Without them, there would be countless animals on the street. However, not all animal shelters care for pets as they should. Many of these animals end up being euthanized or abused. The primary way to help animals and animal shelters, for that matter, is to spay or neuter your pets.
Ljubica is a writer and researcher who enjoys spending most of her time between the pages of her favorite books or immersed in her writing. With a background in English literature, she prides herself on delivering content that is well-researched and backed up by relevant data. Still, the posts are too short for beginners. Great article but you left out one of the cruelest methods used for killing dogs and cats.
It is absolutely disgusting, barbaric, and cruel as a gas chamber. They take a long needle filled with heart stopping medication and stab it directly into the animals heart. The animal is awake during this procedure. Miami Dade used to use this method now they are no kill. But many shelters still use the heart stick today, even if laws state otherwise.
South Carolina expressly allows it. Only reclaims by owners. If no one claims the pet, its killed. The poor animals have no chance in these areas. Some, smaller cities transfer picked up animals to a county shelter. But not all. Finally, some shelters immediately put down animals that are surrendered by their owners. Some other reasons people dump their pets.
Apparently; the cat was white and the sofa was black. But this happens more than you think. Purebred Doberman was returned to the shelter twice before we got him. He was suffering from heart worms and was close to dead. We got him treatment, and he lived another 10 years. Very common, people bring in animals that are very sick due to neglect, many are emaciated, and others have broken bones with no explanation of how they got them. Same as the previous but some idiots think dumping a pet at a kill shelter is better than living inside a house.
Backyard breeders and puppy mills get lots of puppies that are deformed or have other disabilities due to inbreeding and breeding animals that should never be bred in the first place.
They are dumped. Even blind puppies are dumped. Imagine how scary that would be for them. Yep, people actually say this! Funny part is that the staff will put a leash on them when they take the animal from the owner and it walks perfectly. Making the owner look like a fool. Nope, they looked like a fool already! It wants too much attention. Is this, not what all of us want? Is that too much to ask? Does your child want attention too?
Yes, I bet they do. The list of pathetic excuses from people who abandon their pets goes on and on. Pets are family, not status symbols or accessories that you can trash whenever you want. When you become the soul care giver for a pet, you are responsible for that pet for its entire life. Not just when you feel like it. Breeders are a huge problem and should be mentioned.
Backyard breeders and puppy mills breed for money, not quality. Breeding millions of puppies, and kittens each year causing severe overpopulation They inbreed and continually breed the same females over and over again. They spend the absolute least amount of money on basic care and food. Many are kept in tiny cages their entire lives. Terrified of people and with good reason. So, the animals suffer. Some breeds require c-sections to deliver puppies. Imagine having a c-section every year of your life.
Until they no longer can produce and are dumped at the shelter. People that breed pit bulls and labradors are insane and well plain stupid! Those two breeds make up the bulk of dogs killed in shelters! No matter how sweet they are. Shelters rarely get breeds correct. They call everything that has a bull dog looking face a pit bull. When none of them look anything like a pit bull. Some call them all pit mixes.
In fact most people have no idea what a real pit bull looks like! I recall a shelter having a purebred mastiff and a purebred Belgian Malinois. The shelter tagged these dogs as pit mix and shepherd mix. Thankfully, for these two dogs I got in touch with breed rescues, and they were saved. But it happens all the time, every day. Someone may search for a mastiff and never see it because its breed was not listed correctly. Shelters also mark small dogs like Chihuahuas with a sign that says bites!
Small dogs that are terrified and scared to death will snip at you. It happens to big dogs as well. Shelter staff for the moat part are clueless and cost more lives due to incompetence that you could ever imagine. A family member just had a female dog have 12 puppies. She claims it was an accident. Two or three of them died. She kept two and the others were given away. These are all considered to be methods that are too torturesome. There are about 7, shelters in the US.
By surveying shelters, researchers from Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine found that about 5. About , are euthanized.
The animals that are not euthanized are adopted to new families, returned to their owners, or transferred to other shelters or animal rescue centers. Some, like Mark Cushing of the Animal Policy Group, a lobbying firm, say that the US has a demand for about 8 million dogs alone, each year, and that shelters cannot meet this need. Because of this, he says, the breeding of dogs should continue in the US. Others, such as the director of the No Kill Advocacy Center in California feel that Americans should consider adopting pets that need homes from places like Puerto Rico and Mexico and cease relying on breeders for a pet, as many are in need.
Which route is the best for the future of pets is hard to say. One of the main controversies surrounding animal shelters and euthanasia is the existence of gas chambers to end the lives of animals. According to the Humane Society , this process involves placing an animal in a small box with no light.
The animal often struggles for help and can go into convulsions for a length of time as it gasps for air, before dying. If an animal is very ill or stressed out, it can take even longer for it to pass away. For these reasons, many animal rights advocates would wish to do away with this method of animal euthanasia, but it is still permitted in many states. Another issue is the problem of exposed animal carcasses hurting other animals when injections are used.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has told of a case where a horse was put down by injections, and birds that came to eat from its carcass out in the open then died from ingesting the chemicals present in the horse. A save rate of 90 percent is necessary to consider a shelter or state "no-kill," taking into account the roughly 10 percent of animals whose irreparable medical or behavioral issues require humane euthanization.
Sadly, about cats and dogs are euthanized daily across the country because of lack of space, Castle says. Cats are killed more than twice as frequently as dogs, even though about 5 percent more dogs enter shelters, Best Friends reports.
This is how we will get to no-kill. New Hampshire has joined Delaware as the pair of states reaching the percent no-kill threshold, the news release says. According to Best Friends' data, two other northeastern states barely missed out. If Rhode Island had saved 18 other dogs and cats, it would've made it.
Vermont was 53 animals short. On the other end of the list, the most animals were euthanized in the country's two most populous states: Texas 52, and California 39,
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