At 09:44 AM 12/13/2006, you wrote:
On 12/13/06, Tad Burnett
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Sadly many shelters kill because if Ringworm!!!!We are preaching here
to the choir .I don't think it is far fetched to say all of us here
would and do all we can for our animals, My shelter has 44 cats. I
handle it all alone and pay for it all by myself. I am now non profit
but do not have time to go out solicit donations. I am too busy going
to the vet, handling special needs cats ( and dogs) and working to
get the money to pay for all of it, I can say I am full and have no
more room, I can't risk the health of those I already care for. I do
have FIV and FELV. My FIV is mixed with the group and the FELV has
his own room and much of the living room and a companion so he also
has a good life. I have a cat with an eating disorder that stresses
when other cats are around and refuses to eat, She has now doubled her weight.
We just need to do our best to educate the shelter workers AND THEIR
VETS. who may be advising them to do this.
And then try to sleep at night with tears in our eyes for all we cannot save.
Kelly
www.kellyscats.zoomshare.com/
Kelley Saveika wrote:
My rescue is no kill. That doesn't mean that we accept every
animal. We aren't responsible for the actions of the people whose
cats or dogs we don't take in.
But I bet if you did a follow up on the animals that you don't
accept the end result is death...
We do what we can to make sure it won't be, but we still do not hold
ourselves responsible for the actions of others. If we did, we'd be
even crazier than we are now.
This rescue thing is sort of like religion... There are many ways to
believe.. On this list many of us
spend a lot of time and money to add a few months of quality life to
FeLV+ cats life....
Others may choose to add years to a healthy cats life... Who is to
say which is right...
The shelter is doing great job at saving lives and Jeni is doing a
great job in finding adoptions
for them and they should be praised for their efforts not criticized
for not finding homes for all
of them.....
I haven't seen anyone criticizing this shelter for not finding homes
for all the animals. The only criticism I have seen is for having
crazy policies. At least 80% of cats in a rescue/shelter situation
will have been exposed to corona virus, so if this shelter is in
fact euthanizing all cats that have been exposed to it, they are
euthanizing 8 out of 10 cats for having been exposed to something
that is in the vast, vast majority of cases, completely harmless.
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