TAKING YOUR PET TO THE SHELTER? READ THIS…
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TAKING YOUR PET TO THE SHELTER? READ THIS…
By Kennedy Safe Haven
You can’t keep your pet? Really? BY A Shelter Director
I think our society needs a huge “Wake-up” call. As a shelter manager, I
am going to share a little insight with you all…a view from the
inside if you will. First off, all of you people who have ever
surrendered a pet to a shelter or humane society should be made to work
in the “back” of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw
the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would stop
flagging the ads on craigslist and help these animals find homes. That
puppy you just bought will most likely end up in my shelter when it’s
not a cute little puppy anymore. Just so you know there’s a 90% chance
that dog will never walk out of the shelter it’s dumped at? Purebred
or not! About 25% of all of the dogs that are “owner surrenders” or
“strays”, that come into a shelter are purebred dogs.
am going to share a little insight with you all…a view from the
inside if you will. First off, all of you people who have ever
surrendered a pet to a shelter or humane society should be made to work
in the “back” of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw
the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would stop
flagging the ads on craigslist and help these animals find homes. That
puppy you just bought will most likely end up in my shelter when it’s
not a cute little puppy anymore. Just so you know there’s a 90% chance
that dog will never walk out of the shelter it’s dumped at? Purebred
or not! About 25% of all of the dogs that are “owner surrenders” or
“strays”, that come into a shelter are purebred dogs.
The most common excuses: “We are moving and we can’t take our dog (or
cat).” Really? Where are you moving too that doesn’t allow pets? Or they
say “The dog got bigger than we thought it would”. How big did you
think a German Shepherd would get? “We don’t have time for her”. Really?
I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs! “She’s
tearing up our yard”. How about making her a part of your family? They
always tell me “We just don’t want to have to stress about finding a
place for her we know she’ll get adopted, she’s a good dog”.
cat).” Really? Where are you moving too that doesn’t allow pets? Or they
say “The dog got bigger than we thought it would”. How big did you
think a German Shepherd would get? “We don’t have time for her”. Really?
I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs! “She’s
tearing up our yard”. How about making her a part of your family? They
always tell me “We just don’t want to have to stress about finding a
place for her we know she’ll get adopted, she’s a good dog”.
Odds are your pet won’t get adopted & how stressful do you think being
in a shelter is? Well, let me tell you, your pet has 72 hours to find
a new family from the moment you drop it off. Sometimes a little
longer if the shelter isn’t full and your dog manages to stay
completely healthy. If it sniffles, it dies. Your pet will be confined
to a small run/kennel in a room with other barking or crying animals.
It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be
depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it.
If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to
take him/her for a walk. If I don’t, your pet won’t get any attention
besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste
sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose. If your dog is big,
black or any of the “Bully” breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it
was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door. Those
dogs just don’t get adopted. It doesn’t matter how ‘sweet’ or ‘well
behaved’ they are.
in a shelter is? Well, let me tell you, your pet has 72 hours to find
a new family from the moment you drop it off. Sometimes a little
longer if the shelter isn’t full and your dog manages to stay
completely healthy. If it sniffles, it dies. Your pet will be confined
to a small run/kennel in a room with other barking or crying animals.
It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be
depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it.
If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to
take him/her for a walk. If I don’t, your pet won’t get any attention
besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste
sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose. If your dog is big,
black or any of the “Bully” breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it
was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door. Those
dogs just don’t get adopted. It doesn’t matter how ‘sweet’ or ‘well
behaved’ they are.
If your dog doesn’t get adopted within
its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the
shelter isn’t full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable
enough breed it may get a stay of execution, but not for long . Most
dogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed
for showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this
environment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances
are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and
will be destroyed because the shelter gets paid a fee to euthanize
each animal and making money is better than spending money to take
this animal to the vet.
its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the
shelter isn’t full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable
enough breed it may get a stay of execution, but not for long . Most
dogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed
for showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this
environment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances
are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and
will be destroyed because the shelter gets paid a fee to euthanize
each animal and making money is better than spending money to take
this animal to the vet.
Here’s a little euthanasia 101
for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared
animal being “put-down”. First, your pet will be taken from its
kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for
a walk happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to “The Room”,
every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the
door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that
are left in there, it’s strange, but it happens with every one of
them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 shelter
workers depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a
shelter worker who we call a euthanasia tech (not a vet) find a vein
in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the “pink stuff”.
