Stop the Killing of Shelter Animals!!! - Page 2

I couldn't agree more, Joan, and that also makes a great case for responsible breeders always keeping in touch with their buyers and taking back any of the  unwanted. A breeder who doesn't have the room to take back dogs they bred should stop breeding until they can. That's not 100% but it would help I think.

I think that shelters and resuces should adopt out the policy of allowing out of state adoptions like rescue like Westside German Shepherds does, and also I have heard that some others will allow it too. This way the animals will have a chance to be adopted out even if its not in the original state they lived in. The longer the animals wait it also means that other animals that would come in would be turned away as well, because people don't want to wait to get rid of their animals. Its a sad cycle to see, many good animals get turned away and many in the shelters get put down.

The El Paso shelter that liked Phillipe did not even give him 3 days!!! Their euthanization percentage is frightening. How the hell can a dog get out alive without an ID number??? They also do not always notify the chip companies, which they are supposed to do, when a dog is scanned and comes into their facility. They have also misidentified the type of dog when reporting a chip number. I am at my wits end. When did murder become an acceptable solution? They have what they call their VIP program, a program in which they declare dogs to be highly adoptable. Now ask me if a large dog has ever been put on that list!!! I think you know the answer... :( Maybe I am naive, but I DO believe there is strength in numbers, and if we become vocal, they will NOT be able to ignore us. How dare they take our tax dollars to KILL? My heart just breaks for these unwanted animals. I simply cannot stand by and do nothing! There are other solutions. Shelters that follow no kill nation guidelines have had euthanization solution levels drop like a stone. Our lawmakers need to be educated. I am up to the challenge...are all of you?

13,532 signatures as of this time... Numbers need to keep growing...

JonRob

Yes, I put my money where my mouth is. When my husband retired, instead of a $50,000 solid gold watch, we asked that the money for the watch be donated and split between rescue and a childrens hospital, in lieu of the watch, and it was :) Between the other monies we have donated to rescue, I am surprised my husband hasnt killed me yet.. LOL!

The problem lies with organizations like the AKC and the government, who allow puppy mills, BYB and the Amish to churn out litter after litter, and register them. While there IS, IMHO, a place for REPUTABLE breeders (those who breed for the betterment of the breed and DO take back their dogs if something happens where a dog that was sold cannot be kept), these other entities need to be shut down! There is no reason puppy stores cannot house and adopt out shelter animals! That would be a far better path than aiding and abetting commercial breeders and BYB. Laws need to be changed- to go and get a dog out of a shelter, which I have done far more times than I can count, and get it to safety, is merely putting a bandaid on a femoral artery gash.(Pull one, and 100 more fill the spot, within SECONDS!) This needs to be addressed at the highest levels. Laws need to be changed where animals are not strictly commodities. The only good part of a dog being a commodity is in relation to breed bans. If a breed ban is put in place,the comodity law says one's property cannot be taken away from them, so, for example, if you owned a GSD or a pittie, the town simply could not make you get rid of a dog you have owned before the ban went into effect. That is the only upside to a dog being a commodity.  However, it ha s now been proven that dogs have complex feelings, and therefore, to treat them as commodities is simply wrong. I will NOT give up. This killing needs to stop! We are not a third world nation, and we need to quit acting like one...