November 23, 2008Comments are closed.council pound
From Dallas, Texas; animal shelter workers were threatened with a baseball bat when they refused to return a man’s cat to him after he was unable to afford the $132 impound fee.
The No Kill Nation blog asks; why on earth are we driving people to become criminals when all they want is to take their pet home?
Animal Sheltering: Doing it Wrong
Now I know that there are those of you who are thinking that, well if Roger can’t afford $132, he shouldn’t be owning a cat. That is definitely one of the mantras of the animal welfare movement. Let me clue you in on the fact that Roger is suffering from stage IV prostate cancer. His money is currently stretched by hefty medical bills.
The working poor, the non-working persons on fixed income, the disabled, the elderly … these are people who need assistance not hinderance to reclaim or keep their pet. A compassionate animal services organization can still have fees and recognize that fact.
We can’t kill pets and claim we have no choice… when we absolutely do.
Or are we just doing our job?
