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A request
The reason for this blog is to help get specific dogs adopted from TAS but equally important is to try to normalize the idea of shelter dogs being just as good and just as desirable as any other dogs including those which are regularly merchandised by backyard breeders, puppy millers and those few remaining pet store owners who still feel a need to sell live animals. The single greatest stigma shelter animals still face is the belief that shelter animals are substandard animals. Anyone who has had enough experience with shelter animals knows this is untrue but the general public hasn't had the same experiences you've had. They see a nice dog photo in a glossy magazine and too many of them would never think of associating that dog with a dog from a shelter. After all, no one abandons perfectly good dogs, right? Unfortunately, as we all know, perfectly good dogs are abandoned all the time.
The public still too often associates shelter dogs with images of beat up, sick, dirty, severely traumatized animals and while we definitely sometimes see victims such as these, they are certainly not the majority and, regardless, even the most abused animals can very often be saved and made whole again.
Pound Dogs sometimes discusses the sad histories some of the dogs have suffered. For the most part, though, it tries to present the dogs not as victims but as great potential family members. The goal is to raise the profiles of animals in adoption centers so that a potential pet owner sees them as the best choice, not just as the charity choice.
So, here's the favour I'm asking. Whenever you see a dog picture on these pages you think is decent enough, I'd like you to consider sharing it on Facebook or any other social media sites you're using (I know many of you do this already and thank you for that). And when you share it, please mention that the dog in the photo is a shelter dog like so many other shelter dogs waiting for a home. If we can get even five percent of the pet buying public to see shelter dogs differently, to see how beautiful they are and how wonderful they are, and to consider shelter dogs as their first choice for a new family member, we can end the suffering of homeless pets in this country.
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The public still too often associates shelter dogs with images of beat up, sick, dirty, severely traumatized animals and while we definitely sometimes see victims such as these, they are certainly not the majority and, regardless, even the most abused animals can very often be saved and made whole again.
Pound Dogs sometimes discusses the sad histories some of the dogs have suffered. For the most part, though, it tries to present the dogs not as victims but as great potential family members. The goal is to raise the profiles of animals in adoption centers so that a potential pet owner sees them as the best choice, not just as the charity choice.
So, here's the favour I'm asking. Whenever you see a dog picture on these pages you think is decent enough, I'd like you to consider sharing it on Facebook or any other social media sites you're using (I know many of you do this already and thank you for that). And when you share it, please mention that the dog in the photo is a shelter dog like so many other shelter dogs waiting for a home. If we can get even five percent of the pet buying public to see shelter dogs differently, to see how beautiful they are and how wonderful they are, and to consider shelter dogs as their first choice for a new family member, we can end the suffering of homeless pets in this country.
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Just goes to show you how much Wayne Pacelle and PETA actually know about dogs and dog behaviour...so glad those idiots didn't get their way and that the dogs proved them wrong. Michael Vick is still the monster he always was and he always will be one to me...I don't care how many phony interviews he gives...everytime I hear his name, I want to throw up. I can't believe that waste of life is getting a second chance to play football and make a bajillion dollars...his ass should still be sitting in jail. The unnamed dog who was put down didn't get a second chance. Thank god for BAD RAP...I hope little Frodo, Hector, Johnny and the others all live long, healthy lives. They deserve it... Vick doesn't.
thanks for posting that Fred
It's great that these dogs were defended and rescued, and I am happy to see them enjoying real lives with loving people. But there were others who were brutally killed, or driven so mad that they gave up on humans and were euthanised.
And Mr. Vicks served less than 2 years, is back making millions, and not even the people who work closest to him will comment on whether he is sincerely repentant.
Sorry, the penalty was just not enough. The man is a serial killer. And, while Vicks may have learned his lesson ("not while the press is looking..."), the fights go on elsewhere, the abuse goes on all over the world, and the victims, the dogs, are still causally killed by authorities who have learned nothing from this highly publicised, unfollowed, precedent.
Yes, saving these lives was, and is, worth it. But there remain lives to save, both of animals, and of the miserable, twisted humans that torture them. I'd love to see someone, somewhere, do a documentary on what is being done not merely to rehabilitate these celebrity victims, but to end this brutality forever.
Did that piece of crap ever pay the money he was supposed to for the dog's future rehabilitation?
Thanks for posting that, Fred. What Anon 7:21am said. When will we ever evolve from enjoying these ancient bloodthirstyy sports? It is so viscerally upsetting to me, incomprehensible that anyone could watch a dog-fight (or any useless/bloody combat, for that matter) and enjoy it. The book "The Lost Dogs" was brilliant. Hard to read the details.
How can anyone...
Money, blood and sport. Dogs are so cheap, too. gah...
I hope animal lovers and activists see for themselves, that PETA and the HSUS aren't in it for the love of animals, but for media and propaganda. They might do great undercover work, but not much of saving. Now, do they?
It's a shame that when these dogs needed support the most, those big organizations turned their backs on them. However, thank goodness for BAD RAP. They showed true human kindness and compassion.
I love my pittie, he was abused and broken when I stole him from real bad people. He is now the most loving and wonderful dog I've ever had. He is even kinder than my late Dobie. His life is so much better now, and he loves his brother and sister cats. I cannot see my life without him. In fact, I know that when his time comes, I will want to adopt another pittie.
Thanks for posting this, Fred. It made me cry, sad tears for all that happened to these dogs as it keeps happening to others everywhere in the world, and happy tears because these ones got a second chance at life and love.
The fight continues.
NO TO BSL. NO TO ANIMAL CRUELTY AND ABUSE. We need stricter laws now.
thank you for posting this.