Jack, adopted by Tori and Paris through In Our Hands Rescue. Photo: Bobby Doherty for New York Magazine. Retouching by Bobby Doherty. It was a rainy Sunday in June, and Danielle had fallen in love.
The friends rose from the bench and thanked the volunteer for her time. Believing they were out of earshot, the volunteer summed up the interview to a colleague: “You just walked by, and you’re fixated on this one dog, and it’s because you had a beagle growing up, but you want to make your roommate the legal adopter?”
And yet someone has to pick the winners — often an unpaid millennial Miss Hannigan doling out a precious number of wet-nosed Orphan Annies to wannabe Daddy Warbuckses and thus empowered to judge the intentions and poop-scooping abilities of otherwise accomplished urban professionals, some of whom actually did go to Harvard.
Then came The Ad. Released in 2007, it featured close-ups of three-legged dogs and one-eyed cats rescued by the ASPCA over a wrenching rendition of Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel.” The commercial warned that “for hundreds of others, help came too late.” In just a year, the ad raised 60 percent of the ASPCA’s annual $50 million budget. The organization was reportedly able to increase the grant money it gave to other animal-welfare organizations by 900 percent in ten years.
Flash-forward 16 years: She and that boyfriend are married, have two kids, and can’t seem to get a new dog no matter what they try. Yes, she could find a breeder easily online . But instead, in the middle of the pandemic, “I was sending ten to 12 emails a night and willing to travel anywhere, and no one would give us any sort of animal,” she remembers.
“The people who run rescue organizations — this was their moment to shine,” she adds. “Even though they were totally bogged down with requests, they got to feel the power. They got to make someone’s dreams come true or smash them to the ground.” But after securing a dog, he came to believe the process, while tough on the human applicants, wasn’t tough enough when it came to the dog’s needs. Right off the bat, Cooper was very hyper and mouthy when playing. “We were doing the thing that everyone does, like, posting pics: ‘We’re at the park, isn’t this fun, hahaha,’ ” he says. But the reality was much less Instagram-worthy.
With that out of the way, Jason tried to carefully maneuver a luggage cart full of the remaining dog crates to the lot where he was parked. When one fell, the animal inside didn’t make a sound, presumably zonked from its long journey across the ocean. More volunteers were waiting at the shelter with food, water, and an enormous number of puppy pads when he arrived.
Figuring that online volunteer work might fill the void, she started helping another organization wade through its massive backlog of applications by calling references. She offered to foster more dogs but didn’t hear back, nor did her attempts to adopt pan out. When she went ahead and adopted Sasha, a Pomeranian, through another rescue agency, the first organization was not happy.
tinapittaway Some rescues are cults. In any case give it a year as we've reached a saturation point and are beginning to see animals getting dumped by people unprepared for the financial and emotional costs of pet ownership.
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allie_conti Everyone I know who adopted had to pay a fortune and every dog is either from Puerto Rico or Texas.
allie_conti This is BS all the shelters are over run right now with too many animals. They ALL DESPERATELY need people to adopt and foster. They are killing perfectly healthy young animals because of lack of space. This is no luxury it is a necessity to save these animals life's
allie_conti IMO that was not an article but a rant on how angry she was. There was no credibility as to her going to the other rescues and checking out their policy. It would have been great to offer success stories of PilotTroy flying a dog to its owner.Its not all bad.
allie_conti Wow, as if NY isn't killing enough dogs already. You just made it harder for them to get adopters and increased the animals' odds of getting killed for space. Wildly irresponsible.
allie_conti How can you write an article about dog adoptions and omit the LARGEST FACILITY IN NYC that adopts out dogs. THE NYCACC Crappy article. YOU CAN DO BETTER NewYorkMag New York Magazine
allie_conti Given many rescue dogs are still in pounds and that 670K dogs are put to sleep annually - this is an inaccurate and irresponsible article and suggests people do not need to think about rescue centres anymore. Spend 10 minutes on the internet next time.