I sure wish shelters and animal controls would contact rescue in these cases. If I've got the right shelter, and I think I do, the adoption fees are super low. Like $45. That's darn near an impulse adoption and too many people adopt on looks alone - especially this close to Christmas. I hope a rescue can pull this dog. There's a Neo mix there too that I hope gets pulled. It does look like they only allow some dogs to go to breed rescues, so hopefully they're careful about placement.
I agree it would be a disaster in my area also. Another thing came to mind after seeing this as I don't look at rescues or pounds anymore since they killed that happy tail wagging dog that I was looking at with my daughter. With the drastic differences in Cane Corso today with these imbecile show breeders, how the hell does someone know if they are getting a lab or a guard dog? Very sad indeed.
No, It was a shelter in Orlando, it was traumatizing. We were looking at this cute mutt and the officer came and put it on a leash and the dog wagged its tail happy and they walked it back to its demise we found out when we asked, it never left my head. It was that moment that I realized all these animal control officers are no empathy people and it was a horror show job. Never returned since.What happened with the dog you were looking at? It's very rare for a rescue to euthanize, unless there really are no other options. Were you at a kill shelter?
I do understand how traumatic that must have been for you and your daughter. My first ever dog as an adult was a GSD puppy. My now husband and I walked into the shelter in our college town and picked her out. As we were carrying her out a man was walking in. They told us at the desk that we'd just made it in time. That man was there to euthanize the rest of the litter. I was devastated and that's the exact moment I became active in rescue and animal welfare.
Until people stop breeding dogs just for the fun of it, to get one "just like him," or to see the miracle of life ... or because they can't be bothered to make sure their dogs don't procreate, kill shelters will exist. Until people stop buying dogs based on looks alone or as impulse buys - or for their kids - animals will be euthanized. This time of year is awful for this kind of thing. Do you know how many people get a new puppy for Christmas and send the old one to the shelter? More than you might think. The unfortunate fact is that there just aren't enough homes for all the dogs in shelters. And it's not responsible breeders that are at fault, contrary to what a lot of people might say. That dog you saw, and the litter I saw, that was euthanized is why the majority of people should spay and neuter their dogs. Most animal control and shelter workers aren't heartless. There are the exceptions, of course. There always are. But the majority of them aren't heartless. People wonder why shelters spay and neuter their pups at 6 weeks? Because it's the only way they can really assure those dogs won't be procreating and adding to the unwanted pet population.
There's also a very real thing called compassion fatigue. This is an issue that is very important to me as I have a daughter that already struggles with depression and has chosen a career in the animal care and training field. A field where the suicide rate is uncommonly high. I'm extremely proud of the work she does. I'm also terrified of the toll it takes on her mentally and emotionally. Please consider reading a bit about compassion fatigue in animal care workers. Here's just one article. There are plenty of others.
https://barkpost.com/good/compassion-fatigue-animal-workers/
I'd welcome a discussion about this issue, but this probably isn't the place to do it. Maybe the controversial section. I'd like to hear your thoughts about this.
I do understand how traumatic that must have been for you and your daughter. My first ever dog as an adult was a GSD puppy. My now husband and I walked into the shelter in our college town and picked her out. As we were carrying her out a man was walking in. They told us at the desk that we'd just made it in time. That man was there to euthanize the rest of the litter. I was devastated and that's the exact moment I became active in rescue and animal welfare.
Until people stop breeding dogs just for the fun of it, to get one "just like him," or to see the miracle of life ... or because they can't be bothered to make sure their dogs don't procreate, kill shelters will exist. Until people stop buying dogs based on looks alone or as impulse buys - or for their kids - animals will be euthanized. This time of year is awful for this kind of thing. Do you know how many people get a new puppy for Christmas and send the old one to the shelter? More than you might think. The unfortunate fact is that there just aren't enough homes for all the dogs in shelters. And it's not responsible breeders that are at fault, contrary to what a lot of people might say. That dog you saw, and the litter I saw, that was euthanized is why the majority of people should spay and neuter their dogs. Most animal control and shelter workers aren't heartless. There are the exceptions, of course. There always are. But the majority of them aren't heartless. People wonder why shelters spay and neuter their pups at 6 weeks? Because it's the only way they can really assure those dogs won't be procreating and adding to the unwanted pet population.
There's also a very real thing called compassion fatigue. This is an issue that is very important to me as I have a daughter that already struggles with depression and has chosen a career in the animal care and training field. A field where the suicide rate is uncommonly high. I'm extremely proud of the work she does. I'm also terrified of the toll it takes on her mentally and emotionally. Please consider reading a bit about compassion fatigue in animal care workers. Here's just one article. There are plenty of others.
https://barkpost.com/good/compassion-fatigue-animal-workers/
I'd welcome a discussion about this issue, but this probably isn't the place to do it. Maybe the controversial section. I'd like to hear your thoughts about this.
