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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that there are disreputable breeders, but after recently going through the months-long adoption process, I am confident that there are equally disreputable shelters and rescues.  We met one dog that we were told was "great with other dogs" who lunged aggressively at my gentle dog and didn't stop despite efforts on both ends to calm the dog, give it space, etc.  Come to find out the foster wasn't able to take her for walks, so she actually had no idea how the dog got along with others.  After telling the adoption coordinator, nothing on the website in the dog's description changed.  We met another dog who was "good with all humans" who we learned from the foster was recently returned after snapping at a toddler.  I then checked out a shelter who described one dog as wary of strangers, food/toy aggressive, and dog reactive.  At least they were honest, but who can adopt that dog?  I think rescues are so motivated to "save" dogs that they aren't forthcoming with dogs' weaknesses, which is potentially dangerous.  After an initial 2-week honeymoon period, our rescue showed all sorts of aspects of personality that we didn't see in the beginning.  I will probably never adopt a dog after this.[/quote]

Sadly, I had a similar experience as a foster for a rescue (not in this area, thankfully).  After several wonderful foster dog experiences, I had a really troubled dog placed in my home.  He was terrified of all strangers, was fairly aggressive with protecting what he perceived as his home turf, did NOT get along well with most dogs (thankfully he loved my dog to pieces), was incredibly resistant to potty training/housebreaking, and was really an all around PITA.  I was brutally honest with the rescue that this dog had a lot of issues and they needed to be very careful with his placement.  I wrote a kind but honest profile for him, making it clear he was a project that would require a lot of work on the part of an adopter.  Unfortunately, the rescue insisted on going with a glowing, "isn't he so perfect and cute" profile and were not honest with potential adopters.  I think they thought it was all going to be ok since he was small and had the attitude of "how much harm could he really do" based on his size.  After his first adoption ended returning him within 24 hours, I told them I couldn't foster for them anymore if they were going to be dishonest about his problems with potential adopters.  They wouldn't change his profile or what they told adopters so I told them they needed to remove him from my home and remove me from their foster list.  [/quote]

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