Out of curiosity, is it a rescue if you look after the pets while the owner is in hospital and then adopt them directly when the old owner enters palliative care? Then sort out a lot of vet care?
It doesn’t matter but I’ve always wondered how to answer in a short way how I got Melbcat.
Technically I still adopted her. Rescue to me always sounded like literally rescuing a pet from a storm drain or dog fights and rehabilitating them
I’d still probably go with re-homed for that. Rescue to me definitely implies doing a bit more.
I know someone who drove to a dodgy area to collect a dog which was being starved in a backyard because it’s owner was in prison, and I’d definitely say by doing that she rescued the dog. Other times the pet may have been rescued, like a chicken that was retrieved from a tree in Chinatown by the fire brigade. In which case it is reasonable to refer to them as a rescue chicken, but that doesn’t mean the person who then gives them a home should get credit for the rescue, they have still just re-housed a rescued animal.
Out of curiosity, is it a rescue if you look after the pets while the owner is in hospital and then adopt them directly when the old owner enters palliative care? Then sort out a lot of vet care?
It doesn’t matter but I’ve always wondered how to answer in a short way how I got Melbcat.
Technically I still adopted her. Rescue to me always sounded like literally rescuing a pet from a storm drain or dog fights and rehabilitating them
I’d still probably go with re-homed for that. Rescue to me definitely implies doing a bit more.
I know someone who drove to a dodgy area to collect a dog which was being starved in a backyard because it’s owner was in prison, and I’d definitely say by doing that she rescued the dog. Other times the pet may have been rescued, like a chicken that was retrieved from a tree in Chinatown by the fire brigade. In which case it is reasonable to refer to them as a rescue chicken, but that doesn’t mean the person who then gives them a home should get credit for the rescue, they have still just re-housed a rescued animal.
Yeah, rescue implies some pretty exceptional circumstances
maybe it’s middle class people rescuing a pet from a working class area /family/existence s/