Originally Posted by cresta57

What I don't understand is the attitude that if you can't pay your pet is destroyed weather it's your fault the animal escaped or a tree falls in a storm or a malicious neighbour takes your dog to the pound. Yet again the work shy drop out's are exempt from these fees with anyone working footing a bigger bill:curse:

Originally Posted by anawanahuanana

I firmly believe that selling animals from shop windows is an outdated, and somewhat cruel (having them live for weeks in a small glass case, having minimal exercise) method, unnecessary in today's society.

Originally Posted by anawanahuanana

I am faced with a headline on the news this morning that just one Brisbane animal shelter has had to put down over 1,000 animals last month alone!

Originally Posted by alliekate

Wow that letter is awesome!!!!
alliekate

Originally Posted by cresta57

There are two sides to every story, here's another view:
On the Friday before Christmas we had Jehovah's Witness people in our area canvassing for support for their particular religious club. They visited the houses in groups of 2-3 as per the norm.When they got to my mates house they left the gate open while they wandered down the 500m driveway. Both his dogs were having a run in the yard, it's fully fenced with a large sign on the gate asking to keep it closed.
As a result of their unwanted visit both dogs escaped to explore the neighborhood. Both were spotted within mins by a bloke who works for the local council. The upshot was they were loaded into an estate car, collars removed, deliberately kept until the pound was closed then tied up outside of it until next morning. [We know this because it's happened to several other dog owners in the area & the same distinctive rope is used to tether them "out of hours" to the pound gates]
My mate rang the two local council pounds within an hour of the dogs disappearing & continued to ring hourly until close of business. Next morning he rang again to be told they were found tied up outside of the pound at 5am that morning. He went down to collect them and was informed that he'd have to pay $150 to reclaim the dog, when he said he'd come for the two that were found tied up that morning the figure became $300.
The sad thing is that with only a couple of days before Christmas & with my mate being a low income earner he simply didn't have $300 laying around. He pleaded but they wouldn't budge so he had to make a choice which dog would he pay for and which one would be destroyed. He then had to explain to his kids why they could only have the one dog back.
That may explain why so many dogs are kept tethered in yards. It may also explain why the pounds are so full. It goes a long way to explaining why so many end up in the pound after storms bring fences down.
I realise that the animals need to be fed & staff need to be paid. What I don't understand is the attitude that if you can't pay your pet is destroyed weather it's your fault the animal escaped or a tree falls in a storm or a malicious neighbour takes your dog to the pound. Yet again the work shy drop out's are exempt from these fees with anyone working footing a bigger bill:curse:

Originally Posted by alliekate

bumping up - this is important. 1000 dogs were euthanased in one Brisbane shelter in one month.

I will not give up.

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Originally Posted by alliekate

I just really hope that if us POMS stick together and try, try, try to educate, we might make a difference.