Meet my sponsored dog

miracleboy

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I've wanted a dog for ages, but due to certain practical reasons it's not the right time at the moment - so thought I would do the next bext thing and sponsor one at the Dogs Trust (used to be NCDL).

His name is Freddie and he's a shorthaired pointer. I pay £10 a month and according to the Trust that's enough to pay for his food. I'm not normally a big charity type person but I thought I earn enough and if it makes his life better then that's good enough reason.

I'd love to be in a position to properly adopt him (or any dog in need) and give him a loving home, maybe sometime in the future.

Meet Freddie :)
 
Does make you wonder how many other people sponsor 'Freddie' at £10 per month. Although, any dog that can write his own webpage is easily worth the money.
 
Mat said:
But what do you class as a "proper" charity?
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I don't think £120 a year on a sponsored dog you can't even visit is worthwhile. Like another poster has alluded to, how many people sponsor 'freddie'?

As for a worthwhile charity? There are plenty, cancer research, oxfam etc ones which have a tangible benefit. The OP may as well set £120 on fire the amount of good it's actually doing.
 
Going to Cali said:
I don't think £120 a year on a sponsored dog you can't even visit is worthwhile. Like another poster has alluded to, how many people sponsor 'freddie'?

As for a worthwhile charity? There are plenty, cancer research, oxfam etc ones which have a tangible benefit. The OP may as well set £120 on fire the amount of good it's actually doing.
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The point isn't how many people sponsor him - it's just a vehicle to get money into the charity.

Donating to charity is a very subjective thing - I have given to Cancer Research in the past, but who decides what charity is more worthwhile than the other?

In my case it wasn't really that I wanted to give money to a charity and picked one at random - it was more that I would like to give a dog a home but can't right now so did the next best thing and donated to a dog charity.
 
Whats wrong with this chairty. It helps them to keep the dogs and pay for them. Whether or not it all goes to freddy or more than one person sponsors freddie seems irrelevant to me.

Cancer research does not put all the money raised to researching, a fair bit goes to paying staff wages for organisers and management. This includes organisers staying in 3+ star hotels when helping an event in a location away from them. Travel expenses for organisers (e.g. glasgow to belfast). However, they still raise a fair amount for the research and without some of this expenditure a lot of what they do to raise money would not be possible or would be much harder to organise.
 
Going to Cali said:
I don't think £120 a year on a sponsored dog you can't even visit is worthwhile. Like another poster has alluded to, how many people sponsor 'freddie'?

As for a worthwhile charity? There are plenty, cancer research, oxfam etc ones which have a tangible benefit. The OP may as well set £120 on fire the amount of good it's actually doing.
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If you think that rehoming/caring for dogs is not worth while, you have some issues that need to be addressed there.
 
The charity does good work nonetheless, you could choose to give a voluntary donation or to attract more people they'll give you sponsor a dog.

I mean it's not as bad as these people who get paid to collect money, i'm very careful who i donate to on the street, most of them aren't volunteers.
 
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