On 07-29-13, MATT MUNSON said to ALL:   
      
   MM>Hello everybody!   
      
   MM>Something that should be read in general. It usually would help with the   
   MM>pictures attached, but good to read for the people who occasionally read   
   MM>bbs message bases.   
      
   MM>Via Kimberly Allen Chapin   
      
   MM>Can't Keep Your Pet? Plan to take to public shelter? READ THIS!   
   MM>(Bakersfield) CA   
      
   MM>If you plan to drop your pet off at a county or city shelter, this is   
   MM>likely their reality.   
      
   MM>Does this picture upset you? It should - your pet who stood by you will   
   MM>now have it's last moments of life with a rope or muzzle tied around his   
   MM>or her face, restrained, a long needle stuck in their vein, and tossed   
   MM>into a bag, exactly like garbage.   
      
   MM>Think twice before you just dump your pet at a shelter. If you don't   
   MM>realize the over population problem, then wake up. The shelters are   
   MM>flooded with animals because far more people are getting rid of their   
   MM>pets/move and "can't take them with" (then find a landlord that accepts   
   MM>pets), have a baby and can't keep... the list goes on and on... so they   
   MM>take their pet to the shelter, where there are not enough adopters and   
   MM>rescues to save them (over 50% will die, in some shelters, that figure is   
   MM>closer to 80-85%). If you can't keep your pet, then find that pet a home   
   MM>to go into. Why would you bring the pet to a shelter? Have you ever been   
   MM>in the kennels of a shelter? Do you see the distress, the fear, the   
   MM>anxiety, the crying these animals do - reaching out to you with their paws   
   MM>- DESPERATE to get out. And, there just aren't enough of us to save them,   
   MM>so many will die after living a miserable existence for their last days on   
      
   MM>earth. So, when you decide you no longer want your pet, who wanted nothing   
   MM>more than to be your companion and bring them to the shelter, here is what   
   MM>they get to look forward to.   
      
   MM>They get to enjoy 1-5 days inside a kennel, likely with several other   
   MM>animals, lying in their own feces, fighting with the others for food, no   
   MM>blankets, no warm fuzzy beds, just cold, concrete floors in tight spaces,   
   MM>susceptible to catching an illness, and when their time is up, they are   
   MM>led to the back of the shelter (some wagging their tails as they are so   
   MM>happy to be out of their cage with a human being, and mistakenly think   
   MM>they are going for a walk while others are pulled with a pole, as they are   
   MM>scared out of their minds and have no idea who these people are and what   
      
   MM>is happening) they are restrained, and killed. And for those of you   
   MM>dumping your senior dogs at the shelter, have a heart if they are at the   
   MM>end of their life. Take them to the vet's office or a shelter that offers   
   MM>humane euthanasia, hold them, pet them, let them know they were loved, and   
      
   MM>let them leave the word with dignity instead of confusion and fear. Do you   
   MM>think this is the nice, easy shot first to put them to sleep, then to stop   
   MM>their heart like at the vet? Think again - it's painful. The shelters   
      
   MM>don't have the time or money for that... nice ending to their life. We are   
   MM>fortunate enough to share this earth with companion animals... you should   
   MM>take that honor and commitment seriously. Don't get a pet if you can't   
      
   MM>commit to keeping that pet for the duration of it's life... TAKE   
      
   MM>RESPONSIBILITY AND DO THE RIGHT THING!!!! Matt   
      
      
   Where exactly is this place that does these things? I've got five or six   
   neighbors who's dogs I'd just love to drop off there!   
      
      
   MM>... An armed populace is the greatest insurance against tyranny.   
      
      
   Its also the greatest insurance against neighbor's dogs who pull your trash   
   cans apart when you put them out to be emptied by your trash pickup service!   
      
      
      
      
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