Sunbear Squad
This week’s tip from Sunbear Squad is a must read for all dog lovers. We must teach others to stop thinking of their dogs as disposable objects, something to be thrown out with the trash when no longer needed or wanted.
Week of Nov. 8:
Watch for pets that are banished from the house before new carpet or furniture arrives for the holidays; they will be wandering and hungry. Call the authorities.
Imagine caring more about furniture than heartbeats.
You “get” this, or you would not be reading any further. It’s horrifying but true. Some people will bring their dogs and cats to a shelter because of remodeling, new furniture, new carpet, new wardrobes. Is this hard to imagine? Ask anyone who works at a shelter or rescue. The stories will inflame you.
Some major metropolitan shelters in America euthanize more than 80% of their dogs and cats every week because they don’t have enough adopters. So a family who drops off a dog or cat at a shelter, believing the pet will find a new home? Sweet, loving dogs and cats? Entire litters? They are dreaming. They are absolutely delusional. That drop off, that hopeful thought of a new home, is a death sentence. WAKE UP AMERICA.
How can we change this cycle of too many dogs and cats, too many people dropping them off at the shelter to “find a new home” in the trash? That’s where their cold bodies go. In the trash. Are you shocked?
Last week, the “No More Homeless Pets” conference closed in Las Vegas. It was a clarion call to CHANGE. Please encourage people to adopt. Please spay and neuter your companion animals. Hearts are beating!!!
-Anna Nirva, Founder Sunbear Squad-
My boss surrendered her white American Eskimo dog, age 8 (old dog) when she changed from all white furniture to all black furniture. There are no words.
Sunbear Squad maybe needs to address also the issue of puppymills as being the source of a goodly percentage of shelter kills.
I know of people who actually wanted to trade in their parakeets for a different color bird because they didn’t match the furniture.
Stupid, ignorant, very self centered selfish people.
Can I go on, please?….but then I would be banned.
Well we just bought a new leather living room set & our dogs give it “3 paws up”! They even allow us to sit on it from time to time! The kicker is I just spent about $100.00 on a new ortho dog bed for them (well let’s just say it is quite comfy) not that I would know, lol. Point is they are family & I couldn’t fathom getting rid of them fo such a reason!
A neighbor bought a beautiful Blood Hound then a few months later deceided that they were going to put a pool in…needles to say the dog went.
My brother Arnold came out of the shelter and mom said he is the best dog and can’t understand how someone could just get rid of him….he’s a senior too!