Please - never surender your dog or cat to a shelter or return them

You have other options available - identify a reputable rescue group -- Please shelters fill up fast and your pet may only have 72 hours or less to live.Do the human thing and seek out a rescure group in your area. Face Book is a great tool to find rescue groups. Search using the words, "pet rescue" and your state or you can search by breed: beagle and state.

When you understand what "owner surrender" is all about you will think twice. This includes giving the pet back to the shelter.

Thank you!

Inside View of an Animal Shelter by an Animal Shelter Manager

I saw this on Face Book and wanted to post it here, as sad as it is, because more people need to understands this message.

A shelter manager's letter:

As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all - a view from the inside, if you will.

... Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would change your mind about breeding and selling to people you don't even know - that puppy you just sold will most likely end up in my shelter when it's not a cute little puppy anymore.

How would you feel if you knew that there's about a 90% chance that dog will never walk out of the shelter it is going to be dumped at - purebred or not! About 50% of all of the dogs that are "owner surrenders" or "strays" that come into my shelter are purebred dogs.

No shortage of excuses
The most common excuses I hear are:
We are moving and we can't take our dog (or cat).
Really? Where are you moving to that doesn't allow pets?

The dog got bigger than we thought it would.
How big did you think a German Shepherd would get?

We don't have time for her.
Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs!

She's tearing up our yard.
How about bringing her inside, making her a part of your family?

They always tell me:
We just don't want to have to stress about finding a place for her. We know she'll get adopted - she's a good dog. Odds are your pet won't get adopted, and how stressful do you think being in a shelter is?

Well, let me tell you. Dead pet walking!

Your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off, sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn't full and your dog manages to stay completely healthy.

If it sniffles, it dies.

Your pet will be confined to a small run / kennel in a room with about 25 other barking or crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it.

If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers that day to take him / her for a walk. If I don't, your pet won't get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose.

If your dog is big, black or any of the "bully" breeds (pit bull, rottweiler, mastiff, etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door. Those dogs just don't get adopted.

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 of execution, though not for long. Most pets 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 shelters just don't have the funds to pay for even a $100 treatment.

The grim reaper

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. That is, until they get to "The Room".

Every one of them freaks out and puts on the breaks 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 vet techs (depending on their size and how freaked out they are). A euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process. They 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 it's leg. 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.

When it all ends, your pet's corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer in the back, with all of the other animals that were killed, waiting to be picked up like garbage.

What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? You'll never know, and it probably won't even cross your mind. It was just an animal, and you can always buy another one, right?

Liberty, freedom and justice for all

I hope that those of you that have read this are bawling your eyes out and can't get the pictures out of your head. I do everyday on the way home from work. I hate my job, I hate that it exists and I hate that it will always be there unless people make some changes and realize that the lives you are affecting go much farther than the pets you dump at a shelter.

Between 9 and 11 MILLION animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I do my best to save every life I can but rescues are always full, and there are more animals coming in everyday than there are homes.

My point to all of this is DON'T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!

Hate me if you want to - the truth hurts and reality is what it is.

I just hope I maybe changed one person's mind about breeding their dog, taking their loving pet to a shelter, or buying a dog. I hope that someone will walk into my shelter and say "I saw this on Facebook and it made me want to adopt".

That would make it all worth it.


I am posting this (and it is long) because I think our society needs a huge wake-up call.

All About Rescue Dogs

I think this pretty much sums up what a rescue dog is all about . . . please consider adopting a rescue beagle!

Beagle need help finding her home or a new foster family! Salisbury, NC

Lost Beagle (Shelter ID Number 52475)  from Cleveland, NC - 4 to 6 year old female - needs to find owner (or foster family or be adopted). She is scheduled to be put down on the 16th of January. Currently with the Rowan County Animal Shelter in Salisbury, NC. Thank you!

LAST DAY for this Female Adult Beagle is 01/16/2013 – 52475 the the ID number given to her from the shelter.

52475 – This adult female beagle was brought in to the Rown County Shelter, Salisbury NC, from the Cleveland area. She is a very sweet, small older girl about 4 – 6 years, talkative girl -- She is a happy girl who gets along well with other dogs and is great with people! She would love to find her previous owner or her new forever home.

