Comments on: October Is Adopt-a-Shelter Dog Month

By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:19:53 +0000

My dog is a rescue from the pound. He’s wonderful.
One of my four cats came from a shelter, too. She’s great. (The other 3 cats are rescues, too, but not from shelters. One was a stray and two came from strangers who “couldn’t keep them any longer”.)

One of the things I’ll do this month is feature a few dogs from petfinder.com shelters on my blog.

By: Anony

Anony — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:17:19 +0000

All my dogs are rescues, except one. Two of them were saved from even going to the shelter because we just took them in, ourselves. They’d been dumped into the rural desert out of some guy’s truck and were starved and scared to death when we found them almost a month later.

One of the facts that’s also disturbing about shelter dogs is how some of the dogs have collars and sometimes even tags and still their owners just never come to claim them. How sad for these poor animals. One statistic says only 1 out of 10 dogs finds a home for life. Knowing how attached pets get to their human families, it’s a grim statistic indeed.

By: nora

nora — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:16:56 +0000

ANYTHING that can help these poor discarded fur babies find love and a home is more than good. Anyone who objects to anything that brings these orphans to light is just blowing hot air.

By: Isabel Wang

Isabel Wang — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:26:39 +0000

Thanks for using Kaiser’s photo for your post!! I’m a volunteer at the Washington Humane Society and I got to meet him last week. He’s a real sweetie pie who wants to snuggle up with everyone he meets. He’s also calm, friendly towards other dogs and walks perfectly on leash. More info and directions to the shelter are at http://www.washhumane.org. Fingers crossed that he’ll find a home soon!