Many Tears Animal Rescue
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Inconsiderate decision scuppered my adoption.submitted an application to adopt a…
I submitted an application to adopt a bonded pair of Maltese dogs age 4 & 6. I'm an experienced dog owner but lost my Westie aged 16 in February. Desperately wanted 2 similar type dogs so was thrilled when these came up. The home check did not go well. They wanted a padlock on my side gate which wasn't very practical as the postman uses it to put parcels by the back door. Then there was a tiny gap between my shed and the back fence which I had to block up, even though the whole shed and fencing is being replaced in 2 weeks time. I even sent them a copy of my fencing quote. Then they quibbled about a gap between my gate and next doors building - not a lot I can do about that as it is my neighbours gap not mine! Finally I was approved and bought new bedding, collars, name tags, leads, toys, food etc. Due to collect today Friday 11th July but late last night my mother was admitted to hospital as an emergency with a ruptured gallbladder requiring surgery. Clearly I was not going to be able to do an 8 hour round trip to Wales to collect the dogs as I needed to be with my 91 year old mother. I messaged them straight away ( no answer on phones) asking for a few days leeway (3 days) until my mother was out of hospital and they came back to say that they wouldn't agree and put them back up for adoption. Rules state you have to pick up within 7 days. They'd even made the dogs available again before they replied to me. No consideration that this was upsetting for me- not just having my Mum in hospital, but losing the dogs I'd set my heart on. It was more about how inconvenient it was for them. By the time they process another application, grill someone else on their home check and agree a collection it's likely they would have had to keep the dogs another 7 days instead of the 3 I was proposing. I will look for other dogs once Mum is on the mend but one thing is for certain - it won't be through Many Tears. Laudable their work may be but they need to seriously look at how they treat prospective adopters. Not everyone is a time waster - some of us genuinely needed some leeway. 27/07/25 As a follow up to this I have discovered that ,whilst these 2 were advertised as a bonded pair and needed to be rehomed together, they have now been adopted separately. Imagine the trauma these dogs are going through when I could have kept both of them together?