MISC.
Overpopulation!
In early 2007, contaminated pet food worried many pet owners. Hundreds
of thousands of healthy pets suddenly became ill or died. Millions of dollars
were spent on determining the cause, millions of dollars were spent recalling
and discarding the food.
But a situation much, much larger is killing millions and millions of healthy
pets every year. Untold more suffer and die. All of our pets are at risk. This
current crisis is the overpopulation of dogs and cats. If your pet "goes
missing" and ends up at a busy pound, it may join the millions who are
euthanized (killed) every year in the USA. Untold more do not even make it to
the pounds and die uncounted of injury, starvation, neglect, and abuse.
For this crisis, we know the cure and we have the ability to solve the problem!
This terrible situation does not need to continue. None of the pets who are
suffering or dying came from outer space on a UFO. Each and every pet came from
an unfixed pair of dogs/cats.
Even if you do not care that healthy pets are suffering and dying, if you care
about the people who care about the pets (the elderly who become unable to care
for their pets, or the children in families who love their pets but must move or
for some other reason must give their pets up) let's work to stop this crisis.
And even if you do not care about the animals or their people, if you care about
the waste of your tax dollars, the financial resources, the human resources and
natural resources wasted on rounding up, confining, killing and disposing of the
bodies of dogs and cats (into landfills or using petroleum to cremate the dead
pets), join with us to stop this insanity.
Unlike other national issues like Alzheimer's and Autism, this crisis could be
solved this year if caring people work together to stop it at the source.
1. Do NOT send money to any national organization. Your donations are needed in
your own community to solve the problem at a local level!
2. Adopt your next pet from a non-breeding (neither purposeful or accidental
breeders) source. A great adoption source is www.petfinder.com. Only
non-breeders can post pets on this website. If you acquire from a breeder
(family, farm, pet store, cattery, kennel) they will think "I got rid of
the entire litter, I'm not part of the overpopulation problem." But they
ARE the problem. Too many pets are being produced for them all to have good,
happy lives.
3. Have any pets in your care either spayed or neutered now. No exceptions!
Accidental litters count for millions of puppies and kittens every year. Low/no
cost programs are available. www.SPAYUSA.com is an excellent source, as well as
the rescues listed on www.petfinder.com. On www.petfinder.com skip the parts
about pet description and go directly to zip code and then Animal Welfare
Groups. That will bring up the local organizations. Call or Email them for info
and referrals.
4. Help others to spay/neuter their pets and strays too. Do you know of a cat
who eats on your neighbor's porch? Help to have it fixed now! A coworker has a
dog that is not spayed? Offer to pay for 1/2 of the surgery. Just think: If your
actions result in 10 less puppies or kittens being born, and you spend say $50
to $100, why that's only $5 or $10 each pet that will not: be put to sleep at a
pound, die from being hit by a car, die from abuse, die of disease, or take the
home away from a pet already here. Cats that are too wild/shy can be trapped in
live traps and transported to the vets, without even touching the cat. After
surgery and vaccinations, the cat is simply returned to the trap and then back
to the location where they were trapped and released. Low cost or even free
services might be available in your area.
5. Only then, after your own pets, the pets you know of, and strays are fixed,
then contribute to local spay/neuter organizations. The money will go much
further in addressing the cause of the suffering of our companion animals.
Shelters are good, but the pet overpopulation crisis cannot be solved at the
shelter level. It must be solved at its source.
Imagine that a shelter sends out an SOS for help, asking for mops and buckets
and towels to dry the pets, and you decide to volunteer. You arrive at the
shelter, to find the roof blown off, rain pouring down and the pets shivering
and soaking wet. You are instructed to dry off pets with the towels and try to
dry the floors with the mops and buckets.
But wait, wouldn't the first, smartest step be to put up some sort of roof
first, to stop the rain from coming in? We could work forever trying to dry the
pets with lots of time and energy spent, but with no real progress. Spaying and
Neutering is the first action stopping in the deluge of homeless, unwanted,
dying dogs and cats.
