Just a few success stories, aren’t enough, because the failures still outweighed the number of successes here, translated…
All the animals I’d written about on this column, all had a place in my heart, and, I’d used the internet to search for them, and those who were already, euthanized, I’d mourned for; and for those who’d found better homes, I’m very happy for them all.
That dog, “Barkers” with the serious case of separation anxiety, that my friend posted on the elevators to warm the neighbors about, is already, being obedience trained, and, is taking the right medications (actually, a supplement) and, my friend took him out to exercise, to burn off his excess energies, as she’d left the house, she’d, turned on the television, and, split her schedules with her family members, so there would always be someone in the house with him, used an assortment of ways, to reduce the dog’s anxieties, and, my friend wrote on her posting what she did to help her dog’s separation anxiety issues, and, someone drew a smiley face as a comment.
a cuter one…photoo from online…
The mother and puppies photo was sent over 1,500 times on the web, the story had, gotten the online community’s attention, and, criticized how the shelter disregarded the blood relations of the female and her puppies, and after the puppy was weaned, he was, adopted out first, then, the mother too, got the attention of the community, and, was rescued away from the shelters, she was spayed, and waiting for a new home now; I’m thinking, that she would NEVER forget, that she gave birth to one puppy before.
This, was the very first time we’d discussed the three areas of the shelter, most people believed, that sections A and B had the most adoptable dogs, and mistook section C for those “Unfitting to be Adopted Out after Evaluations”. No, it’s not like that at all, because there’s only so much money from the government, to rebuild the shelters, there’s the lack of personnel, there are only the A and B sections, with the prettier dogs which the locals can look into, to find a new pet, but, there’s just, not enough slots for the animals, so most of the dogs can only be “stuffed” in section C, and, in the overcrowding of more than one dog to a kennel in section C, the members of the public would not want to interact inside the kennels with the dogs, and, because every dog was nervous, they’d not shown any positive behaviors at all, and they’d become, totally, disappointed at how even if they’d played coy with people, they don’t get the positive feedbacks so that, was why people are misled to believe, that the dogs in this sections aren’t personable. All these misunderstandings, plus the lack of space and the increasing rates of abandoned dogs, cause Section C to be ignored by the general public.
the overcrowding situation in the shelters, not my photo…
So, where, do the dogs in Section C go? Two weeks ago, the Committees set up a corrective plan, and, in their investigations, they’d found, that there were, thirteen counties and cities that’s sent the dogs in government owned shelters into privately owned facilities, of these privately owned shelters, two of them had taken in over 8,400 dogs, but after the government did their tallies, there were, only over 1,800 dogs accounted for. So, where, did all the rest of the dogs go?
The privately owned kennels told, that they’d taken in dogs that are elderly, ill, and handicapped, so, there’s, this higher death rate; but, counting it closely, if the rates of death is about eighty-percent in the privately owned dog kennels, that’s just, changing a place for the dogs to die in. I couldn’t help, but think, if the dogs are really ill, elderly, and handicapped or frail, then maybe, euthanasia in the shelters, would be a relieves for them all, at least, they can live in a somewhat spacious area, before their death, and now, how are they to, fight for food, wait for death, in the privately-owned kennels? All of these may sound cruel AND harsh, but this, is the TRUTH behind the no-kill policy.
and, here, are some cats, waiting adoptiong, photo from online too!
But, what ELSE can we do? Continue, to look at those stray animals that’s passed us on the roads, or, should we, make a little trouble for ourselves, taking those lives that knows not where they’re going to the clinics or hospitals, to get scanned for microchips, to take photos of them, write down how cute they are, send out multiple pet adoption news, mostly, we are all, overcome with desperation, but, every now and then, we feel, gratitude.
Like Lucky, the dog that once cried aloud by the side of the river in Luzhou, after the article was posted out last January, first, a member of the online community helped out in finding him a new home, took the dog to a halfway shelter, then, a reader of the post living in Taoyuan contacted and, adopted Lucky who’s in his elderly years, and would send the photos of Lucky’s daily life to allow me to know, how this elderly dog that’s gone through a TON of trials in his life is now, living THE good life. I’m truly grateful, that this, had become, the highest values I’d ever received, since I’d started, writing on behalf of the abandoned pets.
longing for the gentle touches of a possible owner here…photo from online…
So, these, are some of the small success stories of where the abandoned dogs ended up, and, I know, that the writer’s writing about the good cases, was to show that we can all, do something for these abandoned pets, that we should, adopt, instead of buy, but, I’m more than certain, that there are, more cases of how these abandoned animals ended up dead in the most horrible of ALL ways (euthanasia, wouldn’t constitute as one of these horrible ways by the way) out there, and this, is just in Taiwan, imagine how many animals are out there, suffering, on the streets of all the cities in the world out there………
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