Dog Grooming

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We were looking for a rescue dog, we have a happy family life and we are pretty active. We thought that we would be able to give something to a dog and it would bring something to or lives.

The rescue center wouldn't consider us as me and my wife both work, we both put a proposal across that we could arrange for the dog to stay with family members during the day so that it wouldn't be left alone, and we were prepared to wait until a dog with the right temperament and a proper homing temperament could be found, but no as long as we both worked we couldn't be considered.

We ended up but a dog out a local litter for a couple of hundred pounds.

[the other bob wilson]

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We were looking for a rescue dog, we have a happy family life and we are pretty active. We thought that we would be able to give something to a dog and it would bring something to or lives.

The rescue center wouldn't consider us as me and my wife both work, we both put a proposal across that we could arrange for the dog to stay with family members during the day so that it wouldn't be left alone, and we were prepared to wait until a dog with the right temperament and a proper homing temperament could be found, but no as long as we both worked we couldn't be considered.

We ended up but a dog out a local litter for a couple of hundred pounds.

I had a similar experience to you. Three of my last four dogs were got from the pound on Penarth Road, but when my first Staffy was put down three and a half years ago, I was disappointed by how much their procedures had changed when I went along to buy a new dog. After answering all sorts of questions, I then had to fill out a questionnaire and was told that I would be considered when an appropriate dog was available. I put in for a couple of them over the next few weeks and was told that the first one was more suitable for a family with children and that I lived too close to the original owner of the second one (I was a mile and a half, maybe two miles, away and the original owner didn’t want it back because they couldn’t afford it).

I was left thinking that I could’ve put in for ten dogs and they’d find a reason not to let me have any of them - I can understand the need for a greater degree of checking compared to how it was when I first got a dog from the council pound, but, for me, they’d now gone much too far in the other direction.

In the end, I decided to do the same as you and buy a dog from a local litter I saw advertised on Gumtree. It wasn’t my first choice and I knew that there was a degree of risk involved, but, thankfully, I now have a very affectionate and quite well behaved young Staffy who currently is asleep on my lap - as I’m sixty five in a month, she’ll probably be my last dog, but I won’t be going to a pound or rescue centre if I do decide to go for another one after all of the hoops I go through last time.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: Dog Grooming

I had a similar experience to you. Three of my last four dogs were got from the pound on Penarth Road, but when my first Staffy was put down three and a half years ago, I was disappointed by how much their procedures had changed when I went along to buy a new dog. After answering all sorts of questions, I then had to fill out a questionnaire and was told that I would be considered when an appropriate dog was available. I put in for a couple of them over the next few weeks and was told that the first one was more suitable for a family with children and that I lived too close to the original owner of the second one (I was a mile and a half, maybe two miles, away and the original owner didn’t want it back because they couldn’t afford it).

I was left thinking that I could’ve put in for ten dogs and they’d find a reason not to let me have any of them - I can understand the need for a greater degree of checking compared to how it was when I first got a dog from the council pound, but, for me, they’d now gone much too far in the other direction.

In the end, I decided to do the same as you and buy a dog from a local litter I saw advertised on Gumtree. It wasn’t my first choice and I knew that there was a degree of risk involved, but, thankfully, I now have a very affectionate and quite well behaved young Staffy who currently is asleep on my lap - as I’m sixty five in a month, she’ll probably be my last dog, but I won’t be going to a pound or rescue centre if I do decide to go for another one after all of the hoops I go through last time.

staffies, soft as shite lol

Sadly in South Wales there is a lot of dog fighting going on ......anyone who gets a kick out of that needs a kicking .....and these tossers were getting dogs from rescue centres just to throw into a scrap with their pit bull , sickening really .

Hence a lot of tightening up

Shame

[J R Hartley]

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staffies, soft as shite lol

Sadly in South Wales there is a lot of dog fighting going on ......anyone who gets a kick out of that needs a kicking .....and these tossers were getting dogs from rescue centres just to throw into a scrap with their pit bull , sickening really .

Hence a lot of tightening up

Shame

What a crock of shite

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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What a crock of shite

you don't think there is a lot of dog fighting in South Wales? Or there is a lot of dog fighting going on but the people involved were not taking rescue dogs pretending to be decent owners and using them to train their pit bulls ? Or you don't think the rspca got onto it and tightened up ?

Why do you think lots of staffies get nicked ?

[life on mars]

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This is turning fishy 🤔