I would hope that a professional vet would make the right decision and call a rescue or a non kill shelter if someone brought them an "unwanted" dog. Or any dog that is not ill. A vet is not the executioner and its not their job to kill because some moron bought a dog and decided it was too difficult to own or that it was aggressive towards their undisciplined children.Do you really think that vets only euthanize animals that are sick and suffering? Not so. People bring in unwanted animals. People bring in animals with costly health issues (often due to their own negligence) and then expect the vet to treat without payment. They get angry because they are asked to sign over ownership so the animal gets the needed treatment if they are unable or unwilling to pay. Someone has to pay for the care. Go back and search my posts from last year and you'll find Stuart. He was an example of a dog whose owners were unwilling to pay for his care. So my daughter took him and payed for him out of her own pocket. His treatment was not free. We then spent months trying to find him a home. Easier said than done. There's a reason animal care workers always have a full house. At the time my daughter said to me, "I can't do this for all of them, but I can do this for him."
I want to be clear on a couple things, show breeders are not solely responsible for the downfall of any breed, they are simply one piece of a messed up puzzle with blame needing to be placed equally throughout.
There are certainly those without compassion working in fields that should have it, nurses, doctors, etc but there are also those that work in fields that often are construed as not having compassion vs becoming desensitized to the situation because they are required to do things that would tear ones heart out so they appear unfeeling or detached to save themselves. Kill shelters I am sure have far more challenges for the people that work here.
I am also not one of those people that think that Euthanise is the worst thing that can happen to an animal. In my world dogs that are terrified of life and everything it presents, dogs that through no fault of their own are left in a shelter for years, etc. That is strictly my opinion and I have more than my share of discussions on why that is not popular and that is alright for others to have opinions that don't agree, not agreeing or seeing me as a terrible person will not hurt my feelings.
I would hope that a professional vet would make the right decision and call a rescue or a non kill shelter if someone brought them an "unwanted" dog. Or any dog that is not ill. A vet is not the executioner and its not their job to kill because some moron bought a dog and decided it was too difficult to own or that it was aggressive towards their undisciplined children.
I won't open another thread on this as a million books or ideas could never change my mind on the topic. What you are saying is that they do it for "money" to survive. This is no reason, if this became part of my job I would leave. I like that some vets decide to treat the animal and keep them, that's probably what I would do also. But we are not discussing treatment, we are discussing giving a needle to any dog that is not already on his/her way out the door.
as a million books or ideas could never change my mind on the topic. .
I'm not sure where you got that I said they were in it for the money, because I never said that. So you don't want to discuss this. That's too bad because until more people can come up with ideas, things aren't going to change. The situation isn't as black and white as you think and your comments indicate that you have no first hand experience with this at all, other than one bad incident at a shelter. I really would like to know what you - you personally - are doing to help the unwanted dogs in the shelter. Are you opening your home and wallet to foster? Are you transporting dogs to rescues where they have a better chance of being adopted? Are you willing to adopt one of these unwanted dogs into your home? What are you doing to help the situation besides judging people whose shoes you've never walked in? How many animals do you think vets and their employees can take home? It's a simple question, really. What are YOU doing to help?
Actually yes, I have and do open my wallet as well as take in a small dog should it need my help. We are open to having 6 or 7 small dogs. I have taken the most unwanted abused dogs in the streets of Colombia to the vet to treat infections and remove bugs or whatever else they need and continually went and purchased hamburgers for strays from the nearest tienda that could get me some quick food as I had none in this particular city. Also these are not strays but owned by disgusting people that could care less.
In my house in Tangier there is a rescue with lots of dogs many without working back legs and we plan on donating however we can to this woman, we discuss it often. There is an illegal skin trade in China where they skin dogs alive to provide big corporate with shoes, shaving items and jackets with dog fur claiming its other fur. They have blocked this off to civilians as its illegal. There are some people that have the ability to film these horrendous actions to close these no empathy bastards down.
I do more than my fair share. I will always judge and wonder how a shelter worker could have a heart so black and tainted.
Perhaps I've assumed you live in the states when you do not? It sounds like that may be the case. I'm really glad to hear that you're willing to be involved. I do think that there is a difference in approach in dealing with street dogs vs. dogs already in over crowded shelters. I think that with the passion you show for certain causes that you could, perhaps, initiate some changes in the institutions that you wish to see modified. You know - "be the change you wish to see in the world" and all that.
In the meantime, I hope this dog has been rescued. I hate looking at this picture knowing that this dog has an uncertain future, quite possibly even a no empathy shelter worker removing her from existence.got this picture from a friend:
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