Visualize cracking open the door to your local animal shelter. At first, you hear the howling of dogs, and maybe hissing from cats. Once you walk in, you notice an array of behaviors exhibited by these animals. Several bounce around joyfully and wag their tails. Others stay nestled in the corner, fearful. Row after row of animals sit in cages. The line may seem endless. Why do so many animals end up in shelters, and how is it affecting the lives of these animals that prevents most of them from being adopted? Overcrowding remains the number one issue in animal shelters worldwide. The most common culprit for this: stray canines, and felines. So many animals roam the streets. These poor creatures stroll around alone, cold, hungry, and petrified. Because of the overpopulation, animal control must step in. They at times, forcefully snatch up these beings, and load them into trucks. Those dogs and cats, then get taken to shelters. Not all animal shelters have pristine condition. Sometimes animal shelters exhibit themselves as a malodorous, dirty, and unsettling environment for animals to inhabit. Euthanasia is frequent at shelters like this. Other ways that animals end up in shelters include animal cruelty, behavioral issues, moving, people life experiences, overpricing, and not enough time. At first thought, one may …show more content…
Shelters currently hold pets beyond their originally designed capacity. Pets get dropped off or picked up off the streets for so many reasons. Animals get taken to, or not taken from shelters because they are either strays, victims of abuse, present behavioral issues, left behind due to family moving, abandon from different family experiences, not bought from overpricing, or the family had no time for it. All of which result in psychological effects of trust issues, loneliness, feeling unloved, anxiety, and
This proposal would allow the counties to attack the problem from two angles: the breeder and the purchaser. This should lead to more purchases of shelter pets, and thus reducing the housed population. As a result, shelter numbers would go down, and it should discourage all non-shelter purchases. These solutions should make purchasing a shelter pet a more feasible way to get an
Every year, the United states euthanizes 2.7 million adoptable dogs and cats. Why? Well because the shelters are too full and people would rather buy one from a breeder at the mall. Shelters have been facing a pet overpopulation problem for the last few decades. Some animals are found wandering as strays, and some are surrendered by their owners who cannot, or no longer want to, care for them..
First, is how pound/shelters are used for helping combat the overpopulation of these kinds of animals. They take animals in for at least five business days before being able to do anything else with the animal(s) such as sell them to licensed dealers or put them up for adoption (Notes). This helps control the population by giving them a common place to go; instead, of being able to roam free through the land of the United States. Next, there are collars with IDs on them and ID chips under the animals’ skin (Reitman, pg. 42). This helps return animals to their rightful owners and gets them off the street.
Animals that are not adopted are kept in shelters until they find a home.
Although no-kill shelters can sometimes create extra costs for a community, the effects of adopting from these shelters and caring for pets instead of putting them down gives back to the
Her deep brown eyes gazed up at me with trepidation and uncertainty. Her bones frail, her gesture timid. Despite the sheet of glass dividing us, I could already feel her becoming a part of me. Curiosity and compassion overcame my mind as she was taken into another room. This was the day I met Hope.
Previously, a fraudulent “service animal” had urinated on several expensive Indian carpets. When Tuttle, with a well-trained service animal, sought to enter, the saleswoman objected. ”(1). Marv Tuttle was virtually punished for the failure of a fraudulent service animal, which is cruel and overall
Snickers saved her family from a fire last august, her family was sleeping in an RV that caught on fire. Snickers is a 1 year old shar Pei mix, the same family she saved had to move and she was placed in the Glen Rose Animal Shelter in Texas. This story is one of the many reasons why families have to turn to shelters for assistance. In California, especially, where the housing costs have increased in the last few years, this have made many families relocate and have been forced to place their animals in shelters. Some shelters don’t have the capacity to house animals for a long period of time, as a result, the animals that don’t get adopted in a certain period of time have to be euthanized.
Approximately one adoptable, healthy dog or puppy every hour, (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) is put to death in the UK due to not finding a home”… “Pet abandonment statistics world wide are thought to be around six hundred million every year and many countries have extremely cruel animal overpopulation controls.” In this essay, i will explain what could happen and what we could do to help. Chapter 1 Teen Activism Teen activism. You may be asking “What is that?”
Once an animal is bought at an animal shelter, they money from you goes straight to the original puppy mill without you knowing. When an animal shelter doesn?t have enough room for all of their animals, they turn to putting them down or letting them free. In often times, no kill shelters are the ones who let these poor animals go. (Vanden Brook) In this speech I?ve told you about how to stop these awful puppy mills from continuing to scam you.
A lack of understanding of natural dog behavior is a huge part of the dog overpopulation problem. If people had stable dogs in their homes it would be rare they would ever give them up, and when they did have to it would be much easier to find a home for a behaved dog. It is the dogs with "issues" that our pounds and shelters are full of. Most homeless dogs are not the stable dogs that have had their instincts met. The good part is it is never too late for a dog; they can change if the humans around them change.
The approximate amount of animals put in shelters each year is 7.6 billion. That is 7.6 billion lives that haven't had a home, or someone to love and care for them. You should consider giving one of these animals a true life rather than reviving one who already fulfilled
Which is to adopt from your local animal shelter! Close with Impact: How would you feel if you were left on the streets, cold, starving, and had no one to care for you? By adopting your new pet from the Humane Society you will provide it with a loving home and you will also give another animal the hope of finding that wanted companionship that they’ve been missing their whole life. • Why wait?
This leaves the dogs traumatized and rethinking who they should trust.” If you adopt it’ll help a dog live the life it’s always deserved. About 4 million cats and dogs are euthanized each year because there simply aren't enough willing homes to adopt them. Since there is an overpopulation, animal shelters urge owners to spay or neuter their pets to exclude overpopulation. Also, It’s more
Both neglect and intentional cruelty affect animals used in circuses, zoos, farms, aquariums, puppy mills and animal shelters (peta.org).