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Pure Breed

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Friday, February 8, 2013 8:15 AM

PIRATENEWS

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Quote:

The shelter manager's letter:

"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.

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.

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.

No shortage of excuses

The most common excuses I hear are:

We are moving and we can't take our dog (or cat).

Really? Where are you moving to that doesn't allow pets?

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 bringing her inside, 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, and how stressful do you think being in a shelter is?

Well, let me tell you. Dead pet walking!

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 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, rottweiler, 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, though not for long. Most pets 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.

The grim reaper

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. That is, 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 their size and how freaked out they are). A euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process. They 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 it's leg. I've seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood, and been deafened by the yelps and screams.

They all don't just "go to sleep" - sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.

When it all ends, your pet's 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?

Liberty, freedom and justice for all

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 and I hate that it will always be there unless 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 is 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 person's 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 and it made me want to adopt".

That would make it all worth it."



My college professor runs the local "Humane Society" and personally gassed 50,000 pets, makes TV ads of trash cans full of dogs and cats he killed, yet still only buys pure breeds... He's a Liberal Democrat.

Karma...................


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Friday, February 8, 2013 8:23 AM

BYTEMITE


PETA and the humane society... Both kinda hypocrites. :(

We have local groups that rescue shelter animals and don't euthanize, I try to support them.

One time we put our name down on a kitten, barely more than six weeks old, but they killed it anyway because they didn't bother to look at their computers.

It's pretty monstrous.

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Friday, February 8, 2013 9:13 AM

AGENTROUKA


I kinda don't think you can blame shelters that kill the dogs. If you don't have the money to support all animals that are handed over to them, what are they supposed to do?

The solution really would be to reduce breeding and raise awareness in people that dogs aren't consumer products but investments in a long-term family member almost the same way a child would be.

Don't many breeders offer to take back dogs if owners can't keep them? Maybe this should be mandatory? It would certainly encourage them to be a LOT choosier about who they sell to or breeding at all.

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Friday, February 8, 2013 6:06 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


It takes hard sales and marketing and PR work to be a No Kill Shelter. It's just more work, and lazy/stupid/homicidal "Humane Society" shelters refuses to do that work, apparently because they enjoy killing then selling the carcasses. Euthenasia is a death cult religion with those psychopaths.

We have a new No Kill Shelter that has a 95% adoption rate, staffed with overworked volunteers. The 5% not adopted get to live there. Very large new HQ built with taxdollars. I had to use their computer system to print my own invoice because the volunteer didn't know how. They post all animals on facebook in real time, dressed in cute little outfits. The cat I adopted last month looked like my cat the coyotes ate (outside the safety of our fence), but apparently was captured feral (surprise!). It's been a real challenge, especially after it bit my finger to the bone, so more wild than tame. She's loving being an outdoor cat on top of a mountain, no matter how much it snows. It has a covered screen porch with heated bed but prefers the great outdoors.

The human race has a long way to go, if it survives long enough to get there. Not looking very promising...for the inhuman race.

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Saturday, February 9, 2013 12:16 AM

AGENTROUKA


I'm not saying that No-Kill shelters can't or shouldn't exist. They obviously can and should. But the shelters aren't really the problem, are they? Even the ones that don't have the resources and volunteer force to be truly humane exist only to address a problem created by irresponsible dog owners and people who make money by creating yet more dogs when there are already too many.

Vilifying shelters and the people who work in them is utterly beside the point.

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Sunday, February 10, 2013 9:05 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


I agree with Rouka here re shelters, it costs money and space to keep all those pets and sometimes its just not possible. Bob Barker had it right at the end of Price is Right every morning.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, February 11, 2013 5:20 PM

BYTEMITE


Quote:

Originally posted by PIRATENEWS:
It takes hard sales and marketing and PR work to be a No Kill Shelter. It's just more work, and lazy/stupid/homicidal "Humane Society" shelters refuses to do that work, apparently because they enjoy killing then selling the carcasses. Euthenasia is a death cult religion with those psychopaths.

We have a new No Kill Shelter that has a 95% adoption rate, staffed with overworked volunteers. The 5% not adopted get to live there. Very large new HQ built with taxdollars. I had to use their computer system to print my own invoice because the volunteer didn't know how. They post all animals on facebook in real time, dressed in cute little outfits. The cat I adopted last month looked like my cat the coyotes ate (outside the safety of our fence), but apparently was captured feral (surprise!). It's been a real challenge, especially after it bit my finger to the bone, so more wild than tame. She's loving being an outdoor cat on top of a mountain, no matter how much it snows. It has a covered screen porch with heated bed but prefers the great outdoors.

The human race has a long way to go, if it survives long enough to get there. Not looking very promising...for the inhuman race.



Kitty!

What's her name?

I think even feral cats get won over when they realize the humans are willing to feed them. :)

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:06 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Quote:

Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Quote:

Originally posted by PIRATENEWS:
It takes hard sales and marketing and PR work to be a No Kill Shelter. It's just more work, and lazy/stupid/homicidal "Humane Society" shelters refuses to do that work, apparently because they enjoy killing then selling the carcasses. Euthenasia is a death cult religion with those psychopaths.

We have a new No Kill Shelter that has a 95% adoption rate, staffed with overworked volunteers. The 5% not adopted get to live there. Very large new HQ built with taxdollars. I had to use their computer system to print my own invoice because the volunteer didn't know how. They post all animals on facebook in real time, dressed in cute little outfits. The cat I adopted last month looked like my cat the coyotes ate (outside the safety of our fence), but apparently was captured feral (surprise!). It's been a real challenge, especially after it bit my finger to the bone, so more wild than tame. She's loving being an outdoor cat on top of a mountain, no matter how much it snows. It has a covered screen porch with heated bed but prefers the great outdoors.

The human race has a long way to go, if it survives long enough to get there. Not looking very promising...for the inhuman race.



Kitty!

What's her name?

I think even feral cats get won over when they realize the humans are willing to feed them. :)



Felicity. She's lovin her mountaintop, though she spends a lot of time in the clouds. She had no problem with 2 days of snow. Probably sleeps in a cave, which she prefers over the heated bed on the screen porch.

Next rescue is a dozen chickens, pigs, cows, goats and sheep.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:39 PM

BYTEMITE


Planning a farm?

What kind of sheep?

Watch out the pigs don't take over.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:05 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Quote:

Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Planning a farm?

What kind of sheep?

Watch out the pigs don't take over.



A No Kill far mwould be nice. My family used to have a big farm, including 1,000 wild boars.

Here's where my latest cat came from:


http://www.facebook.com/BlountCountyAnimalCenter

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 3:49 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


Good luck with the new kitty PN, and the other animals you're hoping to acquire.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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