September 22, 2012Comments are closed.advocacy, No Kill, shelter procedure
– a lack of positive marketing of individual pets
– an inconvenient location, or opening hours
– refusing to release pets to community rescue groups
– a lack of rehabilitation programs for common behaviour and health issues
– failures to reunited lost pets and owners
– poor disease control procedures
– a poorly run, or no adoption program whatsoever
– breed generalisations, including bans on ‘pit bull type’ dogs
– laws which require community cats be impounded
– mandatory desexing laws, pet limit laws
– an ‘open door’ policy for community cats (rather than desex, return)
– a lack of placement opportunities for untame cats (ie. barn cat adoptions)
– unnecessarily laborious adoption processes
– a lack of on-site adoptions & adoption events
– no foster care program, especially for neonatal kittens
– multiple tender ‘super pounds’ collecting more animals than they can reasonably home
– poor shelter and shelter management and a lack of compassion by staff
– pound management choosing to support a culture of killing
– animal lovers advocating for shelters to offer a safe, healthy environment for the community’s pets, where they are not at risk of being killed unnecessarily
I just mention this because one of the main gripes of the high kill pounds when filming Insight the other night, was that they find the animal welfare community hostile towards them.
However, no matter how hard-done-by they feel they are, ‘aggressive’ animal advocates don’t kill pets. Shelter’s who kill pets do.
