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<blockquote data-quote="Glock 40" data-source="post: 3257881" data-attributes="member: 32"><p>All the things you mentioned about the interview at first seems off putting. I remember years ago thinking "seriously I am trying to buy a dog and your going to interview me." Now I am more concerned with the animal and its well being for its whole life. Do these people care enough to make an investment in the animal. If they can't come up with a fee now, what happens if the animal needs medical attention next month. Lots of factors go into it that I never thought of till I was in the situation of re-homing some rescues. I seriously had a girl call me wanting an animal once but was going to have to try and come up with the money for the fee. It wasn't much just cost of shots as I recall.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>I rescued a couple animals and re-homed them about a year and half ago. On one all I asked for was a re-homing fee to cover shots and vet visits to make sure it was healthy. The second was a very desirable animal. I put a much higher re-homing fee on it not to gouge people but to prevent someone thinking. Oh this is cool and buying it cheaply then not taking care of it. Both animals owners were interviewed basically by my family including my kids. We vetoed people for both animals, because we didn't think it was a good fit. The eventual new owner of the one animal still keeps in contact with me today on how it is doing and how happy they are to have it. In my opinion if I can't with a good conscious think the animal will have as good a life with the person that is going to adopt it as it would with my family I won't do it. Also even a small re-homing fee will weed out a lot of people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Glock 40, post: 3257881, member: 32"] All the things you mentioned about the interview at first seems off putting. I remember years ago thinking "seriously I am trying to buy a dog and your going to interview me." Now I am more concerned with the animal and its well being for its whole life. Do these people care enough to make an investment in the animal. If they can't come up with a fee now, what happens if the animal needs medical attention next month. Lots of factors go into it that I never thought of till I was in the situation of re-homing some rescues. I seriously had a girl call me wanting an animal once but was going to have to try and come up with the money for the fee. It wasn't much just cost of shots as I recall. I rescued a couple animals and re-homed them about a year and half ago. On one all I asked for was a re-homing fee to cover shots and vet visits to make sure it was healthy. The second was a very desirable animal. I put a much higher re-homing fee on it not to gouge people but to prevent someone thinking. Oh this is cool and buying it cheaply then not taking care of it. Both animals owners were interviewed basically by my family including my kids. We vetoed people for both animals, because we didn't think it was a good fit. The eventual new owner of the one animal still keeps in contact with me today on how it is doing and how happy they are to have it. In my opinion if I can't with a good conscious think the animal will have as good a life with the person that is going to adopt it as it would with my family I won't do it. Also even a small re-homing fee will weed out a lot of people. [/QUOTE]
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