Possible puppy farm?

Autosport wrote: »

I’m on the lookout to rescue a dog and I’m finding it very difficult. I personally don’t want a pup and I’m not looking for a designer breed. I’m on lots of different rescue waiting lists but it’s not looking good. I can see why people get desperate and buy a pup.

I think this was one of the issues that JustAThought was alluding to, I'm sure people want to do the right thing and get a puppy/dog from someone who has looked after them/their parents and not have them pumping out litter after litter or even better are trying to adopt a dog that needs a home, but surely there's a system that's more straight forward than what we have?

Maybe this already exists, but why can't there be a central website/database that has all available rescues/dogs for adoption in one location? Here's an example but there appears to be very few rescues on it which completely negates the purpose...
It would basically just be scraping the data from the many places that are out there. Have a single form that people can fill out and are now eligible for adoption from any of the rescues.
If you want to adopt/foster a dog featured on the site you still liaise with the actual rescue but it makes the process way easier and lets you look across all avenues for the dog breed/type of dog you are after. You want to adopt a specific breed/size/nature? Bang we just searched 100% of the rescues in Ireland and there are none available, here's some similar breeds that are available though and we can set up an alert so that you are notified if any fitting your criteria are taken in or we can put you on the waiting list on all/some rescues without you needing to reach out individually.

Regarding non-rescue pups/dogs, your choices are going to somewhere like the IKC and trying to find a reputable breeder for the specific dog you are after and going on the waiting list or sourcing one elsewhere.
One problem is that finding a "reputable breeder" is sometimes not easy, look for a Bichon Frise on IKC and you wont get any club or society contacts for example. Even if there is a club/society specific to that breed they may not be active or may not get back to you.
You then need to look elsewhere and the problem is that "elsewhere" could be a puppy-farm, a "back-yard" breeder or someone who loved their dog and their behavior so much they wanted that line to continue and only wanted one pup from the litter. There is no way of knowing.

I imagine most IKC registered breeders will only want to breed with other pedigree animals with perfect health/genetics etc. which is absolutely fine and great for the line, but the fact of the matter is that most people don't want a show dog, they want a family pet to love, they don't care if isn't the perfect example of the breed. They just want to buy from someone who isn't abusing their animals, why is that so difficult?

On top of all this the government is doing feck all to stop it, so instead of the un-informed getting blamed for buying puppies on whatever free-ad site, we should be pushing the government, IKC, and rescues to make things easier.

Autosport wrote: »

I’m on the lookout to rescue a dog and I’m finding it very difficult. I personally don’t want a pup and I’m not looking for a designer breed. I’m on lots of different rescue waiting lists but it’s not looking good. I can see why people get desperate and buy a pup.

I’ve always struggled to get a dog from a rescue because I work. I adopted a pup from the pound 8 years ago, and when I sadly lost him to kidney disease last year, I adopted a dog privately, who had been found dumped. She had/has a lot of behavioural issues but we’ve come a long way and I never even considered giving up on her once I took her on. I couldn’t get a response from the rescues so this was the only way.

Some people have told me that, to be successful with the rescue centres, you have to be persistent, almost like using pester power to get them to take your application seriously. I didn’t do that and never heard from them as a result. It did sadden me as I knew I would provide a home where the dogs needs would come first. Yes, most of us have to work, but in my case, I have a doggy door, a large secure area outside and my dog is walked every day, except in dangerous weather, such as storm force winds. I know why they are so strict, but I think they need to take a more nuanced approach to get more dogs into loving homes.

Fakediamond wrote: »

I’ve always struggled to get a dog from a rescue because I work.

Some people have told me that, to be successful with the rescue centres, you have to be persistent, almost like using pester power to get them to take your application seriously.

That's a tough one and I was the same till now.

I hate being that squeaky wheel, it's just not in my make up. When I see aperson doing that with me in work, I just block them out, but could see how others might give in to get them to go away.