I have an 7 year old dog we adopted from a county animal welfare center. There was no "no dumping" clause in the contract. We adopted Molly when she was 8 months old. She had already been placed and returned to the shelter by TWO other families in the first 8 months of her life. Molly is a wonderful dog but she has serious problems that she will never get over. She is very nervous, high strung, gun shy...runs from strangers, and is terrified of the car. To her the car means another trip back to the shelter to be dumped again.
I suspect Iggy will have similar problems due to the poor handling of this situation by the animal "rescue" people. Ellen was wrong to hand the dog off but the "rescue" people should have checked out the new home and left Iggy there if those people were up to snuff. The "rescue" people could have sued Ellen for breach of contract in court without making poor little Iggy suffer the loss of a second home in as many months.
“””the “rescue” people should have checked out the new home””
I understand that one of the limitations for Iggy’s placement was *no small or young children*.
County animal welfare centers are NOT the same as rescue centers. Rescue centers have *no kill* policies. This means that old,ugly,problem unadoptable dogs are taken care of for as long as they live; their food, vet care and overhead are covered by the adoption fees and all the screening services determined to be appropriate. The shelters do not want *revolving doors* they want the best permanent home for their rescues. Ellen should have paid more attention to the shelter’s mission and the contract.