Now I'm waiting on people

I know the ultimate consideration is for the dog, would be great if it does dovetail though, let us know how it pans out.

And Sam, good on you for doing all you are doing to sort things out for a forever home, kudos to you.

This is officially the most frustrating situation I have ever dealt with with saving a dog's life.

You all have seen the link on Facebook by now. Do you see anywhere where a rescue called 'Nina's Road to Rescue' claims this dog? Here's the story -

I finally arrived in Louisiana and talked to a shelter worker who has interacted with the dog. The shelter worker, Jamie, called the shelter manager to see how I would go about evaluating the dog and possibly pulling him for ABMC. I spoke to the manager myself and she told me I could go to the shelter and evaluate him, sign some papers if ABMC wanted him, and then I could leave. Sounded good to me. Sounded exactly how every other eval has ever gone.

Suddenly the news changes. A rescue that has zero contact information under the dogs bio starts complaining about how I can't do anything until she approves of me. Um... It's not me she's approving of. It's ABMC! This rescue is 'the rescue for the shelter and we can't do anything with the dog once she claims him' is what I'm told from Jamie. This woman gets 'upset' that I'm stepping on her toes and tells Jamie that he can only go to an approved rescue. Yes... ABMC is well qualified to be an approved rescue since they're BREED SPECIFIC.
I google the woman's rescue and she's a small breed specific organization. I don't know what she has planned for a fearful Malinois who, most likely, should not be around small animals of any kind at this point.

She's upset with me for not contacting her and just showing up to ask questions. The only number I had for a contact was Animal Control and they were closed. I figured I could go in person to the adoption event and talk to someone, and that worked out just fine until this weird stuff came up.

So now I'm most likely staying in Louisiana until Monday (business hours) when I can go to the shelter in person and get information that's relevant at the moment without playing phone tag. I'm exhausted and I'm in a hotel room until tomorrow morning when I'll go to my parents house three hours away and then drive three hours back on Monday to hopefully find out real information. I also just found out that Clark's grandma is in the hospital and possibly dying and he won't answer my phone calls or texts so I can find out what's going on with him.

What is it about some people and their little fiefdoms?
I bet you ARE tired, worrying about what is going on at home, wrung out from trying to help this poor dog, you are trying to do the right thing for the dog, and along comes another hurdle.

Wish there was something useful I could do to help, I can’t physically do anything back here in the UK, but if you want to vent, I am at the end of an email.

Hang in there, am keeping my fingers crossed.

I'm sure I will feel much better after some needed sleep and a visit to my family tomorrow. There's nothing anyone can do on a Sunday except wait for Monday, and I plan on spending my time waiting as relaxed as possible.

I'm gradually losing faith in anyone who claims to be "rescuing" dogs...

I know, we have some very questionable 'rescues' over here - not usually the smaller organisations, who lose sleep over dogs on the pts list - most often because there are not enough people to take them; some of the more well known rescues place such ridiculous conditions on who is 'fit' to take them, that there is a suspicion that a good handful of dogs are being held back as cash cows for fund raising, to pay the wages of the administrators - sounds far fetched?? sadly not.

I have some good friends involved in rescues who are pulling their hair out over red tape, while dogs are dying for the want of a loving home.

It is a desperately sad situation.

I've seen shelters allow 'rescues' to charge adopters instead of paying fees directly to animal control. There wasn't any difference between the two except an increase in adoption fees.

At the moment I am waiting until Monday morning to hear back if ABMC is an approved rescue for taking a Belgian Malinois. In other news Clark is on his way to Ohio with his parents and I'm soaking up 60 degrees of sunshine and crawfish boil.

Picked up the dog this morning. He wasn't anything like they were describing. I brought a muzzle and didn't need it. He wasn't attempting to attack anyone. Even when he was freezing up and scared all he did was show the whites of his eyes without so much as a lip curl or a hair standing up. Afraid, skittish, but not aggressive or mean at all.

I think he's around 5-6 months old. He's small and he just says 'young puppy' to me but it looks like his adult teeth are all in.
He's super sweet and while he's skittish outside, indoors he's curious and friendly and a typical happy dog.

http://i1244.photobucket.com/albums/gg575/easylikearockstar/IMAG0618_zpsd6cc98c3.jpg?t=1361836139