02-18-2016, 10:59 AM
I've never done this before. I had no idea that part of the process is that they come into your home. I don't know these people and I enjoy my privacy. Has anyone ever done this before?
(02-18-2016, 11:28 AM)ramseycat Wrote: [ -> ]I've always adopted from a shelter. No home visit. But I've heard some places do that to make sure the home is a good environment. Some people adopt animals and use thrm for bait in dog fighting.Both of the shelters I've applied to require a home visit. I have nothing to hide, but I don't know these people, don't plan on getting to know them or ever have them over for a cup of fucking tea and the extensive 3 page applications I submitted already confirm I have a fenced yard and a dogie door, so I'm just not getting why they would need to invade my privacy.
(02-18-2016, 01:41 PM)Duchess Wrote: [ -> ]And they have my vet's info already.
I've been hearing of that the past couple of years. Although I understand it I do agree that it is invasive and I would think that something from your vet would suffice.
(02-18-2016, 01:45 PM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: [ -> ]And they have my vet's info already.
(02-18-2016, 01:46 PM)Duchess Wrote: [ -> ]I have agreed to the home invasion, I mean inspection, but I intend to let them know that I don't think it's necessary, and that it's an invasion of my privacy.(02-18-2016, 01:45 PM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: [ -> ]And they have my vet's info already.
By many people's standards that should be more than sufficient.
(02-18-2016, 02:27 PM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: [ -> ]I have agreed to the home invasion, I mean inspection, but I intend to let them know that I don't think it's necessary, and that it's an invasion of my privacy.
(02-18-2016, 11:28 AM)ramseycat Wrote: [ -> ]I've always adopted from a shelter. No home visit. But I've heard some places do that to make sure the home is a good environment. Some people adopt animals and use thrm for bait in dog fighting.
(02-18-2016, 02:38 PM)Duchess Wrote: [ -> ]And I'm paying good money to rescue the pet. If there wasn't an extensive amount of info already given I would understand the need to inspect the home, but FFS, the only thing they haven't asked my for is the routing number to my checking account(02-18-2016, 02:27 PM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: [ -> ]I have agreed to the home invasion, I mean inspection, but I intend to let them know that I don't think it's necessary, and that it's an invasion of my privacy.
The older I get the more I find I have mixed feelings about pretty much every goddamn thing. I really like knowing that there are those who will go to great lengths to insure that an animal goes to a safe & loving, forever, home but I also see how some would find it excessive. At the end of the day, you are tolerating something you don't like in order to bring a new pet into your family and that's a wonderful thing.
(02-18-2016, 06:18 PM)sally Wrote: [ -> ]And any used needles laying around.Well they won't find any heroin in them if that's what they're looking for.
(02-18-2016, 08:26 PM)sally Wrote: [ -> ]This is the first I've heard of home inspections when adopting a dog, but I don't think it's too much of an inconvenience just to do a quick look-around to make sure it's not going to be used as a bait dog.Neither do I, but that's really not in question here since they already have the history on my last 3 dogs complete with vet records going back the last 30 years. And if I was going to use the puppy as a bait dog, would you be able to tell by a visit to my home? Doubtful.
Or they could just do racial profiling, but that would probably cause a shit storm with the black community.