So I lost my "baby girl" a chow/lab mix of 16 years this past January. It took a while to heal and with other things going on in my life, I was in no rush to have a new dog in my life. Anyway, late last week something hit me, so I started looking at rescue sites. So it has been over 16 years since I adopted and over 12 years since I volunteered at a rescue, but damn this has gotten crazy. These places are asking for background checks, and hippa releases to get any past pets medical history. One stated "rescues start at $175 and go up from there"!!!! They want to do home visits, talk to 3 people that know you but you are not related to. Where do you work, what do you do for a living. One place wanted to know every pet you had and every vet you seen in the last 20 years, and wanted a hippa release for all of them. I get they want to weed out the people that are not responsible pet owners and what not, but I think they are over stepping their bounds on this. I have nothing to hide, but damn this is an evasion of privacy. Hell I can go get a puppy mill puppy at petsmart for less than some of the rescue want to charge with hell of a lot less hassle.