@antigone said in Sacramento, CA BRAT:
@debradownsouth Potential owners should never turn down a Senior Dog.
Rescue nor anyone else should demand someone take a senior dog. Bless those who can and will, but that's like someone saying everyone should adopt pitbulls because there's too many in rescue. People looking to adopt get to choose what they are comfortable with. Many don't want puppies. I respect that people have the brains to know what they are comfortable with.
A for Joanne's "rest assured, there's no shortage of rescues out there"... that is patently not true if someone wants a dog that isn't senior or doesn't have health issues. We have had people here who could not even get a response from BRAT or told they had nothing available. This reduction has been true for years. Unless Liz Newton is lying
During the economic recession BRAT bought many Basenjis from auctions, rescuing and placing between 300–350 Basenjis per year. In recent years we have seen a great decline in the number of Basenjis rescued because fewer puppy mills are going out of business, fewer mills are producing Basenjis, and fewer Basenjis are being sold in pet stores. << (2015)
In 1999, Brat web page said they place about 250 dogs annually. I would be surprised if they did half that in 2017. Sadly, if their yearly stats are available, I can't find them.