Dogs are damned if we do and damned if we don’t
In other news: Opening the door to kittens in need. A pending hippo massacre. Animals are tortured in the name of “gender dysphoria.” Safe!
These are some of the stories making headlines in animal protection:
Opening the door to kittens in need
The San Francisco Bay Area used to be the beacon of lifesaving in the animal movement. It no longer is. As “shelter” after “shelter” embraces Human Animal Support Services (HASS), their doors are increasingly being closed.
Under HASS, euphemistically referred to as “community sheltering,” shelters stop taking in strays, including kittens, telling people to handle them themselves, turn them loose, or leave them on the sidewalk. This puts the onus on residents to do the job they already pay shelters to do through their tax dollars. It also puts animals in harm’s way and ignores their right to rescue.
For a Good Samaritan who found that a feral mama gave birth in his yard, he had nowhere to turn. Most local “shelters” would not take them in, and the only one that would offered a death sentence.
So The No Kill Advocacy Center, my organization, did.
These kittens (and their mama) are a living reminder of the vast disconnect between what Americans want and expect from animal “shelters” and what they too often receive: dereliction of duty at best and, at worst, deadly malfeasance.
A pending hippo massacre
