How can people sell their animals

[Claire W]

It makes me so sad when I see adverts where people want to sell their animals. If I ever needed to re home any of my animals (thank god I don't need to), I wouldn't dream of asking for money for them.

Giving a donation to a rescue is completely different and if I ever needed to re home my animals, I would rather a trusting rescue do it for me unless I new a trusting person who would take them for me.

It just makes me feel sad when people sell their pets

 

[Hoggle*&*Ludo]

I would find it absolutely devastating to even have to hand them to a rescue. I love my animals soooooooo much and can't understand people who get bored and put them in an advert.

 

[flintstones]

I agree I couldn't sell an animal I cared about the guarantee of them having a loving home is to precious to sell! I have rehomed an animal Marvin I got my friend to drive me for 40 minutes to take him to a rescue that had a very good reputation and did homechecks. He now has a very loving home, he may even be spoiled than my piggies with his wife and own bedroom! x

 

[Lisajazz]

I feel the same. I saw loads being sold round here yesterday and being given away too - babies. Made me really sad and wishing I could help.

I have never rehomed an animal - nor anyone else in my family.

But I do agree giving to a reputable rescue is the way to go should you ever be forced to do it for some reason (like for your poor Fred's mental and physical wellbeing Joanne). If I ever HAD to do it it would be that way.

 

[stargrrlclaire]

I can't see why people would want to sell their pets. But then some people are born with their head not put on straight

 

[Wiebke]

I completely agree!

When I couldn't keep my own surprise babies and wasn't successful in finding them a home amongst our friends, I rehomed them through a rescue as the best alternative for making sure that they went to a good place. Needless to say that it was a very heartrending decision!

Of course, I should have got my piggies from a rescue in the first place, like I was planning to do when I fell for a bullied little (pregnant) shop piggy's sad big eyes... rolleyes

 

[lovelygirl]

yes i am somewhat bemused by people who sell their pets, but if you were in financial dire straits and you could not look after your puppy and you thought you could get a better home by "selling" her, because they obviously will have the money to look after her (odd thinking not my own) and you need money?

The only animals my mum has ever sold on were the ponies when they got too small, but unless we sold them we could not afford to get new ones - there was always lots and lots of tears and we are still in contact with all of them

 

[Modwyn]

I don't get how people can sell their pets, I always try to encourage folks to let a rescue find their pets a new home as oppossed to selling them to gosh only knows who, but sadly they are usually not receptive to the idea of not getting any recompence for all they have expended on said pet in the past.rolleyes

 

[Spishkey]

i agree with lovelygirls thinking.
id prefer to 'sell' my pets than give them away if i ever needed to, as i would feel if someone had the money to pay for a pet, they more than likely have the money to care for it too.
a lot of people see a pet 'free to good home' and snap it up without thinking, then 2 months down the line they get bored with it/fed up buying food, and pass it on again...poor animal is passed from free pillar to free post.

of course if the option of getting it into a rescue was available id do that first, but rescues here charge ig bucks to take in your animal, and most of the time they are so full they have no room and refuse you

 

[flintstones]

i agree with lovelygirls thinking.
id prefer to 'sell' my pets than give them away if i ever needed to, as i would feel if someone had the money to pay for a pet, they more than likely have the money to care for it too.
a lot of people see a pet 'free to good home' and snap it up without thinking, then 2 months down the line they get bored with it/fed up buying food, and pass it on again...poor animal is passed from free pillar to free post.

of course if the option of getting it into a rescue was available id do that first, but rescues here charge ig bucks to take in your animal, and most of the time they are so full they have no room and refuse you

Our local rescue does have a waiting list, but when I took Marvin thankfully they had space and could take him. They do ask a donation for taking the animal though which I think is fair enough, as they had Marvin neuteredand paired him with a friend!

 

[annaliese]

We were talking about rehoming my yorkshire terrier the other week as me and my boyfriend are moving to york and it is going to be very difficult to get a place with a dog, a lot of landlords dont mind cages animals (which puts the pigs in the clear) but with free roaming animals like dogs and cats they seem to take a different view. My best friend said her mam was looking for a dog and that she would pay me £200 for her, i was immediately shocked and said that if her mam was to rehome my dog that she would be doing ME a favour by providing my animal with a secure and loving home. It had never occurred to me that you even Could sell animals on to a second home, i think its wrong that person is already doing you and your pet a kindness and so why should they have to pay for the privelage as well, makes no sense to me :\ We are not rehoming the dog by the way i decided despite difficulty iv had her since she was 6 weeks old and shes my baby, shes going nowhere without me