For more information please contact RCAS at 704-216-7768

Rowan County Animal Shelter
1465 Julian Rd. Salisbury NC 28146
Hours: Mon-Fri 11am-4:30pm and Sat 8am-11:30am
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The shelter website:
www.rowancountync.gov/GOVERNMENT/Departments/AnimalShelter.aspx

AstraZeneca: Please set the Beagles free petition

Please sign this petition and help set the Beagles uses in research at AstraZeneca in Sweeden FREE!
 

AstraZeneca, a major international drug company, closed its research facility in Sweden. The beagles they used in their research are still being held and initially were slated to be killed – but AstraZeneca has reconsidered. This petition is to encourage the AstraZeneca to let these beagles be adopted.

Click here to sign the petition. Additional information about the petition can be found by visiting the Everyone Loves A Beagle Web site - click here.

Thank you for giving a voice to beagles that can not speak for themselves! Thank you for giving these beagles a second change - there are many loving and caring families waiting to adopt them! These beagles do not need to be killed.

AstraZeneca plc is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biologics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s fifth-largest pharmaceutical company measured by 2009 prescription drug sales (after Pfizer, Novartis, Sanofi, and GlaxoSmithKline) and has operations in… over 100 countries, including research facilities in Södertälje, Sweden.

Like every pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca conducts experiments on animals. According to AstraZeneca’s own website, in 2011 AstraZeneca has used approximately 398,000 animals, including those used by external contract research organisations on their behalf. Approximately 76% (302,480) wererodents, 22% (87,560) were fish and the remaining 2% (7,960) included chickens, dogs, rabbits, ferrets, primates, pigs, goats and sheep.

I'm happy to say that their exist an excellent organization that rescues beagles from a life in research - TheBeagle Freedom Project

TheBeagle Freedom Project is a mission to rescue beagles used in animal experimentation in research laboratories and give them a chance at life in a loving forever home.

Read rescue stories, watch videos, learn more about beagles used in animal testing, and how you can help by visiting their Web site – click here to do so.

http://beaglefreedomproject.org

 

 

Use Pet Finders to Adopt a Beagle

If you are thinking about adopting a beagle, I would like to suggest you use the Pet Finder Web site. Click here and you will be taken to the site. Additional information about beagles is also available from this link . . . this site is very easy to use and many rescue groups use it to post the beagles that are available for adoption.

Thank you! I wish you and your new beagle a wonderful life!

Help Save a Beagle from Laboratory Research

The Beagle Freedom Project has huge ambitions for 2013. We are expanding our operations across the country and internationally. 

To succeed though we need your support. Please expand our impact.  Support the BFP at www.beaglefreedomproject.org

 
This beagle was saved, but there are still 70,000 others just like him in labs across the country that need help! 

Support the BFP www.beaglefreedomproject.org 

Please make it your new year's resolution to double our exposure and impact.Tell your friend and family about BFP!


Help save a beagle from a life of research! Please consider fostering, adopting, or donating to the wonderful cause!

 

New Year Resolution 2013

Looking for a GREAT New Year's Resolution . . . how about saving an animal in 2013 by fostering a rescue, adopting a rescue pet, and/or donating to a rescue! Thank you and God Bless!

Britt Needs a Foster Home

I'm re-posting the below from Face Book! Britt looks so much like Lucky when we first got her . . . and Lucky was a wonderful dog. Please help Britt! Contact Judy directly if you can. Thank you and God Bless!

There are those - you know the people we mean - who think that dogs should be chained outside, don't feel cold, fear, loneliness... Those are the people who have never looked upon shelter photos of an abandoned animal. 

Meet Britt. She came to the shelter as a stray. She's about 2 years old. She is very worried about her fate in the shelter. Can you tell? 

If you are willing to foster her, we can pull her and give her a new lease in life. She is just aching for kindness. Contact judy@beaglemaryland.org. 

And please SHARE her! The more people who see her, the more likely she is to walk out of the shelter.

 

Please Consider Adopting a Beagle or Fostering One!

