Let’s Adopt, rules of the Game
Dear members,
As the groups grow so do our reach and our ability to find homes for animals in need. Unfortunately our problems grow as well, group members who don’t really understand the way the group works, DEMAND our help and animals end up dumping on us.
In order to avoid the repeat of this situations here you have the Rules of this Group, our code of conduct, the procedures that make the difference between this group and all others, the stuff that makes us “unique”.
a) Where do we get the dogs in Viktor Larkhill’s portfolio?
The dogs come from all over Turkey and from a variety of sources.. Animal rescuers who have saved an animal and are now looking for a home, veterinarians who have an animal whose owner has “disappeared”, petshops who have failed to sell an animal and want to give it away instead of killing him, animals that have been found wandering in the forest, or the highways, people who were given a dog and after a week want to get rid of it.
Let’s Adopt is here to assist (and educate) animal lovers.
We also do our own rescues. Periodically we have to intervene in cases of animal abuse, in most cases at the hands of “animal lovers”.
There are only two cases we refuse:
– someone decides to have puppies and now doesn’t know what to do with them.
– someone wants us to help find a family for an animal but doesn’t trust our judgement and wants to have the final word on where the animal goes.
Every other case we will always help with.
b) What to do if you find an animal.
Here are our rescue procedures:
– NEVER take an animal to a shelter. NEVER. DONT DO IT!!
The word “shelter” stands for protection, care, safety. In Turkey shelters are (with one or two exceptions) abject places run by animal hoarders assisted by insensitive, lazy and unmotivated municipal employees where dogs are fed a menu consisting of stale bread and garbage. If this depended on me all shelters in Turkey would be closed, and a large number of its managers would be charged with animal cruelty.
What those places do is, in the vast majority of cases, unspeakable.
– Injured animal: take him to a vet and treat him from his injuries. If the dog can survive on the streets, return him where you found buy xanax cancun him. If the dog has clearly been abandoned or you consider that he cannot survive out there and that he has already suffered enough then we’ll rehome him.
– Dogs to be rehomed by Let’s Adopt: First of all you, as the rescuer will assume full responsibility for the safety of the animal until we find him a family. You could keep him a home, or put him on a pension or, if available, we will try to find a foster home (this is why foster homes are so important).
We do all we can so that the dog is rehomed as quickly as possible but this doesn’t always depend on us.
You need to send us at least 10 pictures of the animal. The pictures have to be of good quality. The better the pictures are the bigger the chances of finding a home for the animal. If we think the pictures are not good enough we will try to send a photographer to you but that is not always possible and it will delay things.
Every cost, medical treatment, neutering operation, pension costs, transportation costs to the animal final home are to be covered by the rescuer. Let’s Adopt is run with the money of a handful of volunteers, therefore we cannot accept to cover the expenses of animals brought in by private rescuers.
“To rescue” a dog means to assume full responsibility for that animals life and provide for his every need until a suitable family is found. Very few people understand this and more often than not we are the ones left with the financial burden.
Let’s Adopt won’t make exceptions to this rule.
Let’s Adopt has set up a Fund, Simba’s Fund, whose goal is to finance life saving surgical procedures on animals who have no “rescuer”. In all other cases the cost will have to be covered by the rescuer.
– The responsibility for finding a home, screen the applicants and, very important, the final decision of who gets to adopt the animal lies on the management of Let’s Adopt. We assume full responsibility for our decisions. Our only priority and interest is to help the animals, our decisions are taken with only that goal in mind.
I hope this has answered all your questions. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you want to get further involved in our work.
Best
V
v.larkhill@googlemail.com