On 07-29-13, MATT MUNSON said to ALL:

MM>Hello everybody!

MM>Something that should be read in general. It usually would help with the
MM>pictures attached, but good to read for the people who occasionally read
MM>bbs message bases.

MM>Via Kimberly Allen Chapin

MM>Can't Keep Your Pet? Plan to take to public shelter? READ THIS!
MM>(Bakersfield) CA

MM>If you plan to drop your pet off at a county or city shelter, this is
MM>likely their reality.

MM>Does this picture upset you? It should - your pet who stood by you will
MM>now have it's last moments of life with a rope or muzzle tied around his
MM>or her face, restrained, a long needle stuck in their vein, and tossed
MM>into a bag, exactly like garbage.

MM>Think twice before you just dump your pet at a shelter. If you don't
MM>realize the over population problem, then wake up. The shelters are
MM>flooded with animals because far more people are getting rid of their
MM>pets/move and "can't take them with" (then find a landlord that accepts
MM>pets), have a baby and can't keep... the list goes on and on... so they
MM>take their pet to the shelter, where there are not enough adopters and
MM>rescues to save them (over 50% will die, in some shelters, that figure is
MM>closer to 80-85%). If you can't keep your pet, then find that pet a home
MM>to go into. Why would you bring the pet to a shelter? Have you ever been
MM>in the kennels of a shelter? Do you see the distress, the fear, the
MM>anxiety, the crying these animals do - reaching out to you with their paws
MM>- DESPERATE to get out. And, there just aren't enough of us to save them,
MM>so many will die after living a miserable existence for their last days on

MM>earth. So, when you decide you no longer want your pet, who wanted nothing
MM>more than to be your companion and bring them to the shelter, here is what
MM>they get to look forward to.

MM>They get to enjoy 1-5 days inside a kennel, likely with several other
MM>animals, lying in their own feces, fighting with the others for food, no
MM>blankets, no warm fuzzy beds, just cold, concrete floors in tight spaces,
MM>susceptible to catching an illness, and when their time is up, they are
MM>led to the back of the shelter (some wagging their tails as they are so
MM>happy to be out of their cage with a human being, and mistakenly think
MM>they are going for a walk while others are pulled with a pole, as they are
MM>scared out of their minds and have no idea who these people are and what

MM>is happening) they are restrained, and killed. And for those of you
MM>dumping your senior dogs at the shelter, have a heart if they are at the
MM>end of their life. Take them to the vet's office or a shelter that offers
MM>humane euthanasia, hold them, pet them, let them know they were loved, and

MM>let them leave the word with dignity instead of confusion and fear. Do you
MM>think this is the nice, easy shot first to put them to sleep, then to stop
MM>their heart like at the vet? Think again - it's painful. The shelters

MM>don't have the time or money for that... nice ending to their life. We are
MM>fortunate enough to share this earth with companion animals... you should
MM>take that honor and commitment seriously. Don't get a pet if you can't

MM>commit to keeping that pet for the duration of it's life... TAKE

MM>RESPONSIBILITY AND DO THE RIGHT THING!!!! Matt


Where exactly is this place that does these things? I've got five or six
neighbors who's dogs I'd just love to drop off there!


MM>... An armed populace is the greatest insurance against tyranny.


Its also the greatest insurance against neighbor's dogs who pull your trash
cans apart when you put them out to be emptied by your trash pickup service!




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