Cats Kittens HIGH KILL GASSING POUND OH "selling dead cats to research"

Licking County Ohio

Please rescue or adopt.


http://itsrainingcatsdogsglixman.blo...high-kill.html

Not nice, not sure what to make of this .

Unfortunately, non private shelters like that are high-kill. It's not their fault that they run out of space and don't have a lot of funds to hold every single animal until it's adopted.

As for the dead cats going to research... well. Would you want a graduating vet to have never seen the inside of a cat before? Harsh fact but that's one way they learn.


I hope more of them can be pulled out of there, but it's up to people willing to fund it and adopt them.

I think the answer is to educate the voting population. How to accomplish that, I don't know.

If the voters cared enough to lobby for more space, more employees, a longer hold time, and more modern methods and to pay for these improvements they would get them. If those same folks were willing to spay and neuter their own pets then there would be less need for shelters.

Having rescued many abandoned cats and the feral offspring of others I think that even the most backward shelter is preferable to those who are just set free.

Our local shelter is an extremely high kill gassing one. It isn't operated by heartless mercenaries, one of the officers in charge has more rescues in her home than I do, I can't imagine what she suffers on gassing days. The majority of citizens here just don't care enough to fund anything better.

I've seen video of how the Dog Warden does his job there... it is terrible!!! I think he enjoys choosing the animals and dragging them out of there.. once they are dead he drags them on the ground like a piece of garbage and tosses them into the incinerator. The video focused on dogs. Let me see if I can find it.

Originally Posted by AddieBee

I've seen video of how the Dog Warden does his job there... it is terrible!!! I think he enjoys choosing the animals and dragging them out of there.. once they are dead he drags them on the ground like a piece of garbage and tosses them into the incinerator. The video focused on dogs. Let me see if I can find it.

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My Lord, how does he sleep at night?

Be prepared. It is graphic. It will make you cry. This all happens while school buses rumble by. Truly not for the faint of heart.

I had to turn off the video. It looked like he chose that dog just because it wasn't behaving exactly the way he wanted it to . I understand that sometimes they need to do it but they don't need to take pleasure in it and disrespect the dogs

I don't want to watch, but I bet PETA approves of this

I am not going to watch the video but I have been in a high kill shelter on euthanising days I have seen the tears in the faces of the staff, one of the cats I rescued from the high kill shelter was actually being carried in to the vet when I seen him. I basically dragged him off the vet as the vet tech who works there cried saying goodbye. They are not all heartless.

As for the bodies being used for research, it does not bother me at all. Vet schools need the bodies for research and Scully was transported to a local vet school after he passed so they could look at the effects of obesity. It would be nice if they were not in shelters to begin with and their owners took care of them rather than leaving the city to deal with their mess.

Originally Posted by atinsley

I had to turn off the video. It looked like he chose that dog just because it wasn't behaving exactly the way he wanted it to

. I understand that sometimes they need to do it but they don't need to take pleasure in it and disrespect the dogs

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That was my impression, as well.

As for selling the bodies to research... I don't disagree that vet schools need cadavers.... but I don't think when someone drops off or dumps Fluffy that they think about ANY of the consequences - ie: euthanasia and the dissection of the dead body, etc.... and I think they should be informed.

Maybe they should be taking care of 'Fluffy' themselves instead of leaving animal control to do it, my animal control gives you the option of paying for euthanasia & cremation (no ashes back) or paying a surrender fee and what happens, happens - it could be adopted, euthanised or anything else.

Originally Posted by icklemiss21

Maybe they should be taking care of 'Fluffy' themselves instead of leaving animal control to do it, my animal control gives you the option of paying for euthanasia & cremation (no ashes back) or paying a surrender fee and what happens, happens - it could be adopted, euthanised or anything else.

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Oh I fully agree with you, Eithne. Infuriating to see how many animals ... cats especially... being dumped. People lie to themselves and tell themselves that their animal will be OK. At the high kill county facility we are trying to improve.. it is in the paperwork.... but no one reads it, I'm sure. And I happen to know that the people there, when they take in the animal, say, of COURSE we will try to find a home for Fluffy. NONSENSE.


I just paid the "randsom" for a 10 year old orange tabby female who was surrendered to that high kill shelter. I couldn't bear the thought that she spent half her life with a family and would end that life in a cage at the hands of the people at this facility. By all accounts she was incredibly sweet and just wanted to be petted and cuddled.

30 bucks. Pulled by a rescue. Now she has a chance at a new home.

As long as they are going to a registered rescue, our high kill animal control waives the fees and will even vaccinate and deworm the animals for the rescue, they will even call shelters when they get a super sweet one they want to save etc

Originally Posted by icklemiss21

As long as they are going to a registered rescue, our high kill animal control waives the fees and will even vaccinate and deworm the animals for the rescue, they will even call shelters when they get a super sweet one they want to save etc

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Not this place - that is among our top concerns. Sorry to go OT here. To generate money for the County's general fund, rescues were being charged the same fees as pvt individuals to adopt. They did amend that... but rescues still have to pay to get an animal out of there... depending on whether or not the animal is already fixed, chipped, has records of recent rabies vax, etc.

People do need to be educated about their local animal care facilities - in my area, my county's animal care and control receives no tax dollars at all - just some revenue from the state mandatory rabies shots. I was horrified - we pay high taxes here in DuPage, and of course I thought the shelter got some of it. Over the past decade, animal care has done a much better job of reaching out to other groups and foster parents to house animals waiting for a forever home, but as the only shelter in the county that accepts all animals, well, sometimes there is a space consideration, as heartbreaking as it is. People forget that good no-kill shelters can only accept X number of animals to care for.

I've become a supporting member of the friends to our anmal care with small monthly contributions so they can expand their facilities, but it's an uproad battle to explain that the 'pound' has changed a bit, and that there are no tax dollars involved.

That being said, my two came from the county animal care - both were adult strays, around 3-4 years old, and both were there for over four months before I took them (my boy is black, my girl grey, so neither as flashy as either a kitten or some of the striking cats they have). The shelter tries so hard - but only so much space and money, and so much demand.