Solving the pet overpopulation crisis is win - win - win!
The pets win,
the people who care about the pets win, and even the people who don't care about
the pets or their people will win as the resources currently being WASTED on
killing and disposing of pets could be used for other causes.
Here's one example of how serious the overpopulation crisis is in Pennsylvania.
By law, stray dogs must be held in a pound for only 48 hours before disposal,
and the law does not currently say that the pound must be open during those 48
hours. No law says that pound workers must tell you if your dog is at the pound.
Stray cats can be euthanized on arrival, as well as owned dogs and cats. Once
you have signed over the pet, it can be euthanized before you leave the parking
lot! Pounds and shelters probably do not want to kill the pets, but when too
many are being produced, they may feel they have no choice.
Please send this to everyone you know. Your tax dollars should be used to make
the world a better place, not to confine, kill, and dispose of pets.
The pet you save may be your own!
Thank you
*author unknown*
If
you bought an Italian Greyhound at a petstore, this might have been his father.
Teddy was a puppymill stud. He only had one eye, and his teeth were so infected
that they had rotted away part of his jaw.
Suburban
comfort for massive ram A huge ram has made himself at home in his
rescuer's house after resisting all attempts to return him to farm life.
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New Zealand dolphin rescues beached whales **
Appeal
for toad patrol volunteers I see I'm not the only one who tries not to
hit the little creatures
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Dogs Rescued From Filthy Conditions
Kittens
'adopted' by pet rabbit
Wild
polar bear plays with sled dogs
But
as it got closer the two fisherman aboard had second thoughts
snopes.com/critters/crusader/xylitol.aspDanger
Xylitol may be harmful for dogs.
A
seagull turns shoplifter by wandering into a newsagents and helping itself to
packets of crisps.
A
cat who turned up in a Lancashire warehouse after a 2,000-mile sea voyage has
been given a new home.
Unusual
car purr was stuck kitten
Hero
Chihuahua Saves Toddler From Rattlesnake
Charlie, a
week-old Rottweiler mix puppy, snuggles with Satin, a cat that is caring for
him, in addition to her own litter of kittens, at the Meriden Humane Society in
Meriden, Conn., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Bob Child) www.foxnews.com/story
4-inch
Lake County Chihuahua may be world's smallest dog
Coyote
Visits Chicago Sandwich Shop
Cat
walks 150km to return to owner
Molly the moggy has probably used up at least one of her
nine lives during a remarkable four-month trek home.
Baby
animal love story pair of Sumatran tiger cubs
and a set of young orangutans, all abandoned at birth, have become inseparable
after sharing a room at an Indonesian zoo.
1,000
Dogs and Cats Killed After Outbreak at Shelter
Shot
Duck Survives 2 Days In Florida Fridge "Oh what a lucky ducky"
A duck in Florida has survived
gunshot wounds and two-day stint in a refrigerator.
Squirrels
Go On Attack At South Bay Park Check out and vote on what
you think they should do about this problem.
Hawks
Attack More Than 100 People in Rio
Fish
Is Used to Detect Terror Attacks
'Ugly
dog' Sam dies at 14
Rescued whale found dead on beach
Donkey wins top beach donkey prize
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/whitecub.aspWhite Bear Cub story & picture
Tabby
cat terror for black bear story
Yorkshire terriers were found crammed into
a shed in squalid conditions in Sussex.
http://www.animalhumanesociety.org
http://www.grandrapids-mn.com/placed/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=224573
Workers
Take 227 Animals From Calif. Home
Police
rescue 65 cats from woman's home
http://www.gazette.net/stories/012506/germnew192626_31902.shtml
Md.
Officials Find 57 Dogs in Stinky House
The Hill's Science Diet
information
Old Country Vet A
book every pet owner should have that will help you is now available!!
