I had two calls today from a lady locally wanting to re-home a 10 month old male.
They had agreed to look after him temporarily for a friend of their son but weeks had turned into months until it became apparent his owner wasn't coming back.
They didn't want him, he was after all, not their dog.
They had two Spaniels and he started to fight with the male.
They had ended up with a dog they never wanted in the first place and now he was picking on their own dog.
They wanted him gone.
So they advertised him on Gumtree as free to good home.
Realising the dangers of this they had turned down single men, stipulating he needed a family home.
They had found homes for him twice.
One they had another male dog so that didn't work.(I think I had a call from this home)
In the next home they had a 10 month old child, he knocked it over.
Desperate to find him somewhere they had paid to have him castrated.
Now they were contacting us.
We were unable to help as we are already running four dogs over our limit.
We could put him on our website but there is no guarantee he would find a home and they wanted him gone quickly also he sounded as if he needed some training, if we advertised him and someone came along would we really feel comfortable homing such a dog.
Yet your heart goes out to him, here is a young dog nobody wants and whose future is looking decidedly bleak.
This is not a one off, this is happening to hundreds of Staffords throughout our country everyday.
To end on a positive note.
Smudge appears to have landed on her paws with David and Helen fostering her, so far going well with the cats and getting pampered as these photos show! ( Sorry cannot get them to load.)By taking her in when we did we saved her from suffering the same fate as this 10 month old and so many others.
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