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catching up on some much needed sleep don’t know if you can make out my doggy under my legs

not dead still training hard just dealing with some personal shit

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The shelter manager’s letter: 

“I am posting this (and it is long) because I think our society needs a huge wake-up call.

As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all - a view from the inside, if you will.
Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would change your mind about breeding and selling to people you don’t even know - that puppy you just sold will most likely end up in my shelter when it’s not a cute little puppy anymore.

How would you feel if you knew that there’s about a 90% chance that dog will never walk out of the shelter it is going to be dumped at - purebred or not! About 50% of all of the dogs that are “owner surrenders” or “strays” that come into my shelter are purebred dogs.

No shortage of excuses
The most common excuses I hear are: 

We are moving and we can’t take our dog (or cat). 
Really? Where are you moving to that doesn’t allow pets?

The dog got bigger than we thought it would.
How big did you think a German Shepherd would get?

We don’t have time for her.
Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs!

She’s tearing up our yard.
How about bringing her inside, making her a part of your family?

They always tell me: 
We just don’t want to have to stress about finding a place for her. We know she’ll get adopted - she’s a good dog. Odds are your pet won’t get adopted, and how stressful do you think being in a shelter is? 

Well, let me tell you. Dead pet walking!

Your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off, sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn’t full and your dog manages to stay completely healthy. 
If it sniffles, it dies.

Your pet will be confined to a small run / kennel in a room with about 25 other barking or crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it.
If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers that day to take him / her for a walk. If I don’t, your pet won’t get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose.
If your dog is big, black or any of the “bully” breeds (pit bull, rottweiler, mastiff, etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door. Those dogs just don’t get adopted.
If your dog doesn’t get adopted within its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed.

If the shelter isn’t full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed, it may get a stay of execution, though not for long. Most pets get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed for showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this environment.
If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles, chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because shelters just don’t have the funds to pay for even a $100 treatment.

The grim reaper
Here’s a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being “put-down”.
First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for a walk - happy, wagging their tails. That is, until they get to “The Room”.

Every one of them freaks out and puts on the breaks when we get to the door. It must smell like death, or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there. It’s strange, but it happens with every one of them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 vet techs (depending on their size and how freaked out they are). A euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process. They find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the “pink stuff”. Hopefully your pet doesn’t panic from being restrained and jerk it’s leg. I’ve seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood, and been deafened by the yelps and screams.

They all don’t just “go to sleep” - sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.
When it all ends, your pet’s corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer in the back, with all of the other animals that were killed, waiting to be picked up like garbage.

What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? You’ll never know, and it probably won’t even cross your mind. It was just an animal, and you can always buy another one, right?

Liberty, freedom and justice for all
I hope that those of you that have read this are bawling your eyes out and can’t get the pictures out of your head. I do everyday on the way home from work. I hate my job, I hate that it exists and I hate that it will always be there unless people make some changes and realize that the lives you are affecting go much farther than the pets you dump at a shelter.

Between 9 and 11 MILLION animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I do my best to save every life I can but rescues are always full, and there are more animals coming in everyday than there are homes.
My point to all of this is DON’T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!

Hate me if you want to - the truth hurts and reality is what it is.
I just hope I maybe changed one person’s mind about breeding their dog, taking their loving pet to a shelter, or buying a dog. I hope that someone will walk into my shelter and say “I saw this thing on craigslist and it made me want to adopt”.
That would make it all worth it.”

 

STOP BUYING FROM BREEDERS YOU SELFISH ASSES!

This is why I am glad I didn’t buy my pup. Thankfully Daniel enlightened me.

PLEASE RE-POST THIS.

What I find somewhat sad, and somewhat disturbing here, is that this goes through the trouble of describing exactly how miserable it is for your pet if they should be dumped at a shelter… but then ends on the completely irrelevant note of  BREEDERS ARE BAD GRRR BREEDERS KILL SHELTER DOGS!!!

Which is outrageous, and inflammatory, and honestly part of the problem.

I see this all the time, and what never ceases to amaze me is how much people in rescue miss the point. YES, bad breeders and puppy mills contribute a lot of the homeless pets that make up the shelter population, largely due to a non-existent screen process for their buyers…

But the really real issue here isn’t breeders as a whole. Its the “disposable dog” mentality. This post even MENTIONS it, describes it in detail, and yet still misses the point. The simple fact is, less dogs would die in shelters, NOT if breeders stop breeding, but if people stopped dumping their dogs. 

THAT is the flaw in the system. “My dog got too big, my dog is too high energy,  my dog sheds too much”. None of these are good excuses for getting rid of a dog, yet every single day these are reasons dogs are dumped.

What needs to happen, is a massive shift in pet owner education. People need to be more aware of the responsibilities of owning a pet, how it is a privilege, not a right, and resources need to be made available to them if they SHOULD end up having problems so that dogs already in homes have the best possible chance of STAYING there, versus being surrendered. 

That’s how we’re going to improve this mess. Not pointing the finger at others.

I’ve got dogs from both rescue and extremely responsible breeders (of which it actually states in my contracts on the dogs that if I should try and surrender one to a shelter, they can actually take legal action against me). I am very involved in the “dog world” from many angles, from rescue to various degrees of competition, and work closely and am friends with many breeders. Amazingly, none of their dogs have ever ended up in a shelter. Why? Because they have a RIGOROUS screening processes, that heavily scrutinize the buyer and make sure they are actually a good fit for their dogs. All of them heavily encourage lifelong contact with their buyers after the sale of the dog, and many offer extended help and training should a problem crop up. ALL of them keep a clause in their (legally binding) contracts that expressly state if the dog can no longer be kept by the buyer, the dog must return to the breeder.

They are doing what NEEDS to be practiced by ALL involved in the placement of dogs, including the shelter systems. Extended education, post-adoption support and better evaluations to ensure the right dogs are being matched with the right people are what needs to be focused on here, NOT wasting time, resources, and energy attacking others. 

I was totally on board with this until “My point to all of this is DON’T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!”

Yeah it ain’t the responsible breeders (you know, the ones who health and temperment test, work and/or title their dogs, extensively screen potential buyers, have a return clause in the contract etc) who are responsible for all the pets euthanized every day. It’s shitty, lazy owners, BYBs, and millers who cause this to happen.

And I know lots of rescue and shelter ladies like to act like you can just grab any shelter dog and work it or sport trial it but that’s bullshit. You’re gonna be hard pressed to find a good herder in a shelter or a dog tempermentally suited to Schutzhund (even in a private GSD rescue). I really, really hate the way people who have a specific purpose in mind for their dog are maligned for going to good, reputable breeders by the rescue advocates :/

FUCK that picture is literally making me ball my eyes out

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