"Free to Good Home"
can lead to misery, abuse, and even death for your pet!
For whatever reason, you’ve decided to rehome for your beloved pet. We know this is not an easy decision. So, you opt to place an ad in a newspaper or website advertising your pet as "free to a good home". While your intentions are good in this situation, we strongly advise against this approach.
A recent study at one animal shelter yielded the startling statistic that 41% of all owner-surrendered dogs had been obtained "Free to good home."
"Free" is all too often seen as "worthless" in the eye of the beholder. Pets obtained for free are less likely to be spayed or neutered by their new owners (why bother with vet bills?), and more likely to be abused and/or discarded, because "there are plenty more where that came from!"
This is how some people see your "free" loved one:
There are, sadly, many individuals who search the online advertising sites for purebred or designer dogs for breeding purposes. Your little unspayed female will be bred every time she comes into heat. When she is not longer able to produce a litter, she will likely be turning her out on the street to fend for herself.
What Is A "Buncher?"
A buncher either steals or "adopts" companion animals for the purpose of selling the animal. Bunchers can sell animals for one or more of the following reasons:
"Bunchers" can be very deceptive and they prey on people who place "free to good home" ads. They will sometimes use children as part of the ploy and present themselves as a "perfect" family. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is! Don't assume because someone brings their wife or children that they are honest and will give your pet a good home. There are documented cases in which "brokers" brought their children with them when collecting animals so that they would look "legitimate".
When we see an ad like this we contact the dog's owner and try to get them to either surrender the dog to a rescue or offer to help the by offering to post the dog on our website.
A recent study at one animal shelter yielded the startling statistic that 41% of all owner-surrendered dogs had been obtained "Free to good home."
"Free" is all too often seen as "worthless" in the eye of the beholder. Pets obtained for free are less likely to be spayed or neutered by their new owners (why bother with vet bills?), and more likely to be abused and/or discarded, because "there are plenty more where that came from!"
This is how some people see your "free" loved one:
- Free snake food.
- Free animals for malicious pranks.
- Free to breed indiscriminately.
- Free animal to hoard and neglect.
There are, sadly, many individuals who search the online advertising sites for purebred or designer dogs for breeding purposes. Your little unspayed female will be bred every time she comes into heat. When she is not longer able to produce a litter, she will likely be turning her out on the street to fend for herself.
What Is A "Buncher?"
A buncher either steals or "adopts" companion animals for the purpose of selling the animal. Bunchers can sell animals for one or more of the following reasons:
- To be used in research labs
- To be used as bait to train dogs in fighting rings
- To be used as breeding stock in puppy mills
"Bunchers" can be very deceptive and they prey on people who place "free to good home" ads. They will sometimes use children as part of the ploy and present themselves as a "perfect" family. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is! Don't assume because someone brings their wife or children that they are honest and will give your pet a good home. There are documented cases in which "brokers" brought their children with them when collecting animals so that they would look "legitimate".
When we see an ad like this we contact the dog's owner and try to get them to either surrender the dog to a rescue or offer to help the by offering to post the dog on our website.
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