27/11/2024
🙏Hope you can help!🙏
Last year, after spending more than 12 years working as a dog trainer, I left my dream job at Dogs Trust due to burnt out. I was heartbroken, but it was the right decision. Despite months of hard work to feel like myself again, the scar that I carry left me unable to work with dogs ever again.
However, I’m not a person that gives up easily. There’s a bit of a bulldog inside me, a little stubborn beast, you know, that rejects not being able to continue. I knew that in order to keep helping rescue dogs I had to focus on the parts of my old job that brought me the most joy. And that’s how I discovered my new calling: bridging the gap between people looking to adopt a dog and dog rescues! I met plenty of people that ended up buying a dog because rescuing one was too difficult. I heard it so many times that I knew I could help lots of families to get a rescue dog instead of buying one.
With that idea in mind, I created The Right Dog. Not only could I help you find the dog you wanted, you could also create alerts to get emails when the dream rescue dog you were looking for got up for adoption. With my husband’s help we created the website, all the social media and I was full of ideas about how to help all those people that needed my help. After all, I had spent the last 12 years doing exactly the opposite, finding the right home for the rescue dogs under my care.
But soon I realised that it wasn’t going to be easy. Rescues are very suspicious and they didn’t even let me participate in their spaces, so reaching potential adopters became extremely difficult. As I said, I’m quite persistent, and day after day I kept publishing new posts and reels. Although I wasn’t getting the interest that I hoped, I continued publishing. The first few months I thought it was just “early days” and at some point, the tide would change. I was static when the first person joined my waiting list in order to subscribe to our alerts. We passed 200 followers on our page. 4 people created alerts and one of them found a dog (however they never confirmed if they found her thanks to us). It looked like I could finally help people again.
Nonetheless, in all this time, nobody contacted me for help. Not a single one. Why? I was sure there were lots of people struggling to get a rescue dog. How was I failing? After more than 6 months trying to make it work I decided to take a break. And here we are! This is it. This is my last push before giving up for good and I need your help. 🫵
If you have read until here and even more, if you are still part of The Right Dog, tell me, how can I help you? Are you looking for a rescue dog? Or do you know anyone that is getting frustrated because they can get one? If you are reaching the end of your tether and don’t understand how dog rescues work, would you be interested in having a chat to know how to stop wasting time and finally succeed? Would you pay for that service? If so, how much?🤓
Finally, I would like to say thank you for being here and I hope, with your help, we can get another dog out of rescue into a lovely home one more time.🐕💞🏠
