It was the only solution in a disposable society....
Due to a continuous flow of intakes, for most part, killing was considered the only solution to animal population control, by government run facilities or larger non profit run organizations. Facilities were not equipped to take on high numbers, nor was there sufficient staff to tend to all the maintenance or other chores required to maintain a high number of frightened, emotional animals!
As a disposable society, shelters were accepted, expected and exploited to full extent.
.........Don't want the responsibility of owning a pet anymore - "get rid of it" - dump it off like a replaceable piece of furniture at the local dump........
Larger organizations began spaying and neutering adoptive animals as a future preventative to fewer future intakes - yet with human population on the expansion, more and more people began obtaining pets through family, friends, pet stores or "elsewhere" . The vicious cycle continued to expand and not decrease. Shelter Intakes continued to rise and larger facilities were built to accommodate the influx of unwanted animals - the solution was not coming within reach.
Mentally, over time, consequences of killing animals, imposed on the emotional stability of shelter workers. More and more cases became evident and awareness started to take on a new face. The people who thought working at a shelter would be the greatest experience ever, because they loved animals, are/were the worst effected..
Statistics show that if you love your job, you have more tolerance to any downside it may have. If you work a job you love, you want to go to work and seek betterment through learning new ways of advancing in a role where you thirst knowledge... however, anxiety and depression were overcoming those who loved animals due to all the killing. With hope, some workers did everything to find new homes to save animals from death row. They'd sleep better at night when adoptions were successful.
But with all the efforts made, it felt like it wasn't making a difference, there was always more and more. Therefore the urgency of efforts that were required daily, consequently became emotionally draining. Eventually, those who love animals, take it personal - feeling defeated by the high numbers continuously surrendered, abused, stray or neglected. The numbers of intakes can be over-whelming, so with a guilty conscience they surrender all their beliefs into trying to accept euthanasia.
The system is as unhealthy to people, as it is to animals.
.Change is knocking at the door.... Whether a Government run facility or an animal care facility, reality is sinking older methods originated in the 60's.
Most Shelters do NOT want to kill, they don't believe it's in their job description. They feel that on some days, they want to reach over the counter and grab people by the throat and give them a shake due to the condition of an animal they are surrendering or because of some lame excuse..... On other days, they are glad that rather than allow an animal to suffer any further or live in further neglect, that the animal was surrendered as opposed to being abandoned somewhere to surely die.
As a disposable society, shelters were accepted, expected and exploited to full extent.
.........Don't want the responsibility of owning a pet anymore - "get rid of it" - dump it off like a replaceable piece of furniture at the local dump........
Larger organizations began spaying and neutering adoptive animals as a future preventative to fewer future intakes - yet with human population on the expansion, more and more people began obtaining pets through family, friends, pet stores or "elsewhere" . The vicious cycle continued to expand and not decrease. Shelter Intakes continued to rise and larger facilities were built to accommodate the influx of unwanted animals - the solution was not coming within reach.
Mentally, over time, consequences of killing animals, imposed on the emotional stability of shelter workers. More and more cases became evident and awareness started to take on a new face. The people who thought working at a shelter would be the greatest experience ever, because they loved animals, are/were the worst effected..
Statistics show that if you love your job, you have more tolerance to any downside it may have. If you work a job you love, you want to go to work and seek betterment through learning new ways of advancing in a role where you thirst knowledge... however, anxiety and depression were overcoming those who loved animals due to all the killing. With hope, some workers did everything to find new homes to save animals from death row. They'd sleep better at night when adoptions were successful.
But with all the efforts made, it felt like it wasn't making a difference, there was always more and more. Therefore the urgency of efforts that were required daily, consequently became emotionally draining. Eventually, those who love animals, take it personal - feeling defeated by the high numbers continuously surrendered, abused, stray or neglected. The numbers of intakes can be over-whelming, so with a guilty conscience they surrender all their beliefs into trying to accept euthanasia.
The system is as unhealthy to people, as it is to animals.
.Change is knocking at the door.... Whether a Government run facility or an animal care facility, reality is sinking older methods originated in the 60's.
Most Shelters do NOT want to kill, they don't believe it's in their job description. They feel that on some days, they want to reach over the counter and grab people by the throat and give them a shake due to the condition of an animal they are surrendering or because of some lame excuse..... On other days, they are glad that rather than allow an animal to suffer any further or live in further neglect, that the animal was surrendered as opposed to being abandoned somewhere to surely die.
When an animal is surrendered or found stray in a community of let's say 35,000 people, it's not wise to adopt out an animal to anyone who lived within a 10 mile radius of where they were surrendered from or were picked up off the streets from.
Odds are, they may flee their new home, to find their way back to their old home, where they were in familiar surroundings. Animals are also creatures of habit. It may only be a 10 mile radius to some, however adopting back into the same community, excluding that 10 mile radius, cuts back on potential adopters. |
Shelter workers who are abusive to innocent animals that are in unfamiliar surroundings, amongst strangers and loud noises, are a concern to society.
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Let's Do a Little Math and equate where Pets originate from and how such high volumes, end up in Shelters that people know - kill......
Pets Born by "Mistake" or on Purpose
-- "I just l-o-v-e Puppies" -
-- "Kittens are just the most adorable creatures" -- "NO ONE has the right to tell me I can't allow my dog or cat to have babies!" -- "Spaying and Neutering is way too expensive" -- "I didn't know my pet was pregnant!" ...these are but a few explanations made when promoting the benefits of spaying and neutering pets. No one wants to wipe out our 4-legged friends! We, in fact want to save them and ensure those that are born in the future, are not inter-bred, or come from unhealthy over-bred animals. We want to ensure that those that enter Pounds/Shelters or Rescues - are not killed due to over capacity, as has been the case for many years. One out of every 5-7 animals born, will be lucky to have a forever home! Our article "What's going On with Companion Animal Population?" defines comparison to Global Population verses companion animal population and the numbers animals can breed in comparison to us.... In a disposable society, where even children have been marketed, animals fall under the same category. Until laws are changed that protect animals from being dispensable, replaceable or disposable, we are at a standstill and permit the tragedy to continue. |
Consequences of Over-Breeding
Females that birth continuously, begin a decline in health. Their body, much like a persons, needs time to heal and their hormones need time to settle.
If this is not permitted, the uterus doesn't retract or heal properly and the teats rot! Infections occur and generations of newborns become weaker and weaker due to the lack of healthy conditions they were incubated in. Generations coming from this type of environment, have a weaker immune system and are more prone to sickness and disease. Backyard Breeders
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Puppy and Kitty Mills
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