My heart is heavy as I see yet another adoptable pet I have advocated for killed! Many of these animals were abused by their owners and either turned out into the streets or dumped in high kill shelters by their family! Imagine a pet watching his best friend leave him in a place that is filled with misery and smells of death. Where dog's are crying out and cat's are begging to be released from their enclosures. How confused and frighten they he must be!
Animals are highly intelligent and very intuitive.They feel fear, confusion and abandonment as humans do. They are aware and fearful of this place of strangers. Many are seen with tears falling from their eyes, crying for help. Sensing their lives are in danger some are so fearful that they snap and grown at the shelter staff. Many catch kennel cough and are given medication. Sadly, catching curable illnesses like kennel cough qualify them for death row. Consequently, they come in healthy and become ill in a place that breeds disease and are killed because of it!
They die restrained on a hard table in agony! Given no anesthetic to ease the painful fire burning through their veins; from the deadly medication that ends their sad lives. There deaths are hard and violent! Why, I wonder must this be done when there are proven ways that shelter can adopt out 99- 100 percent of our homeless pet's!
Our companion animals have protected us from danger, saved our lives and helped their human counterparts to recover from loneliness and illness! This is what they get for loving us unconditionally; somehow that seems so wrong. Shame on humans because our adoptable's deserve more! NYC Animal Care and Control are saving more lives than in the past! With that said, if they fully embraced shelter reform, they could save much more. Visit the link below and view the faces of the pet's killed. It's heartbreaking, I have posted a few of their faces here but there are many more.
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