do you look at your local animal shelter's website
iluvcats
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do you cry? sometimes, I do...
last week when I looked at the animals' pictures that were left anonymously in the over night pen, there were 3 cute little lap dogs. maybe their owner put a note in their carrier, it said they were moving and could not take them. that night, there were a total of six "lap" dogs left in the pen.
are they put to sleep within 7 days?
last week when I looked at the animals' pictures that were left anonymously in the over night pen, there were 3 cute little lap dogs. maybe their owner put a note in their carrier, it said they were moving and could not take them. that night, there were a total of six "lap" dogs left in the pen.
are they put to sleep within 7 days?
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8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
10/10 - Brad in B'more
8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
10/10 - Brad in B'more
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one more day & he would've been gone.
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I adopted 2 rescue guinea pigs in Feb. 2005. (When I moved cross-country in Dec. 2007, I got permission from Delta Airlines to take them both inside the passenger cabin with me!) They were males that had to live separately. One of them died 6 months ago. I really want to get a rabbit. I've not had one in 6 years, and there are hundreds of rabbits in the shelters. But I am responsible enough to know that I can't afford it while I also have a guinea pig. Through November, nearly all of my money is going to rent. After that, I should be better off.
What I can afford are pet mice. I did the math, they cost me $5 per month for food and bedding. I've had about 40 mice since I was 7. When I was looking for some new mice, I of course first searched online in the shelters. On March first, I got 4 females from a woman who was overwhelmed with the mice she had bred. One was defective and died last month. I wanted to add a couple more to the little group. Just my luck, the Pasadena Humane Society had 4 mice. I am car-free: Turns out that the building was at the same intersection as the Gold Line Train station! But the 3 females I went to see had been whisked off to a private rescue. Such groups don't adopt pets to good or great homes- they only adopt out to utopian ideal perfect homes. So I didn't pursue those 3 mice. However, the lone male was left. He'd been at the Humane Society for over 6 weeks. I had to take him! The worker put him in my hand. He was an absolute moosh! Gorgeous all black, with silver-tipped hair. He has a shorter, more hamster-like face, with smaller rounder ears than mice usually have. He looks like a mini version of those black velvet hamsters. His adoption fee was $5. Aww! Even that fact is cute! I call him Vladimir. He gets a lovely cage all to himself.
My advice to everyone is to never support the sick "puppy mill" type of commercial breeding operations used for all pet store animals from mice & hamsters to birds, cats, & dogs. Don't ever buy one! If you know someone with an unspayed/unneutered cat or dog, report him to the authorities. Become educated. Learn about the cruelty of those mass-breeding mills. Learn what happens to most pets in shelters: They die! Spread the word.
yay!
8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
10/10 - Brad in B'more
thanks, I never realized foster homes were THAT crowded....I often wondered.
we were looking at the "puppy mill" animals the other day at the mall and two girls said, "i wish I could afford a dog" and I felt like telling them to go to the shelter. but I didn't.
we have some sick children in Baltimore, it was on the news recently that they burned a kitten in july.
she rolled and put out the flames, only to be set on fire again. she was found a week later by a cop and they showed her on tv. she would live if infection would not set in. what is wrong with kids and where were their parents?
8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
10/10 - Brad in B'more
They were probably raised to think, "Oh, it's ONLY a cat."
I see people on all sorts of different websites typing that they think anyone who works to promote kindness to animals is immoral and anti-human. They say it's a good idea to just let animal suffering go on because there are still hungry people and abused children in the world.
OMG - precious!
i've always adopted shelter dogs and cats. igby is the one and only pet we've ever bought, b/c getting a pug from a shelter, quite difficult. that said, NO...i never look at the website, b/c if i did i would have waaaayyyyy too many dogs! we used to visit the shelter occasionally, and once, came home with another dog we were not intending on....we've had chloce 9 years now.
Let's just breathe...
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Got my cat Otis at a shelter 15 years ago. He's still going strong and he is the f'n man! Will probably go back to the same shelter once Otis moves on, but hopefully that's not anytime soon. I'd love to have a dog, but I live alone and work 10 hours a day, so I'd feel bad for the pup if I were to get one.