| And the moral of the story is.....never bring your "extra" animals
to an animal shelter, unless they have a non-destroy policy (there
is a big non-destroy shelter in Salem, Mass.). The MSPCA has been
under fire lately for their destroy policy, and they've lost a lot
of financial support (donations) because of the publicity. (Last
fall, a woman brought them 5 young puppies. She found someone to
take one or two later the same day, but found that the shelter had
already destroyed them.)
Fortunately, the non-destroy policy idea is SLOWLY picking up, but
of course it's costly and still impossible to ever place all those
poor creatures unless there are some SERIOUS changes made in public
habits in the next several years, such as getting apartment complexs
to allow animals, massive pet campaigns, elderly programs and so
forth. Any ideas on how to implement such programs would be
appreciated by us pet lovers everywhere.....
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| > Fortunately, the non-destroy policy idea is SLOWLY picking up, but
> of course it's costly and still impossible to ever place all those
> poor creatures unless there are some SERIOUS changes made in public
> habits in the next several years, such as getting apartment complexs
> to allow animals, massive pet campaigns, elderly programs and so
> forth. Any ideas on how to implement such programs would be
> appreciated by us pet lovers everywhere.....
Non-destroy policies will only become nationally accepted when the
flood of animals without homes drop to a trickle. In many state with a
large transient population (such as this one, California) it is
impossible to provide non-destroy shelters for all the strays that
crop up in our cities. There is not enough land, not enough money,
and there NEVER will be enough homes for these animals. I think it
has been estimated that every man, woman, and child in this country
would have to adopt 25 animals EACH to empty the shelters...that's
75 animals for a family of 3 people. All the adoption programs in
the world aren't going to solve this problem. We have to find better
ways to stop the breeding of kittens and puppies.
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