Little bit of a rant about shelter

[debilorrah]

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I love animals too, as is proven by the animals we have here including MANY rescues.

 

[BookWorm243]

Ema, that is crazy!


I have already sent a foster application to another rescue. They are about 30 minutes away but maybe it will be a little better. The women I talked about it my first post ( the one taking over animal control

) She decided to foster him out yesterday. How is it that a volunteer gets to make those calls now

We always deal with the women that works at animal control ( Linda ) and she has always been very helpful.

This was the boy we were going to foster
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...77197324.20722.100002841375856&type=3&theater

 

[HHandbasket]

I have not read this entire thread, just the first page.

I am so sorry for what you are going through with this shelter. Do they have small children running it?

If it were me, it would be time for a very well-worded letter IN WRITING to the owner/operator/organization that runs the shelter, someone at the very tip-top of the food chain. If they are treating you this way, they could be treating other families the same. Animals that could be adopted into loving homes such as yours may be staying in that shelter longer than need be due to poor management. I would tell the owner/operator/manager/whomever exactly what you told us. Finding good homes for needy animals should be their #1 priority, and it sounds like your family has really made a good effort to work with this shelter.

Are there other shelters or rescue organizations in your area that you would be able to go to instead? You may wish to look into that. The county pound is a good place to find animals because you're saving them from euthanization. I love no-kill shelters, don't get me wrong on that! But the animals under threat of euthanization are certainly more in need of your loving home than an animal that has an unlimited amount of shelter time ahead of him/her.

You are doing a great thing by trying to give a good home to a shelter animal, either way. Kudos on you!

 

[mikensara]

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I know the spca is there because the have a job to do but honestly i am not a fan of them either. Going on 10 years now we still have the stray that was dumped by clueless owners. the spca did pay for his shots and neuter but you cant release an animal into the wild when he has only known to be a pet. It took a long time and loads of patience to housetrain him to use the litter box (the cat has a major fear of enclosed spaces, if he accidentally gets shut in the bathroom he loses it and goes nuts to get out)

he gets very upset when he goes to the vet the cat carrier he cannot tolerate. the cat has racked up major vet bills for urinary tract issues. I may have started out not wanting him but i love the furball and all his quirks