Anonymous wrote:Why would the word adopted be better than rescued? I can't think of any reasons. I can certainly think of reasons why rescued is better than adopted since it actually describes what happened.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People ask what kind of dog mine is all the time. I say "I don't know, he's a rescue" or they ask how old he is and I say "well, he came to us X years ago, but he's a rescue so we don't know how old he is. The vet thinks he's about Y."
This. Saying he’s a rescue fends off questions nobody has the answers to
Why don’t you just say “I adopted him when he was four? I’m not sure.”
Because as an adoptive parent to a human child, I don't like using the same word for my dog.
And if I knew he was 4 when I rescued him, then I would be sure. The whole point is that I don't know how old he was when he came to me.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People ask what kind of dog mine is all the time. I say "I don't know, he's a rescue" or they ask how old he is and I say "well, he came to us X years ago, but he's a rescue so we don't know how old he is. The vet thinks he's about Y."
This. Saying he’s a rescue fends off questions nobody has the answers to
Why don’t you just say “I adopted him when he was four? I’m not sure.”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People ask what kind of dog mine is all the time. I say "I don't know, he's a rescue" or they ask how old he is and I say "well, he came to us X years ago, but he's a rescue so we don't know how old he is. The vet thinks he's about Y."
This. Saying he’s a rescue fends off questions nobody has the answers to
Anonymous wrote:People ask what kind of dog mine is all the time. I say "I don't know, he's a rescue" or they ask how old he is and I say "well, he came to us X years ago, but he's a rescue so we don't know how old he is. The vet thinks he's about Y."
Anonymous wrote:People ask what kind of dog mine is all the time. I say "I don't know, he's a rescue" or they ask how old he is and I say "well, he came to us X years ago, but he's a rescue so we don't know how old he is. The vet thinks he's about Y."
Anonymous wrote:Wondering why so many people who rescue dogs refer to them as rescues for years and years after the adoption. My neighbor rescued an awesome dog about 7 years ago, and she still refers to him as her rescue dog when talking about him in casual conversation. It seems that in the past ten years, no one ever says they adopted a dog any more, it's always "I rescued a dog." I love all dogs, but can't figure out the reason for always having to tell everyone a dog is a rescue.