This is a very good book! Dr. Busby is
a very good vet and has taken very good care of our pets for years. WSR
Fairbanks North Star
Borough Animal Control
How can Minnesota allow a kennel (puppy
mill) to open and allow 600 dog kennel to open. Please read the article below and email or write your state and federal representatives and
senators, the governor, and these county commissioners.
January 22, 2006
To: Minnesota Rescue
Organizations
It is with a very heavy heart and a sense of
disbelief that I pass along the following information. A 600
dog kennel has been approved by the Morrison County Commissioners for the
township of Belle Prairie. It is ridiculous to call this
facility a kennel. It is a puppy mill!! The
owner of this puppy mill has also promised to debark all adult breeders to keep
down “noise pollution”.
During the several years that I have been in the
rescue of dogs from puppy mills I am often asked why these horrors are not shut
down. Why isn’t there someone to call who can go out and
shut them down? Now the rest of the world sees why they
aren’t shut down—because dogs are considered livestock by the USDA and this
kind of evil is approved by our own government. Just because
something is legal is certainly not good enough reason to perpetrate the
problem. This nation has domesticated dogs to be companion
animals. Dogs are used for the blind, those with Parkinson
Disease and epilepsy, the deaf. Dogs are used to find drugs
and are saving soldiers’ lives in Iraq by sniffing out bombs. There
are countless stories of dogs who have saved their families by sounding the
alarm when fire breaks out in a home. Who can ever forget the
images we see of dogs searching for victims after an earthquake or terrorist
attack? Dogs lower our blood pressure, help with depression and are used as
therapy for troubled teens. They are life time companions who only offer us one
thing—their unconditional love. Don’t we owe them more than to just sit back
while this puppy mill is opened in our own state??
No one who runs a facility with 600 breeder dogs is
anything but a puppy miller. To call this person a breeder is
an insult to legitimate dog breeders. Dog breeders breed to
improve the breed, they screen adoption applicants for their dogs and they sell
their dogs with a spay/neuter contract. Millers go for
quantity rather than quality, they sell to pet stores, they keep breeding dogs
that may have genetic defects, they pull puppies from their mothers too soon.
The list goes on and on.
I have the honor of having four mill dogs as my
constant companions. They are incredible dogs but the
problems of the mill continue with them every day of their lives. Lack
of medical care, proper socialization and downright abuse have cause an
abundance of emotional and physical problems. To see one of
my little ones please visit www.puppymillrescue.com
and see my Emmy. Also, if you are not familiar with puppy
mills you can also visit www.prisonersofgreed.org.
We must stand up now and work to stop this mill
from becoming a reality. After that is accomplished it is
time to work to abolish puppy mills in this country. There is
no place or reason for these mills in our lives and society.
I am including a link for the
newspaper that published the story of the approval for this kennel. http://www.mcrecord.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=37603&SectionID=8&SubSectionID=8&S=1.
Please email or write your state and federal representatives and
senators, the governor, and these county commissioners. This
must be stopped!
Please, please, let us stand
together to keep this horror from ever opening!!
Debra Anderson
Vogt
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>> > Dog Philosophy
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail
instead of his tongue.-Anonymous
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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that
you are wonderful.-Ann Landers
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go
where they went. -Will Rogers
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There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your
face. -Ben Williams
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he
loves himself. -Josh Billings
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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. -Andy Rooney
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We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we
can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal
man has ever made. -M. Acklam
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike
people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and
hate. -Sigmund Freud
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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird
religious cult.-Rita Rudner
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around
three times before lying down. -Robert Benchley
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Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a
dog.-Franklin P. Jones
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs
I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. -James Thurber
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If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.-Unknown
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My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00
a can.That's almost $21.00 in dog money.-Joe Weinstein
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Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we
come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken,
pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! -Anne Tyler
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should
relax and get used to the idea. -Robert A. Heinlein
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will
not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.-Mark Twain
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You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give
you a look that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of
that!' - Dave Barry
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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.-Roger Caras
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If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in
your pocket and then give him only two of them.-Phil Pastoret
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