[21twelve]

I didn’t mind the questions either. They did put a chip in the dog though, and the contact info goes back to them which I don’t like. But it was a bunch of money to have the chip removed and replaced. He’s got his dog tags, so hopefully anybody finding him would call us first. (And a fenced yard!)

And he was NOT cheap. IIRC it was something like $250 to buy him. (Plus a larger dog crate, new dog dishes as my wife and son couldn’t stand the thought of him using our old dog’s ones, new toys, etc. Plus the first vet visit to get him checked out and neutered which the adoption place was going to return $50 on the price for when we mailed them the proof but they never did. And then when he chewed up and swallowed a plastic wiffle ball within the first month that my wife freaked out about, with vet’s bills, xrays, etc. Cheap my a55!)

Love him - but not cheap!

[Shannon]

Love him - but not cheap!

When a rescue takes in a dog, that dog gets ALL the vet care he needs: all vaccines, wormings, spay/neuter and microchipped. That's the list if there are no problems. If the dog has heartworms, that's treated too usually at a cost to the rescue of $400 for a small dog. Or what about the pet that comes from a shelter after being picked up when it was hit by a car. Who pays for the surgery? The rescue and it can be thousands.

Any money leftover from the $250 you paid goes to cover the costs of the dogs where the fee doesn't cover the expenses.

In the end, the rescue usually comes out even but it's a struggle. No rescue that I know of is getting rich off of it.