Most rescue beagles were either lab subjects or abandoned by a heartless hunter when the dog was no further use to him. Sometimes the hunter even just drops them off in a field! (Like I said heartless!)

Please consider adopting or fostering a beagle . . . they make excellent family pets and usually play well with other pets (cats and dogs).

Here's a video about lab beagles now free!

These beagles have known nothing except the confines of metal cages. They have known no soft human touch, no warm bed, no companionship, no love. Finally, after years of being poked and prodded, these beagles are FREE!

Click here to watch the video.

http://www.bit.ly/BeagleFreedom

Thank you . . . when you love and care for an animal, you receive many blessing for this act of kindness.

Molly the Beagle

Here's an article about Molly who is in need of adoption. Donations for her medical condition also are welcome.To read the entire article, click here.

If you are interested in donating toward Molly’s bladder surgery, fostering her during her recuperation, or adopting her, visit www.MedfieldShelter.com, email info@medfieldshelter.com or call 508-359-8989.

Molly was the Medfield Animal Shelter’s “pet of the week” last week but is back again after her pre-arranged surrender did not go as smoothly as planned. 

 

Molly arrived at the Medfield Animal Shelter last week as a pre-arranged surrender.  Her family had one young child and then a premature baby and they felt Molly was not getting enough attention.

Kim Agricola of the Medfield Animal Shelter describes Molly as a “plucky little beagle” who is “easygoing and sweet, loves her car rides…and is thrilled to go for her short walks when she isn’t taking long naps on her fleece next to the [shelter's] manager's chair.”

Molly's surrender did not go as smoothly as planned.
 
It was discovered that Molly had severe ear infections in both ears all the way down to her inner ears, and was partially deaf due to the long-term effects.  She was also partially blind which was why she was walking into walls and could not walk in a straight line.

Blood work revealed a massive infection from multiple sources.  The vet started her on four medications and fluids, and she was tended to by shelter volunteers on her first night away from her previous owners.

“Fortunately, she started improving right away and let us know what a little trooper she is,” said Agricola, adding that – at Molly’s one-week checkup – her sight is almost completely restored and she can walk in a straight line, but she remains partially deaf.

“Her spirits are much brighter and she greeted her vet with wags and a woof when presented with a cookie to eat,” said Agricola.

Part of the recheck visit was an x-ray which revealed that Molly has been dealing with pneumonia and has had bladder stones for at least two years that were not treated.  She now needs surgery to remove them.

Agricola said the animal shelter – which has limited funds and volunteers – is not the ideal place for Molly.

“Being the kind of shelter we are, we don’ back away from an animal in need once it is in our care,” she said.  “We are trying to find a way to help Molly get all the care she needs to get well and then find her next home.”

The Beagle Effect: How Saving Puppies Enriched These LGBT People

"Some dogs grow to adulthood without ever having felt the sun on their faces or the grass on their paws. And a great many of these dogs are beagles.

According to the Beagle Freedom Project’s website, “Beagles are the most popular breed for lab use because of their friendly, docile, trusting, forgiving, people-pleasing personalities. The research industry says they adapt well to living in a cage, and are inexpensive to feed. Research beagles are usually obtained directly from commercial breeders who specifically breed dogs to sell to scientific institutions.”

The Beagle Freedom Project is doing all it can to change that by working to educate the public about the practice. They’re also rescuing beagles that have spent their lives being tested in laboratories and placing them in loving homes.

According to Jean Geddes, the Beagle Freedom Project’s Outreach and Adoptions Coordinator, not only are the majority of their adopters LGBT, but many of their volunteers, donators, and supporters are as well.

Here are a just a few of these amazing pets and the parents who saved them."

Continue reading by clicking here.

Rescued beagles now federal agents

Here's a great story about a pair of young beagles, Jasper and Finn, two new federal agents who sniff out contraband at international airports. Before being federal agents they were rescued from area animal shelters by the Columbia County Humane Society. After going through intensive training at the National Detector Dog Training Center in Newnan, Gerogia, they now work for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

"Beagles are small, friendly and non-threatening. But they also are eager to please and have very sensitive noses that can differentiate 50 different scents."

To read the entire article, click here.