THREE POWERFUL THINGS YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT EUTHANASIA OF HOMELESS ANIMALS
1. Adopt or Rescue the next time you add an animal to your family.
SAVE A LIFE! When we buy from a breeder or pet store, we help
perpetuate the overpopulation of animals and displace one more home
needed for millions of homeless pets. When we adopt and rescue, we save
a life! Whatever species or breed we would like to live with and love,
we can find it through rescue! Visit your local shelter or find the
animal waiting for you at: www.petfinder.org, or do a search on breed rescue for the breed you love.
2. Spay and Neuter every pet you have. SAVE MANY LIVES!
Please don’t add to overpopulation. Spaying and neutering saves lives.
Seeing the "miracle of birth" creates the tragedy of death of 5 million
animals in US shelters every year, including many pure breds. Want to
find low cost spay/neuter anywhere in the U.S.? Facts on early
spay/neuter? Visit these web sites:
www.spayusa.org or 800-248-7729
www.lovethatcat.com/spayneuter/spayneuter.html
www.enviroweb.org/foa/spaying/htlne.htm
3. Keep Your Animals for Their Lifetime! Make a commitment
to work hard and creatively to find ways to keep your pet in times of
stress and change. Honor your bond of love and promise of care. When
you acquire an animal, choose carefully for compatibility with your
lifestyle, finances, personality, family needs, etc. to help insure a
commitment to lifetime love and care. When challenges of behavior
problems, finances, family structure change, moves, etc. do arise,
connect with the resources that can help keep you and your animal
together. Seek the help of dog trainers, animal communicators,
behaviorists, holistic practitioners, veterinarians, other
professionals, and friends and family before you take your animal to a
shelter or rescue group.
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If everyone of us who claims to love animals did these three things,
shelters would not be overcrowded, shelters would not see more people
surrendering their animals than they do people adopting them, and
shelters would have no need to euthanize. Shelters could be in the
business of sheltering a small number of homeless animals and placing
them in good homes. Please, let’s not blame shelter workers for a
problem we created as a community! Let’s work together to prevent and
resolve it.
PETS ARE NOT A CONVENIENCE. THEY ARE A COMMITMENT FOR LIFE.
