Feeling incredibly disappointed by the local Humane Society’s and county shelters. Thinking about just shelling out for a pure bred puppy.

I’ve been trying to foster with my local rescues but they just want to keep the dogs in the shelter. I have a huge yard that is fenced in. It has a separate gated and fenced dog run. I work from home. I’m home all the time. I have love to give. I’m not super young and I’m not old. I’ve had pets before.

I’ve been waiting a month already to foster with one of the Humane Societies. I asked the foster coordinator last week about fostering a dog she had been waiting weeks for someone to foster. She told me she may have someone lined up and that she’s not planning to have any foster candidates until January. Well today she sent another email about this same dog that I offered to foster saying she still needs someone to foster, even if for a short period. Like wtf? I already told her I would and every time I talk to her she blows me off. She waits until closing time at the end of the week, where she will be off for the next two days, to send out this email. She doesn’t respond to any emails I send her otherwise. I feel like she is just collecting a paycheck and not actually trying to help animals at the shelter.

There is 1 fearful cat at this shelter. Cat has 3 legs and 6 toes. They won’t even let her out of the cage for someone to see her unless they agree to adopt her.

There is an underweight Great Pyrenees adult dog. They don’t have enough volunteers to make sure he is eating more. When I visited, they didn’t even realize he was thirsty until he started drinking dirty ground water.

The dog they want someone to foster had knee surgery and needs a calm environment. I live alone. My house is quiet. Like wtf.

I feel like these three animals should be foster candidates. They’ve been in the shelter for 2-4 weeks. This place is getting like 2 adoptions a day and they are talking about bringing in 25 more animals per week each week of December. It’s not that big of a shelter.

I want to help these animals and I’m so frustrated that these “humane” societies want to keep these animals locked up when one of them could come home with me.

I’m honestly about to just go adopt a puppy for $1800 because it seems like none of these shelters will ever let me foster their animals.