CharityVoice.co.uk » dog http://www.charityvoice.co.uk Giving charities a voice Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:14:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Our assessment with the Blue Cross http://www.charityvoice.co.uk/blue-cross-dog-foster-scheme-disaster/our-assessment-with-the-blue-cross/ http://www.charityvoice.co.uk/blue-cross-dog-foster-scheme-disaster/our-assessment-with-the-blue-cross/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:34:01 +0000 admin http://www.charityvoice.co.uk/?p=141 We have now received this email from Mandy Jones at the Blue Cross:

Hi Heather
as discussed, details are:
The external behaviourist will arrive at Bromsgrove in the morning of Tuesday 18th November.
You and David arrive at the centre for 2pm.  Kim Hamilton our Chief Executive will be there and also Neil Edwards the manager of the Bromsgrove centre and myself.
The behaviourist will talk about the assessment and what they feel we should be looking for in terms of the right home for Nala.
After the meeting it is likely the behaviourist will want some time to reflect and think about their report, so as I said, it is quite likely that we will not be able to make a final decision on the day.  We do not know how much time this will take and don’t want to pre-empt how the behaviourist may like to work, so to some extent we are in their hands on this.  Once we have their report, we will make a final decision regarding whether or not we will be agreeing to you adopting Nala.
As discussed, we will help you with your expenses so if you keep a record of your mileage we can reimburse at the normal volunteer rate.  If you do have to come back again, we will help you with expenses for that trip too.
I look forward to meeting you both next week
Kind regards
Mandy Jones
This does worry us slightly. We were initially told that we would be treat fairly like any other member of the public and I don’t know of any other potential adopter who needs a written report from a behaviourist in order to adopt a dog. They are not allowing us to see the dog before the assessment begins so we will have to get to know each other again during the assessment.
We also feel that because of the people who will be in attendance that it seems very similar to the situation of Thirsk when we went for a training session and the decision had already been made for us to either adopt Nala or hand her over to the Blue Cross. We hope that this is not the case however it does make us rather nervous as there seems to be very striking similarities.
We will keep you posted with any further information that we receive.
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