[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.

[21twelve]

We weren’t expecting a free dog - just countering the image of that. And I’m not sure how much vet treatment he had before-hand. I know we had him neutured, and some other stuff too.

Both of our dogs have been rescue mutts - and both have been GREAT dogs. The one we have now it was sad - he was perhaps 4 months(?) old when we got him. Was found starved and wandering some country road in another part of the state. We took him inside the house - and he couldn’t / didn’t know how to climb the stairs! We figured he must have been in a cage or something his entire life. It was surprising how long (days) that it took him to get used to them, even doing a face plant once (going up and carpeted luckily)!