Hundreds of dogs, cats up for adoption after large rescue

A lot of these dogs were brought from a rescue which did not get their permits in time, some came from high kill shelters. There dogs were vet checked even before they were allowed to board the plane, and were brought to local area rescues, fosters, or their adopted homes. As far as breeders, I am sure there are some breeders who are legit. But there are those who inbreed their dogs to keep the bloodline pure. Then you get dogs born with a variety of illnesses and issues. There was even a German Shepard who was born without a brain due to being inbred from a so called ''breeder''.  Somehow he was able to function for a few months until he finally had to be put to sleep. It wasn't known until after he was put to sleep and an autopsy was performed it was found he had no brain. I know there will always be breeders, but they need to be regulated to keep all these issues from happening to these dogs who don't deserve it.

We constantly hear there is an overpopulation problem but if there's room for all these imports, that can no longer be the case. However, I don't think there is room for these imports.

 

if shelters are euthanizing for space now because of not enough people adopting dogs, wouldn't it be reasonable to think this will make the situation even worse?

 

This is not good news!

This psychotic and delusional "No-Kill" religion (conceived of, based on, and fueled by their own relentless fear of death) is the DIRECT CAUSE of the most heinous, widespread, and longest lasting animal abuse in the history of humanity.

 

There's far worse things than death. Read it and weep if you think saving more animals' lives is going to give them a life worth living.

 

notesfromadogwalker.com/2012/07/21/how-i-failed-as-a-rescuer-lessons-from-a-sanctuary/

 

 

Be cautious about using any cats taken from outdoors for adoption or you could be held criminally responsible. There's no way to know a wild-harvested cats' vaccination history, if any, nor their exposure to all the deadly diseases cats carry. If a cat has contracted rabies then a vaccination later will do no good. It's already too late. There's no reliable known test for rabies while keeping the animal alive. They need to be destroyed after they are trapped. It's the only sane and sensible solution. This is why all wild-harvested animals of any type intended for the pet-industry must, BY LAW, undergo an extended quarantine up to 6 months before transfer or sale of those animals to prevent just these things. Cats are no different than any other animal when wild-harvested. You're risking this following story happening in every shelter across the land.  

 

Google for: rabid cat adopted wake county

Another example (of thousands), Google for: rabid kitten jamestown exposure  

 

Adopting or approaching any unknown cat that's been outdoors is just playing Russian Roulette.  

 

The net is flooded with similar examples every week. THOUSANDS of people must endure, pay for (out of their own pocket) the painful and expensive (more than $1000) rabies shots if they get scratched or bitten by any stray or feral cat, especially if that cat cannot be trapped again to destroy it and test it for rabies. Stray-cat feeders are guaranteeing this, by training and teaching these cats to approach humans for food. These cats then lashing out by biting or scratching at any foodless hands that try to touch or pet them.

 

Even vaccinating your cat against rabies won't prevent it from finding the nearest rabid bat dying on the ground to rip it to shreds for its daily cat's play-toy. Then bringing back a mouthful or claws full of fresh rabies virus to you, your family, neighbors, other pets, or other animals. ANY cat allowed outdoors can transmit rabies to others, vaccinated or not.  

 

These are just the diseases they've been spreading to humans, not counting the ones they spread to all wildlife. THERE ARE NO VACCINES against many of these, and are in-fact listed as bio-terrorism agents. They include: Campylobacter Infection, Cat Scratch Disease, Coxiella burnetti Infection (Q fever), Cryptosporidium Infection, Dipylidium Infection (tapeworm), Hookworm Infection, Leptospira Infection, Giardia, Plague, Rabies, Ringworm, Salmonella Infection, Toxocara Infection, Toxoplasma. [Centers for Disease Control, July 2010] Sarcosporidiosis, Flea-borne Typhus, Tularemia, and Rat-Bite Fever can now also be added to that list.  

 

A FEW examples (of thousands):  

 

Cat-Transmitted PLAGUE:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8059908

www.pagosasun.com/archives/2011/07July/072811/webplague.html

www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/oregon-man-suffering-plague-critical-condition-article-1.1094782

www.daily-times.com/ci_20849462/health-department-said-taos-cat-has-plague  

 

Totally disproving that oft-spewed myth that cats in Europe could have prevented the plague. No rats nor fleas even required. Cats themselves carry and transmit the plague all on their own.  

