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Help "Invisible Dogs"
When you surrender you pet to the shelter they give you a piece of paper to read that basically says they can do anything with that animal.
What that means is they can kill your pet before your car even leaves the parking lot.
If you surrender a pit mix of any kind that isn't a puppy or unless it has something really spectacular about it, well, it will be killed and put on a stack of other dead animals to be disposed of later.
If you surrender your old or sick pet chances are it will be killed sometime that day as well.
They try very hard to get all adoptable animals adopted. But admit it, dogs over 8 years old aren't always easily adoptable. If your animal is sick and has tumors, well, it's not very adoptable either. Sometimes these dogs might get lucky and a caring soul will walk in and decide to give that animal a place to live out it's life - or sometimes a rescuer will walk in and can't stand the thought that this poor senior animal, through no fault of it's own is going to die after spending who knows how many days at the shelter, confused and lonely - this rescuer will take it home and try desperately to find it a final forever home, or else they will let this senior animal live the rest of it's life with them.
Sometimes these senior or sick animals touch the rescuer so deeply that they will take them to the vet themselves and give them the honor and respect that their LOVING
owner didn't have the courage to do, and they will hold this animal in their arms and tell them they were loved while they make their peaceful trip to the Bridge.
Remember that when you surrender YOUR PET (that you really love and this is breaking your heart...) - if the shelter needs the space for a stray or any type of animal that will be involved in a legal issue - the owner surrenders ARE THE FIRST TO GO.
You are nothing but a coward - you called me "maybe" two days before you had to move and couldn't take your 12 year old dog with you, unfortunately I didn't get your message in time to help (not even sure I could have helped since you weren't giving me any time to work with). When I called you back you told me you had taken him to the shelter..., yes they told you it might be euthanized, but you had to move ...
You saved this dog 7 years ago from a shelter in a different state, and moved it here with you, yet this poor dog at about 12 years old was dumped, unwanted at ANOTHER shelter and that's where he probably has already been killed.
You disgust me, since you didn't take the time to try to find him another home in a decent amount of time, you most likely signed his death sentence, if for no other reason than his age. And you know what???? If he was a good dog, and got along with other dogs and was housebroke... I would have most likely taken him to my house (even though I'm full with foster dogs already) just to save him the confusion and terror he was subjected to at the shelter.
The least you could have done was taken him to the vet and had him humanely euthanized....
What that means is they can kill your pet before your car even leaves the parking lot.
If you surrender a pit mix of any kind that isn't a puppy or unless it has something really spectacular about it, well, it will be killed and put on a stack of other dead animals to be disposed of later.
If you surrender your old or sick pet chances are it will be killed sometime that day as well.
They try very hard to get all adoptable animals adopted. But admit it, dogs over 8 years old aren't always easily adoptable. If your animal is sick and has tumors, well, it's not very adoptable either. Sometimes these dogs might get lucky and a caring soul will walk in and decide to give that animal a place to live out it's life - or sometimes a rescuer will walk in and can't stand the thought that this poor senior animal, through no fault of it's own is going to die after spending who knows how many days at the shelter, confused and lonely - this rescuer will take it home and try desperately to find it a final forever home, or else they will let this senior animal live the rest of it's life with them.
Sometimes these senior or sick animals touch the rescuer so deeply that they will take them to the vet themselves and give them the honor and respect that their LOVING
owner didn't have the courage to do, and they will hold this animal in their arms and tell them they were loved while they make their peaceful trip to the Bridge.Remember that when you surrender YOUR PET (that you really love and this is breaking your heart...) - if the shelter needs the space for a stray or any type of animal that will be involved in a legal issue - the owner surrenders ARE THE FIRST TO GO.
You are nothing but a coward - you called me "maybe" two days before you had to move and couldn't take your 12 year old dog with you, unfortunately I didn't get your message in time to help (not even sure I could have helped since you weren't giving me any time to work with). When I called you back you told me you had taken him to the shelter..., yes they told you it might be euthanized, but you had to move ...
You saved this dog 7 years ago from a shelter in a different state, and moved it here with you, yet this poor dog at about 12 years old was dumped, unwanted at ANOTHER shelter and that's where he probably has already been killed.
You disgust me, since you didn't take the time to try to find him another home in a decent amount of time, you most likely signed his death sentence, if for no other reason than his age. And you know what???? If he was a good dog, and got along with other dogs and was housebroke... I would have most likely taken him to my house (even though I'm full with foster dogs already) just to save him the confusion and terror he was subjected to at the shelter.
The least you could have done was taken him to the vet and had him humanely euthanized....
Extremely well said! I think everyone who drops off an animal should be made to walk through there and witness what goes on. See the animals terrified as they are walked into "the room", smell the stench, watch as the bodies are put in the incinerator. 
to you, the shelter staff, and all who try to make a difference.
