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Taking your pet to the shelter? Read this. →
If your dog doesn’t get adopted within its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the shelter isn’t full and your dog is good enough and of a desirable enough breed, it may get a stay off execution, but not for long. Most dogs get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed for showing aggression. Even the sweetest dogs will turn in this environment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because the shelter gets paid a fee to euthanize each animal and making money is better than spending money to take this animal to the vet.
Here’s a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being “put-down”. First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for a walk happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to “The Room”, every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when we get to the door. It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there, it’s strange, but it happens with every one of them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 shelter workers depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a shelter worker who we call a euthanasia tech (not a vet) find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the “pink stuff”. Hopefully your pet doesn’t panic from being restrained and jerk. I’ve seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood and been deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don’t just “go to sleep”, sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves. You see, shelters are trying to make money to pay employees paychecks, and don’t forget the board of directors needs to be paid too, so we don’t spend our funds to tranquilize the animal before injecting them with the lethal drug, we just put the burning lethal drug in the vein and let them suffer until dead. If it were not a “making money issue” and we had to have a licensed vet do this procedure, the animal would be sedated or tranquilized and then euthanized, but to do this procedure correctly would cost more money so we do not follow what is right for the animal, we just follow what is the fastest way we can make a dollar. Shelters do not have to have a vet perform their euthanasia, so even if it takes our employee 50 pokes with a needle and 3 hours to get the vein that is what we do. Making money is the issue here not losing money.
While I know this isn’t true for every shelter, reading this was hard knowing that it’s happening at even one. You can read the rest by clicking the link above or here.
This really needs more attention.
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In one of the most jaw dropping moments at an Awards show since Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift’s VMA Acceptance speech, actress Rosario Dawson grabbed Paul Rudd’s package on stage during the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards. She later told Access Hollywood that she grabbed his nuts because she’s a woman’s rights activist and she was tired of him grabbing on Eva Mendes boobs.
“I love Paul, I’ve been a huge fan of Paul since way back in the “Clueless” moments. He kept [feeling] on her breasts and I was like okay, it was funny for a second then it kept going, going and going …. I was sitting there with my fork like, if he doesn’t stop, I’m going to stab him with my fork….So I went up there and stabbed him with my fork and he didn’t stop. Alright, I’m gonna grab his package, why not?
It was kind of nice. It wasn’t bad, it actually was a pretty good package. I kind of been curious since I was a teenager watching “Clueless.” My manager came up to me and asked was it scripted, “No, I’m just a women’s [rights] activist and I was getting a little tired. I was like, I’m really sorry Paul I don’t mean to be offensive but you’re kind of being offensive so I’m going to stop you. He was grabbing her boob on stage for a half-an hour. I was kind of getting over it.
Why do men always get to cop a feel? Women get to cop a feel too, it’s keeping equal opportunity.”
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In one of the most jaw dropping moments at an Awards show since Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift’s VMA Acceptance speech, actress Rosario Dawson grabbed Paul Rudd’s package on stage during the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards. She later told Access Hollywood that she grabbed his nuts because she’s a woman’s rights activist and she was tired of him grabbing on Eva Mendes boobs.
“I love Paul, I’ve been a huge fan of Paul since way back in the “Clueless” moments. He kept [feeling] on her breasts and I was like okay, it was funny for a second then it kept going, going and going …. I was sitting there with my fork like, if he doesn’t stop, I’m going to stab him with my fork….So I went up there and stabbed him with my fork and he didn’t stop. Alright, I’m gonna grab his package, why not?
It was kind of nice. It wasn’t bad, it actually was a pretty good package. I kind of been curious since I was a teenager watching “Clueless.” My manager came up to me and asked was it scripted, “No, I’m just a women’s [rights] activist and I was getting a little tired. I was like, I’m really sorry Paul I don’t mean to be offensive but you’re kind of being offensive so I’m going to stop you. He was grabbing her boob on stage for a half-an hour. I was kind of getting over it.
Why do men always get to cop a feel? Women get to cop a feel too, it’s keeping equal opportunity.”
I had absolutely no desire to be Paul Rudd until right now…
Irena Sendler.
1910-2008
A 98 year-old German woman named Irena Sendler recently died. During WWII, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. Irena smuggled Jewish children out; infants in the bottom of the tool box she carried and older children in a burlap sack she carried in the back of her truck. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children. She eventually was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families. Most had been killed. She helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.
Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won - for a slide show on Global Warming.
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