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Originally Posted by KazzyK810  It's awesome that you work to get these animals spayed & neutered. I have a couple of friends that are really involved in a local shelter and are always posting pics of the animals on their FB pages trying to drum up homes for them, and almost every animal they list is not fixed  . You have to wonder if the raging hormones & aggressive behavior & marking are contributing to the reason they are in the shelter in the first place.
My daughter had a hard time at the humane society. She wanted to bring home everything....especially the old ones that were reaching their maximum length of stay before they were killed. She always thought she wanted to be a vet, and but after sitting in on some surgeries & seeing animals euthanized, she changed her mind. |
Oh, it IS so hard. I posted on YT when I first got my internship. I was afraid of the e/u certification that I would have to do if I actually got hired. I'm not proud of the fact that I work in a "kill" shelter...the most attached I got was to a BEAUTIFUL, amazing, just...I am tearing up thinking about this dog. Beautiful senior dalmatian/border collie mix named Tango. Long story short Tango was overlooked for months because he was old, which I was stupidly, selfishly happy about. I bonded to this dog so deeply that when he tested HW positive I cried and cried and begged my boyfriend to help me pay for his treatment so he had a better chance at getting adopted. He was just the best...hw treatment is just so expensive, and I knew this might happen in the future and I'd be in the same situation. We can't save them all. I wish we could. I asked them if I could foster him. It was a long process and I got denied because I live in an apartment and Tango was a big dog. He had to be euthanized.
ANYWAYS, shelters are great and I wish more people would volunteer. It's hard but someone's gotta do it!!