County Government Center
1055 Monterey Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93408

Telephone: (805) 781-5000
Toll free: (800) 834-4636

http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Contact_Us.htm

The SLO Shelter knows that they will get a list of improvements from HSUS [who by the way, sell their products & services to all shelters, never donate ] & SLO Shelter will make a big “to-do” about accomplishing all those improvements~! But it will be business as usual.

Nothing will change until you change the management for better educated personnel.
It takes a COLLABORATION of Community Services to make your & my shelter the best that they can be. Those communities that have worked to implement the programs that have been developed to change their Shelters to the new ways are willing to share their programs with other communities: http://www.maddiesfund.org/sitemap.html
NATHAN WINOGRAD FROM MADDIES FUND:
http://www.maddiesfund.org/org.....ograd.html

Here are a few suggested readings:
http://naiatrust.org/References.htm
http://www.purebredcatbreedres.....vocacy.htm

ASILOMAR ACCORDS FROM MADDIES FUND:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=.....izations/a\
silomar.html+Asilomar+Accords&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us

FROM SAWA:
http://www.sawanetwork.org/

http://www.asilomaraccords.org/

FOUNDERS:
http://www.asilomaraccords.org/founders.html

Read the truth about the many AR groups like HSUS & PETA & how the public is scammed into thinking that they are donating to a group that helps those sad looking animals in their ads, when in fact less than 1% of their donations ever go directly to any animal care…..it goes to their stated agenda of supporting political candidates that are creating legislation that restricts animal ownership…they want to eliminate animal ownership….that means you …….totally. And of course to their very nice salaries & perks….look up charities.http://www.consumerfreedom.com/ When you see the name Humane Society of XXXtown on your local shelter you might think that they are associated with HSUS [which is the HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES], but HSUS are NOT associated in any way….in fact when you donate to the fine glossy ads of HSUS thinking that it is going to help the animals in your community, WRONG, your local Humane Society of XXXtown never sees any of that donation….and those local Shelters have been cheated out of their own community resources.~!!!!!!!!

Let me hear from you when you have done some reading~!
mema

The shelter needs to hire competent people not get an animal rights extremist group to do a review.

The ones who wouldn’t release the dog were cruel.

And $25,000 is easily available to fund the political machine of H$U$, but not to pay workers or buy medicines? Really, the director of this farce needs to receive the hook. I hope the people of his district are up in arms over this, and don’t settle until he’s run out of town. That poor dog and family. How absolutely devastating for them, and I can imagine they must be thinking of everything they should have done instead, even though it was hardly their fault. They placed their faith in the wrong system. And many shelters are under the control of the wrong people, with the wrong objectives.

Let’s support our good local shelters and show them how it should be done!

NOW - they’re gonna have H$U$ do a review - AND pay them money? An organization that doesn’t even RUN a SHELTER??? Am I the only one thinking this is absolutely CRAZY??? What a FARCE!!!

Other volunteers said they use their own money for medical attention at times, foster sick animals in their homes for months, and drive miles to get animals to rescue groups.

The county administration will most likely hire the Humane Society of the United States to conduct a $25,000 peer review of the shelter.”

WAIT! Something is OBVIOUSLY wrong here. There is a $25,000 available for a peer review but no budget for a part-time or another full-time co-ordinator? And to pay for medical care of sick animals? Who hired and pay the knuckle headed who run the SLO shelter and the HSUS?!! Why didn’t those volunteers go to the press about the shelter’s incompetency? As always it takes a death to make a change. Sad.

Can you imagine….that poor dog had to have been scared out of her mind for some time before the family found her. Then FINALLY her humans came……..and left. The dog didn’t understand that they were coming back. One wonders if she felt so emotionally abandoned and literally died of a broken heart.

Regardless of what it cost, sue the hell out of them. Get that axe to chop heads. Set an example loud and clear so that other shelters pay attention.

To everyone: You must: Collar and ID always kept on pet; microchip your pet; and get off your fanny and search all the shelters in your county every day. I mean it. Do NOT be content to make phone calls. What looks like a Dashund to you may be described as a Poodle to someone else. No kidding.

Last but not least, as pointed out by others, should you find your pet in the shelter, camp out, even if you have to hide….just keep your pet in sight.

No excuse for this, lack of training is never a reason, nor is lack of contact. I agree that I would not have left without my pet, however, I regularly visit kill shelters off hours and see customers turned away. One reason? Some people are not there for reclaim as stated, but some have robbed or stolen (shelters often have high demand drugs). So for employee safety, they cannot let people in after hours.

The shelter system is underfunded, undermanned and overwhelmed. I bet no one in this thread every considered donating their time to help. It is YOUR system, folks, YOU need to get involved in any aspect possible.

Most open admission shelters have paid employees here, NONE get any of my tax dollars, therefore they have lousy hours and abilities.