Millions Of Animals Are Killed Each Year Because Nobody Wants Them
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This video has a bilingual description. It’s in English and French:
millions of animals are killed each year because nobody wants them ..
millions of animals are killed each year because people are breeding pets ..
des millions d’animaux sont tués chaque années car personne ne les veut ..
des millions d’animaux sont tués chaque années à cause des personnes qui continuent à faire reproduire leurs animaux ..
There is no overt cruelty. In fact, this is “humane.” This is what many animal shelters do on a very regular basis. They kill animals.
This can be prevented. Here are some ways you can help:
- Promote adoption:
- don’t buy from a breeder
- tell your friends and family not to buy from a breeder
- volunteer at animal adoption events
- tell people your dog came from a shelter
- Promote sterilization:
- get your pets fixed
- encourage your friends and family to get their pets fixed
- perform TNR on stray/feral cat and dog populations
- donate to low-cost pet care clinics so they can provide assistance to low income families with pets
- Shut down puppymills:
- expose them so the public knows the truth
- boycott pet stores that sell dogs
- perform protests and demonstrations at pet stores that sell dogs
- put pressure on the American Kennel Club to stop funding puppymills
- demand legislation that makes puppymills illegal
- Build more shelters/ expand current shelters:
- start your own
- help shelters get grants, donations, low interest loans, and other financing
- donate money and time
- demand government funding
- Spread the word:
- link to this post
- share this and similar videos
- tell your friends and family
- hand out leaflets at pet stores
- write a letter to editor of your local newspaper
I hope evrybody gives it a serious thought ( neutering animals)
Good efforts from your side.
our NGO has little funds to neuter only 500 dogs a year. But we have 1 lakh ( 1,00,000 ) dogs in this area of 10,000 sq. km.
Please let us know if any financial help can be availed to speed up our work. ——- Asha, Karwar Karnataka, India
Nathan J. Winograd, author of “Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution,” discusses this issue in great detail. He was interviewed on a Vegan Freak podcast, # 83, here:
http://www.pupuplatters.com/pupuplayer/pro/pupuplayer_pro.php?id=223
The interview is fantastic. The emphasis is on the shelters themselves, and community attitudes.
Alexs last blog post..In memory of Frodo Baggins. Stupid name, lovely horse.
I remember listening to that podcast (not when it first came out, but not too long after that). It’s also available here:
http://veganfreakradio.com/audio/veganfreak-2007-11-25-46907.mp3
or on itunes.
It’s a great interview because he explains how successful shelters can be when they make more effort adopt pets out and to be no-kill. I think there’s a lot more we can be doing for street and shelter animals.
I think its not right to do these things i hate the people who do if i could i would take all the animals with me !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Millions of animals are killed each year NOT because nobody wants them, but because the “shelters” are stuck in a false “catch and kill” mentality. Three to four million animals are killed by “shelters” each year, however, 17 million people are looking to bring an animal into their homes. Do the math. And read “Redemption” by Nathan Winograd. Please.
Tina, that’s one part of the puzzle. I’ve read Redemption and I agree that the brunt of the responsibility lies with people who get overwhelmed with the problem and reach for euthanization as a solution. Shelters MUST stop accepting death as a solution.
But people who buy from pet stores, backyard breeders and who otherwise ignore the issue are also responsible.
Wow 3 to 4mil are ext. ea. yr. ! compared to 17 mil. wanting/getting a pet??? hmmmmm
I say let’s return to street sales, go where the people are during peak hours, when we used to sell fruit/vegetables off the back of a truck through the neighborhoods, catch a time when kids are out playing and come thru with a puppy-caged pickup/truck and a speaker with a great voice and sales pitch shouting, “get your new best friend here, scotties, terriers, mixes, cutest pups you ever did see, no cost but to love em, de-wormed, shots, ready to cuddle, come see um, get your new best friend right here…”
Perhaps the area humane societies need to have better marketing ideas than advertise for people to come in. Neighborhood puppy sellers do it all the time and takes em no time to find new homes for em.