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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 406231" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>We have a very unique situation in our town. We have animal control that is run by the city and a humane society that is private. They are in adjacent buildings owned by the humane society. They got the land (a huge parcel) from a will, along with a substantial amount of money. The animal control is where all animals go when they arrive. Those that are sick, biters, etc... stay there and have a 10-14 days to find a home. Usually animals who have even half a chance of being adopted are taken next door by the humane society after they are sure they don't have a disease (town law says a specified number of days in quarantine is mandatory to make sure they are healthy). The humane society has a TON of volunteers thanks to several very active board members who taught school in our town for decades. They publish a wish list every month or so and usually get everything they want on it. You CANNOT get a beer flat from a convenience store in this town because they are pledged to the Humane Society for litter boxes, though lots of people ask for them for various reasons. Our c stores even deliver them - each chain has 1 person who picks them up a few times a week from each store and drops them off. That way the animals get clean litter and boxes and there is no spread of disease. We also have a HUGE vet college that takes care of animals who are in accidents, etc... for the Humane Society and several private vets who do really cheap spay/neuter for both places. My vet is one and she is truly excellent with them. </p><p> </p><p>Our Humane society hasn't killed an animal or sent one to be killed in almost ten years. Even after the collapse of the economy they still took every halfway healthy animal that came into animal control. We had a private shelter run by a lady who ended up with a houseful of cats with FIP and/or feline leukemia and they even set up a facilty to care for those animals when the lady ran off the people who were helping her with them. The only time the animals were euthanized was when they were so sick they were in agony. In a year they were the ONLY animals that were euthanized, and they restarted their no-kill count. </p><p> </p><p>When I put our bird on Craigslist I was clear that before anyone could come and get her they had to be cleared by the humane society and animal control. Two people who really watned her both had history as avian hoarders and they thanked me for calling. I finally sent her to live with a woman who's cat was mourning the death of their bird. As Goldi was mourning the death of our Freckles, it was a good match. I still get updates even 2 years later. </p><p> </p><p>Humane Societies do NOT want to kill animals. They often simply have no choice. There are always a few who like to do it and they often are run out of the organization in fairly short order. When we lived in OH the SPCA would kill any animal who needed any kind of medical care. Even ear mites were a reason to kill an animal there. yet when we took a cat who bit - on purpose bit kids - to have him put down (no choice because in OH if you own an animal who has bitten someone and it is adopted by another person, even through a shelter, YOU are still liable if the animal bites anyone at any future time in his life. We KNEW he would not stop biting because we worked with him for months and he just wouldn't stop. We also knew that we would be bankrupt if he bit someone, so we had no choice. We tried trainers, even a cat psychic and nothing worked. It was the first time we had an animal put down except for when one got very ill. It almost destroyed us because we were so heartbroken. But then the SPCA tried to adopt it out - at a KIDS DAY function!!!!!!!! I had a fit because the papers they had had my name and husband's on it so when it was in its' new home and bit they would have come after US. OH is that litigious a place, or was then.</p><p> </p><p>NOT every humane society is like that. I know ours isn't because I have been involved and I know the people invovled very well. I am heartbroken and horrified to have a brother who refuses to spay his border collies. he thinks it will 'damage' his male and when he was given a female he thought he could make money. He cannot even give them away much of the time. He got into a LOT of trouble for tying three of them to the fence at the humane society - he said he was going to and someone I knew recognized him from seeing him with me at school when I picked up my kids. So they called me to ask if I knew who would tie puppies to their fence. he was on camera. I have NO idea how it worked out, he probably gave them some labor and promised to not do it again. But I am still HORRIFIED by his behavior. While they would not have killed the dogs, it was still shameful, as is breeding them. My mother has wanted a rhodesian ridgeback for decades and finally got my father to agree to get one. So my bro gave her one of his as a "surprise". To show how he "appreciated" her, gag. She has always been very very clear that she NEVER watned a dog with that kind of coat, but she has one. They have adjusted, but were NOT happy about it at first. Took my mom almost 20 yrs to get my dad to agree to another dog, to a rhodie, and she ended up with a collie.