I've forwarded all of this great info off to many other lists, including the
Austin Petsitters' Assoc., who will be contacting all their clients I am sure.
So sad, when I worked @ the AHS I got to see first hand the damage of dog
fighting.
The shelter itself is not in the best part of town, and there were "people" in
the neighborhood breeding "fighting dogs"........
I was working in Animal Intake one day, which is in the back of the building.
I walked outside for some fresh air, and someone had tied a poor, starving,
overbreed pit to the backdoor.
To make matters worse, she had many of the scars from fighting (including the
cropped off ears) and she was dying of parvo.
She was just laying outside the door, and she was having "parvo blowouts" (if
you do not know what these are, please email me offlist. Too graphic)
Anyway, we called Animal Control to come pick her up, and in the meantime we
gave her some water.
She could not be brought into the shelter or even moved due to her infectious
disease, ( it would put shelter dogs @ risk even more) and it was sweltering
outside, being August or so......
Animal control did not show up after 2 hours, as I sat w/ her.
Finally we decided to just take her around to the other side of the building,
into the cat isolation area (cats cannot catch parvo) and give her the kind,
compassionate death that she deserved.
It was the lowpoint of my day to say the least.........
Susan J. DuBose >^..^<
www.PetGirlsPetsitting.com
www.Tx.SiameseRescue.org
www.shadowcats.net
"As Cleopatra lay in state,
Faithful Bast at her side did wait,
Purring welcomes of soft applause,
Ever guarding with sharpened claws."
Trajan Tennent
----- Original Message -----
From: Caroline Kaufmann
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: RE: OT: Severely OT, dog fights and NFL player
Oh and rest assured...I have my friends and whole family on it too. They are
animal people and they will definitely take action...but it's always a little
easier when someone else does the leg work for you!
-Caroline
