My mother has taken it upon herself to form a shelter for 200 homeless dogs. It ‘s a full time and expensive?

job. So I support us with my small salary. We get free dog food but there are many, many other expenses. We just get by and our lives are not our own. I put up flyers for adoption and donations but all I got were more dogs. Large companies won’t support us because we are not tax deductible. We don’t have the heart to put the dogs to sleep. I am 30 years old and want to live my own life but I feel I can not leave my mother in this situation. Any suggestions?

Sorry to be realistic and mean here, but if you don’t have the heart to put some of them down, then you have no business with 200+ dogs.

You can not, and should not take 200 dogs upon yourselves if you don’t have the funds to cover the expenses for them. The vet care alone will run you through the roof.

STOP taking in dogs, and START an adoption program. Work with local rescues and shelters on pulling some of the dogs into their programs, evaluate the dogs, the first link in the Sources area will help guide you through the process. If ANY dog fails the test, you need to have it euthanized. A dog that fails a temperament test isn’t going to be adopted, and it poses a risk to you and anyone interested in the animal.

Your mother needs to check her local and state laws on kenneling that many animals, it may be illegal to have that many dogs in an area- depending upon her area. Most shelters have a maximum occupancy of 100 animals, rescues have even less. You also have to follow kennel guidelines [be so many miles away from a school, be so many feet away from a main road, be so many miles away from homes, have ___ thick of containment walls and windows, etc].

Have an animal control officer evaluate your property to see if that many dogs can be kept there, if not, turn them over elsewhere.

200+ dogs without a kenneling license and city clearance could be considered hoarding- which is illegal.

You can’t wake up one day and start a rescue or shelter. It took me three years to ESTABLISH mine, and we just recently gained our 501(c) status- we’re still working on a Petfinder account and admittance to RescueGroups.org

Get together an adoption contract, spay neuter contract, veterinary references, kenneling licenses, inspection results from an AC officer, and ask petfinder to list you as a rescue group or shelter.

Get a lawyer and begin the process of gaining a 501(c) status [makes you non-profit, which will help with donations].

Most importantly, sit down and tell your mother that she’s taking too much on at once. If you’re 30 she has to be at least 50 years old, and thats quite a bit of stress to pile on all at once.

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