Pets Thread

[popeyespappy]

Yeah - they do a lot of fundraising..as we do. We have a series of vets in Phoenix, Tucson and Prescott who are in our "stable." We get a significant discount in exchange for bringing them our business. I'm sure Greyhound Rescue has the same arrangement with an orthopedic specialist.

I worked with an adoption group in Nashville (where our hounds came from) then later another in Knoxville. The Nashville group averaged about 100 placements a year on around a $100K annual budget. They could afford to do several special needs hounds every year. The special needs hounds included ten to twelve injured dogs like Pops and a lot of older hounds like brood bitches. They didn't even charge an adoption fee for special needs hounds to previous adopters. They also picked up the vet tab for the first year for the older hounds.

The Knoxville group averaged the same 100 or so placements a year, but they did it on a $25K annual budget. We didn't do a lot of special needs hounds in Knoxville...