 

Tularemia:

www.news-gazette.com/news/health/miscellaneous/2011-09-14/cats-savoy-test-positive-rabbit-fever.html

www.westyellowstonenews.com/news/article_02fceec6-f695-11e0-b752-001cc4c002e0.html  

 

Flea-borne Typhus:

www.ocregister.com/articles/county-317133-animals-cases.html  

 

Hookworm -- ruined Miami Businesses:

articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-11-24/news/fl-miami-beach-hookworms-20101123_1_hookworm-infections-feral-miami-beach  

 

Cats' most insidious disease of all, their Toxoplasma gondii parasite they spread through their excrement into all other animals. This is how humans get it in their dinner-meats, cats roaming around stockyards and farms. This is why cats are routinely destroyed around gestating livestock or important wildlife by shooting or drowning them. So those animals won't suffer from the same things that can happen to the unborn fetus of any pregnant woman. (Miscarriages, still-births, hydrocephaly, and microcephaly.) It can kill you at any time during your life once you've been infected. It becomes a permanent lifetime parasite in your mind, killing you when your immune system becomes compromised by disease or chemo and immunosuppressive therapies. It can last over a year in any soils or waters and not even washing your hands or garden vegetables in bleach will destroy the oocysts. Contrary to cat-lovers' self-deceptive myths, a cat can become reinfected many times during its life and spread millions of oocysts each time. It's now linked to the cause of autism, schizophrenia, and brain cancers. This parasite is also killing off rare and endangered marine-mammals along all coastlines from cats' T. gondii oocysts in run-off from the land, the oocysts surviving even in saltwater.   Its strange life cycle is meant to infect rodents. Any rodents infected with it lose their fear of cats and are attracted to cat urine.  

 

scitizen.com/neuroscience/parasite-hijacks-the-mind-of-its-host_a-23-509.html  

 

Cats attract rodents to your home with their whole slew of diseases. If you want rodents in your home keep cats outside of it to attract diseased rodents to your area. I experienced this phenomenon (as have many others), and all rodent problems disappeared after I shot and buried every last cat on my land.   

 

The time has come to destroy them all whenever spotted away from supervised confinement. There's no other solution. We have nobody but cat-lovers to thank for this health and ecological disaster. Stray-cats, the very source of all feral-cats, need to be euthanized too or you'll never be rid of the feral-cat problem.

In many US cities today, campaigns to end 'pet overpopulation' have been so successful that the demand for dogs far outstrips supply. In fact, shelters in many of these cities have a significant percentage of empty dog pens that they fill with imported feral puppies. This practice of moving dogs around from one region to another and from one shelter to another within regions euphemistically called humane relocation is highly dangerous to the public.  Destructive practices are emerging that threaten public health, sustain 'pet overpopulation' and undermine responsible dog ownership and breeding. Finding out what's happening in the world of animal sheltering and rescuing is not easy. Although most shelters use the issue of 'pet overpopulation' to raise funds, it turns out that few of them have sufficient records to support the term. In fact, a major impediment to solving the US stray and surplus pet problems is the lack of reliable shelter statistics. 1. Many shelters combine dog and cat statistics. Shelters are notorious for giving purebred labels to mixed breed dogs. Shelters lump together all shelter deaths regardless of the reason for euthanasia. For example, 1) owner requested euthanasia due to health, temperament or old age; 2) shelter mandated because the animal was judged too sick or too dangerous to be rehabilitated and placed; 3) or a shelter mandated because insufficient resources existed to continue maintaining an animal even though it was healthy and adoptable. Of these three categories, only the last, the adoptable pet that died for lack of a home, signifies a surplus animal problem.  But without clear data statistics combined with fundraising campaigns to stop 'pet overpopulation' encourages the public to believe that all shelter deaths are part of a massive 'pet overpopulation' problem. We are discovering that that is far from the truth and that many areas are suffering from severe pet shortages. Shelters and rescues don’t want the public to know. To fill their pens they resort to importing diseased feral dogs. They count these dogs thus inflating their numbers. This is seriously dangerous to public health.  It is a reckless and indefensible practice to import stray animals into the US. This takes money from legitimate shelters and kills adoptable dogs in shelters. It props up the myth of overpopulation of pets. The importation of strays does not save lives, it sustains overpopulation and assures that adoptable dogs in US shelters will be euthanized.  This is a PeTA pushed plan as they want to end all pet ownership. They slander the AKC and bashed purebred dog breeders to develop a culture of hate against the very people who ensure a healthy companion animal as a pet.The current scale of importation poses significant public health risks according to the CDC. These animals, destined to be domestic pets, are from countries with diseases and parasites that are not found in the US.  These "rescued" dogs are not pets from private homes but ferals from the streets just reservoirs for parasites and diseases. These wild puppies pass on whatever diseases or parasites into the communal shelters. Humane relocation began as a common sense method for helping animals to get adopted, but now over time, as the number of surplus dogs in some cities continued to drop, they began taking in animals from greater distances. For example, some shelters in the greater Portland metropolitan area routinely accept dogs from other counties in Oregon, Washington and sometimes from states as far away as Hawaii. This practice hinders the development of an accurate baseline for shelter populations. Without an accurate baseline it's impossible to get a handle on pet population trends and difficult to identify remaining problems, much less to plan appropriate strategies to solve them. Over-representing shelter impounds or shelter euthanasia statistics generates few negative consequences for shelters, higher numbers and the appearance of a crisis increases donations and budgets. Unfortunately, humane relocation is not being conducted responsibly by a growing number of shelters and rescue groups. The answer for these shelters with empty runs has not been to close and demand less funding from their cities, but to institute programs of importation from other regions and countries. According to their own records, one foundation, the Save a Sato program championed by PeTA, has already sent 34,000 dogs to the US. Satos (a slang term for mixed-breed street dogs in Puerto Rico) arrive in US cities practically every day. So far half a million dogs have been imported into the US going directly to fill empty shelters so they can continue to demand funding.  The SATO dogs and others pose a high risk of rabies and other zoonotic pathogens. At least 7 cases have been documented in recently imported puppies. New data released by the ASPCA, HSUS, and the American Pet Products Association‘s National Pet Owners Survey show that the number of dogs entering and dying in shelters has fallen steadily for decades. Less than 2% enter shelters today. While this vast improvement hasn’t stemmed the degree of vitriol against “breeders” by those in the shelter/rescue community, a look at statistics shows that there is little foundation for their anger.  The situation is getting better every year and very little of the past or remaining problems have anything to do with hobby breeders or people who buy their dogs. Nearly four out of five pet dogs are now desexed. The average age of dogs entering shelters is only 18 months, so a staggering share of these failed relationships are occurring with adolescent dogs.  Good breeders mentor the new owner through this stage. But shelters do not and a whopping 47% of all shelter or rescue dogs are being returned and it is this revolving door that keeps the over pet population myth going. The biggest lie in dogdom today is that there is an “overpopulation” problem. This ignores the steady increase in both percentage of homes that have dogs, the rising number of dogs per home, the increase in human population and the increase in pet dogs. The next biggest lie is that breeders are to blame and that every purchased puppy condemns a shelter dog to death.  This ignores that the majority of dogs are acquired for little to no cost from friends or family, not from breeders, and that every aspect of buying a dog from a breeder decreases the chance that the dog will ever see the inside of a shelter. Purebreds are less likely to end up in shelters than mixed-breeds. Dogs purchased from breeders or pet stores are less likely to end up in shelters. Dogs given as gifts or acquired for more than $100 are less likely to end up in a shelter. Dogs acquired for less than $30 or dogs adopted from a shelter are more likely to end up in a shelter. If your shelter is still blaming purebred dog breeders or even pet shops you need to examine their books and ask where they are getting their dogs from. Is your community paying through the nose to support the influx of diseased feral dogs from other countries and still donating free food and supplies while your local rescue rakes in 2 to 3 hundred dollars per dog? Are they now spreading tropical parasites in your neighborhood? Every shelter and rescue group should be able to show a paper trail on each animal. Are they buying diseased feral dogs thinking they are only rescuing dogs from another region?  Do you know where these shelter and rescued dogs are coming from? Shouldn't you know!  Shouldn't your shelters and rescue groups be willing to show proof of exactly where each dog came from. 

