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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:
*
a no-kill policy euthanasia of terminally ill animals only
*
euthanasia of unrehomeable animals (for instance aggressive
animals, animals of uncertain temperament)
*
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:
*
which qualifications must these persons have?
*
which method should be used? which not?
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what is a "reasonable" period for a healthy dog in a canil?
*
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”
