I may annoy some people by saying this, but i mean it in the nicest way. A few rescue web sites are telling me that they want a min of £???? for the dog. Y do they do this?
I understand that they need to make money and pay for the dogs in there care but it not really encouraging people to rescue rather than buy.
This one place http://www.freewebs.com/manytearsrescue/do...ingforhomes.htm is saying £150 -£160 per dog. Most of the dogs ave got problems which is y there, there. I could go out and but a puppy for this and bring him /her up as i want them to be trained, rather than a problem dog.
Dont get me wrong i do give money monthly to dog charitys and wot there doin is wonderful. But wouldnt it be better just to ask for a smaller sum so as they get rehomed. Most people would give more out of the kindness of there heart, not just because thats wot there asking for.
I hope no body has taken this the wrong way, i was shocked as im looking for another dog to love and i thought i would rehome one and give them a better life. I knew that they check ur house and things like that. I dint know that SOME of them ask for a min payment.

its vital unfortunatly. Many tears for example is a massive operation and that adotion fee will go into helping the next poor dog. i paid £130 for Tinka, a beautiful puppy with NO problems at all. http://pupsneedinghomes.co.uk/

the £150 adoption fee is if you adopt a dog from MT directly and £160 is if you adopt from a foster home. the extra money goes into paying the fuel costs to get these dogs out of kennels and into foster homes.

one more thing to consider about many tears is that your dog will be spayed/castrated, chipped and vaccinated. how much would that cost you? much more than £160.

for years i worked for IRR http://www.irishretrieverrescue.com/ and their adoption fee is a lot more to pay for the ferry and then the fuel costs.

I knew someone would get annoyed at me. Maybe i dint word it very well. I understand wot ur saying thou.

oh no i'm not annoyed at you at all. sorry if it came across that way. before i started working as a trainer i worked in rescue for years and soooo much money is lost rather than made.

you never know when the next big op is going to be needed, when i first heard of MT all those years ago (when you could actually talk to sylvia on the phone lololol) she had a CKC bitch just come in. she had been forced to mate and so didnt trust men nor want other dogs near her BUT in the tiny pen was a protruding rusty nail that in one of the forced matings at pierced her eye. this went untreated and then ulcerated, that burst leaving her with a blind rotting eye. the vetinary care and sheer amount of time and care that the little dog needed made every penny of her adoption fee well worth it.

storys like this are mirrored in every rescue up and down the country but they are not all there because something awful has happened to them. some are simply unwanted or too much bother, some are there because their owners died or moved into rented accomodation. little Tinka was part of an unwanted litter (lucky me i say).

Rescue adoption fee of £150 ish seems to be the norm. I think my local rescue asked for £130 for Tizzy, but we gave £150 as that was what we were expecting to pay.
I can understand what you are saying, when we thought of buying a pup we had the choice of paying £400 - £500 to get a well bred pup from health tested dogs from a recognised breeder. £250 -£400 for an ISDS registered dog of which most seemed to be farm bred and was not to sure of health checks etc. or £250 or less by wading through the private adds.
We looked at the cheaper option and I was appauled, on my first day I contacted, by email, someone local for a lovely looking little merle bitch, the emails went from (in short) 'dog needing a good home' to 'I need to leave for Scotland tomorrow, please pay for her to be shipped to you tomorrow.' no chance to see her first yikes . Second contact, I started to get the same sort of replies, third contact had the same picture as the 1st dog.......scam or what.
We then decided if the cheaper option was going to be that dodgy we would go back to our local rescue at least then IF the dog has any problems we would have support. Luckily neither of my two rescues have problems. Well Jock doesnt now.

There is nothing to say that a well bred pup wont have issues, thats why so many end up in rescue, As Gemma has said, you do get a few of your vet bills already paid for and you get support if needed. So I do think they are good value.

First, there is a misconception that dogs in rescues all have issues. Some just end up there because of a marriage break up, longer working hours etc. That doesn't mean the dog has problems.

I think £150 in the current climate is a lot of money, but those rescues do a great job. They health check the dog, it is neutered, vaccinated, microchipped etc....

When you buy a puppy from a breeder you never know what you are getting, really.

I heard of a few cases now where it came to light, once all the puppies were sold, that either mum or dad didn't really have the temperament to be bred from, now the new owners have to suffer the consequences in living with an aggressive dog..... And it wouldn't be a surprise if some of those dogs end up in rescues... So who fault is it then???

I think going to a rescue is a lifestyle choice in a way, as you have to put up with homechecks and serious questioning before you can get the dog you like... ;)
With the money you pay you support the rescues and their running costs so they can continue saving dogs from being put to sleep. :(

I think it depends on why you are looking at a rescue dog in the first place. Many have been chipped, neutered, vaccinated, veterinary care if needed given and also given some form of rehabiliation, if needed, before a person adopts, the monery goes a long way towards that. If you are looking for a pedigree dog to show, then you would go to a breeder and pay three times as much. If you are thinking of doing another doggy sport then rescuing one is a good way to go. :)

I dont know about other rescues but I do know about MT. What they forget to tell you sometimes is that some of these dogs have got health issues, some are easy to deal with but others are not.

Im not saying that they are bad, because they do do a super job in getting the dogs out of horrible conditions but having first hand experience with some of these dogs its not somewhere that I would go if I was wanting a rescue dog.

Saying that I did take on a cat from them and she is perfect in everyway.

I'll apologise now if I offend anyone with my comments.

Hi Everyone I can understand the rescues wanting a fee due to the expense spent on the dogs being re homed,although some do seem to charge very high fees & for that amount you could quite easily go out & pick a puppy / dog / bitch which needs a home & is spayed / neutered without all the questions being asked.My problem with the rescues is not their fees ,but the way you can be dismissed with out them even giving a home check I refer to a certain one that has only been up & running for about 1 Year,the collie in question is deaf.I had agreed to take this collie when her owner advertised her earlier this year but there was a bit of confusion her owner thought that I wanted him to bring her all the way over to Norwich from the Peak District ,but I was prepared to collect her as i did with my other collies,in the mean time her owner was contacted by this certain rescue & as he needed to re home her quickly, he agreed to let her go to them . I put in to adopt this collie from the rescue & was turned down,I was asked how much exercise I was prepared to give this collie I told them 20 mins walk morn & eve with garden playtime ,jumps ,ball games etc. I was told that I needed to look for a more layed back type of dog & this was not suitable for me . I have had dogs all of my life & not had any problem dogs that I could not handle .I find it very annoying when someone on the end of a phone can judge you in 30mins when they dont know you or what your capabilities are. SORRY THIS IS SO LONG By the way this collie is still looking for a home & only needs 2 x 30 min walks a day, Where did I go wrong? Jacqui waggingd