Poop on common sense...
Being involved in dog rescue over the last 6 or so years has taught me a lot of things. One of those things is that too many people make decisions based on emotion, or "what feels good". Decisions based on emotion are almost always bad decisions. If emotion has one job, its to poop on common sense. They almost never work together.
One bad decision often made in animal rescue, which is so often based on pure emotion, is to go "no-kill". What does no-kill mean? It means in a shelter that is no-kill, no animal is euthanized because of lack of space.
While I respect the work that anyone involved in animal rescue does, its thankless and usually heart-breaking work, I have news for the feel-gooders in animal rescue:
If you want to solve the animal over-population problem, without government intervention, you better cut the no-kill crap.
What the feel-gooders in animal rescue refuse to acknowledge is, that there are more animals in need of homes, than there are people willing to take them. This is common sense, and remember, emotion's job is to poop on common sense. The feel-gooders emotions say, "oh, we cant euthanize this old dog simply to save more young dogs." So they go no-kill, save dogs that very few people want, and all the adoptable, young dogs are pushed into the kill shelters and euthanized because of space issues. If you save an 8 year old dog for example, in the time it takes to place that 1 dog, chances are you could have adopted 10 dogs under a year old. Why is that called "no-kill"?
So while these people can go home and feel good because they physically are part of a no-kill operation, in reality, more animals are being euthanized because they cant imagine making decisions based on anything other than their own selfish emotions. I wont say they are making the problem worse, its certainly not their fault all these animals are being given up, but the problem of this country having too many animals is not going to get any better with this type of logic. And the losers who dump their animals at shelters are not learning any lessons if they can justify their decision by taking their unwanted dogs and cats to "no-kill shelters".
"Oh, 'ole Fido will be okay... he may be 8 years old and have arthritis, but we took him to a no-kill shelter and they will find him a good home... even if it takes a year and a half"
True, Fido will be ok, but 20 other highly adoptable dogs will be euthanized elsewhere...
peace nick
One bad decision often made in animal rescue, which is so often based on pure emotion, is to go "no-kill". What does no-kill mean? It means in a shelter that is no-kill, no animal is euthanized because of lack of space.
While I respect the work that anyone involved in animal rescue does, its thankless and usually heart-breaking work, I have news for the feel-gooders in animal rescue:
If you want to solve the animal over-population problem, without government intervention, you better cut the no-kill crap.
What the feel-gooders in animal rescue refuse to acknowledge is, that there are more animals in need of homes, than there are people willing to take them. This is common sense, and remember, emotion's job is to poop on common sense. The feel-gooders emotions say, "oh, we cant euthanize this old dog simply to save more young dogs." So they go no-kill, save dogs that very few people want, and all the adoptable, young dogs are pushed into the kill shelters and euthanized because of space issues. If you save an 8 year old dog for example, in the time it takes to place that 1 dog, chances are you could have adopted 10 dogs under a year old. Why is that called "no-kill"?
So while these people can go home and feel good because they physically are part of a no-kill operation, in reality, more animals are being euthanized because they cant imagine making decisions based on anything other than their own selfish emotions. I wont say they are making the problem worse, its certainly not their fault all these animals are being given up, but the problem of this country having too many animals is not going to get any better with this type of logic. And the losers who dump their animals at shelters are not learning any lessons if they can justify their decision by taking their unwanted dogs and cats to "no-kill shelters".
"Oh, 'ole Fido will be okay... he may be 8 years old and have arthritis, but we took him to a no-kill shelter and they will find him a good home... even if it takes a year and a half"
True, Fido will be ok, but 20 other highly adoptable dogs will be euthanized elsewhere...
peace nick
posted by Nick at
9:21 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home