Temporary dog re homing - does it exist?
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Morning all,
We sold our house, moving out in the middle of January, and are currently lodging with the in-laws until our new house completes in April. Whilst everything is going as well as could be expected they are starting to get at the end of their tether with our Parson Russell Terrier, Bauer.
Bauer is and has always been crate trained however, and unfortunately, they don't have room in their house (especially with us there) for his crate. Therefore he is kept in the kitchen over night and whilst no one is in the house with a baby gate across the door. He has however started to mis-behave through peeing up things (bar stools, rubbish bins) and then this morning I caught him nibbling away at shelf which has only fairly recently been made (something he's not done since he was a very young puppy). My father in law is likely to explode when he sees the shelf when he gets from work this afternoon.
Therefore I'm wondering if anybody knows of any temporary dog re-homing in the Cambridgeshire or East Anglia/East Midlands type areas? Putting him in kennels for the next 8 weeks, at £12-£14 a day, isn't really an option.
Any thoughts/ help/ suggestions gratefully received!
We sold our house, moving out in the middle of January, and are currently lodging with the in-laws until our new house completes in April. Whilst everything is going as well as could be expected they are starting to get at the end of their tether with our Parson Russell Terrier, Bauer.
Bauer is and has always been crate trained however, and unfortunately, they don't have room in their house (especially with us there) for his crate. Therefore he is kept in the kitchen over night and whilst no one is in the house with a baby gate across the door. He has however started to mis-behave through peeing up things (bar stools, rubbish bins) and then this morning I caught him nibbling away at shelf which has only fairly recently been made (something he's not done since he was a very young puppy). My father in law is likely to explode when he sees the shelf when he gets from work this afternoon.
Therefore I'm wondering if anybody knows of any temporary dog re-homing in the Cambridgeshire or East Anglia/East Midlands type areas? Putting him in kennels for the next 8 weeks, at £12-£14 a day, isn't really an option.
Any thoughts/ help/ suggestions gratefully received!
A lot of the dog rescues have fostering services - these are usually dog-savvy volunteers, often with a dog/dogs of their own, who will take on a rescue dog in their own homes if, for instance, the local kennels are full, or the dog has particular needs where kenneling it would not be in it's interests. Might be worth looking into that?
You could try Rescue Remedies, rescueremedies.co.uk - I don't know too much about them and I'm not connected with them in any way but they do link with a breed rescue I'm loosely involved with and I think they may specialise in terriers of one sort and another.
Failing that, we use a dog sitter for ours when we go away - same deal, the dog goes to their house, but we do pay £10 a day. Might be a better (if more expensive) option than kennels if you can find someone to do it for that long. £600 for two months (a) sounds like a lot of money but (b) is probably not a lot in the context of what you're spending on the house move?
You could try Rescue Remedies, rescueremedies.co.uk - I don't know too much about them and I'm not connected with them in any way but they do link with a breed rescue I'm loosely involved with and I think they may specialise in terriers of one sort and another.
Failing that, we use a dog sitter for ours when we go away - same deal, the dog goes to their house, but we do pay £10 a day. Might be a better (if more expensive) option than kennels if you can find someone to do it for that long. £600 for two months (a) sounds like a lot of money but (b) is probably not a lot in the context of what you're spending on the house move?
There could be something in the kitchen that us freaking him out such as the noise of a boiler. Would be worth considering as his behaviours worsening.
There are natural products such as DAP diffusers (now called adaptil) Zylkene and Kalmaid that are all worth a try.
I think you'll find most fostering is done for unwanted dogs, even if you found a foster care for him they'd probably expect to be paid something. Could you purchase a smaller crate just for the next couple months? (though this won't help him if it's the kitchen he doesn't like)
No chance of having him in your bedroom I suppose (I am not anti dog in bedrooms!)
May see what some of these doggy day care/ hotels offer. Hope you get a solution soon but just be aware his behaviour is likely to have an underlying reason behind it.
There are natural products such as DAP diffusers (now called adaptil) Zylkene and Kalmaid that are all worth a try.
I think you'll find most fostering is done for unwanted dogs, even if you found a foster care for him they'd probably expect to be paid something. Could you purchase a smaller crate just for the next couple months? (though this won't help him if it's the kitchen he doesn't like)
No chance of having him in your bedroom I suppose (I am not anti dog in bedrooms!)
May see what some of these doggy day care/ hotels offer. Hope you get a solution soon but just be aware his behaviour is likely to have an underlying reason behind it.
bexVN said:
There could be something in the kitchen that us freaking him out such as the noise of a boiler. Would be worth considering as his behaviours worsening.
