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THE LOSS OF
AN ANIMAL COMPANION - Peta
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What Really Happens When You Take Your Dog or Cat To A
Shelter...
EUTHANASIA
Extract from the RSPCA booklet, GUIDELINES FOR ANIMAL
SHELTERS and reaction on it:
Deciding under what circumstances an animal will be
euthanised is undoubtedly one of the most difficult policy
decisions which your organisation will have to make. It is
also a policy which will have the most far-reaching
consequences for your shelter.
Possible policies include:
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a no-kill policy euthanasia of terminally ill animals only
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euthanasia of unrehomeable animals (for instance aggressive
animals, animals of uncertain temperament)
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euthanasia after a set time limit at the shelter
If your organisation wishes to ensure maximum levels of
adoption from your shelter, you will at times have to
accept the need for euthanasia of healthy animals for which
no homes can be found. This decision can be made on the
basis of the length of time the animal has already spent at
the shelter (for instance it could be put down after two
months). The decision can also be made on the basis of an
assessment of the likelihood of an animal being rehomed (
for instance aggressive, elderly or nervous dogs could be
put down while attractive animals could be kept until a
home is found).
Any time limit which is set should take into account:
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the amount of space which an animal has at the shelter
*
the amount of time which staff or volunteers can spend with
each animal to ensure it remains sociable the pressure on
kennel space due to the number of stray or unwanted dogs
whether animals are kept in individual kennels or group
housing
note A.A.P.: not one person should decide this on his own.
Questions:
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which qualifications must these persons have?
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which method should be used? which not?
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what is a "reasonable" period for a healthy dog in a canil?
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is there a registration and who checks it all?
Prevent Animal Cruelty * Spay/Neuter and Vaccinate your
Pets
What Really Happens When You Take Your Dog or Cat To A
Shelter...
article listed on 26 August 2006
This
was posted in the "Best of Craiglist". Everyone who wants a
pet should know exactly what happens if they decide they
can't keep their pet anymore:
I
am posting this (and it is long) because 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.
All breeders/sellers 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 change your mind about
breeding and selling to people you don't even know that
puppy you just sold will most likely end up in my shelter
when it's not a cute little puppy anymore.
So how would
you feel if you knew that there's about a 90% chance that
dog will never walk out of the shelter it is going to be
dumped at? Purebred or not! About 50% of all of the dogs
that are "owner surrenders" or "strays", that come into my
shelter are purebred dogs. The most common excuses I hear
are;
"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".
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 about 25 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.
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 not
for long though. Most 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 shelters just don't have the
funds to pay for even a $100 treatment.
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 breaks 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 vet techs depending on the
size and how freaked out they are.
Then a euthanasia tech
or a vet will start the process - they will 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 deafened by the yelps
and screams. They all don't just "go to sleep", sometimes
spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.
When 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? 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 that have read this are bawling your eyes out
and can't get the pictures out of your head - I do everyday
on the way home from work. I hate my job, I hate that it
exists & I hate that it will always be there unless you
people make some changes and realize that the lives you are
affecting go much farther than the pets you dump at a
shelter. Between 9 and 11 MILLION animals die every year in
shelters and only you can stop it. I do my best to save
every life I can but rescues are always full, and there are
more animals coming in everyday than there are homes.
My
point to all of this - DON'T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER
PETS DIE!
Hate me if you want to - the truth hurts and
reality is what it is. I just hope I maybe changed one
persons mind about breeding their dog, taking their loving
pet to a shelter, or buying a dog. I hope that someone will
walk into my shelter and say "I saw this thing on
craigslist”
