Phone prompts for rescuers

[borzoimom]

( this is funny but also hits close to home..)
"Hello, You have reached 123-4567, Tender HeartsRescue. Due to the high
volume of calls we have been receiving, please listen closely to the
following options and choose the one that best describes you or your
situation:

Press 1 if you think we are veterinarians and want free medical advice.
Press 2 if you know we are a rescue organization but want to save money
and have us give you free, untrained medical advice anyway.
Press 3 if you make $200,000 a year but still want us to pay to spay the
"stray" in your yard (house).
Press 4 if you have a 10-year-old dog and your 15-year-old son has
suddenly become allergic and you need to find the dog a new home right
away.
Press 5 if you have three dogs, had a baby and want to get rid of your
dogs because you are the only person in the world to have a baby and dogs
at the same time.
Press 6 if your dog is sick and needs a vet but you need the money for
your vacation.
Press 7 if you just got a brand new puppy and your old dog is having
problems adjusting so you want to get rid of the old one right away
Press 8 if your little puppy has grown up and is no longer small and cute
and you want to trade it in for a new model.
Press 9 if you are elderly and want to adopt a cute puppy who is not
active and is going to outlive you.
Press 10 if your relative has died and you don't want to care for their
elderly dog because it doesn't fit your lifestyle.
Press 11 if you are moving today and need to immediately place your 150
pound, 8-year-old, unneutured, aggressive dog.
Press 12 if you want an unpaid volunteer to come to your home today and
pick up the dog you no longer want.
Press 13 if you have been feeding and caring for a "stray" for the last
three years, are moving and suddenly determine it's not your dog.
Press 14 if you are calling at 6 a.m. to make sure you wake me up before I
have to go to work so you can drop a dog off on your way to work.
Press 15! to leav e us an anonymous garbled message, letting us know you
have left a dog in our yard in the middle of January, which is in fact,
better than just leaving the dog with no message.
Press 16 if you are going to get angry because we are not going to take
your dog that you have had for fifteen years, because it is not our
responsibility.
Press 17 if you are going to threaten to take your ten year old dog to be
euthanized because we can't get to your house in the next hour.
Press 18 if you're going to get angry because the volunteers had the
audacity to go on vacation and leave the dogs in care of a trusted
volunteer who is not authorized to take your personal pet.
Press 19 if you want one of our perfectly trained, housebroken, kid and
cat friendly purebred tiny dogs that we have an abundance of.
Press 20 if you want us to take your dog that has a slight aggression
problem, i.e. has only bitten a few people and killed your neighbor's
cats.
Press 21 if you have already called once and been told we don't take
personal surrenders but thought you would get a different person this time
with a different answer.
Press 22 if you want us to use space that would go to a stray to board
your personal dog while you are on vacation, free of charge, of course.
Press 23 if it is Christmas Eve or Easter morning and you want me to
deliver an eight week old puppy to your house by 6:30 am before your kids
wake up.
Press 24 if you have bought your children a duckling, chick or baby bunny
for Easter and it is now Christmas and no longer cute.
Press 25 if you want us to take your female dog who has already had ten
litters, but we can't spay her because she is pregnant again and it is
against your religion.
Press 26 if you're lying to make one of our younger volunteers feel bad
and take your personal pet off your hands.
Press 27 if your cat is biting and not using the litter box because it is
declawed, but are not willing to accept the respo! nsibilit y that the cat's
behavior is altered because of your nice furniture.
Press 28 if your two year old male dog is marking all over your house but
you just haven't gotten around to having him neutered.
Press 29 if you previously had an outdoor only dog and are calling because
she is suddenly pregnant.
Press 30 if you have done "everything" to housebreak your dog and have had
no success but you don't want to crate the dog because it is cruel.
Press 31 if you didn't listen to the message asking for an evening phone
number and you left your work number when all volunteers are also working
and you are angry because no one called you back.
Press 32 if you need a puppy immediately and cannot wait because today is
your daughter's birthday and you forgot when she was born.
Press 33 if your dog's coat doesn't match your new furniture and you need
a different color or breed.
Press 34 if your new love doesn't like your dog and you are too stupid to
get rid of the new friend (who will dump you in the next month anyway)
instead of the dog.

[GreyhoundGirl]

They're all so true it's almost pathetic and funny at the same time... the excuses some people think of

[Dignity]

I use to work at a rescue (job and job responsibilities changed, so now I cannot really donate time, but I do try to donate $$) - I don't know how many of these excuses I heard on a day to day basis. We were always told not to judge the people. We did have some good people come in and I honestly did believe their stories of the abandoned dogs that they were trying to help out and rehome themselves, but just couldn't continue spending the money or living with an untrained dog they never bargained for. What I'm trying to say is, that you do see the good with the bad.