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 406231, member: 1233"] We have a very unique situation in our town. We have animal control that is run by the city and a humane society that is private. They are in adjacent buildings owned by the humane society. They got the land (a huge parcel) from a will, along with a substantial amount of money. The animal control is where all animals go when they arrive. Those that are sick, biters, etc... stay there and have a 10-14 days to find a home. Usually animals who have even half a chance of being adopted are taken next door by the humane society after they are sure they don't have a disease (town law says a specified number of days in quarantine is mandatory to make sure they are healthy). The humane society has a TON of volunteers thanks to several very active board members who taught school in our town for decades. They publish a wish list every month or so and usually get everything they want on it. You CANNOT get a beer flat from a convenience store in this town because they are pledged to the Humane Society for litter boxes, though lots of people ask for them for various reasons. Our c stores even deliver them - each chain has 1 person who picks them up a few times a week from each store and drops them off. That way the animals get clean litter and boxes and there is no spread of disease. We also have a HUGE vet college that takes care of animals who are in accidents, etc... for the Humane Society and several private vets who do really cheap spay/neuter for both places. My vet is one and she is truly excellent with them. Our Humane society hasn't killed an animal or sent one to be killed in almost ten years. Even after the collapse of the economy they still took every halfway healthy animal that came into animal control. We had a private shelter run by a lady who ended up with a houseful of cats with FIP and/or feline leukemia and they even set up a facilty to care for those animals when the lady ran off the people who were helping her with them. The only time the animals were euthanized was when they were so sick they were in agony. In a year they were the ONLY animals that were euthanized, and they restarted their no-kill count. When I put our bird on Craigslist I was clear that before anyone could come and get her they had to be cleared by the humane society and animal control. Two people who really watned her both had history as avian hoarders and they thanked me for calling. I finally sent her to live with a woman who's cat was mourning the death of their bird. As Goldi was mourning the death of our Freckles, it was a good match. I still get updates even 2 years later. Humane Societies do NOT want to kill animals. They often simply have no choice. There are always a few who like to do it and they often are run out of the organization in fairly short order. When we lived in OH the SPCA would kill any animal who needed any kind of medical care. Even ear mites were a reason to kill an animal there. yet when we took a cat who bit - on purpose bit kids - to have him put down (no choice because in OH if you own an animal who has bitten someone and it is adopted by another person, even through a shelter, YOU are still liable if the animal bites anyone at any future time in his life. We KNEW he would not stop biting because we worked with him for months and he just wouldn't stop. We also knew that we would be bankrupt if he bit someone, so we had no choice. We tried trainers, even a cat psychic and nothing worked. It was the first time we had an animal put down except for when one got very ill. It almost destroyed us because we were so heartbroken. But then the SPCA tried to adopt it out - at a KIDS DAY function!!!!!!!! I had a fit because the papers they had had my name and husband's on it so when it was in its' new home and bit they would have come after US. OH is that litigious a place, or was then. NOT every humane society is like that. I know ours isn't because I have been involved and I know the people invovled very well. I am heartbroken and horrified to have a brother who refuses to spay his border collies. he thinks it will 'damage' his male and when he was given a female he thought he could make money. He cannot even give them away much of the time. He got into a LOT of trouble for tying three of them to the fence at the humane society - he said he was going to and someone I knew recognized him from seeing him with me at school when I picked up my kids. So they called me to ask if I knew who would tie puppies to their fence. he was on camera. I have NO idea how it worked out, he probably gave them some labor and promised to not do it again. But I am still HORRIFIED by his behavior. While they would not have killed the dogs, it was still shameful, as is breeding them. My mother has wanted a rhodesian ridgeback for decades and finally got my father to agree to get one. So my bro gave her one of his as a "surprise". To show how he "appreciated" her, gag. She has always been very very clear that she NEVER watned a dog with that kind of coat, but she has one. They have adjusted, but were NOT happy about it at first. Took my mom almost 20 yrs to get my dad to agree to another dog, to a rhodie, and she ended up with a collie. [/QUOTE]
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