Robeson County Animal Shelter North Carolina. Is anyone nearby that can verify this?

In general, in NC the county operated animal shelters are nothing more than "holding cells" for animals that have been picked up running wild, or have been dropped off. The main purpose of these shelters is supposed to be to protect the public from dangerous/sick animals. Their purpose is not to save these animals or to adopt these animals out. Because they are mere holding cells, the funding given to the shelters is minimal. Robeson County is extremely poor--most people are struggling to feed themselves, let alone care for any animals. In addition, the state of NC is running behind in revenue and is requiring municipalities, school systems, and county government to return funds previously paid.

Most counties have active humane societies where those people foster animals until they can be adopted. Unfortunately, there are only so many foster families available. I would also assume the Robeson County didn't have a strong humane society, simply because of the poverty in the area.
 
just reposting what I did a few pages back...

am talking to a very good friend who is very active in rescues,IMOM, shelters and is VERY knowledgable in these areas. She told me that no, this is in NO WAY a hoax. However, we are only hearing about THIS ONE. This exact practice will be happening in many many many shelters across the country today and over the next couple of days. It is not limited to just Robeson County.

What she is telling me now is so sickening I am crying while talking to her and typing. Most of the animals that will be killed within the next 48 hours will be done in a mass gassing. It will not be humane. She told me to look up some videos on youtube, but I refuse to post any of those. If it is not a gassing, it will be a direct injection to the heart. No anesthetizing beforehand.

If any of you want to look into it more, check out Petfinder's messageboards. They have an area listed as urgent that has many threads of shelters or animals in danger of this.
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I'd like to make a suggestion. Everyone on this htread who is so outraged - get out your checkbook and write a check to the Robeson County Animal Shelter. If you mail it today it will be waiting for the workers by the time they return from their vacation. They will be able to use your donations to care for the homeless animals you care so deeply about.

They would be delighted to receive your support in the form they can best use - so get those checkbooks out, friends!!!! And while you are at it, make a donation to your local shelter, too. Surely you have animals closer to home who are being killed every day - how often do you give that shelter any financial support???

I get tired of hearing peple's outrage if they won't be part of a different solution. It suits me fine to have shelters euthanize unwanted animals because I'm not wililng to support them financially or vote to change any laws that would make people really control this problem once and for all. If you're not willing to do the work financially and keep it up, then the solution that is currently in place shouldn't bother you.

I have donated $100's this year to many local shelters, humane socitey, and foundations. I also donated to the Houston ASPCA after Rita...and for the horses too. I was thinking of donating to this shelter too but its so overwhelming to look at those doggie and kitties faces and know I can't help THEM. :guilty:
 
Thank you christiane for reporting back what the shelter told you. While I still find the situation sad and depressing, at least it's not as bad as originally told (no offense to the OP, she was trying to help and maybe didn't get all the information).

There is a local humane society in Robeson County...and I contacted them, so hopefully they are doing what they can.

The illness issue is very concerning. I wish there was more that could be done.

The Robeson County Animal Shelter has a link on their website to donate (probably through paypal) directly to them. The Robeson County Humane Society also has some donation opportunities but not a direct link.

As others have pointed out, this is not just a problem in this shelter...it's happening everywhere. I would encourage those who care (even just a little) to see if they can donate old towels, bowls, blankets to your local shelter. Even buying a small bag of dog food can make a huge difference.

One of our local pet supply stores has a "pet angel tree" that you can buy items and donate for local shelters. I can't afford much this year, but I did buy some cans of dog food. Our office had boxes for the food bank, Toys for Tots, and the local animal shelter for donations - I managed to get two bags of dog food (in addition to two bags of food for the food bank) for them.

And, for those that simply can't afford to give - let corporate sponsors do it for you - go to the Animal Rescue site every day and click to provide 0.6 bowls of food every day!!! It's free and easy and you can set up an email reminder!

This shelter got our attention today...let YOUR local shelter get your attention soon too!! :thumbsup2
 

Nope, not sarcastic. They are animals! I don't really care. Is it really that horrible that I don't think anything more of a cat or dog than I do about the mice I'm poisoning in my house?

Doesn't change that I'm about 90% sure this is a hoax or mistake based on people not being able to read.

DEMENTIA Yeah, I think that name works for you. And I am another who doesn't care if I get points for saying that!! I would say a lot worse to you in person if I could!! I guess you never heard that if you can't say anything nice, you shouldn't say it at all!

I called Robeson County Animal Shelter & spoke to one of the employees.

They are a municipal shelter & only have to hold pets for 5 days. They are a kill-shelter. So all the pets listed with today as their last day have been there for 5 days and will be euthanized. They had 73 pets brought to their shelter last week. They only have room for 100.

