No Room At The Pound

This story was in the news last night & this morning as Animal Care & Control
try to get the word out to the public. Don't call them unless a stray is vicious.
Makes you wonder if people even listen anymore to the spay & neuter
messages. :( :( One man was interviewed said his dog ran out of his yard
when neighbors set off fireworks. When he went to look for her at the pound
she had already been put down. :(


No room at the pound

July 22, 2006 02:25 AM EDT

Shelter emergency



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No room at the pound


David MacAnally/Eyewitness News

Indianapolis Cute K-9's are part of an ugly problem at Animal Care and Control.

"We are over capacity. We have nowhere else to put them," said Media Wilson of animal control.

So full now because un-spayed animals are now having their homeless litters.

"A population explosion, " says Wilson.

So many strays coming in Animal Control Officers now are not picking them up. So, if someone calls Animal Control, unless it's vicious they won't be out to pick it up.

"Any animal that is aggressive or threatening, definitely call us. We will come out to it, we will definitely come out to it right away," Wilson said.

Also, animals not claimed in four days will be put down, no time extensions.

20 thousand animals come through here every year, 14 thousand are euthanized.

"Spay and neuter, spay and neuter, spay and neuter." says Wilson.

Some may soon be adopted but as we were leaving nine more puppies arrived.

I had to pull a couple 12 hour shifts while in school for nursing. My mother was watching my kids for me. Unbeknown to me, she felt bad for our beagleX and took her to watch as well.

I have told her many many times that Maggie can't be left alone. She has severe seperation anxiety. She must be crated if she is left. My mother took my kids to soccer practice and left Maggie in the back yard alone. Of course, Maggie escaped and attempted to follow whereever my mother's car was heading. It turned out the police caught Maggie after a 45 min chase down main street during rush hour :(

My kids were obvisouly hysterical. I was way less then happy. Fortunately the police did take her to animal control and I found her there the next day. She lost her tags in the process so they did not have her identification.

When I picked her up, I joked with the people there that I knew they wouldn't put Maggie down right away. She is a well cared for dog, obviously belonging to someone. They were quick to inform me that if they had been full, since she wasn't tagged, they could have put her down as soon as she came in. So, I do know that is policy in some places. :(

Yet people keep breeding more...... :mad: :rolleyes:

clueless.

Aurie, That was a close call in your Maggie's case.I'm glad you found her
safe.

I have lived in Indianapolis all my life and never heard of the pound being
completely full before.Never like this.There were a lot of loose dogs roaming
through my neighborhood last spring, unlike previous years.

Indy has been the center of a couple of controversies in the last few years, so it doesn't surprise me. Remember when we were driving down the highway when you went with me to Rosie's and we chased those dogs down 70?? OY! People drive me nuts.

My friend has gone to the shelter a lot and taken dogs out and taken them to Petsmart to help get them adopted, but, Indy Animal Control can be difficult to work with to get dogs pulled...same as Fort Wayne.

Fort Wayne's shelter was dubbed " the shelter of shame" a couple of months because the difficulty of getting dogs out. This was on some of the yahoo rescue groups.

I send out requests for shelters all over the place and everyone is packed because of the idiot people who won't spay or neuter their animals. I wish I could spay and neuter them. :mad:

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

My dogs have tags on there collars and are microchipped too! I keep all there information up to date! We use our cell numbers on their collars and my in-laws cell number for a back up number so if lost, we should be able to be contacted within the hour to come bail them out! Our pups have never been to doggie jail and I hope to God they never do!! We had a case here that a guys dog ran off one day, on a Saturday, he tried to go to the shelter, it was after hours, closed on sunday, monday, then there was a holiday, so closed again, then on the 5th day he goes right after work, gets there 1/2 hour before they close, they would not give him the dog until he had proof that it was his, he told them he would be back the next day after work, they said ok, he went back the next day after work to find out they put his dog to sleep that morning, the 5 day hold for a stray was up, they will not hold for a maybe!!!

And puppy mills breed SO many. They just get more and more pups.

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Originally Posted by mugsy

Indy has been the center of a couple of controversies in the last few years, so it doesn't surprise me. Remember when we were driving down the highway when you went with me to Rosie's and we chased those dogs down 70?? OY! People drive me nuts.

My friend has gone to the shelter a lot and taken dogs out and taken them to Petsmart to help get them adopted, but, Indy Animal Control can be difficult to work with to get dogs pulled...same as Fort Wayne.

Fort Wayne's shelter was dubbed " the shelter of shame" a couple of months because the difficulty of getting dogs out. This was on some of the yahoo rescue groups.

I send out requests for shelters all over the place and everyone is packed because of the idiot people who won't spay or neuter their animals. I wish I could spay and neuter them. :mad:

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Mugsy. sorry I didn't see your post before this. :( I really don't know if the
situation is a bad as it was back in July, but suspect it not much better.
They have'nt made any more public announcments either way.Yes, I do
remember that day on the Interstate. :eek: You were great. :) I know also
that Rosie makes frequent trips to the city pound to pull dogs all the time.