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Help "Invisible Dogs"
A few tips to the owner:
Ask for a vet reference; go to the home and check it out; make sure the family that want's the dog is along the same lines as your family where he has lived this long (adjusting to a new home is hard, adjusting to a new home that is 110% different than what he has known is harder).
Be 100% honest with everyone about any 'issues' or possible 'issues', that's probably one of the biggest reasons that rehoming doesn't work.
If this dog is a house dog, don't adopt him as an outside only, that's not fair to him and will only cause issues.
Are you willing to take him back if the new family can't keep it? If so make sure you draw up some type of agreement between you and them.
Even in rescue, no matter how careful we are in placing our dogs and all the checks we do, we sometimes get dogs back and wonder how we missed that potential problem during the application and interviews.
And as far as being a chow - those have to be my least favorite breed and the one breed that I am most likely to not trust, but we have 3 in our group, they were a "good deed" we did for someone that was too get them back, it's been 3 years and it's only the past 3 months that the last one has decided he wants attention and wants to be petting and hugged on, before that he wanted nothing personal to do w/me.
Good luck on finding him the right home.
Remember, in rescue, we know that people lie to get us to take their dogs... BUT people lie to GET THE dogs also.
Ask for a vet reference; go to the home and check it out; make sure the family that want's the dog is along the same lines as your family where he has lived this long (adjusting to a new home is hard, adjusting to a new home that is 110% different than what he has known is harder).
Be 100% honest with everyone about any 'issues' or possible 'issues', that's probably one of the biggest reasons that rehoming doesn't work.
If this dog is a house dog, don't adopt him as an outside only, that's not fair to him and will only cause issues.
Are you willing to take him back if the new family can't keep it? If so make sure you draw up some type of agreement between you and them.
Even in rescue, no matter how careful we are in placing our dogs and all the checks we do, we sometimes get dogs back and wonder how we missed that potential problem during the application and interviews.
And as far as being a chow - those have to be my least favorite breed and the one breed that I am most likely to not trust, but we have 3 in our group, they were a "good deed" we did for someone that was too get them back, it's been 3 years and it's only the past 3 months that the last one has decided he wants attention and wants to be petting and hugged on, before that he wanted nothing personal to do w/me.
Good luck on finding him the right home.
Remember, in rescue, we know that people lie to get us to take their dogs... BUT people lie to GET THE dogs also.
