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Originally Posted by marianne Maybe you...place the dog in a Rottweiler Rescue. |
My rescue group has a process in place by which dogs get into our program. We are not set up to take a dog today or tomorrow because an owner calls us. Since all the dogs in our program live in foster care, the number of dogs does not exceed the number of foster homes. (In fact, we sometimes have open foster homes because the dogs who've passed our evals aren't suitable for the open foster homes.
For instance, we won't place a cat intolerant dog in a cat-owning foster home. Nor will we place a dog in a foster home with children w/o knowing how that dog is with children. Or the open foster homes are only capable of fostering the easiest of the easy.)
Since the number of dogs needing help dwarfs the number of people in rescue, rescue is forced to do triage--first helping the dogs that need help the most. Most rescue groups would pull a temperamentally stable dog from a kill shelter before they'd take a dog with ear infections from its owner.
It can take a couple of months to get an OS into the rescue program for which I volunteer.