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[quote=Anonymous]I wish people would post the name of the groups they have dealt with when complaining about bad practices.  I have fostered for three NOVA area groups - Worthy Dog, Homeward Trails, and Pet Rescue Alliance.  I also adopted from the Fairfax County Animal Shelter.  They were all reputable in my experience.  No lies, no ridiculous rules.

So many animal rescuers do good work for no personal gain, I wish you wouldn't slander them all with the same brush.  I'm on rescue dog number 47.  Let me tell you her story.

Mommy dog was living chained in a backyard in southern Texas.  She was not fixed and was chained up with a male dog.  So of course she got pregnant.  She was skin and bones and all belly.

Volunteers worked on the owners to get them to give her up. They put in in a van and drivers took turns transporting her and other dogs from Texas all the way to the East Coast.  The transport stopped in Charlotte.  A volunteer, a mom with toddlers, picked Mommy up in Charlotte and drove her to a half way point, about four hours one way.  I met the volunteer and took Mommy from her.  It was too late to drive home so my daughter and I paid for a hotel room and spent the night there with this unknown, terrified dog.

Mommy was infested with fleas and of course, worms.  Which the rescue treated her for.  The rescue paid for her first ever vet visit, a prenatal exam.  I think that was about $140.

Mommy delivered three puppies before one got stuck.  She labored all day, could not get it out.  A volunteer drove her over an hour to a vet who did a c section.  Three babies died.  Three survived.  The rescue paid over $1400 for this.

At three weeks old the family of four went in for a check up, dewormer, Mommy shots, etc.  The rescue paid $240.

The babies will live with me for four more weeks.  They will go back at 6 weeks old for shots. Cleaning up puppy poop is not pleasant but it's a temporary situation so, no big deal.  Soon the puppies will be put up for adoption.  Even if the adopters pay $500 per dog, the rescue will not even break even when all is said and done.

So many people worked together to give these dogs a shot at a healthy, happy life.  It pains me to think of people judging and deriding the work that so many dedicated folks do.  Rescuers get no reward other than knowing there's a little less suffering and a little more love in the world.

A past adopter of one of my fosters sent me a pics today of her blind (openly acknowledged) pit bull.  He's one I still often miss.  He didn't know what a couch or a bed was when he came t me.  Now look at him in his PJ's!

https://imgur.com/lR2FNoG
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