 

 

"The owner of that operation in Mojave, Calif. struggled with permits and was given six months to remove the dogs from her property.".. why was she not given the necessary permits?/ if she had been given the permits and given some help the dogs would still be in her care. help should, be given LOCALLY

Dont we have too many dogs and cats here.   Why do they have to bring them here?

I can understand your reaction about taking dogs from other areas when we have homeless pets here already. However; Publicity such as this educates thousands of people at a time, who might not have thought to adopt from a shelter or rescue. People considering purchasing from a breeder might be swayed by the TV coverage of that wide variety of sweet dogs available immediately. These dogs may go into homes of people that would never have thought to be ambassadors for homeless pets. As a result, their friends and family are educated too, one so on and so forth.

For me, my dogs are part of my family. They may not have a kindergarten education, but they're a darned sight smarter than a heck of a lot of people. And they will be well cared for until it's time for them to leave this world. I'm very fortunate to be able to be a steward for them, plus I receive the added benefit of unending unconditional love, something that no matter what I do, I will never be able to repay in full.

WHY did they bring them here where there are already literally THOUSANDS of dogs that need homes here.  

 

And people aren't JUST NOW understanding how awesome special needs dogs are, people actually PREFER special needs dogs and they always have.  Simply because of our instinct to rescue and nurture and fix something that is broken.

 

How many dogs that are already here that need homes will now DIE because we took in someone else's problem?

I wonder if Meghan Kalkstein fell in love and adopted a pet out there today? Hope so : )

What a sweet picture. And what a great cause. =)

So how many dogs and cats in the West Columbian Gorge area will be PTS because of all of these new dogs being offered for homes wanting pets?  Or are humane groups really admitting that there is a shortage of desirable  pets rather than the surplus that they are always claiming?  You can't have it both ways.

They love us without execption,,,Yet we fail them....There was a news article about a dog in Northern BC that was taken out by his owner and shot in his head......Beside being a POS the owner was a bad shot, he went home and soon the dig he shot came back to him......This time he took the dog to the Turtle Gardens animal shelter where the dog was fixed up and found a new family......I care for mine everyday but have several now and cannot take on another....My dogs are all of the same litter and will live with me until they die a natural death.

Unfortunately, a lot of people will adopt these animals in order to feel good or make others think they are doing a great and compassionate thing,  then a few days or weeks later the  animals will be returned to the shelter because the owners aren't capable of caring for them.  This is never reported in the news and never will be because it isn't a feel good thing.