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just didn't get a dog from the pound!

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Sorry to hear about that. I got my dog at the pound about 3 months. She was an 8 week old puppy. She's a great dog.
 
Originally posted by: kermalou
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Somy mom goes to the pound at 8 to pick up the dog in the morning. The pound says you have to wait till 9 since someone else wants the dog too. So the dog goes up for auction. It turns out the other people that want the dog are the Southern California Boston Terrier or something group. The dog goes as high as $250 and my mother stops. The group told my mom if you don't bid against us you can have the dog for 200 - 250, but if you bid it will be higher. The pounds asks this group what they will do is that they will find the dog a "loving" home and the guy at the pound goes they are already a loving home with a child, my brother, who wants the dog. Long story short, greed took over.
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wow that's horse manure. It should be first come first served on the day of pickup. That's how we lucked out with our pomeranian... got there at 530am and waited and waited till they opened.
 
hope you have better luck then we did we got a pound puppy once.
It died of parvo and broke my kids hearts.
Only dog I ever owned that got parvo. only dog I ever got from a pound.
 
Since when did the dog pound auction off dogs? I didn't think they were in the dog auction business 😕 and WTF is this rescue group doing! You should report them to the AKC, if that will do any help. Man that makes me :|
 
there will be other dogs, but my little brother had his mind set on getting this dog. he even called in from school to find out what happened.

what this group did is just wrong.
 
some of the people who work for those rescue groups are a little nutty... they're way more worried about the dogs than they are about people
 
Sorry, but I found the story very confusing. The wording at least. I understood the gist of it but it was still confusing.

The group and your mom bid against each other and they got it up to $200-250. Then they said that if your mom stopped bidding, she could have it at that price? In the way normal auctions work, if the GROUP stopped bidding, she would have it at that price. Because if she stopped bidding, the group could have it for free (or a dollar).

And how is this greed? They are an animal rescue group. There is no greed here.
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Sorry, but I found the story very confusing. The wording at least. I understood the gist of it but it was still confusing.

The group and your mom bid against each other and they got it up to $200-250. Then they said that if your mom stopped bidding, she could have it at that price? In the way normal auctions work, if the GROUP stopped bidding, she would have it at that price. Because if she stopped bidding, the group could have it for free (or a dollar).
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before bidding they told her that is she doesn't bid she can have it for that price.


And how is this greed? They are an animal rescue group. There is no greed here.
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lets see, they will take the dog away from a home that wants it now (ours) and sell it to another home. we were willing to take the dog, what does that mean to you?
 
Well, I see greed in that the group is probably going to try to sell the dog to a new home for more than what it paid for it. If the real purpose of the group is to find homes for these dogs, then the fact that the lady was willing to bid should have been a clue that this would be a good damn home.

Kermalou, are these the people? If so, mabe we can put ATOT to work and get your brother that dog.

SCBTR

 
Cliffs
1. Go to pound to rescue a dog
2. Get into a bidding war with a dog rescue center
3. Center wins
4. Leave emty handed thanks to some greed.

What a bunch of jackasses. If they like dogs so much, why don't the rescue center just take all the dogs from the pound? Sucks you didn't get the dog this time. Pour sand in those jackasses' fuel tanks, key, and stab their tires.
 
just sent out this email, wrote it from my father's point of view....

My wife was at a dog pound this morning about to pick up a dog for my son. When she went to pick up this dog that my son could not stop talking about for four days, she was told that there was another "person" interested in the dog and there would have to be an auction. That is fine with me, but what irks me the most is that the other "person" was your organization. We were willing to adopt this dog and bring him into our house, but your so called non-profit organization offered to sell the dog to us. What kind of operation are you people running over there? This dog had a loving and caring home ready for him. I told him what an adoption was in the first place and he understood that. He called in the middle of the day from school to find out where the dog was, how could my wife explain to him what happened? That the adoption turned out to be an auction? What your organization did was inhumane. There are so many animals that need rescuing, you are making a mockery out of the adoption process.
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Originally posted by: kermalou
just sent out this email, wrote it from my father's point of view....

My wife was at a dog pound this morning about to pick up a dog for my son. When she went to pick up this dog that my son could not stop talking about for four days, she was told that there was another "person" interested in the dog and there would have to be an auction. That is fine with me, but what irks me the most is that the other "person" was your organization. We were willing to adopt this dog and bring him into our house, but your so called non-profit organization offered to sell the dog to us. What kind of operation are you people running over there? This dog had a loving and caring home ready for him. I told him what an adoption was in the first place and he understood that. He called in the middle of the day from school to find out where the dog was, how could my wife explain to him what happened? That the adoption turned out to be an auction? What your organization did was inhumane. There are so many animals that need rescuing, you are making a mockery out of the adoption process.
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Id be willing to email them too.. That is just wrong on so many levels

PM email address? Or Post it. Lets get some ATers to b!tch these people out.
 
That is really some low level crap. I'm sure there were plenty of other dogs at the pound that could have been adopted, but they go for the one that they are sure to make a profit on. Rescue center my ass.

And it wouldn't be a bad idea at all to see if the local news might be interested in this story.
 
wow, that is really stupid. I would try to get a phone number, and talk to the person highest up there, and tell them what is up. I can't believe that this kind of stuff happens.
 
Remember, hardcore dog people are freaks. The breed-specific rescue groups think that it is their job to save the lives of the animals and try to find them good homes. I adopted a golden retriver from one and they actually sent someone out to my house to look around for 'dog-unsafe' things before even considering putting me on the list.

I understand their paranoia, for all they know, YOU owned a pet store (or restaurant 🙂 and were looking for a dog to resell.

However, the whole story sounds really shady, I agree they were wrong, but this is like some religious zealot stopping you from buying the waffle that looks like the virgin mary. 🙂
 
Definatly contact the local news. They love to report on BS like this and you might get something changed. That policy is so retarded. Our local pound is first come first serve, none of this auction BS.
 
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