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Halfcreek · 07-19-2012, 01:12 PM

I think part of the problem is that many of the animals there (specifically dogs, that's what I looked at) are tough to adopt. For example, we have one dog, have talked about another, but are sort of waiting for the "right" one to come along - from a sheltr or friends who needs a home for one or whatever. After I saw this story, I looked on their website and 90% of them couldn't be in a home with small children.

The part that is tough about that is that we have a lot of dog experience, our baby is great with dogs and we would have the means to keep the dog and baby seperate until it was appropriate. But because they are so over capacity and busy, they don't have the means to specify that maybe some of the dogs could go to a family with small kids if the family was experienced with dogs.

I'm not blaming anyone - I'm just saying there are some sometimes things like this that can deter people and wondering out loud if there's a way around that. Might have to call them directly to see if they have the right fit for us that maybe isn't on the website.

07-19-2012, 01:12 PM	#36
Halfcreek Farm Team Player Join Date: Feb 2012 Exp:	I think part of the problem is that many of the animals there (specifically dogs, that's what I looked at) are tough to adopt. For example, we have one dog, have talked about another, but are sort of waiting for the "right" one to come along - from a sheltr or friends who needs a home for one or whatever. After I saw this story, I looked on their website and 90% of them couldn't be in a home with small children. The part that is tough about that is that we have a lot of dog experience, our baby is great with dogs and we would have the means to keep the dog and baby seperate until it was appropriate. But because they are so over capacity and busy, they don't have the means to specify that maybe some of the dogs could go to a family with small kids if the family was experienced with dogs. I'm not blaming anyone - I'm just saying there are some sometimes things like this that can deter people and wondering out loud if there's a way around that. Might have to call them directly to see if they have the right fit for us that maybe isn't on the website.