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Originally Posted by SleepyButch

I volunteered for a rescue for one day. Yes, that's right... one day. I wanted to go and walk the dogs and play with them. So I went to orientation and the woman was not very friendly at all. I've had dogs all of my life and worked for vets in the past so have a lot of dog experience. Well she treated me as if I was going to screw up from the minute I got there. I never went back.

Now I have two rescue dogs in my house by some weird fate. I do not volunteer for the rescue group. I answered an add on craigslist for someone needing a foster home for a few months while they got on their feet and they never did. They turned them over to the breed specific rescue and I am keeping them for a bit to see if we can find a home for them. One of them is 14!

Anyway, all that being said, just make sure your staff is friendly and welcoming to all even those people without animal experience. It's the volunteers who make rescue organizations function.

I'm very sorry you had this experience. I volunteered for years at one of my local shelters (until I was thrown out for complaining about the way they ran it, and the way they treated animals...but that's ok I became an activist and actually testified for the state in a case against them...and the entire shelter organization underwent reform! yay!). I've also dealt with rescues, while volunteering at the shelter and on my own...and I've encountered some REALLY nasty people working for/running rescues. I understand what stonewalldog said, about people who are so animal-focused that they lack people skills, but it really is detrimental to their cause, and it does the animals in their care a huge disservice.

Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

Amazing (((((((( FC ))))))))))))

When Syr was animal control officer of course many critters found their way to the farm.


4 pigs
Raccoons
about a thousand cats
a bunch of dogs

we even rescued 17 chickens last year....

It's very expensive and you must be able to provide a good home with lots of room, it's not easy.

Thanks FC!! I am lucky that we have an extra, very large bedroom that was converted into a "dog room" by the previous owner. Our dogs don't use it (because they are firmly entrenched in OUR bedroom LOL, and because they have the run of the house and the yard), so I've already converted it to a "cat room." I know that a rescue, especially in it's start-up phase, is going to be expensive...that's why I'm gonna wait until I'm done with school and start with primarily one breed, and then expand when I am financially able to. I have some friends who have expressed an interest in volunteering/fostering, and hopefully that base will expand as well.