It's so strange that you seem to think that 1500QR is expensive to pay for an adopted dog from QAWS Le-lebano -
have you enquired anywhere about vet fees in this country?
Lets just say, that vet fees here cost you literally an arm and a leg - the reasons.. there are only 2 decent vet practices in Qatar - the rest are "butchers" so to speak. As Chelsea has mentioned, we don't take our animals to the Government vets - cats maybe, but dogs... hmmmm... watching one of the vets almost do a neutering on an adult dog WITHOUT aneasthetic, was enough to make me grab the dog and run... so no, without them having up-to-date equipment and increasing their knowledge on working with bigger pets, we feel its best not to use them. Some of our animals come to us tramatised, so we have to becareful who we take them too - we find the vets we use are much better at handling rescues.
We are NOT a government organisation - we do this out of the goodness of our hearts (which most people tend to forget or aren’t aware of). Rescuing animals is not financially viable, so please don't think we are making any money from this - (please see Chelsea's expense sheet above) - in the end, most months it costs me personally about QR700 minimum in phone calls and fuel for all the vet runs, and farm visits I do - I don't claim it back and I don't earn a big salary at my paid job and I get nothing from QAWS... and thats just me, I haven't take into account the other ladies expenses.
If you feel thats too expensive, by all means, go out and buy a pure breed dog from a petshop or import one - almost guarenteed, it will be sick on collection - have cost you a fortune to import it - cargo fees, relocation costs - vet fees to try and save it and then in 90% of the cases will probably die, as it was taken away from its mother before it was ready, or was bred at a puppy mill that didn't give enough time before the next litter was born and bacterias to settle. This will cost you in the region of about Five to six thousand riyal.
My own dogs cost me about QR500 a month on food and treats and if they are sick, you can add another QR1000 onto that – so owning a pet is not cheap. If you aren’t prepared for the expenses, don’t adopt a pet.
"if you don't like the heat... get out of the kitchen... but stop trying to fan the flames before you leave... it will burn you on the a** as you go through the doorway...." ME
a troll... the profile should tell you that.
It's so strange that you seem to think that 1500QR is expensive to pay for an adopted dog from QAWS Le-lebano -
have you enquired anywhere about vet fees in this country?
Lets just say, that vet fees here cost you literally an arm and a leg - the reasons.. there are only 2 decent vet practices in Qatar - the rest are "butchers" so to speak. As Chelsea has mentioned, we don't take our animals to the Government vets - cats maybe, but dogs... hmmmm... watching one of the vets almost do a neutering on an adult dog WITHOUT aneasthetic, was enough to make me grab the dog and run... so no, without them having up-to-date equipment and increasing their knowledge on working with bigger pets, we feel its best not to use them. Some of our animals come to us tramatised, so we have to becareful who we take them too - we find the vets we use are much better at handling rescues.
We are NOT a government organisation - we do this out of the goodness of our hearts (which most people tend to forget or aren’t aware of). Rescuing animals is not financially viable, so please don't think we are making any money from this - (please see Chelsea's expense sheet above) - in the end, most months it costs me personally about QR700 minimum in phone calls and fuel for all the vet runs, and farm visits I do - I don't claim it back and I don't earn a big salary at my paid job and I get nothing from QAWS... and thats just me, I haven't take into account the other ladies expenses.
If you feel thats too expensive, by all means, go out and buy a pure breed dog from a petshop or import one - almost guarenteed, it will be sick on collection - have cost you a fortune to import it - cargo fees, relocation costs - vet fees to try and save it and then in 90% of the cases will probably die, as it was taken away from its mother before it was ready, or was bred at a puppy mill that didn't give enough time before the next litter was born and bacterias to settle. This will cost you in the region of about Five to six thousand riyal.
My own dogs cost me about QR500 a month on food and treats and if they are sick, you can add another QR1000 onto that – so owning a pet is not cheap. If you aren’t prepared for the expenses, don’t adopt a pet.
"if you don't like the heat... get out of the kitchen... but stop trying to fan the flames before you leave... it will burn you on the a** as you go through the doorway...." ME
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