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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 580442" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Our little shelter here BEGS for volunteers. It's something I've thought about doing since I retired but I just can't make myself do it. I've donated money, pet food, unused crates, collars, harnesses and leashes, and I would foster if I didn't already have four of my own. But as far as working directly with the animals, I know myself well enough to know I could never do that. Maybe in a no-kill shelter, but not in ours. They still have to euthanize way too many dogs and cats. Lisa, if you can do that, you have my undying admiration! I just couldn't handle it. I can't even look at all those Facebook posts of sad looking dogs in shelters with the captions that read, "He <em>dies</em> tomorrow unless you come and get him!" I have to "Hide" all of those posts. I just can't look at them. And I KNOW that I svck at fostering ... my one foster, my little Trace, is still here three years later. No way I could pass him along to someone else. If I had fostered a dozen dogs, I'd have fifteen of them running around my living room now!</p><p></p><p>There is one thing I did have a hand in doing that I'm rather proud of. About a year ago someone on Facebook proposed having a local pet page, a place to buy and sell both pet supplies and live PETS! And everybody chimed in and thought it was a wonderful idea! I don't usually get involved in things like that but I just had to say something. I said that it wasn't a good idea to encourage people to breed their pets to make a quick buck selling puppies while thousands die every day in shelters, that people should be spaying and neutering their pets instead. And then one lady who works at a shelter chimed in to back me up, then another and another. And pretty soon the ones who were all for it shut up! The page did start up and is going strong but it is now a page for area shelters and rescue organizations to list available pets they have for adoption, for local adoption events, and to list pets that have been lost or found. And listings for pets for sale are not allowed. </p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/hi5.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hi5:" title="hi5 :hi5:" data-shortname=":hi5:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 580442, member: 1883"] Our little shelter here BEGS for volunteers. It's something I've thought about doing since I retired but I just can't make myself do it. I've donated money, pet food, unused crates, collars, harnesses and leashes, and I would foster if I didn't already have four of my own. But as far as working directly with the animals, I know myself well enough to know I could never do that. Maybe in a no-kill shelter, but not in ours. They still have to euthanize way too many dogs and cats. Lisa, if you can do that, you have my undying admiration! I just couldn't handle it. I can't even look at all those Facebook posts of sad looking dogs in shelters with the captions that read, "He [I]dies[/I] tomorrow unless you come and get him!" I have to "Hide" all of those posts. I just can't look at them. And I KNOW that I svck at fostering ... my one foster, my little Trace, is still here three years later. No way I could pass him along to someone else. If I had fostered a dozen dogs, I'd have fifteen of them running around my living room now! There is one thing I did have a hand in doing that I'm rather proud of. About a year ago someone on Facebook proposed having a local pet page, a place to buy and sell both pet supplies and live PETS! And everybody chimed in and thought it was a wonderful idea! I don't usually get involved in things like that but I just had to say something. I said that it wasn't a good idea to encourage people to breed their pets to make a quick buck selling puppies while thousands die every day in shelters, that people should be spaying and neutering their pets instead. And then one lady who works at a shelter chimed in to back me up, then another and another. And pretty soon the ones who were all for it shut up! The page did start up and is going strong but it is now a page for area shelters and rescue organizations to list available pets they have for adoption, for local adoption events, and to list pets that have been lost or found. And listings for pets for sale are not allowed. :hi5: [/QUOTE]
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