There are natural products such as DAP diffusers (now called adaptil) Zylkene and Kalmaid that are all worth a try.
I think you'll find most fostering is done for unwanted dogs, even if you found a foster care for him they'd probably expect to be paid something. Could you purchase a smaller crate just for the next couple months? (though this won't help him if it's the kitchen he doesn't like)
No chance of having him in your bedroom I suppose (I am not anti dog in bedrooms!)
May see what some of these doggy day care/ hotels offer. Hope you get a solution soon but just be aware his behaviour is likely to have an underlying reason behind it.
I am under no illusion that his behaviour is down to stress, the stress of being in a strange place and the lack of his crate as his 'safe place'. There are natural products such as DAP diffusers (now called adaptil) Zylkene and Kalmaid that are all worth a try.
I think you'll find most fostering is done for unwanted dogs, even if you found a foster care for him they'd probably expect to be paid something. Could you purchase a smaller crate just for the next couple months? (though this won't help him if it's the kitchen he doesn't like)
No chance of having him in your bedroom I suppose (I am not anti dog in bedrooms!)
May see what some of these doggy day care/ hotels offer. Hope you get a solution soon but just be aware his behaviour is likely to have an underlying reason behind it.
I have e-mailed local re-homing places and they are more concerned with unwanted dogs and all their foster carers are full to the brim.
Happy to cover his costs of living with a foster carer and if I could find one local enough then I would even do his walks each day. It's just the extortionate costs of kennels that make them, as a long term strategy, prohibitive.
I'm not anti-dog in the bedroom however its more a case that he's my dog and my wife would not be so keen.
Also on the smaller crate thing I still don't know where I could fit one at there house.
All in all it's just very frustrating but something I need to sort!
mx stu said:
bexVN said:
There could be something in the kitchen that us freaking him out such as the noise of a boiler. Would be worth considering as his behaviours worsening.
There are natural products such as DAP diffusers (now called adaptil) Zylkene and Kalmaid that are all worth a try.
I think you'll find most fostering is done for unwanted dogs, even if you found a foster care for him they'd probably expect to be paid something. Could you purchase a smaller crate just for the next couple months? (though this won't help him if it's the kitchen he doesn't like)
No chance of having him in your bedroom I suppose (I am not anti dog in bedrooms!)
May see what some of these doggy day care/ hotels offer. Hope you get a solution soon but just be aware his behaviour is likely to have an underlying reason behind it.
I am under no illusion that his behaviour is down to stress, the stress of being in a strange place and the lack of his crate as his 'safe place'. There are natural products such as DAP diffusers (now called adaptil) Zylkene and Kalmaid that are all worth a try.
I think you'll find most fostering is done for unwanted dogs, even if you found a foster care for him they'd probably expect to be paid something. Could you purchase a smaller crate just for the next couple months? (though this won't help him if it's the kitchen he doesn't like)
No chance of having him in your bedroom I suppose (I am not anti dog in bedrooms!)
May see what some of these doggy day care/ hotels offer. Hope you get a solution soon but just be aware his behaviour is likely to have an underlying reason behind it.
I have e-mailed local re-homing places and they are more concerned with unwanted dogs and all their foster carers are full to the brim.
Happy to cover his costs of living with a foster carer and if I could find one local enough then I would even do his walks each day. It's just the extortionate costs of kennels that make them, as a long term strategy, prohibitive.
I'm not anti-dog in the bedroom however its more a case that he's my dog and my wife would not be so keen.
Also on the smaller crate thing I still don't know where I could fit one at there house.
All in all it's just very frustrating but something I need to sort!
bexVN said:
In that case try the products I mentioned, all 3 together if necessary. They won't make things things worse, they will either help or not. But get it done asap, don't wait another couple days. Your vets will probably sell them, give them a call. They are not prescription products. Just say you,be been advised to try them for your dog for stress.
Thanks will do. By way of an update I've been in contact with someone at Wood Green Animal Shelter (local to us) who administers their foster circle. Whilst its not the situation they would usually assist in (typically provide foster carers for animals if someone goes into hospital or is the victim of domestic abuse) she is going to investigate whether someone in the 'circle' would be willing to assist in this case. Fingers crossed.
garyhun said:
bexVN said:
Hope they can help you. All the best.
Seconded!I can happily (to some extent as will miss him!) report that Wood Green have found him a temporary home with one of their fully vetted foster carers! I'm taking him along tomorrow afternoon for him to start his 8 week holiday.
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