A very old stray {The Old Fella Story}
Went camping this weekend at a campground on the lake, had not been there for a few years. Once there I began to walk around looking at the different sites when I noticed a very old dog. He just lay t...
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As far as the comment: "even if we can only save ONE dog, are worth all the effort"....
Makes me think of Mother Teresa, she said "If you can't feed one hundred people, then feed just one."
It's so true. Maybe we can't save all the strays or feed all the strays, but we can still help some.
My sister just adopted 2 cats from a local shelter - they were strays, and needed to be fixed, so she paid for it all and was told to come pick them up in a week. When she went back a week later, she was told she could have one of the cats, but the other one had developed an upper respitory infection so they didn't bother spaying her and they were planning to put her down the next day. My sister had a fit and said she had paid for the cat and technically it was hers, therefore they had no right to put her down. Long story short, she was able to bring the kitty home with medication. She had paid for the spaying, but she says that cat is NOT going back there! She'll have her own vet handle that and let the money she paid be a donation. How very sad that there are so many pets in shelters that if one gets sick, they just put it down instead of nursing it back to health. The kitty is less than a year old, long haired siamese - beautiful!
We need to do all we can to educate children about how important it is to spay/neuter pets. That's my mission! Maybe the next generation will be more responsible. It saddens me that I live in a very rural area, many people have outdoor "barn" cats, since the coyotes pick them off, these people don't bother with spaying/neutering these poor cats. I've had talks with people to no avail. They say they need the cats for rodent control. Why can't they put up owl boxes?
Makes me think of Mother Teresa, she said "If you can't feed one hundred people, then feed just one."
It's so true. Maybe we can't save all the strays or feed all the strays, but we can still help some.
My sister just adopted 2 cats from a local shelter - they were strays, and needed to be fixed, so she paid for it all and was told to come pick them up in a week. When she went back a week later, she was told she could have one of the cats, but the other one had developed an upper respitory infection so they didn't bother spaying her and they were planning to put her down the next day. My sister had a fit and said she had paid for the cat and technically it was hers, therefore they had no right to put her down. Long story short, she was able to bring the kitty home with medication. She had paid for the spaying, but she says that cat is NOT going back there! She'll have her own vet handle that and let the money she paid be a donation. How very sad that there are so many pets in shelters that if one gets sick, they just put it down instead of nursing it back to health. The kitty is less than a year old, long haired siamese - beautiful!
We need to do all we can to educate children about how important it is to spay/neuter pets. That's my mission! Maybe the next generation will be more responsible. It saddens me that I live in a very rural area, many people have outdoor "barn" cats, since the coyotes pick them off, these people don't bother with spaying/neutering these poor cats. I've had talks with people to no avail. They say they need the cats for rodent control. Why can't they put up owl boxes?
