Bid To End Doggies In The Window

[Mila's Mum]

Francene Norton reports on a teenager who is trying to stop the sale of puppies and kittens in stores.

Source: Stateline Queensland

Published: Friday, July 30, 2010 8:14 AEST

Expires: Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:14 AEST

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Edited July 30, 2010 by Mila's Mum

[Shmurps]

Good on her

[Souff]

A very noble cause indeed.

Just one problem that I see - in Australia many people don't seem to know what a puppy farm is. People have erroneously been described as puppy farmers when they had only a small number of breeding dogs and a larger number of ancient dogs that nobody else wanted.

The description given in the interview sounds like something from an American website about puppy mills. Easy to say.

Souff

[Souff]

Something was bothering me so I went back and had a second read of the interview ....

"RACHEL BALLINGER: I think the ultimate goal is to stop so many animals being euthanized. I think the figure is astonishing. So yeah to bring those numbers down and to stop cats and dogs being unnecessarily put down that would be great."

What does "unnecessarily put down" mean?

Dogs are put down by vets and pounds because of necessity - they are often not dogs that can be re-homed.

Souff recently took a dog to a vet for euthanasia .... owner had come to realise that the dog they inherited was totally unsocialised , had a lot of issues, and could not be trusted in the new environment. It was NOT a dog that could be re-homed and by necessity euthanasia had to be done.

The dogs that the RSPCA cannot rehome are put down. The dogs that other agencies cannot rehome are eventually put down, with a few exceptions where they are palmed off to naive new owners who eventually have to bite the bullet and have the dog PTS.

All of these dogs started out in life as normal puppies and their lives were changed (read stuffed) by humans.

As I see it, therein lies the real reason as to why so many dogs are PTS .....

I am not condoning puppy farms, but these two good people seem to have the wrong end of the stick imho.

Start educating people that A PUPPY IS FOR LIFE ...... and make sure that owners know how to make that a GOOD LIFE for the puppy. Then you wont have so many dogs on death row. They dont come straight from breeders to death row .... the places that they have been along the way are real reason why they end up on death row in many cases.

Oh and yes, the other reason is that some people just get tired of being the owner of "that dog".

It is too easy to get rid of a dog. Just take it to the pound or dump it.

We cant do that with our kids, we are stuck with them in most cases, bless their little hearts.

But the dog? It can go tomorrow if we want. Death row is available.

Souff

[GeckoTree]

Good on the kid, a very noble effort and endeavour indeed.