Society created this problem, society allows it to continue. Spay/Neuter programs have been publicized for years, yet there are many uneducated people who have 101 different hang ups for not neutering their pets. Please don’t blame the shelter workers for having no where to house the animals long term - they did not create the problem.

Personal responsibility is where it all starts. Do right by your pets, don’t create litters of animals, don’t leave them on the shelter door step when you choose to move, don’t toss the dog out when the baby comes, don’t use allergies as an excuse when you haven’t exhausted treatment options.

If you HAVE to move to a place that doesn’t allow your pet, if the dog is aggressive toward the baby and you are not able to breathe because of the cat - FIND THEM A SUITABLE HOME! You expect the shelter to when you can’t find appropriate placement quick enough.

Many no kills do euthanize, another message in the book.
Many no kills have the ability to say NO, we’re full, sorry about your luck, I can’t take your dog today. Not true with an Animal Control, they have to take your dog, they have to have appropriate space. When the facility is full, what shall they do with the animals? They can be fined, they can be shut down for being ‘over the limit’. They have to make hard choices.

Moonbeam, perhaps you don’t need to read the book if you’ve made such a commitment to the animals you allow to share your home and your life. That is excellent and I am sincere when I say I hope your vision NEVER changes. The reality is many people do not make the same commitment and that is the message in this book.

Bane, there are just no words. I hope you have looked past your hate for shelter workers faced with cleaning up the mess created by others and have your own home fulled up with as many homeless animals as you can afford to provide proper care for. God speed.

i have specifically chosen animals whom are unlikely to be adopted( 2 semi feral torties who although i still cant really pet them are a joy.) and a 10 year old himalayan who was dropped off at a kill shelter because her person was put in a nursing home. when i went in to pick up the later i was the only person actually adopting not dropping an animal off. i emotionally blanked out to get through it- ive seen all the excuses on petfinder’s pet bio page and craigslist-suddenly someone’s allergic, theyre moving, doesn’t get along with other pet, going off to school, leaving the country and those are the people who actually give excuses instead of dumping the poor creatures off at night or pitching them out of the car in the country. or leaving them in an apartment when you move out. it’s a stunning disregard for life- treating a loving pet who is your responsibility like a pair of shoes you got tired of.seeing people haul their unwanted pets in there with the toys and half eaten bags of food broke my heart. i go to shelters when i feel im up to it but it’s always so very difficult- a paw reaching out of a cage, an animal clearly devastated their people abandoned them. i want to adopt them all and i dont have the room or the money to do it.

but im not sure some humans treat their own children any better- my father could care less whether i am alive or dead . i treat my cats better than he ever treated me. and there are those who actually kill their children, their loved ones. people are plain no good- i dont expect them to treat animals any better than they treat other humans.it’s sociopathic behavior-convenience rendering people selfish and heartless. i could never trust or want to be near anyone who was unkind, cruel to or had abandoned an animal.people who are cruel and selfish and uncaring aren’t just cruel selfish and uncaring toward animals.

i think the only thing we can do is to strive to help in whatever little way we can-making people aware of the need to fix their pets, adopting unwanted animals, volunteering at a shelter or rescue, donating specifically to a no kill shelter( who often swoop in to the kill shelters or are warned by workers and rescue animals to be euthanized.) -it really doesnt take much. there are always so many things a rescue needs help with- from helping to socializing or fostering animals, to cleaning cages to donating your old towels or helping with taking pictures or maintaining web adoption pages or helping with fund raisers. not one of us can save everyone of the victims of human abuse and disregard but i find that every day when i look in the faces of my torties and realize they probably would have been euthanized as unadoptable, these sweet playful curious dolls, i know i made a tiny difference. the small differences add up my friends. it’s really all you can do-youre not going to change other people’s behaviors .it’s very easy to dispair-it’s a monumental problem- but it’s better to give whatever it is you can then succumb to helplessness. giving not bitching and raging alone is the path to redemption.

Our world is changing so much where people want to travel and want their freedom so animals become “disposable - out of sight out of mind” and I being single would like to date and maybe even marry again but so many single men want to travel when they retire and do not want the burden of a dog or dogs - they want someone who is footloose and fancy free so to speak -

Where does that leave our pets?

PETA’s own shelter, perhaps? Given their track record, it seems likely, and it would certainly simplify filming.

These are tragic stories, but PETA’s tears are crocodile tears; they believe our beloved pets would be better off dead than living with the “indignity” of being loved and cherished pets in a human family.