They are not euthanizing because of the holiday. One person is available to come in over the holidays to feed & care for the pets. However, all dogs are kept kennelled & are never walked.

He said they live in a very poor county. Pets are not well cared-for. Many have infections (parvovirus, distemper, heartworm & other internal parasites) when they are brought to the shelter. There is no veterinary care at the shelter.

So they need to keep the number of pets in their care to a minimum so they can decrease the chance of disease outbreak. These infections also make these pets less adoptable. These infections can be expensive to treat & some have a poor prognosis even if treated.

He said several people have come in today to adopt. So even though the story is not entirely true, it has helped the animals. He said most adoptions are made by people who live out-of-county because his county's residents are unable to adopt due to financial circumstances.

So, to me the big issues at this shelter are:

1) The lack of education in the county about preventive care (spay/neuter, vaccinations, parasite control).

2) Lack of veterinary care

3) Economically depressed area

I asked him what could be done to help. He asked for donations of food, blankets etc. He didn't mention money.

My family is going to send a sizeable donation ear-marked for veterinary care of these pets. We cannot send food because we are out of the country right now. However, we have contacts in the pet-food industry & are going to ask for donations there as well.

If any one locally can help, please do. To me, it sounds like they are trying their best in a very bad situation. I used to live in the rural south & I know what they are up against.

Thank you if you read this long post!!
Christiane.

PS. I also called the local Humane Society in Robeson County to try to rally the rescue groups to help this shelter.

Bless you for calling and seeing how you can help. I have a friend who is NC and I am going to alert her. I am not sure if she can take any pets in, but perhaps she knows people who could or knows of rescue organizations that might be able to help.

I also have a friend who is a vet in another state (not NC) and I am going to ask him if he knows how this particular shelter might be able to get some help from local vets. Surely there are vets in the area who could donate their time and services to help these animals.

To the PP who asked about what I've done for animals in the past year, I have to say I have not done nearly enough. I have always supported ASPCA, and HSUS. This has widened my eyes to the fact that I need to be doing more with my money and time. Maybe we'll never be able to save them all, but we should try to save those we can. I personally couldn't live with myself knowing I didn't try.

I feel very fortunate that my two babies (pictured in my signature) wound up in a no-kill shelter. We saved them as much as the saved us by giving us two loving companions to come home to each night and shower with love. I can't imagine my life without either of them.

I only hope these guys and the others at Robeson County can find a home

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Just wanted to pop in to say that yes, Robeson Co is a very poor area. I believe the shelter is located in St. Paul which is very small, very rural, and very poor. I don't know much about this, but a lot of Robeson Co belongs to the Lumbee Indians. Just throwing this out, but could they have even less tax money because of protections of the reservation? Anyhow, they are just off 95, so anyone passing through can stop to help or donate. There has been some coverage on the news about shelters in other counties that are getting swamped with pets that folks just can't care for anymore. :sad1:
 
I know that this is all a horrible state of affairs, but if this NC Animal Shelter is in a depressed area, has no funding, few volunteers and is overrun with animals, there are very few options available to them. Say they manage to find fosters or homes for every single animal due to be euthanized today. What happens tomorrow? What happens in a month when the cages are full again? Everyone here who is making calls and sending e-mails to help these animals ... where will you be in a month when the shelter is full again? Face it ... there are just far more animals in need of homes than there are homes.

It's great that one call for help from someone on the Dis can spur this much action, but this one shelter is one of thousands that is putting animals to sleep today and tomorrow and every day because they can't place them and because there are too many of them. My local shelter has a no-kill side for pre-owned animals who have been brought in (where histories are known) and a "limited time" side for strays, lost pets, and others brought in with more ambiguous backgrounds. Even though the "limited time" side says it's a five-day limit, there are animals there who have been there for months. Because they have the financial support available to do that. But not every shelter does, and they all do the best they can. Most of us would never in a million years work in an animal shelter because (a) we'd have to make hard decisions every day about which animals to spare and which we couldn't ; and (b) it doesn't pay nearly enough for most of us to take the job.

My cats have all been shelter cats. I donate to my local shelter and to national programs. I feed, befriend and then spay/neuter ferals in my neighborhood. But I know I can't save them all. Unfortunately, none of you can either.

Clearly, this specific NC shelter needs a long-term fix, not just a one-time rally. They're getting a lot of negative attention right now from folks here and from the media for doing something every other animal shelter in the country is doing. They were just unlucky enough to have some animal welfare organization zero in on them.

