Fur Fun Rescue, Inc - Lisbon, IA

4 years ago I adopted Aspen (a.k.a. Madeline) to be an emotional support companion for our resident rescue, Mack. Mack bonded with Aspen immediately and she transitioned into our home more smoothly than any of our previous rescues (from other rescues and/or homes). Fur Fun was the 3rd rescue Aspen had been through but with Fur Fun’s penitentiary program she was prepared extremely well for home life. She is by far the easiest dog I have ever owned and an absolute sweetheart. Since then I have communicated with Roxanne each year (re: donations through my job) and appreciate her direct approach and endless dedication. You can tell that Roxanne’s priority is the dogs and that she cares very deeply about each and every one. When the time comes, I will be returning to Fur Fun for my next rescue experience.

We’ve been adopted by two different dogs from these wonderful people. They’re thorough when interviewing you for adoption, so don’t be offended. They advocate for the animals and we couldn’t be more grateful.

My family applied for a puppy, the group was very nice communicating up until we applied. Then they quit responding. My reference called them and the rescue said we were rejected because we have an invisible fence and they “dont want their dog shocked.” Then they blocked our account. This is a terrible rescue.They failed to consider all the pros of our family, we have rescued dogs before, we provide good medical care, we work alternate shifts so the dogs are not alone very often, we have good references, our home is an indoor home, we keep up in grooming. They didn’t even do a home visit to meet us.They only focused the fence, and failed to consider the cons of above ground fences – they allow people to let the dogs out and not watch them, leave dogs outside, dogs can climb over, dig under, chew through and damage teeth. Invisible fences are training tools that give a warning beep correction before the shock, and they can be set on low shock, once the dog is trained they are not shocked at all. I have shocked myself many times with the collar and I was unharmed. It is rescues like this that give rescues a bad name – Rescues that reject excellent homes for stupid excuses. A real rescue would consider the entire home as a whole and act in the best interest of the dog, instead of holding them until they find a home with an above ground fence. A professional organization would also communicate to applicants, which they did not.

We were rejected from adopting a puppy with Fun Fur Rescue. Here is my response to them, feel free to add your comments:Concerning puppy Opal – submitted adoption paperwork for her, waiting to hear. 😊One of my references contacted them since she had not been contacted, they informed her I was rejected. First off, it is rude to not contact an applicant that they were rejected and why. Second, the reason she was told was “they didn’t want their dogs/puppies shocked” . This is a very uneducated restriction/rejection/reason. We have NEVER “shocked” our dogs even during training on our underground fence if you understand the training, margin of buzz warning vs shock and sensitivity of the collar settings, you can get successful training with very minimal “shock”. Third I guess in their mind it is better to send an unsupervised dog/puppy out into a chain fence yard have them climb it to escape possibly breaking a limb, hanging themselves, getting hit or lost, digging under the fence possibly choking themselves from collar catching on the fence or cutting into their flesh from climbing and/or digging over or under from chain-link fence edges…..seen it all and heard of it all happening. So what is the better containment I guess it is personal preference. Mine is underground with supervision as I do and have always done since I quit using chain link above ground fencing. I do not agree this is a valid reason to reject a very good home for a dog/puppy in need.I seen this rescue from a good friend who recently passed, Carol Mart. She would be appalled I am being rejected and would highly recommend us for a puppy/dog. We come with excellent references had you bothered to look into them and give us a chance. We do not and have NEVER submitted our rescues to excessive shocks or even moderate. We keep very light settings on our collars we don’t even train on our fence until our rescues are older, and even then we training by the 1 ft buzz (not shock)area before we get to the shock zone. If you discussed this with potential adoptee’s instead of automatically rejecting them, you would open your organization up to alot of wonderful, caring animal loving people.

Wonderful, dedicated all volunteer group. No building – all dogs are kept with foster families with big background checks. All the adoption fees go to medical care for the dogs because the overhead fees are so low. They take in dogs other shelters are going to put down for having too many health care needs – they fix them up sometimes costing thousands $. They often rescue puppy mill dogs and rehab them. This group is really a bunch of angels!