{"id":19789,"date":"2011-03-01T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/19789\/pet-shelter-read-this\/"},"modified":"2011-03-01T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T15:16:08","slug":"pet-shelter-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/19789\/pet-shelter-read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"TAKING YOUR PET TO THE SHELTER? READ THIS…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>TAKING YOUR PET TO THE SHELTER? READ THIS… <\/strong><\/h2>\n

<\/strong>By Kennedy Safe Haven<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/strong>You can’t keep your pet? Really? BY A Shelter Director<\/strong><\/div>\n
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<\/strong>I think our society needs a huge “Wake-up” call. As a shelter manager, I
\nam going to share a little insight with you all…a view from the
\ninside if you will. First off, all of you people who have ever
\nsurrendered a pet to a shelter or humane society should be made to work
\nin the “back” of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw
\nthe life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would stop
\nflagging the ads on craigslist and help these animals find homes. That
\npuppy you just bought will most likely end up in my shelter when it’s
\nnot a cute little puppy anymore. Just so you know there’s a 90% chance
\nthat dog will never walk out of the shelter it\u2019s dumped at? Purebred
\nor not! About 25% of all of the dogs that are “owner surrenders” or
\n“strays”, that come into a shelter are purebred dogs.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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<\/strong>The most common excuses: “We are moving and we can’t take our dog (or
\ncat).” Really? Where are you moving too that doesn’t allow pets? Or they
\nsay “The dog got bigger than we thought it would”. How big did you
\nthink a German Shepherd would get? “We don’t have time for her”. Really?
\nI work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs! “She’s
\ntearing up our yard”. How about making her a part of your family? They
\nalways tell me “We just don’t want to have to stress about finding a
\nplace for her we know she’ll get adopted, she’s a good dog”.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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<\/strong>Odds are your pet won’t get adopted & how stressful do you think being
\nin a shelter is? Well, let me tell you, your pet has 72 hours to find
\na new family from the moment you drop it off. Sometimes a little
\nlonger if the shelter isn’t full and your dog manages to stay
\ncompletely healthy. If it sniffles, it dies. Your pet will be confined
\nto a small run\/kennel in a room with other barking or crying animals.
\nIt will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be
\ndepressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it.
\nIf your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to
\ntake him\/her for a walk. If I don’t, your pet won’t get any attention
\nbesides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste
\nsprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose. If your dog is big,
\nblack or any of the “Bully” breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it
\nwas pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door. Those
\ndogs just don’t get adopted. It doesn’t matter how ‘sweet’ or ‘well
\nbehaved’ they are.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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<\/strong>If your dog doesn’t get adopted within
\nits 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the
\nshelter isn’t full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable
\nenough breed it may get a stay of execution, but not for long . Most
\ndogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed
\nfor showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this
\nenvironment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances
\nare it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and
\nwill be destroyed because the shelter gets paid a fee to euthanize
\neach animal and making money is better than spending money to take
\nthis animal to the vet.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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<\/strong>Here’s a little euthanasia 101
\nfor those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared
\nanimal being “put-down”. First, your pet will be taken from its
\nkennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for
\na walk happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to “The Room”,
\nevery one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the
\ndoor. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that
\nare left in there, it’s strange, but it happens with every one of
\nthem. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 shelter
\nworkers depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a
\nshelter worker who we call a euthanasia tech (not a vet) find a vein
\nin the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the “pink stuff”.
\nHopefully your pet doesn’t panic from being restrained and jerk. I’ve
\nseen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting
\nblood and been deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don’t just
\n“go to sleep”, sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and
\ndefecate on themselves. You see shelters are trying to make money to
\npay employee pay checks and don\u2019t forget the board of directors needs
\nto be paid too, so we don\u2019t spend our funds to tranquilize the animal
\nbefore injecting them with the lethal drug, we just put the burning
\nlethal drug in the vein and let them suffer until dead. If it were not a
\n\u201cmaking money issue\u201d and we had to have a licensed vet do this
\nprocedure, the animal would be sedated or tranquilized and then
\neuthanized, but to do this procedure correctly would cost more money so
\nwe do not follow what is right for the animal, we just follow what is
\nthe fastest way we can make a dollar. Shelters do not have to have a
\nvet perform their euthanasia\u2019s so even if it takes our employee 50
\npokes with a needle and 3 hours to get the vein that is what we do.
\nMaking money is the issue here not loosing money.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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<\/strong>Then
\nit all ends, your pets corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large
\nfreezer in the back with all of the other animals that were killed
\nwaiting to be picked up like garbage. What happens next? Cremated?
\nTaken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? Or used for the schools to
\ndissect and experiment on? You’ll never know and it probably won’t even
\ncross your mind. It was just an animal and you can always buy another
\none, right!<\/strong><\/div>\n
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<\/strong>I hope that those of you who still have a
\nbeating heart and have read this are bawling your eyes out and can’t
\nget the pictures out of your head, I deal with this everyday. I hate
\nmy job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be
\nthere unless you people make some changes and start educating the
\npublic. Do research, do your homework, and know exactly what you are
\ngetting into before getting a pet. These shelters and humane societies
\nexist because people just do not care about animals anymore. Animals
\nwere not intended to be disposable but somehow that is what they are
\nthese days. Animal shelters are an easy way out when you get tired of
\nyour dog (or cat), and breeders are the ones blamed for this. Animal
\nshelters and rescue organizations are making a hefty profit by keeping
\nthis misconception going.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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<\/strong>Between 9 and 11 MILLION
\nanimals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I just
\nhope I maybe changed one persons mind about taking their dog to a
\nshelter, a humane society, or buying a dog. For those of you that
\ncare— please repost this to at least one other craiglist in another
\ncity\/state. Let’s see if we can get this all around the US and have an
\nimpact.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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<\/strong>what a way to spend your last few minutes of life and so many die just this way
\nDO NOT BREED OR BUY while dogs are dieing in the millions like this<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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