Our rescue is being asked to pull a lovely, supposedly well-bred senior working line F that once was a personal protection dog. She's apparently had a lovely disposition in the shelter, but she dies Friday without a rescue commitment.
We generally avoid taking dogs with bite training as 99% of our adoptions are to pet homes that just want a family dog. The local IPO community does not support or adopt from rescues -- so we do not expect any support from them for a dog like this. I'm thus not sure what to do with her, were we to pull her.
From what I've cobbled together third and fourth hand, her story is that when she was done breeding, her breeder sold her to a retirement home intact (which possibly continued to breed her anyway?)...with a contract to return her if it didn't work out. Two years later, she was instead dumped at a shelter. The shelter won't release her without spaying, and once the breeder found out and contacted the shelter, the breeder declined take her back if the shelter spays her. The shelter won't release with out spaying and wants us to pull her. We need another senior dog like a hole in the head -- but she's been bred and bred, and then dumped, which always makes my heart ache.
The problem is the bite training. It's not our world -- and the liability associated with putting a bite-trained dog in the hands of a pet dog owner scares the stuffing out of me. We know we can't find adopters from that world locally, as they've given us a very cold shoulder in the past.
So what do you do with a dog like this in rescue? I know nothing whatsoever about the training a PPD has had, so I'm very curious as to what the options are for a dog like this. Any creative suggestions welcomed, as the shelter director is a friend, and the shelter's in a rural area far, far off the beaten path.
We generally avoid taking dogs with bite training as 99% of our adoptions are to pet homes that just want a family dog. The local IPO community does not support or adopt from rescues -- so we do not expect any support from them for a dog like this. I'm thus not sure what to do with her, were we to pull her.
From what I've cobbled together third and fourth hand, her story is that when she was done breeding, her breeder sold her to a retirement home intact (which possibly continued to breed her anyway?)...with a contract to return her if it didn't work out. Two years later, she was instead dumped at a shelter. The shelter won't release her without spaying, and once the breeder found out and contacted the shelter, the breeder declined take her back if the shelter spays her. The shelter won't release with out spaying and wants us to pull her. We need another senior dog like a hole in the head -- but she's been bred and bred, and then dumped, which always makes my heart ache.
The problem is the bite training. It's not our world -- and the liability associated with putting a bite-trained dog in the hands of a pet dog owner scares the stuffing out of me. We know we can't find adopters from that world locally, as they've given us a very cold shoulder in the past.
So what do you do with a dog like this in rescue? I know nothing whatsoever about the training a PPD has had, so I'm very curious as to what the options are for a dog like this. Any creative suggestions welcomed, as the shelter director is a friend, and the shelter's in a rural area far, far off the beaten path.