[Dailydrool] Owner explains why she dumped her dogs

[Cathy Rice]

I handle most of the owner relinquish for OBR and wanted to say that we tried to help this couple with these dogs more than a month ago. I was contacted by email from a person who said she was a friend of the wife asking if we could do anything to help. I called this person to discuss the circumstances to see what we could do. I advised her that OBR has not been accepting owner relinquish for some time now unless the circumstances involve someone who is physically or mentally unable to care for their pets. We get too many requests to be able to take them all so we have to set limits. There were two female bassets who were spayed and two male bassets and a male bloodhound who were not neutered. I offered to post the two females on our website as owner relinquish with a rehoming fee to help them cover the cost of spaying the other dogs so that we could then post them as OR. I also offered to help them locate a low cost spay neuter clinic. The friend said she would get photos and info and relay it back to me. After 10 days I got no response so I called the friend back who said that the wife had moved out and the husband had decided to keep the dogs. Afterward I found out through talking with OBR's director Eva that the wife had called her and she had basically told her the same thing, that OBR would post the dogs for them as OR and I would help them locate a low cost spay neuter clinic to get the males neutered. Weeks went by with no communication from the owners and nothing being done. Then Maribeth, our adoption coordinator gets a call from a gentleman on 7/15 saying he is with the local Humane Society and that 5 dogs were dumped at the local dog park and asking if we would help. Maribeth refers it to Eva to see if they are the same dogs/person she  and I have already been contacted about. Eva verified that the phone number is the same one as the person who originally called her. She calls the man back who after Eva confronts him admits that the dogs are his and that his wife took the dogs and dumped them at the park. He also had the nerve to admit that yes, the dogs had been used for breeding  but he couldn't remember how many times. So now he is upset because the Humane Officer has them and the dogs could very well be euthanized if no one comes forward to adopt them. I am having a hard time feeling sorry for these people when OBR tried to help them more than a month ago, the man admits that they bred the dogs so many times that he can't remember how many, made money on the pups, the wife if you notice in the video is using a laptop which I believe must cost at least $300.00 or more but they have no money to help get the dogs neutered so that we can get them placed. As you may have already read on the Drool OBR is in severe financial staits. We have had to stop taking in dogs even from shelters beause we have no foster homes available and have been paying to kennel dogs that were pulled from kill shelters.
  I know that things must be bad for all of the rescues out there but if you can help by supporting one of our fund raisers it would be much appreciated. We will be posting an online raffle soon on OBR's website with many nice items including a GPS. We also will be having a "yard sale" in Springfield, Ohio on August 7 at Tool Tech, 4901 Urbana Rd. Our Bassetfest this year will be on Oct 2 at the same beautiful dog park we have used for the past two years. The website is www.columbusdogpark.com.
Please check out the dog park website. For any information about these events please contact me offline and I will be happy to give details. Thanks,

Cathy
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