It Shouldn't Be THIS Hard to Adopt!

Here's a recounting of an encounter TODAY at Pitchford Village. You would think the mandate there would be to get animals into homes, not try to talk people out of adopting!

Well you know how we were looking at the hairless doggie? It didn’t seem like the man that was showing us the dogs really wanted to help us.

First- we showed him the dog we wanted to take out[the hairless doggie] and ...he said that he didn’t think she was up for adopting. So he went to ask... then he came back and said that she was… but she was very mean and that she has already tried to bite a few of the staff members. Then he opened her kennel door, and took out his rope and tried to catch her…. No physical contact with the dog what so ever! He just swung the rope in her face trying to get it over her head, as the dog scurries to get away. He didn’t even dare to step inside the cage!

SOO, when he finally got her… he told us over and over to be very careful...And then he took her outside on the grass….. He bent down and started to cluck to the dog, and the poor [dog] is running in circles trying to get away! He walked her like as if she was going to rip his leg off!I felt like telling him…"Maybe if you weren’t so afraid of her, she wouldn’t be so afraid of you!" So [he] finally TOLD us that we didn’t want that dog… I felt like saying, YES WE DO!

So he walked her back to her kennel, like she was a monster.Omg! While she was out, he even had the nerve to say“She doesn’t even have one speck of pretty on her” Then my mom said, "Well, I guess the beauty is in the eye of the beholder." And the man just kind of snickered. You don’t talk negative about a dog that somebody is interested in,.. Unless you don’t want them adopted out. Kind of worries me!Also he said that most of the dogs where we were[ by your babies] were vicious. Go figure!

[Let me] tell you how the man got the rope off of her head!As I said before, he didn’t dare touch her….So, when he tried to take the rope off of her, he couldn’t.He got the broom, and used the handle to get the rope off!!!! Poor dog! As afraid as she already was, now there was a broom handle in her face and poking at her neck. Stupid!It took forever for him to take the rope off. Then after he got it off, he told us that he thinks a Chihuahua rescue was coming to get her. How can I believe that? I’m sorry but it’s just hard. My mom asked him what her breed was and he said “Mexican hairless Chihuahua” then we asked, then why is she so big.. And he said because Chihuahuas come in different sizes.

...on to the next doggie. The little old Chihuahua.The same man was helping us still…. He opened the gate, and like before didn’t touch the dog, or go in the cage.He just swung the rope in his face trying to catch him. Then the poor little guy, ran and hid under the blanket. So the man gave up. He said that he was too skidish.

He really helped us out ,huh!?