09-02-2018, 07:07 AM
All my dogs have been re-homes, with fairly simple (i.e., non-traumatic) origin stories (e.g., owner had two jobs and no free time; owner was going off to college and couldn't take the dog; owners divorcing and moving into smaller places that didn't allow dogs, etc.). In each case, I was in the right place at the right time. Only one of my dogs was a true "rescue" (he had been harassing/killing sheep and was scheduled for euthanasia), but even in his case, there was little or no objection from the authorities when someone offered to find him a new home where there weren't any sheep. Both my cats were kinda rescues, too: the first one came with the house I moved into, and fortunately the dogs got along with him, so he didn't have to go to a shelter; the second belonged to my parents, and when they grew too old to care for him, I offered to take him so they didn't have to give him to a shelter, either.
