Do you work? Sorry for the noseyness, but Steven and I tried to adopt a dog at the SSPCA, but they rejected us because we were gone for seven hours a day (even though I was going to take two weeks off to help the dog adjust and we have another dog too).
We work. He is staying in his kennel during the time the kids are at school. He was a stray and the shelter we got him at had much looser restrictions than the RSPCA. He has a hard time on Monday's but otherwise he does ok. I was coming home at lunch to walk him but it was too stressful for him because the most stressful time is when we were leaving him and to go through it twice a day was too difficult. He did much better when we only left once a day.
When he's a more reliable, he'll have more room to roam in the house. He basically sleeps during the day and he gets three good walks a day, every single day.
With 25 000 homeless dogs in this country, it is just not realistic for every dog to go to a home where they are only left for maximum 4 hours a day.
the people at the shelter said that why is it ok for the dogs to be cooped up in a kennel at the shelter for 23-1/2 hours but not in a kennel for 7 hours. Our dog had been there for 4 months. You can't tell me that we aren't giving him a good home even given the fact that we work.
My advice would be to try other private shelters - there are lots and lots out there.
