Gotta Read This, From My Local Newspaper, HAVE TISSUES HANDY :*(
 

My mom e-mailed this to me this morning. It is from my local newspaper. This is sooooo sad. I cried the entire time I was reading this article. Absolutely horrible.

PLEASE spay and neuter your pets!!!!! :animal-pa

P.S.- Look at the 2 dog's pictures over to the left. Those poor babies lost their lives on Friday.

http://www.thevictoriaadvocate.com/428/story/6205.html

that was brutal :(

Oh God....I couldn't even finish......

That is very depressing......

Very sad.

It is...VERY. But I just wish more people would read this stuff and open up their hearts and homes and save these babies, and spay and neuter the pets that they already have. I wish so badly that I could rescue them all...it just breaks my heart into a million pieces :cry: :fallen:

My Mom lives in Victoria and called me about this . She could not even read it all AND she is not an animal person. I went to the paper online and could not read it all myself. Things like this are horribly sad and I wish everyone would think about the poor babies before they breed. So very sad!

:cry: That was awful. I wish I could adopt them all. If all of those people who want their children to watch a live birth and allow their dogs to have puppies could only understand what they are doing. And all the horrible puppy mills!:mad:

That was so sad, I could not read it, I knew how the story goes.

I really can't understand these kill shelters. I am a strong advocate of no kill shelters and fostering. There is no reason why kill shelters should exist. The only reason a dog should be euthanized is because of health problems or serious behavior problems. I am sorry, it just makes me angry that these shelters exist. There will always always be dogs that need new homes but there doesn't ever have to be any kill shelters. JMO

I couldn't finish it either.

Your opinion is one that I would agree with...in a perfect world. Fact is, there simply aren't enough homes to provide for these dogs. I wish (like you) that there wasn't a need for these facilities and that more people would take these animal in and adopt them. These adopted animals would be spayed/neutered...but what about all the homes that are producing these animals by the multitudes? What about the stray animals on the street (mostly cats) that are producing wild? Have you ever tried to tame a feral cat? It is darn near impossible.

So yes, I agree with you by heart but not by the reality of the situation. JMO

Please Spay And Neuter Your Pets!
 

I understand your feelings but you are blaming the wrong people. You should blame the many many breeders and irresponsible owners that produced these unfortunate animals. And maybe even blame me and countless others like me that pay big dollars for a cute little puppy that encourages the greedy puppy mills to keep churning out our darlings while leaving their parents in such terrible conditions that ending up in a kill shelter is one of their best options.

Please spay and neuter your pets. If you can take care of another pet, please adopt/rescue.

Nope didnt finish it either

Sometimes there are just toooo many.

Here is an email I sent to the reporter on that story.

Gabe,
I believe when the shelters preach spay/neuter to the public, they are preaching to the choir. I would like to see the media push for spay/neuter clinics.

The majority of the people who are responsible for these animals are too poor to pay to have their dogs spayed/neutered. They probably got a puppy free from a friend of their cousins girlfriend, who's female was not spayed and was kept chained outside, or allowed to run loose. They couldn't say no cause their kids fell in love with it, but they can barely afford to feed it let alone get it spayed/neutered. And so it starts all over.

If our local governments provided for free spay/neuter clinics, sort of like gun amnesty, no questions asked, I believe people would get it done. Initially it would cost, but in the long run it could drastically reduce the number of animals in the shelters and the numbers being euthanized, thereby saving enough money to fund the clinics.

All it would take would be for one lonely little reporter to start the ball rolling, and make a name for himself.

Just think about it. The "Semenza" legislation.

How aweful and heartbreaking!:( :( :(

:crying:

What makes this whole thing so much harder to stomach is that happens in far too many facilities in EVERY little town.... in every single STATE in this country - :( :( :( :( :( in all these years of you'd Think somone would have found a better solution than killing innocent dogs who did nothing but to be born -

We need some serious laws changed and fast - It seems everyone is breeding these days and I know it's probably been going on a long time like this - but with the net - there is so much more info out there and people just aren't getting it. They just continue to add to an already bad problem - whether it be by having puppies.... or being irresponsible for an already living dog.

