We are looking for SBT DOG/PUP We Offer good home for YOUNG dog/pup perhaps you had dog for showing and hasn't quite turnout right ! or havnt time or unable to have or keep  dog now for what ever the reason we can offer good home . we have kept dogs for 30yrs & the last 12yrs SBT's which we have just lost are SBT after 12yrs .MUST BE GOOD with children & other dogs as we do have are grandchildren around and be in good health. WOULD PERFER KC reg & CLEAR L-2HGA/HC & PHPV-HC , FREE but could offer small fee  good happy home awaits

OP, I am not looking for an argument but as a Bull Breed Rescue it riles me when people are looking for free dogs. You get what you pay for. You are looking for so many things in a dog in your post - yet you want it for free?

Pop along to your local rescye, im sure you will find a few lovely sbt dogs waiting for a lovely home, i have a shelter at the back of me and you see some fab dogs in there that just need a good home and good handling

It worries me that if someone is not prepared to pay, even for a rescue, how are they going to react if this dog needs expensive treatment. No one should expect a breeder to hand a pup or young dog over free even if it has been run on, breeders will have people waiting for a pup who are prepared to pay the cost of rearing.

my area Stafford breed rescue say on their web site they expect a minimum donation of £80 for a dog that they rehome. which is not much compared to cost of a good pup/youngster but presumably is enough to weed out the 'I'm doing you a favoure by taking it off your hands' brigade.

I do agree with most of the above comments above, but would also like to say that just because you can not afford to pay alot for a dog, it doesn't mean you cannot offer a good home! We lost our old fella to DCM, he had all the medical help and support necessary because we had him insured. We knew we would not be able to afford big vet bills so took the responsible option of insurance! When we decided the time was right for another dog, we would not be able to pay the £900 wanted for a puppy so opted for a rescue. In a busy home with kids we thought it would be better to get an older dog and We had to be very specific in that he must be good with kids and cats, so When we took in a re-home dog, we were promised he was brilliant with kids and cats! We had spent months looking for the right dog for our family, felt we were being  responsible but when we took him home we had 4 months of hell! Good with the kids but kept mounting the youngest - thier suggestion 'oh you will have to get him neutured' They had said they would pay then they didn't so  we had to. Then they couldn't find his innoculation certificates so we had to pay for a blood test and subsequent vacs. They were very unhelpful when we told them he kept chasing the cats - we were told 'Oh he'll get used to them, its all a bit new'! The house was divided kids and cats completely seperate from the dog. Eventually, they came to visit and when they saw his reaction to the cats they were shocked and admitted he had never actually been checked with either since they had only had him two days!  Then they suggested that the problems were caused because 2-3 hours exercise a day was not enough - he needed at least 4, also suggested we drug him daily and get an electric shock collar to teach him to behave!! At that point, we had spent nearly £400, were stressed to the hilt, the cats had been bitten and we were all totally miserable. I gave him back!  Now, after that experience we are saving incredibly hard and we will get a puppy and never take on a rescue again! Now I don't blame the dog (his basic temperament made him a sweetie), But I do blame the re-home people - we didn't have £400 to spend in the first place, we are able to offer afantastic and loving home to a dog but don't have that kind of money just lying around. We paid £150 to the rescue home and never saw a penny recompense for any of what we had to spend out. They said they would pay the vets bill for the castration but never did so we were responsible. All in all, I would never be able to persuade my family to re-home again - something I feel very sad about. We love our pets to peices and to re-home a dog is a two-way thing - dogs benefit ,families benefit and GOOD re-home centres feel a job is well done when it all goes well, but don't discriminate because people can only pay a little for a dog - It does not make them bad owners!

Think perhaps your story shows that even when rehoming you have to do the homework - there are many responsible rehoming kennels that would take the utmost care to make sure that the dog being rehomed was suitable for the family and the family suitable for the dog.

You do not say how old the dog was but mounting behaviour is not that unusual in a young dog and a rescue society that would behave in the way you suggest would not be my idea of a good place to get a puppy or dog, most places would neuter before rehoming anyway particularly a breed like a Staffie as there are many who would buy just to breed from them something the we would all frown upon.

Health testing costs money.  Optigen charge about $200 dollars for most DNA tests.

> there are many responsible rehoming kennels that would take the utmost care to make sure that the dog being rehomed was suitable for the family and the family suitable for the dog.

Absolutely agree!  Bearing in mind that a lot of the information we get about the dogs we're trying to rehome is from previous owners (who have surrendered the dogs to us), and not just what we have managed to ascertain ourselves, we have to be extremely careful when we rehome.
In fact we're downright picky! 

> Eventually, they came to visit and when they saw his reaction to the cats they were shocked and admitted he had never actually been checked with either since they had only had him two days!  Then they suggested that the problems were caused because 2-3 hours exercise a day was not enough - he needed at least 4, also suggested we drug him daily and get an electric shock collar to teach him to behave!!

MoonDaisy I can't believe that you have been given such advice.  4 hours exercise?  Shocks and drugs?  Honestly, you should name and shame these people.

> but don't discriminate because people can only pay a little for a dog - It does not make them bad owners!

I may have only paid the suggested donation for one of my rescues, but the vet bills,training classes,  behaviourist and  his eventual PTS cost the same in money, emotionally I feel I am still paying!...

Don't think anyone would even consider what someone paid for their dog, there is a difference in taking a dog from a quality rescue kennel and asking for a dog for nothing and asking in upper case to boot. Most responsible breeders and rescue establishments would not consider such a request, it makes one wonder what value is being placed on this requested dog.

What a terrible story MoonDaisy -that rescue ought to be reported.

Now I lost a dog end of April, wanted another same breed, but as it's a Cavalier it's a breed that needs a lot of expensive health testing if you are going to be able to feel certain the breeder has done everything possible to produce healthy dogs. I only wanted a pet, not for showing or breeding. So I had two choices: go to a rescue and take pot luck -you will never get a rescue from health tested parents, it just will not happen. (Or I could go to a breeder that does not health test -well that shouldn't be an option for anyone.) The risk is the dog could end up costing an absolute fortune a few years down the line. Or go to a good breeder and pay the going price -and if you can't afford to, save up and wait until you CAN.

Either way I don't think you save any money at all by getting a rescue when it is a breed that has potential health problems (and what breed does not? Plus the crossbreeds are just as likely to have them as well) so it comes down to whether you want to wait and save money later, or get a dog straight away and pay the price a few years down the line.

My latest rescue boy is an absolute joy. We get so much pleasure from seeing him turned into such a happy well balanced boy. We love him soooooo much.. There is no amount of £'s that can pay for that.. 

The saddest part of this is that he was actually being re-hommed from his (Very very Well Known!) Breeder! We had approached them to make enquires about pups and she asked if we would be interested in rehoming an older dog? He had been 'Rescued' from his previous owner because the home was deemed 'undesirable'. He was a lovely fella but just could not control himself around the cats or (we found out later) other dogs. He had had absolutley no socialization but with time will make someone a fabulous pet - he is very sweet natured around people. I also have heard he has now been homed again with a lady who has 3 other dogs (bitches!) and he is very happy there. I'm sure the fact that we paid for him to be neutured made that 'sale' easier too!

MoonDaisy

Seriously?  Was this a Stafford breeder?  Does your last post tie in with the your previous post about the dog you rehomed?

I'm disgusted if so.  Bad enough that they couldn't find papers, etc but I'd expect a LOT better if it IS someone who is well known in the breed.