Seems like there are threads across sections on animals looking for good homes. Why not have them all in one place?

Know of an animal that needs a good home? Tell us!

10/26/2011 9:34:49 AM

i don't have any that need homes, however i support this thread

10/26/2011 9:39:24 AM

Cat needs home:

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=618850

10/26/2011 6:02:26 PM

Damn this is sad.

Quote :

"Wake shelter kills dog hours after TV appearance RALEIGH, N.C. — The Wake County animal center killed an 8-month-old dog named Sassy a few hours after she appeared on WRAL's noon news Tuesday to be adopted. Animal Shelter Director Dennis McMichael, who just started in the job Monday, said he was looking in to the situation and couldn't elaborate. WRAL News has learned that Sassy was put down around 5:30 or 6 p.m. because she showed signs of an illness. Hours earlier, however, an animal center staffer appeared on WRAL News and said the labrador/hound mix was ready to be adopted."

http://www.wral.com/lifestyles/pets/story/10357366/

11/9/2011 12:38:00 PM

sad, but i don't know what else the shelter is supposed to do.

it's ridiculous that we have to spend money on shelters and it costs a lot of money to keep pets there, especially sick ones.

if people don't want pets to be put down, then they need to adopt them quickly.

i don't excuse the shelter for their high and quick kill rates, but there are far more pets available than adopters. gotta do something with them.

11/9/2011 3:48:03 PM

The NC state vet school had a satellite clinic there, so that doesn't surprise me. I think the article is twisting this around (or it could be a sketchy situation, but I doubt it). You can have a dog looking and acting fine, then see it had a crazy respiratory illness and it can be unadoptable on the flip of a dime.

And as far as fast and high kill rates go, the SPCA lost and found center has just as bad rates, if not worse. But it all stems from your statement.. People need to spay and neuter their pets

It was updated, the dog had a respiratory illness. As for them getting scrutinized for kill rates over the summer, what do people expect a shelter to do when you have way more animals coming in than you can handle, and a ton of them getting sick? Illnesses spread like wildfire in there. And the SPCA calling out the shelter for having a quarantine and isolation area is stupid. The quarantine area I believe only has 20 or so kennels, and isolation only has like 5 or 6. Yeah, that'll hold a ton of sick animals.

[Edited on November 9, 2011 at 6:15 PM. Reason : .]

11/9/2011 6:10:39 PM

I thought the Wake SPCA was no kill

11/9/2011 6:15:20 PM

Their adoption center is no kill, not their lost and found center

On their website it says the lost and found center is now no-kill as of last year... But it seems like they still pick and choose which animals they take, which is bogus IMO.

[Edited on November 9, 2011 at 6:21 PM. Reason : .]

11/9/2011 6:15:59 PM

I know people bitch about shelters in places like Person County for their high kill rates, but what else are they supposed to do when people don't take responsiblity for their animals' reproduction?

11/9/2011 6:31:45 PM

Exactly. And people need to think about how many animals go through there compared to how much space there is, especially now that we know they are taking on the SPCA's lost and found animals (or at least most of them).

11/9/2011 6:38:25 PM

yep. it's sad, but if people are that bothered by it, then go adopt the shit out of some animals. not much can be done when pets outnumber adopters by the thousands.

if I had the money, i'd open up a temporary/holding shelter to let pets chill before going to an adoption shelter.

11/9/2011 6:42:42 PM

Quote :

"On their website it says the lost and found center is now no-kill as of last year... But it seems like they still pick and choose which animals they take, which is bogus IMO."

How is that bogus? They should take in the animals with the highest chance of being adopted so they can continue to take in more and more animals. I would love for all companion animals to be spared from being euthanized but unfortunately we don't live in that world so it makes since for an organization like that to pick and choose if it means saving more animals than not.

I really shouldn't even look at these threads, makes me too sad and we certainly can't take in anymore animals right now.

11/9/2011 7:13:38 PM

^ have you ever seen the process for picking the animals? If an animal has the slightest bit of a behavioral problem, you can forget them being deemed adoptable. They're all about adopting out the animals that are the cream of the crop

11/9/2011 8:50:51 PM

which is exactly what he said and what they should do. get the most adoptable out so more can be saved. if they hang on to less adoptable dogs which take longer to adopt, then they'd save fewer in the end.

and if they were putting down the most adoptable dogs and hanging on to less adoptable dogs then people would be up in arms about wasting "the good ones"

[Edited on November 9, 2011 at 8:54 PM. Reason : .]

11/9/2011 8:54:07 PM

I'm saying they should at least consider other animals with some flaws. There were some animals brought to us who, for example, would have something "wrong" with them like they weren't good with cats. Ok, don't adopt them out to a family with a cat. Problem solved.

11/9/2011 9:02:01 PM

If you only have the capacity to take in 10 more dogs and you have 10 that seemingly have no issues and then 5 who might have some behavioral issues why would you not take in the 10 with no issues? Why chance it in hopes that the others can get adopted? In a perfect world all 15 would be adopted but at least if those 10 that don't seem to have issues get adopted that frees up space for 10 more dogs whereas if only 5 got adopted then only 5 more could be saved.

11/10/2011 10:06:54 AM

^

11/10/2011 10:07:37 AM

^^

It sucks that that's the way it has to be, but these shelters are really stuck between a rock and a hard place. At least they don't do it like other countries where they just put the puppies in a cardboard box and throw them over the edge of an oceanside cliff.

11/10/2011 10:09:34 AM