Quote Originally Posted by LilacDragon
LOL!

One would assume that I don't much like dogs, huh?

I do what I can for a local rottweiler rescue group including but not limited to helping to organize the annual fundraiser. Most of the dogs that I have had in the last 30 years have been rescues - most pulled directly from shelters. I also have been known to pull a dog from the local kill shelter, vet and foster until I can find it a forever home.

You are right - some people can't have children and they treat their animals as if they were children. Is there something wrong with the 109,025 dogs that are listed on Petfinder today? Or maybe the 105,245 cats are missing some mysterious quality that can only be found in a cat imported from Beirut?

Here is an idea - Beirut is a third world country and building things there is much cheaper then building in the U.S. What if, and this is just an idea, they had taken the money raised for airfare, transportation, vetting, and building a temperary structure here in the States they had used that money to build a facility in Beirut?

Just because I don't agree with what they have done doesn't mean that I don't like dogs or that I think less of rescues.

If it makes you feel any better - I think that our government should do more about the homeless people here in the U.S. before they start handing out billions of dollars to other countries.
First off.....DITTO, DITTO, DITTO LilacDragon
I just saw a post concerning this topic addressed on another forum, only the poster was one of the adopters of a dog from Lebanon and has some big aggression problems with the adopted dog. And on another forum another adopter is having bigger aggression problems with her dog. It seems through her contacts with other adopters of some of these dogs they all are having the aggression problems which I know should be expected in some cases. My question is, does this organization not do any type of behavioral tests on these dogs? And why would they adopt out a dog that clearly showed aggressive tendencies?