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I know that this is all a horrible state of affairs, but if this NC Animal Shelter is in a depressed area, has no funding, few volunteers and is overrun with animals, there are very few options available to them. Say they manage to find fosters or homes for every single animal due to be euthanized today. What happens tomorrow? What happens in a month when the cages are full again? Everyone here who is making calls and sending e-mails to help these animals ... where will you be in a month when the shelter is full again? Face it ... there are just far more animals in need of homes than there are homes.

It's great that one call for help from someone on the Dis can spur this much action, but this one shelter is one of thousands that is putting animals to sleep today and tomorrow and every day because they can't place them and because there are too many of them. My local shelter has a no-kill side for pre-owned animals who have been brought in (where histories are known) and a "limited time" side for strays, lost pets, and others brought in with more ambiguous backgrounds. Even though the "limited time" side says it's a five-day limit, there are animals there who have been there for months. Because they have the financial support available to do that. But not every shelter does, and they all do the best they can. Most of us would never in a million years work in an animal shelter because (a) we'd have to make hard decisions every day about which animals to spare and which we couldn't ; and (b) it doesn't pay nearly enough for most of us to take the job.

My cats have all been shelter cats. I donate to my local shelter and to national programs. I feed, befriend and then spay/neuter ferals in my neighborhood. But I know I can't save them all. Unfortunately, none of you can either.

Clearly, this specific NC shelter needs a long-term fix, not just a one-time rally. They're getting a lot of negative attention right now from folks here and from the media for doing something every other animal shelter in the country is doing. They were just unlucky enough to have some animal welfare organization zero in on them.

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Everything you have said may be true. That said, this thread amy have saved one dog. One cat. Everyone of them counts and kudo's to the person that started this thread. Every call and E-mail to the media, the shelters etc helps.

We cant save them all, but can save them one at a time~~~
 
Everything you have said may be true. That said, this thread amy have saved one dog. One cat. Everyone of them counts and kudo's to the person that started this thread. Every call and E-mail to the media, the shelters etc helps.

We cant save them all, but can save them one at a time~~~

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The Starfish Story
by: Loren Eisley

Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the surf's edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.
The man was stuck by the the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.

As he came up to the person he said, "You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can't possibly make a difference." The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, "It sure made a difference to that one!"
 
Glad to hear least some of these fur babies have been saved. I know we can't save them all unfortunately. Thanks WVDisLuv2 for The Starfish Story. As I am sitting here next to my shelter cat I got 2 years ago - who is the best cat ever I might add. He is the sweetest, most loving cat I have ever had and he has blessed my life - I know I made a difference in his life and he has made a difference in mine. I wish this for all the fur babies that are in shelters.
 
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The Starfish Story
by: Loren Eisley

Once a man was walking along a beach. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the surf's edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.
The man was stuck by the the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.

As he came up to the person he said, "You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can't possibly make a difference." The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, "It sure made a difference to that one!"

I appreciate the poem also!!!
 
Our local shelter is a kill facility; they work hard to find the animals homes and hopefully are pretty successful. The allow a group to post their available dogs on craigslist to try and get people to come in but people there often complain they don't want to hear about it. Kind of sad. I've visited often and just adopted my 3rd dog from there; the black & white one in my signature. The other 2 I currently have I did get from breeders; we have to have non-shed breeds and they don't end up in kill shelters often. It took several months of watching petfinder to find our new little guy. He wasn't in danger really since I'm sure he would have been adopted by others if not me. I'm watching this week since there are several dogs that are at the end of their allotted time. I need to contact the rescue group and see if I can sponsor one if for some reason they all don't find homes.

This is a note on the rescue site and very true, my involvement with the shelter workers has always been good. They do love animals and have one of the hardest jobs ever but they don't have the option of saying they are closed to new animals and have very limited space.

A Letter from a Shelter Manager

I think our society needs a huge "Wake-up" call. As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all...a view from the inside if you will.

First off, all of you breeders/sellers should be made to work in the "back" of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would change your mind about breeding and selling to people you don't even know.

That puppy you just sold will most likely end up in my shelter when it's not a cute little puppy anymore. So how would you feel if you knew that there's about a 90% chance that dog will never walk out of the shelter it is going to be dumped at? Purebred or not! About 50% of all of the dogs that are "owner surrenders" or "strays", that come into my shelter are purebred dogs.

The most common excuses I hear are; "We are moving and we can't take our dog (or cat)." Really? Where are you moving too that doesn't allow pets? Or they say "The dog got bigger than we thought it would". How big did you think a German Shepherd would get? "We don't have time for her". Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs! "She's tearing up our yard". How about making her a part of your family? They always tell me "We just don't want to have to stress about finding a place for her we know she'll get adopted, she's a good dog".

