Why rescue's don't do puppies....

At Ohio Pet Placement we deal with alot of puppies.  In rescue, there a plenty of rescues that simply "don't do puppies".  Some groups take the position that "puppies have a chance to get out", which may be true some of the times, they are cute, they probably stand a better chance than many adults.  But there are groups that say "they are just to hard", what does that mean?  Well, i'm going to share my theory with you today.  I think that puppies, so vulnerable to disease, just cost rescues too much money or too much heartache after adoption.  The thing is, I can't disagree with either of those things.  We take in and place alot of puppies, but it doesn't come without pains and heartache.  First the puppies have to survive, depending on the age when you get them, it may not be all that easy.  We vaccinate, we quarantine for 14 today to help reduce the risk of parvo outbreaks and we vaccinate again and make them available for adoption.  So already you have the medical costs of prevention and maintain for two weeks, not to mention the cost of care, food, etc.  Then, you send the puppies to new homes.  While most work out no problem, it never fails that every now and then you send some home after all of the precautions and they blow with parvo.  The stress this type of situation can cause a rescue is off the charts.  We have taken initial precations, we provide new adoptors with information regarding the risk of these types of diseases possibly incubating and not yet diagnosed, and we have the adoptor sign a release for all future vet care, even if resulting from the previously mentioned.  Why is it that when adopting, none of this is an issue, they "love" thier dog, they would pay anything to care for them.  Yet, god forbit it happens, it is instant I'm going to sue you?  While many are just upset because thier new baby is ill and possibly need hospitalized and when they settle down they are fine and realize that we didn't go out of thier way to make thier baby sick, there are those few that insist we are purposely trying to kill thier puppy.  I constantly remind myself that these very few unfortunate cases we have to deal with, there are a few thousand of perfectly successful adoptions.  Any thoughts fellow rescuers?