I know it has been a fair while since I wrote anything here but that’s not to say I haven’t had my thumb on the pulse of the animal welfare world. Quite the opposite actually. I’ve been out there getting my hands dirty trying to educate myself further in the world of animal advocacy. I’ve learned a lot, made contact with lots of good resources and like minded people and have some fairly concrete goals in mind for myself and how I will fit into the fight against animal cruelty.
Everyday I would encounter something or other that I thought I should probably write about here but then one thing came up and then another and before long I had too much to write about and no time to write it. Trying to keep tabs on my resources for articles was another issue because as each day goes by, the story grows colder and the trail to the resources does as well.
There are some stories that won’t grow cold for awhile. For instance, today I heard that the sentencing date for Fabian Henderson, the turd that threw Oreo off the 6 storey building and was ultimately responsible for her death will be December 15th. As far as I know, he will be sentenced in absentia since I haven’t heard that he has been arrested since he failed to appear at his court date December 1. With any luck they will arrest him soon and his day in court will be his very last day of freedom for a long, long time.
Then there is the story out of Toronto about the President and some of the Board of the Toronto Humane Society being arrested for animal cruelty and obstruction of justice. I’ll cover that story under it’s own heading. It’s pretty friggin’ scary though when those we trust to protect our 4 legged friends are those who abuse them instead.
I spend a lot of time on Facebook these days watching the hundreds of alerts for the rescue of dogs who are in imminent danger of being put down due mostly to overcrowding in our shelters. The frustration over not being able to save them all is almost show stopping. Sometimes I just have an urge to throw up my hands in surrender and crawl under my bed with my eyes and ears covered so I can no longer hear or see those poor dogs and cats being killed because nobody cared enough to prevent the litter, nobody cared enough to make sure that a life time commitment to an animal didn’t actually mean a temporary convenience, nobody cared enough to research the shelter they handed their family member over to in order to ensure that hours later, the family member they abandoned because of having to move or whatever stupid and completely unacceptable excuse they gave, is dead from gas, heartstick or just a plain old shot in the leg. Dead..just like that…within hours of being turned into the shelter. Not given even a chance at finding someone more worthwhile to share their lives with. The whole animal shelter system in North America sucks and it does everything BUT shelter, protect and provide for our companion animals. My faith in organizations like the HSUS, PETA and ASPCA is completely shot to hell. They only do what they do to keep donations high so that spas, ocean front condos and rented limousines can be added to the expense tab. I will no longer support any national or government sponsored shelter until major reform is carried out throughout the entire system.
Did you know that PETA kills over 90% of the animals they take in every year?
I have watched a video of how animals are gassed. I swear to you, as God is my witness, that to my own dying day, I will never forget the sound of those poor dying dogs. And the more heartbreaking sound of there suddenly being no sound. I cried for hours after watching that video, couldn’t sleep. It is simply awful and I am now determined to find a way to put an end to, first of all, gas chambers for use in killing animals in shelters, and secondly, put an end once and for all to kill shelters. I plan on starting locally at first and then taking it national once I get a good number of supporters.
Enough is enough of this senseless killing of companion animals. There are more then enough available adoptive homes to ensure a safe and loving environment for all homeless animals. The only reason they are killed on a daily basis is because bureaucrats and administrators don’t care enough to research and implement policy that works to end shelter kills and homeless animals. It can and has been done before and it can and will be done here. Or I will die trying.
I took my very first step in this direction by signing on to volunteer at a local rescue shelter here in Surrey to help with transporting their residents to the doctor’s office and to PetSmart where they are featured in adoption events. I feel sure this is the best way to get to know the rescue situation here in the Lower Mainland as well as establish some solid contacts for pushing through new policy on animal welfare locally.
I always told myself that my activities online on behalf of the animals was valuable and important but lately it has become less so. I need to get my hands dirty and dig into this cause in order to change the status quo.
Stay tuned…More later…
In peace
Cher
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