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A cat wandered into our yard a while back and wouldn't leave. After about a week, we called our local Animal Control. They said they couldn't take the cat because the shelter was full. We called the Humane Society, and several other shelters. They all said "Sorry, we are full"
Options:
1. Find someone willing to take it. This is what we did, but it took us a month.
2.Throw it in the Jeep and drive it away and dump it on someone else. Just bad manners
3. Shoot the cat, toss in garbage. I was raised in the country, and that's what we did with stray animals when they were a nuisance. Now people in this area are being charged with "cruelty to animals" and going to jail for doing that. There is a big manhunt on right now for someone that anti-freezed about ten stray, feral cats in an apartment complex nearby.
Locally this has been a hot topic for a couple of years. Animals being mistreated are getting more media coverage than murders. There is one shelter in another county that euthanizes animals, and they are catching hell for it.
I'm all for these "No Kill" shelters, but what good are they if they won't take in a stray? What do we do when stray dogs start running in packs?
Opinions?
Options:
1. Find someone willing to take it. This is what we did, but it took us a month.
2.Throw it in the Jeep and drive it away and dump it on someone else. Just bad manners
3. Shoot the cat, toss in garbage. I was raised in the country, and that's what we did with stray animals when they were a nuisance. Now people in this area are being charged with "cruelty to animals" and going to jail for doing that. There is a big manhunt on right now for someone that anti-freezed about ten stray, feral cats in an apartment complex nearby.
Locally this has been a hot topic for a couple of years. Animals being mistreated are getting more media coverage than murders. There is one shelter in another county that euthanizes animals, and they are catching hell for it.
I'm all for these "No Kill" shelters, but what good are they if they won't take in a stray? What do we do when stray dogs start running in packs?
Opinions?