Clear The Shelters!

[Debp]

Animal lovers:  This might be an idea one of your TV news stations might do in order to help reduce the numbers of cats, dogs and other animals at the city shelters.

Here in L.A., our channel 4 news does a regular "clear the shelters" event.   We just had one on August 18.   All of the pets' adoption fees are reduced to $20 and the news reporters keep encouraging people to adopt.  They also go to various city animal shelters and videotape the animals and their new families.

Channel 4 has been doing this since 2015 and over 231,000 pets have been adopted!

[Neighbor]

Hi, That  is done here too.  

One can wait for the bargain just like waiting  for the seasonal white sale for bedding, Black Friday to kick off Christimas retail, and internet sale day, or no sales tax back to school. Pretty soon people learn not to buy, instead wait for the sales periods.

And so; do the pounds get overloaded because people will wait  until prices drop?

I suspect most people are not good candidates for being pet owners nowadays. People are way too busy, few can walk their animals, and ya cannot just let them wander loose like in the old days.

 

The old days:

The "family car" would stop at the top of the hill at the edge of town, the door would open and the dog, Brownie, would spring out shooting over the low stone wall through the meadow and disappear into to woods at full run. The car door would close and off it would race to home and at home there would be Brownie on the porch tail wagging. He loved the run. Can't do that anymore.

Oh, we never could get rid of that dog.

 

 

 

(Just  joking)

 

 

 

[Neighbor]

51 minutes ago, Yowm said:

Reduced or free adoptions of pets are a receipe for more homeless pets to end back up in an animal shelter.

They need to make required classes on animal care mandatory before someone can go picking up a pooch for little Johnny.

Hi, "it takes a village" to raise a dog or cat?

 

 

[Neighbor]

BTW- The dog that would race the family car home was, and is, my favorite animal pet. I would love to find another, but time is running out. That breed may not exist anymore. Brownie was a Redbone Foxhound, kennel borne at New Hampshire. Not a coonhound . There seems to be no record of the breed.

Markings were a cocoa brown coat with distinct light eye  eyebrow dots, short haired medium tail fluff, no ridge neck markings no tufted areas, about 40 lbs,  a smooth coat with those contrasting eyebrows, smart, loyal, and a fierce fighter  when threatened or the family is threatened, willing to take on a pack of dogs.

Edited August 20, 2018 by Neighbor

[Neighbor]

4 minutes ago, Yowm said:

I live in the LA area also and many here need to be edookated somehow someway. I'm tired of seeing roadkill of Bobo and Kitty.

No one should have to live in the LA area dogs or otherwise. I know some here do, I did at one time too, at that just lovely San Pedro, where I had a high probability of being some form of kill myself.

[Neighbor]

At San Pedro they weren't satisfied with just killing, once they got you they would also then blow up your burial site.

[Neighbor]

Good thing dogs don't fly, what with all those electricity generating windmills going up.

 

Sorry it was just a visual that popped into my head. I too feel sad when I see someone's pet  hurt or having been  killed. There is just so much activity today that has never existed in the past. It is harder on all critters big and small.

Edited August 20, 2018 by Neighbor

[Debp]

5 hours ago, Neighbor said:

Hi, That  is done here too.  

One can wait for the bargain just like waiting  for the seasonal white sale for bedding, Black Friday to kick off Christimas retail, and internet sale day, or no sales tax back to school. Pretty soon people learn not to buy, instead wait for the sales periods.

And so; do the pounds get overloaded because people will wait  until prices drop?

I suspect most people are not good candidates for being pet owners nowadays. People are way too busy, few can walk their animals, and ya cannot just let them wander loose like in the old days.

 

The old days:

The "family car" would stop at the top of the hill at the edge of town, the door would open and the dog, Brownie, would spring out shooting over the low stone wall through the meadow and disappear into to woods at full run. The car door would close and off it would race to home and at home there would be Brownie on the porch tail wagging. He loved the run. Can't do that anymore.

Oh, we never could get rid of that dog.

 

 

 

(Just  joking)

 

 

 

 

5 hours ago, Yowm said:

Reduced or free adoptions of pets are a receipe for more homeless pets to end back up in an animal shelter.

They need to make required classes on animal care mandatory before someone can go picking up a pooch for little Johnny.

Well, there are alot of animal lovers here in Los Angeles.   Alot of pets are taken care of better than me!   I do think the shelters do some sort of check on people before adopting an animal to them.   A friend who does rescue work does a thorough check on people, even checking their veterinarians to make sure the pet is cared for.

I have another friend who took her dog to hotels with her husband and daughter regularly, had the dog's grooming and teeth done, medical care given regularly....yet she was declined for a few dogs at rescue groups or shelters for some odd reason.  Their dog had died after they spent alot of money on his treatment and they wanted another dog.   So they had to buy a dog from a lady whose dog had puppies.    But they really wanted a rescued dog....

[Sevenseas]

10 hours ago, Debp said:

Animal lovers:  This might be an idea one of your TV news stations might do in order to help reduce the numbers of cats, dogs and other animals at the city shelters.

Here in L.A., our channel 4 news does a regular "clear the shelters" event.   We just had one on August 18.   All of the pets' adoption fees are reduced to $20 and the news reporters keep encouraging people to adopt.  They also go to various city animal shelters and videotape the animals and their new families.

Channel 4 has been doing this since 2015 and over 231,000 pets have been adopted!

 

oh ouch

 

while I can agree with the sentiment, I ask if they cannot pay the standard fee for adoption..which is really already pretty low...can they pay for the upkeep, vet visits, food etc for the animal they adopt?

 

believe me my heart is with you as far as shelter animals go but the problem still seems to be reproduction and increasing numbers of entire litters of puppies in shelters.....I follow several rescue groups on fb so this is a fair statement

I happen to have 2 of the breeds most often found in shelters and it is heartbreaking if you love animals...I do and dogs in particular

I agree with adopt don't shop as a good motto...but I do have 2 rescued and 2 bought.  

it's an awful problem...and I've read that perfectly fine animals are put down to make room for more 'strays' or left off unwanted pets

I guess I'm not really solving any problems here...I think it would be fair to say this is somewhat of a multifaceted problem and begins possibly with not enough consequences for mistreatment, abandoning cats or dogs and so on

[Debp]

1 minute ago, Yowm said:

We've gone through dog rescues, and yes they can be quite intrusive checking out the details of your life whereas the Shelter mainly required $$ and an application. But whatever they are doing to check, there are a lot of loose dogs in the L.A. area, teeth brushing and doggy diapers withstanding. I just don't think a course in basic pet care would hurt. 

Yes, a course would be good.

I guess it depends on the area of L.A. you are in.    I don't see any loose dogs running around.   This neighborhood got all built up and fancy now due to the Korean businesses.   They can afford the fancy apartments so we have those now, too.   I see lots of wealthy Koreans walking little fancy dogs now.   I do see others walking their dogs, too.

I can remember when no apartments or maybe very, very few would allow dogs.   I never saw a dog in my neighborhood or in downtown until recent years.   I always enjoy seeing them.   We also have alot of dogs in our 74 unit apartment building, fun to see them.