For those of you who surrender dogs to the pound or even when you call animal control because a dog is wandering free, or pissed at someone for the way they let their dog roam and call animal control, etc etc. Try and understand the poor dog will with few exceptions be put down and while that dog is waiting to be put down they are in a very stressful environment, they are very nervous, confused, and scared. Don't place your bet that the owner will pay to claim the dog or even call for that matter. You are wrong to think the shelter will find it a home, little chance of that too. Put yourself in the dogs place, always think of the animal first. If the dog is lost, try and find its home first, call a rescue group to help. The number of animals put down last year alone could be piled up higher than a two story home on 1 acre and that is pretty much true. Total absolute shame should be felt by anyone that sends their animals to the shelter because they don't have the heart to care for them any longer, tired of them, don't want to take the time to re-home or train the dog. Sending the dog to the shelter just to get them off your hands is the worse, its hard on the shelter, double hard on the dog, and 90% chance its a hellish experience that ends in a scary death for the dog, please don't put them through that. If the dog is unadoptable, mean, to old for you any longer to care for, and you simply don't want to deal with it, at least have the guts to take it to the vet and have it put down. If you don't understand take a trip up there one day and look at all the faces, especially the older dogs that just look like they are reaching out and asking why knowing that the end is near. After reading this and you still don't understand, you don't deserve to have the friendship and companionship of a dog. Spay and Neuter your pets.
When a dog goes to the pound
- Thread starter Hokieman
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Animals4Life
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And to just top off what Hokie has said I did the research and the interviews, I got the stats.....wanna hear them????? Tri-County took in 13,321 animals last year. How do you like that? need it broken down even more??? cats 7,552...dogs 5,065...other animals 704
The SOMD classifieds are always full of people who are looking for studs for their animals or whom think that their animals are so great and do not need to be spayed or neutered because EVERYONE wants one of my dogs puppies/cats kittens and etc.....well guess what...your puppies/kittens wind up at the shelter too and are a MAJOR part of the problem!!!
The SOMD classifieds are always full of people who are looking for studs for their animals or whom think that their animals are so great and do not need to be spayed or neutered because EVERYONE wants one of my dogs puppies/cats kittens and etc.....well guess what...your puppies/kittens wind up at the shelter too and are a MAJOR part of the problem!!!
Hokieman said:
BlackSheep
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cattitude said:
I just hate this. Guess I'm fragile today. We watched Eight Below last night..good movie, but two of the dogs died.And today is our beloved Boomer's birthday. We lost him 2 1/2 years ago.
I saw that ASPCA commercial yesterday with Sarah McLachlan and the abused animals. The kids were ready to send money AND go get another animal right away.
Sorry. If some dog is roaming my neighborhood being a nuisance, and the owners won't contain their animal, I'm calling the dogcatcher.Hokieman said:
Hokie and A4L,
Get a job. Live a life not being taken care of by someone else
First person that says I do not care about animals can come to my house and tell me that. I have worked at Tri co and PG shelter. So any thing you have to say I have lived it.
I have seen many of your type that have plenty to say and do little but talk bad about everyone actions
JD
And back your numbers up with owner request to be put to sleep, strays picked up, confiscated.
Only thing your message says to me is if you do not like your pet, do not take him to the shelter, pitch them on the side of a back road someone else will find them a home.
Get a job. Live a life not being taken care of by someone else
First person that says I do not care about animals can come to my house and tell me that. I have worked at Tri co and PG shelter. So any thing you have to say I have lived it.
I have seen many of your type that have plenty to say and do little but talk bad about everyone actions
JD
And back your numbers up with owner request to be put to sleep, strays picked up, confiscated.
Only thing your message says to me is if you do not like your pet, do not take him to the shelter, pitch them on the side of a back road someone else will find them a home.
Well if you are not willing to at least try and talk to the owner then you should, takes no longer to call and say "either you keep your dog in your yard or I'll call animal control". If you do call animal control, tell them the owner does not keep the dog in the yard and they will talk to them. If you simple call and say pick up this dog, the dog will most likely go through 6 days of hell (holding time for a stray), then be dragged to a table, held down and put down and then thrown on the fire with the others of the day. Think of the animal first, blame the owner and push the blame the owners way, don't make the dog pay for the owners ignorance.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I'd definitely rather have the owner put down instead of the dog. But I can't find anyone willing to do it.Hokieman said:
Hokieman said:
I absolutely agree with you!!! There are too many situations now that people come up with reasons not to take care of their animals and take them to the shelter because its easier on them. Ask them to take that walk in the back where the dogs are-its too hard for me to do. I just want to cry everytime I come out of that place. I have two dogs of my own and they are both fixed and they are well loved. They do not spend their days tied up or kenneled all day, but they are around someone most of their day. I realize not everyone can be there all day with their animals and do their best for them. Its the people who get the animals at the time, because they're so cute or their kids are crying because they want a puppy or kitten! What about once they grow up, they are shoved out into the back yard and not messed with anymore. Don't get an animal if you have doubts, cause most likely they will end up in the Shelter.
Toxick
Splat
Maybe you should protest the animal shelter and the wholesale slaughter of animals, rather than trying to appeal to the emotions of people who don't want to step on dogcrap in their own yard, or pick up scattered garbage, or (best of all) explain to their kids what the steaming red pile of guts is in the street, because some idiot doesn't know how to chain up their animal.
Sorry - but I call animal control when animals run loose.
Sorry - but I call animal control when animals run loose.
krazd_kat
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HunterJJD said:
You should think before you write. If you've worked at those places, you've obviously become hard (understandable that can happen).
Before you accuse people of NOT doing anything, you should pay more attention to some of these posts on this board.
They are not saying leave your dog on the side of the road, they are saying be responsible for your own dog/cat. Spay and neuter your pets, be responsible. If your dog is a liability, have the courage to take it to the vet yourself to have it humanely PTS, try to find it a home yourself - But don't get the mistaken idea that you can DUMP an animal you are tired of for whatever reason and honestly think that YOUR pet will be adopted by a good home. Odds are against that happening.
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