A local Dogs Trust to us allowed a woman I know to take a 6 month old Schnauzer X puppy from their rehoming centre - with no home check at all. Infact, all they asked for was a picture of the back garden :rolleyes: and she could have taken a picture of anyones.

She also has a 2 year old daughter and very little experience of keeping dogs.

Unsuprisingly they dog lasted there a week when she couldn't cope with the separation anxiety - so now he's back in kennels

I think its outrageous they let him go like that.

I'm really surprised at that.  When my mum was looking for a dog she contacted our local Dogs Trust and they said if they had a suitable dog they would have to come out and do a home visit and do a kind of "interview" to make sure it was the right dog for her.  Dogs Trust always seem to give the impression that they vet prospective owners very carefully.

Saying that, when I got Copper (not via Dogs Trust) we were asked if we had a garden, no other pets, children etc and we could have said anything.  Nothing was checked out, we just put him in the car and away we went - thankfully for him we were very willing if not perfect owners but it doesn't work out like that for all the dogs.

CG

My local one homed a 12 month old male OES with a couple who worked full time! :(  He came to me for grooming before the new owners even took him home (the man came and told me that they were rescuing a dog who was in a mess so I did him at the end of a working day) and I found testicular cancer and a fly blown anal abcess!  I kept in touch with his 3rd home until he was sent to Scotland!  Each homing counted as a successful case, even if the dog came back again. :(

When I first started grooming I offered to help them as my 'charity contribution', but soon stopped when I saw the way that they operated. :(

Thats outrageous :(

Our dog came from the Dogs Trust and we had a homecheck which was very thorough - the lady walked all round our garden checking the fence, plants, and for any possible places a small pup could get  into trouble. She also advised us to be very careful of our ponds. We had to fill in a questionnaire about our home circumstances and the whole family had to have met our dog before he could come home with us. We also had to provide sight of a utilities bill to prove that we lived at the address given - even though the home visit had been done. The form also had a section for people who lived in rented accomodation and they had to show their lease which had to have a clause in it stating that pets were allowed.

A family who had their name down for a puppy in the litter next door to our pup weren't allowed to rehome a pup as their youngest daughter was very frightened of it and the Trust said they couldn't let them have a dog all the time their little girl was so frightened as it wasn't fair on the child or the dog.

Not sure what went wrong with the system in the particular case the OP has mentioned - but a very different experience from ours. Having said that I have called in to our local home recently to just have a look around and let them see how our dog is getting on and I was offered another dog. As ours is only 14 months old at the moment I said it is something we are considering in a couple of years time and was told that there shouldn't be a problem with having another dog now  - perhaps they are just getting desperate to rehome so they have space for all those who will undoubtedly be in need of a rescue place after Christmas.

Maybe they are as good as their current manager??? :)  Our local one was there for at least 10 years and was awful.

Our local rescue centre (which is used by the dog warden and local council) is appalling - a few years ago it gave an eldery neighbour in his 80s a ninth month old, hyper active and totally untrained GSD cross, which he only kept a few weeks before giving it to his daughter. The poor old bloke was dragged everywhere by the dog and no way could he cope with such a boisterous animal.

Recently a frail old ladyhas appeared with what looks like an Akita/collie cross from the same place. She is tiny and lives on her own and the dog drags her around. When it sees another dog, she has to let go of the lead to stop herself from falling. I am disgusted at the kennel, I would have thought they would have tried to match dogs to suitable owners, but it looks like they just want the adoption fee.

I know of someone else who recently got a dog from there, they brought it home the same day without being asked for ID, suitability, experience or living arrangements. With having a contract with the local council, I wonder if the kennels have to meet targets and rehome so many animals a week to meet these, with no thought given to the dogs' welfare?

unfortunately i think it varies from area to area & manager.
i used to have a 'freind' who managed to adopt to dogs trust dogs, despite working full time & having a very unsecure garden- she simply lied!
both dogs had flea allergies which werent kept under control by her,
she then decided to get another (young) dog in case either of the other older dogs died!- all bitches- unsurprisingly they fought, the young dog bullied the older two, wasnt house trained & all 3 were very unhappy:(- no training stimulation, or exercise done- just shouting at the dogs for behaviour 2 seconds ago they found funny & laughed at
she THEN got another young dog to keep the other young dog company- an almighty fight broke out resulting in two injured dogs & she then tried to privately advertise one of the older dogs for sale.
this sad situation was only resolved after i informed the dogs trust  & resulted in the end of the 'freindship'
i have to say i did try & help & advise her, but she would not listen:rolleyes:
she was one of those people that thought lots of pets= pet lover.
& the fact that ahe 'rescued' them made her an even more ' caring' person