Letter from a Shelter Manager

An animal shelter manager in North Carolina has posted a horrifying Facebook account of what happens to a cat or dog when it’s surrendered at many animal shelters around the country.

Dead cats, piled like firewood

It’s strong stuff, as you can see from this photo. But perhaps it will be a wake-up call to people who forget that pets are living, breathing creatures who feel love, fear, pain, panic, etc. They should never be discarded like an old toaster.

Among the shelter manager’s main points:

  • Between 9 and 11 million animals DIE every year in shelters.
  • There’s about a 90% chance that a surrendered dog will never walk out of a shelter  — purebred or not. For cats, the “kill” rate is even higher.
  • Your pet has 72 hours to find a new home from the moment you drop it off.
  • If it sniffles, it dies.

Then the shelter manager describes exactly what happens when a pet is euthanized.

This horror is why Safe Haven works so hard to continue our strict No-Kill policy — and why we need your support to continue.

Please — won’t you make a donation? $5, $10, $100 — every donation helps us afford to rescue more at-risk animals.

Thanks!

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One Response to Letter from a Shelter Manager

  1. Carmia says:

    Elizabeth, the shelters don’t have a choice, there are too many cats because people don’t sterilise their animals. People that work at shelters LOVE animals, the last thing they want to do is kill the animals, but they have no choice, there is not enough homes for them all.

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