I'm already panicking about the whole 'responsibility' of the situation
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I feel as though their little lives are in my hands, if the wrong person takes one then really I've ruined a little puppy future
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I'm not expecting to get anything for them, after all they're just little mixed breed terriers, but how would I word their ad? If I put free to good home then I'll have all sorts of undesirables turning up for a free dog.
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I've already turned someone down as hubby said we'll be giving them away and he turned around and said 'I'll have one' I thought wtf? You haven't even seen them, asked their colouring, sex, breeding etc, you just decided on the spot that you'd have one as you won't have to pay anything!! I DON'T THINK SO!

So now I don't know how I'm going to go about it? I thought maybe if I advertise them now and have people coming to see them I could suss them out and they could come a few times between now and the 'big day' ?

Would/do people do this?

I want them to have loving homes for life, but I guess at the end of the day no one can be 100% sure once those puppies leave....The only thing I can do is offer to take one back should things not work out...but then having seen the prices of some cross breeds advertised surely people would rather advertise them and make some money??

I wish Icould keep them all lol it'd sure be easier, but I don't have time to commit to four terrors....

hat should I do, I really need advice!
 
Unless it somebody you know well and trust I would charge £50 to £100 per puppy, on the basis that if somebody pays for something they will respect it more.

You can always give the proceeds to a dog related charity. Or maybe you can put the charge to subsidising neutering them at a suitable time/include free vaccinations.
 
Is it worth approaching a rescue centre for help with rehoming? Being puppies I'm sure they'll find homes quite easily but a rescue centre will do home checking and vetting, which you can't reasonably do yourself. I definitely agree that offering the pups for free is asking for trouble.

Good luck with whatever you decide.
 
i think i would charge too, say £100 a puppy. if people can't afford that, they can't afford the possible vet's bills. also, a lot of people value something more if they pay for it. jrts are a lot more than that now, fwiw.
if you make them too cheap/free, you might well get people taking them to make a quick buck, sell them down the pub that night for £50 profit. it happens.
if someone lovely comes along who you know well, then i'd let them go cheaper, obviously.
if the profit worries you, then give the surplus to the Dogs Trust, i guess, but after all your hard work on them, i think you deserve a treat too tbh!
 
As above, please charge for them £50-£100 for a terrier is the going rate.
The more people pay the more they value what they have got, and will hopefully therefore look after it!!
I am also sure they have cost you a bit in food and a lot of time!! The idea of giving the money to a doggy charity is a good one too!!
 
Thanks all xx

I spoke to my vet and he says that new owners could have them spayed/neutered (obv when they're older) and their jabs done for £80....he'll bill me and I'll use the money I charged them to pay. He's a nice guy lol as I'm sure it would be more than that for the owner to pay themselves?

That would leave £60 (if I'm charging £100-I'm keeping the little runt) which I thought I'd use to have the foster mum taken to the groomers and buy her some bits to go home with?

How's that sound?
 
At the end of the day u did rescue them and they are rescue puppies.....I would advertise in your local vets only
RESCUE PUPPIES FOR REHOMING
HOME CHECK WILL BE CARRIED OUT
DONATION UPON REHOMING with a nice picci

You can carry home visits out yourself, check that their is a secure garden for the puppy to be succesfully toilet trained and somewhere to mooch around for outdoor play, ask how long the puppies will be left at any one time, and if their is small children in the household...if so get a feel for how well behaved they are an how sensible the parents are.

Advise them to crate train and insure them, and re flea treatments and wormers, and give them a sample of the diet they are on...they may not take a blind bit of notice but if they do it will help the puppies in the long run.

If you yourself need any advice re the above...Pm me I would be more than happy to help you or even print u a rehoming contract out if u want them returned if the home does not work out.

Ask for a £100 donation and pay it in advance to the vets to go towards neutering them at a later stage and towards a first vaccination and the new owners can pay for second vax, if they are not prepared to do this as suggested they are not worthy.
If they have paid an amount towards the neuter and it sits in an acount at the vets they will be more likely to have them done, asks the vets to inform u when they are done.

Good luck, u and the puppies deserve it
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Agree with all the above, definitely charge for them, and you are entitled to carry out home checks and be as fussy as you like about their new homes. When I was breeding GSDs I used to put prospective owners through a veritable Spanish inquisition. Genuine people never objected to my questioning, and many of them said they felt it showed I was a responsible breeder . Cala is right, your pups are rescues so there is no reason why you should not advertise them as such (I would only advertise in vets, not in local papers). It sounds like your vet is being really good, he may well know of people wanting a new pup. Godd luck with them, sounds like you have done a great job. Any recent pics?
 
i would charge but if you really want to let them go free then put on advert poa might filter out the muppets, if you do let them go free do vet checks home checks and possibly even visit them in a few months to see how they are doing do a contract saying this so that if your not happy then you can take them away and find a better home.
 
I've written a page full of expences you have to count on having, took a catalogue and counted on what a basicequipment would cost (a leash, collar, bowls, dogbed, earcleaning etc.). Then I listed the average cost for a good insurance, the basic charge for a vetvisit and for a vetvisit on a weekend without any treatment, what my dog food cost, what I spend on dogchews, cost found on internet for puppyclass and some more.
I've then given a copy of that page to puppybuyers-to-be.
And if I really wonder if they are suitable or not, I can show them the flowerbed where I bury my dead animals.


BTW the family buying the malepuppy (namned Boris) has since they where here at the first visit, been here twice a week, because they are Boris-sick. And whenever I tell them about how he manages to get so much more dirty than the girls, they just shake it of saying : Well that's just typical for boys.


from Sweden.
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