Odds are your pet won't get adopted & how stressful do you think being in a shelter is? Well, let me tell you, your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off. Sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn't full and your dog manages to stay completely healthy. If it sniffles, it dies. Your pet will be confined to a small run/kennel in a room with about 25 other barking or crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it. If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to take him/her for a walk. If I don't, your pet won't get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose. If your dog is big, black or any of the "Bully" breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door.

Those dogs just don't get adopted. It doesn't matter how 'sweet' or 'well behaved' they are.

If your dog doesn't get adopted within its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the shelter isn't full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed it may get a stay of execution, but not for long . Most dogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed for showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this environment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because shelters just don't have the funds to pay for even a $100 treatment.

Here's a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being "put-down".

First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for a walk happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to "The Room", every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there, it's strange, but it happens with every one of them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 vet techs depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process. They will find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the "pink stuff". Hopefully your pet doesn't panic from being restrained and jerk. I've seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood and been deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don't just "go to sleep", sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.

When it all ends, your pets corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer in the back with all of the other animals that were killed waiting to be picked up like garbage. What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? You'll never know and it probably won't even cross your mind. It was just an animal and you can always buy another one, right?

I hope that those of you that have read this are bawling your eyes out and can't get the pictures out of your head I deal with everyday on the way home from work.

I hate my job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be there unless you people make some changes and realize that the lives you are affecting go much farther than the pets you dump at a shelter.

Between 9 and 11 MILLION animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I do my best to save every life I can but rescues are always full, and there are more animals coming in everyday than there are homes.

My point to all of this DON'T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!

Hate me if you want to. The truth hurts and reality is what it is. I just hope I maybe changed one persons mind about breeding their dog, taking their loving pet to a shelter, or buying a dog. I hope that someone will walk into my shelter and say "I saw this and it made me want to adopt". THAT WOULD MAKE IT WORTH IT.
 
I can understand the situation mentioned here but dont like it. Five days is just too short especially for kittens & puppies which are usually in demand. On page 10 someone mentions a donation site that by clicking on it will donate funds to shelters to help feed the unwanted pets. If everyone that reads or posts on this discussion would do so we could make a little difference. I have given funds to help provide free or low cost spraying & neutering. If pets were not allowed to breed like so many do we wouldn't have this terrible problem.
 
Five days does seem like an awfully short time but maybe this shelter is usually so inundated with animals that they can't keep them long. It's sad whatever the problem is.

I disagree that adoption rates should be increased to the really high levels. People who want to adopt and spend money on their pets often won't pay some of the really high prices. In our area, the SPCA charges over $100 for cats while the city shelters charge anywhere from $10 on up to $60 or more if the animal needs to be neutered. I could see a nominal fee increase but not to over $100 since their goal is to adopt out animals as quickly as possible. A place such as the SPCA has the luxury of taking their time because they can be picky over which animals to accept and also they have far nicer facilities.
 
On page 10 someone mentions a donation site that by clicking on it will donate funds to shelters to help feed the unwanted pets. If everyone that reads or posts on this discussion would do so we could make a little difference.

I have already bookmarked this site and put a shortcut on my desktop. I sent the link out to about 50 people I know. I also gave my 7 year old shelter dog and my recently adopted two kittens a big hug and took time to reflect on how lucky I am that I found them :hug:
 
I volunteer with a rescue group. I have 3 kittens that are adopted that will go home tomorrow and I'm picking up four more from a shelter tomorrow, that will go up for adoptiong. I"m leaving for Disney for two weeks in January..but I have to make sure my home is empty of kittens first. There are many more at that shelter where I am picking up tomorrow, and space is tight. If you really want to help, offer to foster and work adoption clinics. Get the word out to spay and neuter One male and one female cat, unfixed and all their offspring will produce 240,000 kittens in 7 years. It seems that even though we spay and neuter upwards of 30-50 a week, we never catch up. So much of our resources go for the s/n clinics. We are always thinking up creative ways to get money to pay for this. Our adoption fee oof $80 only covers a small portion of the care these cats take.

We get phone calls daily from people not able to feed their children, let alone their cats. We try to give them a three month supply of litter and food to get them through. We can't take their cats in..we simply have no more room. We have to save what room we have to take the cats the shelters are about to put down..

Right now we have 37 feral cats that we will never get homes for, in our shelter. It's expensive to feed them and burn out among volunteers helping with the cleaning is high. There is just so much work involved. At this time we now trap them, spay or neuter, and return them to where we found them (and take all the flack for it..but what are we to do with them?). We have volunteers whose only job is to go out in the field and feed the ferals. It's so easy for people to tell us that is wrong to put them back, but just where do they think the cats should go? Do you have room in your house for a cat that will take months and months to even think of sitting on your lap? Is anyone here reading this from Upstate NY, that would like to take in a few cats that are unadoptable? Do you ahve a warm barn, and be willing to feed a couple of ferals? Just let me know.