Wow that was so sad couldnt read it either. I agreed with you Villette we need better laws and is so sad that this is practice at all. :(

This is so sad!!! I can't stop crying....
sometimes, I feel so guilty, for buying a puppy... and there are so many dogs in need...:cry:

you can all say that laws on everyone breeding need to be changed and that everyone should spay and neuter...but how many of you rescued your dog? because thats where it has to start by empyting all the shelters...im not blaming anyone im guilty of it too i bought one of mine from a breeder but then i realized all the ones in the shelters need homes to so i rescued my yorkie..she has no papers but i love her just the same...if you resuce a dog then it frees its cage for another so neither have to be euthanized

I agree with what you said. I HAVE rescued. Not just dogs, but cats as well. Stedman (Yorkie) and Pippi (Mini Doxie) are the only two animals that I have really ever "bought"...except for my parents buying me pets when I was younger, but that was forever and a day ago. My Cocker that passed in January was a rescue, as is the mixed breed dog that we have now, and our cat. Over the years, there have been many, many rescued dogs that we have brought into our home. It just kills me that I can't rescue them all...

i know me too...i bought my chihuahua but then i rescued my yorkie after going to a shelter with a friend and was an outdoor one and i felt bad for them all and i saw her hiding in the corner so i took her home! I wish i had enough room/time/money for them all big and small! my 2 cats are rescues and my big lab mix is also but my house is full with all of them!

I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU!! SHELTERS SHOULD TRY TO SAVE ANIMALS NOT TO KILL THEM!!! THAT IS HORRIBLE AND CRUEL!:(

:cry:

Right on :thumbup:

This is heart breaking but so true.

im all choked up... damit

That was terribly sad, I wish the people that want pets, would do their research first. So manypeople want breeds for the wrong reasons and know nothing about them.

I wish we could save them all, but its not possible. Not having kill shelters isn't the greatest idea. No kill is not entirely fair to a animal, to live in a cage with no real home or family, for an indefinite amount of time. The over population of these animals would reach a staggering high, because too many people think animals are disposable. If every dog was saved from now on, the upkeep, land, resources, and volunteer time would be insane! Like so many other things it starts with us, with stricter laws and a change in spay/neuter laws. The only reason I don't back no kill, is I have visited several. It is heart breaking to see animals that have become unadoptable, that will live in a kennel forever. Most of these places have stopped taking pets and are living on a
wing and a prayer.

I also believe that certain things shouldn't be discussed by the media. A story ran on local news a while back called "Dead Dog Walking' that was the equivalent to that article. Only imagine being there, seeing the rows of dead dogs, watching it first hand, seeing the ones waiting for next week.
It WAS gut wrenching, however, for the few people that it made a difference for, great. I hope they spay/neuter ect.. But the vast majority of people had never been exposed to this, I am not so sure how this affected them positively.

My point is, 10 minutes later, Death is a part of life. You can't save them all. Cruel yes, but it is something we have to accept. The problem is us, until we fix it nothing will get any better.

That is so sad

:thumbup: Great! I hope that the reporter does take this and start the ball rolling. And sad to say, it does take the public to get involved to....that doesn't happen often. There are not many (hardly any) no kill shelters...www.BestFriends.org being the biggest. I know in my area, there are a few, small home no kill shelters where these families take in unwanted pets and foster them until they are adopted. BUT most of these pets don't get a home and most of these shelters can barely run without asking for help...when they do ask, most people don't give. It is so sad! Oh, I know in my area, there is a spay/neuter program, but is it strictly for low-income - and I believe the income was $25k and under. I don't think the income matters..okay, it does help...but there needs to be a free or low-cost program for everyone...and maybe even if there were a way to do a mobile unit too for those who can not get out.