GREAT NEWS!

hope there are “enough” people willing to deal with the Red Tape. Referring to the “rigorous application process”..as not me. I still go for the “mutt(s) for free” idea from the countryside. In 1996, I was informed that more than 45,000 animals (mostly dogs) were anesthetized by Los Angeles County annually. I briefly met a man who claimed to work at a dumping area for the aforementioned corpses and he said “there are more than that”. We were at a local Pound as we dropped off 4 stray cats and 6 kittens in borrowed live traps. How many counties in the USA? I also know the costs of domesticated animals anesthetizing is often a heated debate within local Government Budget planning.. one Municipality tabled a $300 per pet license fee.

My questons would be-

Once all the cute puppies and younger healthy dogs are gone what is going to happen with all the older dogs and the dogs with severe mental, emotional, physical and medical issues that no one wants and are unwilling to pay there high priced addoption fee for? 

Who is going to adopt the dog that is eventualy going to need expensive medical treatments, the one that will never be potty trained, the one that has severe fear issues that shivers and shakes when ever there is a noise?

The so-called ‘red tape’ is needed so people who really can’t properly care for a dog - already at the bottom end of the scale - doesn’t end up back at a shelter or killed by neglect or ignorance.

People with too many animals already, people with very young children, people without a fenced yard, people who work all day, etc. aren’t good candidates for a new dog.  Now there are people with young kids, no yard who work all day and they have pets....but not all can pull it off well for the dogs involved. 

Most the dogs who end up at shelters are young dogs who are untrained and destructive because no one had the time to invest in training them.  They don’t need to go back into the same situation again.  That’s what the screening is for.

You ask a lot of questions, CR...but you never come up with any solutions.  Got any?

56% of dogs and 71% of cats that enter animal shelters are euthanized.

It is estimated that 9.6 million shelter animals are euthanized annually in the United States.

The top 10 reasons owners have given for voluntarily relinquishing their dogs are:

- Moving
- Landlord issues
- Cost of pet maintenance
- No time for pet
- Inadequate facilities
- Too many pets in home
- Pet illness
- Personal problems
- Biting
- No homes for littermates

Unadoptable dogs. The luckey ones in Spot care will live with Spot in loving foster care until they die. The cost for spot??? Approx $800.00 per year per dog. Go spot Go

My questons would be-
Once all the cute puppies and younger healthy dogs are gone what is going to happen with all the older dogs and the dogs with severe mental, emotional, physical and medical issues that no one wants and are unwilling to pay there high priced addoption fee for? 
Who is going to adopt the dog that is eventualy going to need expensive medical treatments, the one that will never be potty trained, the one that has severe fear issues that shivers and shakes when ever there is a noise?

There are applicants seeking older or special needs dogs who have histories of taking care of these animals. I heard one lady there - she was pictured in the paper - say that she had adopted from a different rescue a dog that was blind, deaf, arthritic, and had no lower jaw. She took care of and loved that dog for two years before it needed to be put down.

Although it might not be you, there are caring people who want to give all dogs a chance and recognize that this includes the special needs, timid, submissive-peeing, and older dogs.

hope there are “enough” people willing to deal with the Red Tape. Referring to the “rigorous application process”..as not me. I still go for the “mutt(s) for free” idea from the countryside.

How much “red tape” do you think there is? How long does it take and how painful is it? These dogs are already ready to go - already spayed/neutered, microchipped, treated for fleas, ear mites, and worms, and are current on vaccinations.

If you put all that into a “mutt for free”, you’ll typically spend far more than the adoption fee from SPOT and a little time. Unless you’re one of those who gets the free dog and does nothing to it…

These dogs are already ready to go - already spayed/neutered, microchipped, treated for fleas, ear mites, and worms, and are current on vaccinations.

NOT true.. in fact… the only “required shot” is the Rabbies vaccin. And.. I will tell you from my 8 mutt experiences.. none have become so ill as to dye or suffer.. just the annual mutt illness.. sneeze, vomit.. and happy go lucky later in the day.. or next. Last Rabies Epidemic was 1920’s so I was told.. so, good foods, excersize, great care.. and skip non-emergency visits to the Doctors.. goes for me too!  I haven’t been to visit a hospital in 20 years.. took a few relatives and friends over the years.. but, as for me.. SO FAR.. SO GOOD.. my mutt shaking ITS head in agreement!! Oh.. my mutt has traveled overseas and domestically in planes, trains, cars, buses, and even on several of my motorcycles...I even bath my mutts at least 2 each month.. (I haven’t time or room to write everything done for my mutts) so, guess I’ve taken her to the Vets’ a couple of times.. darn those $35 Health certs.. and no one even looks (no one referring to the Airlines).

Obviously you took my comment out of context.. as for my meaning.. is that there are many “deserving pets” excluding those rescued and the “red tape” is completely Redundant of the Laws that most of us already abide too.. hence the Rescue in the beginning of this mess!  The adoption cost is not such a deterent.. it’s the application, background check, and Credit check (these days, am I right.. and that is recorded on our fabulous Credit Report as another activity monitored) just to help out and Adopt a pet??  Commoon!! Well, I can just hope that JUSTICE prevails.. and takes all the property and assets of these Felon sized Criminals!! Thereby accomodating the fees paid by the Taxpayers and Good folk who financially support the local Law Enforcement and Pet Shelters in the first place… the pets could then be free to caring homes! There’s enough paperwork/computer work in (all about) our daily lives.. you get my point??

Say, protectanimals.. how about you get microchipped.. I hear its the new FAD.. article in Japan said people can pass their hand over the Chip Reader and pay instantly.. or OTHER… putting the chip in your hand is optional too.

Unless you’re one of those who gets the free dog and does nothing to it…

As for doing nothing for my mutts.. hmmmm? YOU ARE GREATLY MISTAKEN!