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Good economy or bad economy it makes no difference The shelters are always overflowing. That makes it a bit heartbreaking to work at one.
I belong to, and of course because of that, work with a couple of animal rescues in my area. It's really hard to see the animals without what we call "forever" homes. A lot of people do adopt, my dog (who you can see in the upper left corner of this comment) is from a rescue. The hardest unwanted pets to deal with are those that come into the rescues for some reason when they are older. It's much harder to find people to adopt a cat, or especially a dog, that is 7, 8, or 9 years old. Last summer we had someone take a 9 year old Beagle to the Humane Society, that one was very difficult to get back into a permanent home. Anyway, I'm rambling, because you know how us heartless neo-cons are about animals, all we want to do is torture them, make sure they end up on the street or in a shelter, just ask anyone on the far left, I'm sure it's all Bush's fault somehow...
Anyway, for any of you that really do want to save an animal that is in great risk of being put down, please check out this site -
http://dogsindanger.com/searchIndex.jsp
I went to this site . There are no dogs closer than 250 miles from my house . Got any other sites ?
I realize that at the site you went to that the dogs may not be near your home, but the point of that site is that the dogs are going to be put down if no one adopts them, and when you look at a dog on the site it shows you how many days the dog has left to live if it's not adopted. Now as far as a rescue closer to your home, tell me what area you're in, and if you want what type type of animal, cat or dog, and what breed, and I'll find you a place close to you.
BoxMonkey
Try this one:
http://www.petfinder.com/
You put in your zip code and can find shelters and rescue groups near you
The rescue groups are doing a heroic job
The animals are placed in "foster" homes until adopted
Bringing in politics to this discussion about abandoned pets, does that make you a happy rambler?
I guess to zaph everything is political. Any time is a good time to slur the other party.
Yes, when I'm responding to David, who in the very first comment brought his political views, if you really read his comment, into this thread. And if you care to look again, you might just see that my mentioning politics in this thread was not the first comment here to do so, that is if you know anything about David.
And David, for you, I'm not trying to insult you, just point out that you took a veiled shot at Bush, at least it looked that way to me. Hope that explanation satisfies you Charlson, and if you knew anything of me, you'd have realized I was, in my way, saying I thought it was kind of bad to bring politics into this, and in the very first comment, just like you seem to think, so believe it or not, I was agreeing with you, and you can ask most here that know me from prior comments and threads if what I just told you is true.
I don't know how politics are involved with abandonned pets, but thought this situation crossed political barriers. I've noted that there are many animal lovers on every side of the political spectrum. So, thanks for your clarification.
I wasn't to sure what politics had to do with this either, but when I saw the first comment in the thread, to me is was clearly a political statement. Glad you understand what I was doing now.
A lot of people just don't relize that taking on a pet is expensive and time consuming. I just got a six week old puppy. My daughter can't say no to pets and I can't say no to my daughter.