Are you giving to your local shelter? I just went to Sams Club and picked up $200 worth of canned food. How long do you think that will last? Besides the ferals, we have about 30 cats waiting for a place in our adoption area and that number never goes down. We were just given two pregnant mama's..that means we need at least two foster homes right now, and four when it's time to wean. It's a 12 week commitment. Can you give 12 weeks? Often these kittens are born with parasites, they often have diahrrea and they crash quickly, so you have to know if they need fluids, or extra replacemnt milk. and everyone who fosters has to be able to vaccinate. Are you willing to take the time to learn all you need to know to foster?

How about working at our adoption clinics? We need two people each day for 2 hours, 4 hours on the weekend..for no pay. You have to be realiable. We also need two cleaners a day..one in the morning and one in the afternoon. My husband and I have cleaned the last four days, because the weather is so bad, the regular people didn't show up (we can't fire them for not showing..we don't pay them and are grateful for the time they give us), and we live closest to the Pet Store where we have our adoption clinics and keep the cats waiting to be adopted. Tonight the store lost power, and if it didn't come back on, we had to find warm homes to place the cats and transport them. That's just the people needed for the clinic. We have several who go to the shelter daily to help clean. We have people who trap the ferals, people who go dumpster diving, because someone heard meowing, and those kittens often are sick. Our vet bills are unbelievable. It just isn't a matter of..why can't you keep the cats forever.

Just thought I'd give some insight from the other side. I could go on and on about the work involved with saving our cats, and the lack of money to do it. Our adoptions are up..but so are our expensese. Fuel to keep our cats warm is the highest it's ever been. I've done 8 loads of laundry just from the adoption area in the last 4 days..other volunteers have also been doing laundry. Until you live it, you just can't judge the shelters. It's hard, and it's expensive. Again, please give to your local shelters and rescue groups. Let your wallet do the talking..
 
I noticed Robesons adoption fees are pretty LOW. ( shelters around here charge at least $150 for a cat and closer to $350 for a dog) They should raise those so they generate more funds,


Raise the fees? We charge $80 for our cats (includes s/n, all vaccs for their age, tested for feluke, cleaned of earmites and parasites) and we are not in a depressed area and still people think that is too much. Today we adopted out a 2 for one special. Just so the two adult cats wouldn't have to spend Christmas in a shelter..and they were two brothers who had always been together. We have a 6 and 60 program. If the cat is over six and teh adopter is over 60, the cat is free. We have one cat wonders, where the cat doesn't like other cats, so we adopt those for $40. That's way less than it cost us to get them ready to adopt. If we raised our fees, we'd be even more overrun than we are now.

We have over a 100 volunteers. Some do the paper work, some raise money, some clean, some do mailings, some answer the phones, etc. We could easily use another 100, to take some of the load off. Thanks God these are cats, and we don't need to walk them. There would be no time or enough people.
 
I don't want to get all animal rights preach-y on you, but this is horrible. It reminds me of a book I just read called "A Dog Named Christmas" except the book has a happy ending. I picked it up at Target and it is a quick read and the kind of story you want to read this time of year.

The sad part is that it happens all the time, no matter where you live. It makes me sick and I can't tell you the number of times I've cried myself to sleep after watching documentaries or reading stories about what goes on in the shelters. I'm not here to defend how much I've contributed, financially or otherwise, to animal welfare causes. I'm here on this thread because this is an issue dear to my heart, and I see so many of you that want to help.

It is really important to know what is going on in these shelters and not turn a blind eye to all of it. My mother thinks I am crazy for caring about it so much and she tells me it would be easier to ignore it, but that isn't going to help the cause much, is it?

The 3 best things we can do are:

1. Volunteer - Be a foster parent if you can, or just stop by your shelter to walk the dogs or pet the cats. You can see the appreciation in their eyes and it will make them, and you, feel good!

2. Donate - Make a donation to a humane society or rescue group. These are the people who will be saving the animals who run out of time!

3. SPREAD THE WORD - Let people know that adoption should be their first option and that they should spay and neuter their pets! Many organizations provide low cost spay and neuter for families who would be unable to afford it otherwise!

We can do these things and remember that WE ARE THEIR VOICE and my favorite quote from Dr. Suess -

"Nothing is ever going to change, its not. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot"

Thank you to the OP for bringing this to everyone's attention and to everyone who has tried to help.
 













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