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The Humane Society puts the animal first, so if you aren't taking care of it or abusing it or misusing it, they will come take it back. It's in the adoption paperwork.

...that's their job? They also take your purebred dog you are abusing away. Do you think that means they own the dog you bought from a breeder?

Notice the DA.

Some people think that other people being able to legally take something means that you don't "own" it. Like, when my wife's brother said we didn't actually own our house because we were still paying the mortgage. I wouldn't be surprised if comment OP up there thinks the same way; but having that spelled out in the paperwork is probably why they think you don't "own" your pet if adopted from the Human Society - cause you can't do what you like with them.

If you get a dog from the Humane Society, you need their consent to take the dog with you if you move. If your dog gets cancer, they have to approve the treatment. If your dog is critically injured or terminally ill and in pain, you can’t have it euthanized without the Humane Society’s approval.

sounds not so great. Why'd anyone agree to this?

Because they want to feel morally superior to people who get dogs from breeders (who have the same kinds of contracts), but that doesn’t mean they want to go to a municipal shelter with the plebs.

Dogf breeders do that? That's weird.

In my experience, the Humane Society operates in areas that don’t have local shelters. I’ve lived a few places where it was the main or only place to adopt pets. I’ve heard of other rescues modeling their adoption terms on the Humane Society’s, unfortunately. The original intent is good but the terms are too restrictive and it has a negative impact. It screens out perfect matches as equally as abusive adopters. If the local laws are strict and strictly enforced, vets can refuse to treat the animals because they don’t want to deal with the administrative burden and potentially make an animal’s suffering worse. It encourages Craigslist and FB Marketplace buying from BYB. And it discourages people from taking strays to them, which means other rescues operating in those areas (usually very small rescues) get extra strain on their far more meager resources.

Interesting. In my experience shelters that do it get money depending on how many animals they have. I'm not from the US and worked with cat shelters. One of the largest and the worst one was like that. They even refused to return the runaway cat to its owner. Someone randomly brought it to them and they wanted money or no cat.

Where I live the shelter (which is a tax payer funded division of the police) charges a reclaiming fee. It’s basically a fine for losing your pet. It’s also to weed out the people that can’t afford their pets (we have a vet high poverty rate and the whole area is Methville). And if someone is constantly losing their pet, they cannot reclaim it again. I think it’s like 3-4 times. I think that aspect of the shelter is good.

But they shut down for over two years for Covid and it created a lot of problems and overcrowding and the animals not receiving the proper care. They haven’t fully recovered from those problems and there still lingering mistrust in the community. And because they were always full, loads of us have pets that we found as strays and couldn’t find homes for because the shelter couldn’t take them. I love my bonus dog dearly and wouldn’t give him up now after all this time but the first six months were ROUGH because our other dog was going through chemo and I was also sick. The stress of dealing with a traumatized dog who had heart worms and severe behavior issues on top of all I was already going through nearly killed me.

Your dog is lucky to have you.
There's a problem of agressive stray dogs that kill people so fining dog owners is understandable. Cats, not so much.

Because that's not how it works. If that is how it works for AYRT, then I would question if someone is stealing the Humane Society name. I have a cat from the Humane Society in my state and they have never interfered in my cats medical treatment. They might stop you from euthanizing your pet if they feel there is an actual treatment that is possible but you don't want to spend the money/can't afford it, but in that case they will take the pet back to give it treatment before adopting it out to someone else.

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