ONLY PROBLEM IN OUR COUNTY IS THAT ANIMAL CONTROL IS TAKE IT OUT AND SHOT IT BE IT DOG OR CAT. WE HAVE A VOLUNTEER RESCUE GROUP BUT VERY FEW ANIMALS GET TO THEM FROM ANIMAL CONTROL. IF ANY OF MY CATS GO MISSING, I PATROL THE HOUSES WITHIN 1 MILE AND THEN CALL PALS, THE RESUCE GROUP. COURSE, MOST OF ROAMING ANIMALS ARE NOT NEUTERED OR SPAYED AND THAT IS WHY THEY ROAM. MY GIRLS AND BOY GO OUT FOR A FEW HOURS IN THE AM AND IF IT IS NICE, UNTIL 2 OR SO IN THE AFTERNOON. THEN THEY ARE IN FOR THE NIGHT. THEY NEVER GO MUCH BEYOND 100 YARDS FROM THE HOUSE BECAUSE THEY ARE WELL FED AND LOVED AND THEY ARE ALL FIXED. WISH EVERYONE ELSE WOULD DO THAT, WOULD PREVENT MANY UNWANTED KITTENS AND PUPPIES.
---- LauraM <[email protected]> wrote: > Shelters don't kill cats. The public does. I work for a county shelter and > yes, we do euthanize. As few animals as possible, but we do euthanize. It > isn't the shelters' fault. They get incredible numbers of animals dumped on > them every day. Most of our cats are friendly cats picked up as strays. So, > if someone lets his or her cat roam outside, and the cat gets picked up by > animal control, and no one bothers to reclaim the cat ("she always comes back > in a few days" or "we just figured he ran away") or no one adopts the animal > and the animal gets PTS, who's the killer? It's the irresponsible, lazy > "owner" who didn't want to clean the litterbox or spend 50 cents worth of gas > to drive to AC to check if the cat is there. Not the shelter workers, who > have a miserable job to do & have to do it because animal welfare is on the > bottom of most counties' financial priorities. > > Mandatory spay/neuter would help. Good luck with that out here in good ol' > boy country. > > Most people at shelters work very, very hard to get animals adopted out and > feel like absolute failures when they can't. "Rescues" come and pick the > prettiest and the fanciest dogs and cats; for the most part, there's very > little actual rescue going on there. > > Just my 2 cents. > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
