Okay, it's been over a month since I've posted on here. It was not due to me not having something to write about nor was it because I've been too busy to sit down and type a little something up. I've been debating just how personal I want to be on this blog. Frankly, I still haven't figured it out. I'm not sure I ever really will. But for now, we'll just start with my job. I work for the Animal Services Agency. My main job is working the Shelter. Whatever the field agents bring in, I put it in the system, vaccine it if it'll let me, and put it in a kennel. I help with evaluations to see if it can be adoptable(after a period of time), if there is an injured animal, a preweaned cat/dog, it has an incurable disease, or if we're just too crowded, I help euthanize. While this is most definitely my least favorite thing to do, (I'd scoop up poop all day long if it changed anything) we are a county-run facility, and as long as they're writing the checks, we will always euthanize. The sad fact is, I completely understand.
You see "Spay/Neuter your pets!" everywhere. But I don't think people really realize just how important this is. 75% of our intake are strays. Cats and dogs who have never had a home or had one but only very shortly. I'm talking days/weeks. I couldn't count how many owners have surrendered their pet because it got pregnant, or just the babies. There have been plenty of people in just my month of working there who've brought babies in because they don't want to spend the 30 bucks to spay/neuter their pet. And I've heard every excuse in the book plus some.
I believe that if everyone spent one month working for animal control that alot of these problems would get fixed. We have an overabundance of cats and dogs and yet other animal species are becoming extinct every day. What kind of sense does this make? None.
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