Animal Cops Houston

I just got done watching an episode where some Boxers were removed from a home. One male who ended up needing his leg amputated and one pregnant female who gave birth in the shelter. Now, the vets at the shelter had to put the male under for surgery to amputate his leg, but they didn't bother to neuter him. This was made very obvious in the shots of him months later all adjusted to his new home with a female Boxer with huge nipples and a Boxer puppy.... I just found this really weird not only that they didn't neuter this rescued male Boxer with no leg in the first place, but then they also made it appear that he was bred to the female in his new home and now they have a puppy.... maybe he wasn't but it was really odd.

I found a lot of things like that with these shows.. that's one example. The other is that they're so quick to put down pit bulls without accessing their behavior, as well as euth. cats that were in hoarder homes. They check, if the cat hisses once, they put them to sleep without giving them a chance to settle and really see if they can be saved

I do understand the whole "you can't save them all" and I know in these big cities there are many more animals passing through then at any local shelter I have ever worked at but you are right, they do seem quick to judge. There are barn home options, there are foster options, dog behaviorists... I wonder how much they make use of those resources that they don't show on tv.

At the same time, I am glad they don't ONLY show the happy endings, they show both good and bad endings. All in all though, they animal is no longer suffering and stressed out and living a terrible life, they got them out of bad situations.

The whole not neutering thing just threw me for a loop today. That I cannot understand. Even if the animal came with a voucher for the neutering, they made it APPEAR like the new owner was breeding the Boxer...

That is strange. As far as I know all the shelters and rescues here neuter or spay before the cat or dog goes to it's new home. In the case of small puppies the new owners are to bring them back at 6 months for a free neuter or provide proof that it has been done. The kill shelter waits until the animal is adopted then neuter or spay before it can go home. Letting an animal go home without being altered gets that animal a home but then the puppies or kittens end up at the shelter.

I wonder if the ones you saw that were quick to put down pitties actually are not allowed to adopt them out in the county... but then you think they would leave them out of the episodes or something. They would take a lot of heat if they said "Yay we rescued this sweet pit puppy from neglect but since our policy is that we can't adopt them out, we have to euthanize it" That would never go over well lol, but I bet its the reality in some of these cases.

Originally Posted by Denice

That is strange. As far as I know all the shelters and rescues here neuter or spay before the cat or dog goes to it's new home. In the case of small puppies the new owners are to bring them back at 6 months for a free neuter or provide proof that it has been done. The kill shelter waits until the animal is adopted then neuter or spay before it can go home. Letting an animal go home without being altered gets that animal a home but then the puppies or kittens end up at the shelter.

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You are exactly right. All the ones here do that also, even the high kill dog pound works with people to neuter the dogs. The shelters here all S/N at 8 weeks of age so there is never an issue.

Originally Posted by Jen

I wonder if the ones you saw that were quick to put down pitties actually are not allowed to adopt them out in the county... but then you think they would leave them out of the episodes or something. They would take a lot of heat if they said "Yay we rescued this sweet pit puppy from neglect but since our policy is that we can't adopt them out, we have to euthanize it" That would never go over well lol, but I bet its the reality in some of these cases.

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I would at least see if shelters outside the county can take them, put a bit more effort into saving them!

That's why I love Pit Boss. Shorty does everything he can to save these misunderstood dogs.. even ones that were in a dog fight scene. He believes they can be worked with and in the right homes, they'd be great dogs. They just have the sad rep of being aggressive.. where I last read a few years ago, Golden Retrievers are top biters.

And I am surprised they let the boxer go un-neutered. maybe he was and the female dog was already preggers by another boxer?