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No pound can call honestly call itself a shelter until it does at least these 6 things

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We do expect a pound not to lie and call itself a shelter however...

Posted By: AAS
Date: Wednesday, 16 March 2005, at 10:41 a.m.

In Response To: We answer: to expect a pound not to have public safety as its primary mandate is nonsensical (AAS)

1. Until it stops killing. No real shelter kills the "sheltered" and to use words to lie with means that the problem is disguised;

2. Until it spends the money to replace cells and cages with rooms and yards.

3. Until it spends the money to make the sick well;

4. Until it stops taking money to kill "pests" such as stray and/or feral cats;

5. Until it fights for laws in its municipality that address root causes: licensed and regulated breeding: free or subsidised spay and neuter: anti-yard/guard dogs laws

6. Until it spends money on rehabilitation programs.

Messages In This Thread

PRESS RELEASE: Vancouver Pound - Killing Healthy Animals at a No-Kill Public Facility
I was a phone witness to this incident
Vancouver Pound employee, Katie Ernst, is the proprietor of a Pit bull "rescue" organization named HugABull *LINK*
VCP Research Project: June 2004: Inter-dog Aggression in Animal Shelters
Ltr to Dr David Fraser: this thesis proposal on a rehabilitation programme for dogs is problematic
June 11/04: Letter to Vancouver Director of Licenses and to the Manager of the Pound re ethical concerns around the research project
VCP Web site calls itself No-kill
Any pound that attempts to re-image itself through P.R. is going to face this
To expect a pound not to have public safety as its primary mandate is nonsensical
No pound can call honestly call itself a shelter until it does at least these 6 things
I am looking for explanations....I pay my taxes
I'm sickened from reading about this!
Even pound employees are forced to steal dogs by the indifference of the City and the SPCA
Write Mayor Campbell and Council - we did

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