We ask if your pet has really bad behaviors that you are not willing to work with, please do the right thing and don’t bring them to a shelter. This story did have a happy ending but many don’t. She said she thought about what I had told her and decided she owed the dog some training and a chance to be a good dog. She left the dog and the following day she returned to get her lab. I told her we would do the best we could but could not guarantee anything as we have to disclose to any potential adopter why the dog was surrendered. I sat down with the lady and asked her why someone else would want her dog that had not been taught to be a canine good citizen? So, she surrendered the dog to HART and wanted a guarantee that the dog would find a loving home and have a happy ever after ending. Bad Behaviors:Ī very nice lady brought her young lab to HART because “it chewed the house up and destroyed everything they owed.” She was at her wits end and thought it was inhumane to put it in a crate while they were not home. It can be expensive and also heartbreaking to adopt an old pet. How can we tell them yes, when they no longer want the pet because it has become an inconvenience for them? It is a tough to find someone who will take this pet on. The owner wants to be assured that their loved pet will find a good home. And no one is going to adopt an animal of this age, because unfortunately these animals have health problems such as kidney diseases, bad teeth, joint problems and the list goes on. No matter how hard we try to make its life comfortable we can’t. This type of surrender will curl up and physically shut down in a shelter. HART gets calls from people who want to surrender an elderly pet (10 years and up) because they have decided to travel or are moving to an apartment, and various other reasons, and no longer want this pet. These animals have been loved and in a home from the time they were a baby until the time an owner decides to no longer keep them. Dogs are somewhat more resilient but it is very traumatic for them also. They sit in the back of their cage with their heads stuck in the corner, or they hide under any piece of furniture they can find. Personal surrendered animals, especially cats do very poorly in a shelter situation. If your cat or dog is a senior, please do not think they are going to do well in a shelter.Īll senior animals are evaluated on a case by case basis as to whether we can take them. I would like to speak to the following scenarios HART encounters and the policies in place. And then there are people who their pet is no longer cute, or has bad habits because no one ever taught it different and the really heart breaking reason the pet is old or sick and they can’t or won‘t deal with it. Unforeseen circumstances can arise where there are people who truly can no longer care for their pet. In the shelter world the definition of this is any animal that you have had in your care for two weeks or longer. One of these is what we call a “Personal Surrendered Animal”. Surrendering Your Personal Pet to HART:Īs an animal shelter HART takes in animals under various circumstances. ![]() Please take in to consideration the following when you are thinking about surrendering your pet to a shelter.
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