One of the neighboring counties, mostly rural, some urban and suburban, has an animal control policy that is just dreadful.
They are a high-kill "shelter" if you can call it that. Homeless animals are only given one week in the adoption area and if they aren't taken, they are put to sleep - EVEN THOUGH THE SHELTER IS NOT FULL!!!!! There can be EMPTY CAGES and the animals will be euth'd anyway.
I am horrified by this!
I had a long talk with one of the rescue people there - she said AC is NOT public friendly, that the animals' bodies are sold to vet schools and they make money that way. The AC doesn't really do much to advertise that they even HAVE adoptable pets... and charge $90 for cats. Granted, the cats do get fixed, vetted, tested and microchipped for that price - and the County AC STILL makes money on them.
Three cats just today were PTS because their "time was up" and there was no place to put them! ie: fosters or adopters
Because the AC makes money for the county, the board of commissioners is not about to change anything unless there was some kind of huge public outcry. To paraphrase the rescuer I spoke to, they don't care and most of the commissioners are not animal lovers.
I am going to write a letter - but I am just one person AND I don't live or work in that county. So I doubt anything I say will help.
This is just so sad ... and I know this sort of thing is multiplied many times over all over the country.
Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.
They are a high-kill "shelter" if you can call it that. Homeless animals are only given one week in the adoption area and if they aren't taken, they are put to sleep - EVEN THOUGH THE SHELTER IS NOT FULL!!!!! There can be EMPTY CAGES and the animals will be euth'd anyway.
I am horrified by this!
Three cats just today were PTS because their "time was up" and there was no place to put them! ie: fosters or adopters
Because the AC makes money for the county, the board of commissioners is not about to change anything unless there was some kind of huge public outcry. To paraphrase the rescuer I spoke to, they don't care and most of the commissioners are not animal lovers.
I am going to write a letter - but I am just one person AND I don't live or work in that county. So I doubt anything I say will help.
This is just so sad ... and I know this sort of thing is multiplied many times over all over the country.
Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.