Hopefully your pet doesn’t panic from being restrained and jerk. I’ve
seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting
blood and been deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don’t just
“go to sleep”, sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and
defecate on themselves. You see shelters are trying to make money to
pay employee pay checks and don’t forget the board of directors needs
to be paid too, so we don’t spend our funds to tranquilize the animal
before injecting them with the lethal drug, we just put the burning
lethal drug in the vein and let them suffer until dead. If it were not a
“making money issue” and we had to have a licensed vet do this
procedure, the animal would be sedated or tranquilized and then
euthanized, but to do this procedure correctly would cost more money so
we do not follow what is right for the animal, we just follow what is
the fastest way we can make a dollar. Shelters do not have to have a
vet perform their euthanasia’s so even if it takes our employee 50
pokes with a needle and 3 hours to get the vein that is what we do.
Making money is the issue here not loosing money.
for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared
animal being “put-down”. First, your pet will be taken from its
kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for
a walk happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to “The Room”,
every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the
door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that
are left in there, it’s strange, but it happens with every one of
them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 shelter
workers depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a
shelter worker who we call a euthanasia tech (not a vet) find a vein
in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the “pink stuff”.
Hopefully your pet doesn’t panic from being restrained and jerk. I’ve
seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting
blood and been deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don’t just
“go to sleep”, sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and
defecate on themselves. You see shelters are trying to make money to
pay employee pay checks and don’t forget the board of directors needs
to be paid too, so we don’t spend our funds to tranquilize the animal
before injecting them with the lethal drug, we just put the burning
lethal drug in the vein and let them suffer until dead. If it were not a
“making money issue” and we had to have a licensed vet do this
procedure, the animal would be sedated or tranquilized and then
euthanized, but to do this procedure correctly would cost more money so
we do not follow what is right for the animal, we just follow what is
the fastest way we can make a dollar. Shelters do not have to have a
vet perform their euthanasia’s so even if it takes our employee 50
pokes with a needle and 3 hours to get the vein that is what we do.
Making money is the issue here not loosing money.
Then
it all ends, your pets corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large
freezer in the back with all of the other animals that were killed
waiting to be picked up like garbage. What happens next? Cremated?
Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? Or used for the schools to
dissect and experiment on? You’ll never know and it probably won’t even
cross your mind. It was just an animal and you can always buy another
one, right!
it all ends, your pets corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large
freezer in the back with all of the other animals that were killed
waiting to be picked up like garbage. What happens next? Cremated?
Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? Or used for the schools to
dissect and experiment on? You’ll never know and it probably won’t even
cross your mind. It was just an animal and you can always buy another
one, right!
I hope that those of you who still have a
beating heart and have read this are bawling your eyes out and can’t
get the pictures out of your head, I deal with this everyday. I hate
my job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be
there unless you people make some changes and start educating the
public. Do research, do your homework, and know exactly what you are
getting into before getting a pet. These shelters and humane societies
exist because people just do not care about animals anymore. Animals
were not intended to be disposable but somehow that is what they are
these days. Animal shelters are an easy way out when you get tired of
your dog (or cat), and breeders are the ones blamed for this. Animal
shelters and rescue organizations are making a hefty profit by keeping
this misconception going.
beating heart and have read this are bawling your eyes out and can’t
get the pictures out of your head, I deal with this everyday. I hate
my job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be
there unless you people make some changes and start educating the
public. Do research, do your homework, and know exactly what you are
getting into before getting a pet. These shelters and humane societies
exist because people just do not care about animals anymore. Animals
were not intended to be disposable but somehow that is what they are
these days. Animal shelters are an easy way out when you get tired of
your dog (or cat), and breeders are the ones blamed for this. Animal
shelters and rescue organizations are making a hefty profit by keeping
this misconception going.
Between 9 and 11 MILLION
animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I just
hope I maybe changed one persons mind about taking their dog to a
shelter, a humane society, or buying a dog. For those of you that
care— please repost this to at least one other craiglist in another
city/state. Let’s see if we can get this all around the US and have an
impact.
animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I just
hope I maybe changed one persons mind about taking their dog to a
shelter, a humane society, or buying a dog. For those of you that
care— please repost this to at least one other craiglist in another
city/state. Let’s see if we can get this all around the US and have an
impact.
what a way to spend your last few minutes of life and so many die just this way
DO NOT BREED OR BUY while dogs are dieing in the millions like this
DO NOT BREED OR BUY while dogs are dieing in the millions like this
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Friggen people just don’t think,not because they can’t,but because they choose not too…what a friggen shame…
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