Last Chance Highway

[RareBreed]

Just started watching this. Good show. They rescue dogs from shelters or off the street to rehome. But I find it strange that they ship the dogs to people up North (they live down south) to adopt. Why can't the people up North adopt the thousands of dogs needing home that ALREADY live here?? Seems really weird to me.

Last Chance Highway : Animal Planet

 

[devenny99]

I watched the 1st part where Hope was adopted and it looks like it will be a great show. What time and day is it on? Seems like they are really willing to work with people to adopt , but I hope they will be careful to whom they adopt out the dogs. Meaning I hope they screen really well. I already have a houseful or I would consider adopting another dog.

 

[SunSpot]

Just started watching this. Good show. They rescue dogs from shelters or off the street to rehome. But I find it strange that they ship the dogs to people up North (they live down south) to adopt. Why can't the people up North adopt the thousands of dogs needing home that ALREADY live here?? Seems really weird to me.

Last Chance Highway : Animal Planet

Sounds weird, however when I worked with a local rescue group we made some adoptions to families up north as well. As it turned out, the spay/nueter campaign was working so well in their affluent community that there were very few rescues for adoption. We were able to to conduct home visits through a rescue organization in the locality of the adopter.

 

[ArkRescue]

I wondered about that too, but per the show the people up North don't have enough choices available to them ......

Just started watching this. Good show. They rescue dogs from shelters or off the street to rehome. But I find it strange that they ship the dogs to people up North (they live down south) to adopt. Why can't the people up North adopt the thousands of dogs needing home that ALREADY live here?? Seems really weird to me.

Last Chance Highway : Animal Planet

 

[ArkRescue]

But if Spay/Neuter is working so well, why do the shelters still have so many dogs to put down? Maybe many of the dogs coming up from the South are puppies ..... ?????

Sounds weird, however when I worked with a local rescue group we made some adoptions to families up north as well. As it turned out, the spay/nueter campaign was working so well in their affluent community that there were very few rescues for adoption. We were able to to conduct home visits through a rescue organization in the locality of the adopter.

 

[TurboK9]

But if Spay/Neuter is working so well, why do the shelters still have so many dogs to put down? Maybe many of the dogs coming up from the South are puppies ..... ?????

Well, their isn't really a dog 'population' problem. There is a 'stupid people' problem. The shelters aren't full because their are more dogs than their are homes... the shelters are full because of people who buy or adopt, then either the dog 'runs away' or they abandon it, or they stupidly allow their dogs to breed unwanted litters, or breed mutts that are 'cute' and nobody wants... off to the shelter. Real breeders breed because people buy. If their were waaaayyy to many dogs, nobody would buy, so the breeders would go out of business and stop breeding, then the shelters would be all mutts. :shrug: Not that there is anything wrong with a mutt.

Plenty of homes out there for dogs... its just most want the dog they want, not someone elses cast off. Sad, but true, and personally I don't limit myself to what others have thrown away either... It just happens that I've been lucky enough to find what I want at the shelter.

 

[SunSpot]

But if Spay/Neuter is working so well, why do the shelters still have so many dogs to put down? Maybe many of the dogs coming up from the South are puppies ..... ?????

You could be right. Over the years, I've seen less and less puppies at tri-county but replaced with more and more (young) adult dogs. However there are areas of the country, like West Virginia for example, whose shelters end up with multiple litters of puppies. Consequently, there is group in the D.C. area, don't recall their name, that help out those WVa shelters by pulling litters of pups and re-homing them around the D.C. area.

 

[ArkRescue]

Personally I think most of the dogs you refer to as "cast offs" have NOTHING to do with the dog and everything to do with the idiot owner for why the dog is at the shelter. Most people are LAZY and when it comes to training a dog! They fail at getting the dog to do what they want then blame the dog and get rid of it.

Well, their isn't really a dog 'population' problem. There is a 'stupid people' problem. The shelters aren't full because their are more dogs than their are homes... the shelters are full because of people who buy or adopt, then either the dog 'runs away' or they abandon it, or they stupidly allow their dogs to breed unwanted litters, or breed mutts that are 'cute' and nobody wants... off to the shelter. Real breeders breed because people buy. If their were waaaayyy to many dogs, nobody would buy, so the breeders would go out of business and stop breeding, then the shelters would be all mutts. :shrug: Not that there is anything wrong with a mutt.

Plenty of homes out there for dogs... its just most want the dog they want, not someone elses cast off. Sad, but true, and personally I don't limit myself to what others have thrown away either... It just happens that I've been lucky enough to find what I want at the shelter.

 

[TurboK9]

Personally I think most of the dogs you refer to as "cast offs" have NOTHING to do with the dog and everything to do with the idiot owner for why the dog is at the shelter. Most people are LAZY and when it comes to training a dog! They fail at getting the dog to do what they want then blame the dog and get rid of it.

And hence the reference that "stupid people" are the problem. Doy.

Since you cannot reasonably expect all the "not stupid" people to completely disregard their own wants in a dog, and limit themselves to what is in the shelters, you will always have a population problem at the shelters. :shrug:

I would personally rather get mine from a dedicated working breeder and avoid the Wobblers, VwB, tumors, etc as much as I can, but my heart won't let me, so it's off to the shelters and Dobermann rescue every decade or so. :shrug:

 

[ArkRescue]

I would personally rather get mine from a dedicated working breeder and avoid the Wobblers, VwB, tumors, etc as much as I can, but my heart won't let me, so it's off to the shelters and Dobermann rescue every decade or so. :shrug: