Italian Greyhound adoption : is a rescue dog a "clever" way to get a purebred dog for free?

Italian Greyhound adoption : is a rescue dog a "clever" way to get a purebred dog for free?

I've noticed that in Facebook groups, anyone looking for a Italian Greyhound in "adoption", They are immediately directed to me, even if they have no experience with the breed. For this reason, I prefer to clarify our concept of "adoption" or "rescue":

The Italian Greyhounds entrusted to the IG RESCUE CENTER ITALIA will be given up for adoption only to those who have experience with the breed. By "experience" I don't mean "having a friend of mine" but rather having lived with a Greyhound. We always give priority to people who already have a Piccolo Levriero Italiano and are looking for another one for company. I ask anyone looking for a Piccolo Levriero Italiano for adoption, to first read this link, present on the website of IG RESCUE CENTER ITALY, www.igrescue.it/adozioni Please contact me only AFTER reading what is written on the page. This is for my own sake and for my enormous commitment to dogs in need. The rescue dogs I take into my home are elderly and/or sick dogs, of all breeds but also mixed breeds found on the streets, which no one wants. A rescue dog is almost never a young, beautiful, healthy, and well-balanced dog. The purebred dogs I take into our Rescue Center almost always have some behavioral and/or health issues. They are often very fearful animals, who were not raised indoors and who prefer the company of other dogs, perhaps of the same breed, to whom they can orient themselves. Those who live with a Piccolo Levriero Italiano, you already know that they are special creatures. They generally love the company of other PLI. Almost all the PLI Rescue I have taken in at my Rescue Center were very fearful and unsocialized animals. In the ADOPTIONS section of the website www.igrescue.it, scroll through the "adopted" dogs and you'll understand what I'm talking about. Please don't ask me to adopt a PLI if you then put "conditions" (such as "not too old", "not sick, I'm too sensitive", "not male because they pee" and so on). What would I look like if, when someone reports a dog to me for adoption in the Rescue Center, I put "conditions"? What if I said, "Oh, he's broken? I won't take him, you know, the surgery would cost me too much," or "Oh, he's a male who's not clean at home? I won't take him because I'm bored of wasting time with education," or "Oh, he's already 9 years old? I won't take him because he won't last long and I'll feel bad." What would I look like? The fact is that I am a Rescuer, I want to help these creatures and I do it unconditionally. I expect the same from those who want to "adopt". Everything else, from my point of view, are just "nice words"

I specialize in the recovery of handicapped animals, sometimes even severe ones, and / or very old dogs. I have a 14-year-old toy bum here, blind and deaf. I also have a diabetic Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and a 3 year old Maltesina (weighing 1 kilo and 200 grams). She is blind and brain damaged from a previous encephalitis. I have here a Berger Picard, abused and phobic who still pees underneath with fear. Tullia, a black dog, mestizo and not beautiful, nobody wants her. I had Tao, the Piccolo Levriero Italiano with a congenital handicap in one leg, "raised" in a courtyard in Northern Italy and "unsold" due to his malformation. TAO is a young and beautiful PLI but NONE Some people who were sent to me through the groups (among others, they were people who had never had a PLI) wanted to adopt him. He now lives with a wonderful family who already has a PLI, and he is incredibly loved. (Thank you!)

Adopting means giving home to a needy, sick or very old animal

Tao he had a lot of requests because he was very young but as soon as I mentioned his congenital problem, with which he lives very well and without problems, they "disappeared" or, at the limit, they asked me "do you have anything else?" In short, from my experience I have to think that some people want "Adopt an PLI" yes, but of course only if healthy and beautiful.

Hiro, puppy PLI with “half a face” (he was also born like that but otherwise very healthy and beautiful, in his own way), who had been entrusted to me in Rescue, was finally adopted in Germany because none of the people who “were looking for adoption in PLI” wanted him.

There was a dog with multiple fractures and "glass bones": she had been adopted here in Italy by a woman and had another fracture at her home. I was told some "untruths," and after days of suffering, the dog still hadn't been operated on. In the end, I went to pick her up, and we then had the surgery at our expense. I'll spare you the details! Of course, she never returned to her adopter. The little girl was then adopted in Germany, where she's well looked after. None of the people sent by the groups felt up to caring for her (because caring for her meant... SPEND MONEY ON HER)

The very young PLI, also fractured, which had been entrusted to me by her owner, after the breeder did not want to take her back. Ditto: dozens and dozens of requests from people who "wanted to adopt a young female Italian Greyhound" but did not feel like adopting a "sick" dog. In the end, after a long time, she found a wonderful family who were already experienced with fractured Italian Greyhounds.

It must be said ad nauseum, that in my Rescue I welcome dogs like that. Dogs in need, "special" dogs, sick, elderly, phobic, mixed-breed or purebred dogs.

Do Rescue or “place mares”?

It must be said that the IG RESCUE CENTER ITALY We don't find homes for "end-of-life bitches" (what an ugly term!) from other breeders because we take care of dogs in difficulty, abused, needy, dogs with disabilities, elderly dogs who have lost their families, mixed breeds rescued from the streets, or dogs who were forced to give birth dozens of times and then abandoned, thrown away like garbage.

Unfortunately, people don't read. NEVER. In groups, people who have never had an ITP regularly ask to adopt one, my name is promptly mentioned, they go to my profile, see the photos of our current litter, and promptly ask me for adoption of one of my puppies . (because obviously in the groups it was NOT specified that we breed, it was just made to understand “go to Valeria who has PLI to adopt” So I would also like to clarify this:

• "Lupavaro" is an ENCI/FCI recognized kennel. The puppies from our kennel are not free, and we do not give away our adult Italian Greyhounds or our older Italian Greyhounds, because our dogs are members of our family.
• Yes, we are also Rescue Center (IG RESCUE CENTER ITALY), specialized in elderly and / or severely handicapped animals.
• Young and healthy PLIs never end up in our Rescue. They always have some problems that the releasing owner can't handle. "To adopt" it is not in a clever way to have a beautiful, young, healthy and free purebred dog but an act of love towards a creature in need, old or sick it is!

The way we do Rescue and this. If you first explained all this to people, who are looking for an ITP in groups for adoption, then you can give them my contact information. Otherwise, no, because I would only "disappoint" them by offering for adoption one of the wonderful mixed-breed puppies (they're not greyhounds!) or their mother, whom we rescued last Christmas but no one wants. My advice is to adopt a dog with a disability, a very old dog, or a seriously ill one. I don't understand why you haven't done so! After all, you wanted to adopt a dog because you "want to do good," right?

Author: Valeria Lupavaro

Certified dog trainer ENCI dog trainer www.dogsittercampana.it See all articles by Valeria Lupavaro