+1 How much are these services worth? here's what's included in the adoption fee at one shelter (and the amount is a recommended 180$ not 800$) A wellness exam Vaccinations like rabies, distemper, parvovirus, and Bordetella, a vaccine that helps to prevent kennel cough Heartworm test and preventative heartworm treatment Tick-borne disease panel Flea and tick preventative treatment Fecal test and deworming Spaying or neutering A microchip and the cost of insertion A small administrative fee to cover the cost of processing your adoption You think a veterinarian is donating his services 100% to neuter Fido before you take him home? |
My vet was far cheaper than your fee and that should be free. |
You mean the same way people are eating cows, chickens, fish, and other animals? |
They are having you lie and fly these dogs as your personal pets. |
If they are healthy and don’t have major behavioral problems, the shepherd and husky mixes go fast. I have repeatedly called about ones that were available one day and gone within a few days. There is not a surplus of shepherds languishing in shelters. Look at any shelter online sheet and 90% will be pit or obvious oit mixes … then call about one of the non-pit dogs and they will likely be gone. Sometimes they have a geriatric lap dog that belonged to some old lady who went into assisted living that is not well socialized. |
So you eat dogs? I also don't eat frogs, rats, squirrels or cicadas |
Depends on the shelter. |
I don't eat any animals. Why do you if you care so much about animals and rescuing them? It makes no sense to kill 100 chickens a year to feed you and your dog and have no consideration for those chickens dying. |
Weird, because if you look around tons of dogs available to adopt. Why not put a priority on getting those adopted before bring over more? |
Gosh this is bizarre. Do we not have enough dogs in the US that need rescuing? |
Why should it be free? Vets need to live and buy stuff too. The majority of them have vet school debt. Plus dogs are expensive. If you get the dog for free you don't realize and ultimately will return the dog to the shelter because you can not feed it. |
Then you go out and save American dogs! Do you only give money to Americans charities? After all, why should we help others who are suffering if all of our problems haven't been solved? |
I do not care about any dogs, American or otherwise. And in general I do like to support charitable causes that are local to me. |
Frog legs are quite common to eat, and I think cicadas were on some DC menus during the X spawning. Apparently, they are high protein. My dad grew up very rural America. His grandmother cooked squirrel. I don't see any difference in eating dog if you already eat cow, pork, chicken, lamb, etc. It's just another meat. I do have an issue with endangered animals on the menu. |
Tons of dogs available to adopt and also tons of people adopting. The question is really whether there are dogs languishing …and I really don’t see that, except for dogs with a lot of pit in the mix or dogs with obvious issues. I’m not necessarily saying it makes sense to fly these Korean dogs over here to adopt but I reject the premise that there are lots of nice admirable dogs for which they are not ready adopters. There is still unmet demand for adoptable dogs that are not part pit, IME. Even out West, they are not putting down non-pit shephard mixes that are non-biters. And in the south they just ship them up here and everyone takes them. |