Chilli
07-20-2006, 07:38 PM
Some of you may have noticed the thread I had in Dog General with pictures of the pound in town. I'll post a few of those pictures here.
First, we went there today, and we saw a beagle that wasn't able to reach the water (its in one of those bin-like things, but cut down).
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h10/EmotionsOnSleeves/Bin.png
Its the blue thing in the back of that picture (and are those silver things in the picture feeders? That was the only source of food).
It wasn't able to reach the water, and no one was around, so my mum and I found a pan and poured some water in it for the little guy.
We continued to look over the dogs, and one of the dogs was infested with ticks.
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h10/EmotionsOnSleeves/ticks.png
Those are only a few of the ticks on the poor guy.
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h10/EmotionsOnSleeves/ACC12.png
They live in filth, I mean, yes, with so many dogs its hard to keep the mess down, but in that pin, there is only those two very small dogs, and you can see how horrid it is.
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h10/EmotionsOnSleeves/ACC15.png
We found this outside. As many have noticed, they look an awful lot wolf-like. Possibly hybrids or something like that.. when the AC guy finally pulled up, he said that those dogs and some others must have been dropped off while he was out on a call. It seems odd that these two wolf-like dogs were in a trapping crate below two other crates. It just seems like there is something fishy going on.
Plus, he doesn't seem to look over the newly-brought-in animals before he releases them into the pens with the others. Such as one of the "dropped off" dogs was infested wih fleas, it even had bald spots on the poor thing. He ended up putting it with some other dogs, obviously exposing the other dogs to all the fleas and such.
So.. its not the greatest of places.
Why I ask if there is anything I can do, is because my dad's friend (actually his friend's wife) is part of the local Humane-society club-thing in town. A few years ago she went to a town meeting to complain about the conditions. In the end, the person who decides things commanded that all dogs in the pound be PTS. :( I'll start off first by saying: our city council, mayor, etc.. isn't great at all. They have made so many people in our town want to move.
I would like to contact the media and all, but I am so awfully afraid that somehow it will end up with them all being PTS again.
This is basically just the animal control center here in town, not a humane society or anything... I understand they're at limited funds, but they can still do better than this, no?
We're going back later this week to see if he actually continues to make sure the beagle has water accessible (he gave the beagle some water when we pointed it out, but some other dogs bullied the beagle out of the way).
We'll take most everything into consideration. But do keep in mind we (my family and I) can't do things too drastic.
First, we went there today, and we saw a beagle that wasn't able to reach the water (its in one of those bin-like things, but cut down).
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h10/EmotionsOnSleeves/Bin.png
Its the blue thing in the back of that picture (and are those silver things in the picture feeders? That was the only source of food).
It wasn't able to reach the water, and no one was around, so my mum and I found a pan and poured some water in it for the little guy.
We continued to look over the dogs, and one of the dogs was infested with ticks.
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h10/EmotionsOnSleeves/ticks.png
Those are only a few of the ticks on the poor guy.
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h10/EmotionsOnSleeves/ACC12.png
They live in filth, I mean, yes, with so many dogs its hard to keep the mess down, but in that pin, there is only those two very small dogs, and you can see how horrid it is.
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h10/EmotionsOnSleeves/ACC15.png
We found this outside. As many have noticed, they look an awful lot wolf-like. Possibly hybrids or something like that.. when the AC guy finally pulled up, he said that those dogs and some others must have been dropped off while he was out on a call. It seems odd that these two wolf-like dogs were in a trapping crate below two other crates. It just seems like there is something fishy going on.
Plus, he doesn't seem to look over the newly-brought-in animals before he releases them into the pens with the others. Such as one of the "dropped off" dogs was infested wih fleas, it even had bald spots on the poor thing. He ended up putting it with some other dogs, obviously exposing the other dogs to all the fleas and such.
So.. its not the greatest of places.
Why I ask if there is anything I can do, is because my dad's friend (actually his friend's wife) is part of the local Humane-society club-thing in town. A few years ago she went to a town meeting to complain about the conditions. In the end, the person who decides things commanded that all dogs in the pound be PTS. :( I'll start off first by saying: our city council, mayor, etc.. isn't great at all. They have made so many people in our town want to move.
I would like to contact the media and all, but I am so awfully afraid that somehow it will end up with them all being PTS again.
This is basically just the animal control center here in town, not a humane society or anything... I understand they're at limited funds, but they can still do better than this, no?
We're going back later this week to see if he actually continues to make sure the beagle has water accessible (he gave the beagle some water when we pointed it out, but some other dogs bullied the beagle out of the way).
We'll take most everything into consideration. But do keep in mind we (my family and I) can't do things too drastic.