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Why Are California's Animal Shelters Killing So Many Pets?
Reason ^ | 12.15.2023 | Steven Greenhut

Posted on 12/19/2023 3:08:07 PM PST by nickcarraway

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The newspaper noted most of the money ended up going to the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program, "to be spent on developing ways to reduce animal euthanasia."

Imagine how many free spay and neuter clinics those millions could have funded.

21 posted on 12/19/2023 3:45:56 PM PST by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Ikeon

Can’t stand when people defend pit bulls. They should all be taken and shot.


22 posted on 12/19/2023 3:48:31 PM PST by This_Dude
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“”””Can’t stand when people defend pit bulls. They should all be taken and shot.””””

You sound like the kind of guy who owns a few pit bulls.


23 posted on 12/19/2023 3:52:48 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: nickcarraway

Why don’t we euthanize illegals and their supporters?


24 posted on 12/19/2023 3:54:21 PM PST by CletusVanDamme (Lord, I'm so atired. How long can this go on?)
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To: CletusVanDamme

Or people who ask absurd questions?


25 posted on 12/19/2023 3:56:20 PM PST by Fuzz (. )
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To: MortMan

She’s a delightful creature that I adopted at a local shelter’s Five Dollar Fridays, where they adopt out vaccinated and spayed adult cats for that modest fee.

It is $100 at our local shelter to “adopt” a cat or dog.

I don’t imagine they have many takers.


26 posted on 12/19/2023 4:27:35 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: nickcarraway

Back to the office so Fido has to go?


27 posted on 12/19/2023 4:33:25 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: This_Dude

They have to be trained and watched.

Expect them to attack another animal unless prevented.

A neighbor had a tenant with one.

It used to run all the way around my rather large house lot. That’s about a run of 700 feet.


28 posted on 12/19/2023 4:37:01 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: CIB-173RDABN

There are shots and contraception that have to get paid for.


29 posted on 12/19/2023 4:38:26 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

There are shots and contraception that have to get paid for.

I understand that.


30 posted on 12/19/2023 4:52:46 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Brian Griffin

Tand all that training goes out the window the first time they snap. And they will.

The breed should be exterminated and ownership outlawed.


31 posted on 12/19/2023 5:44:01 PM PST by This_Dude
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To: nickcarraway

The weirdo’s that run some of these places get off on euthanizing animals. One in VA a few years back had a couple employees who were grabbing pets from neighborhoods to do it, and got caught IIRC because they were putting them in the dumpster...


32 posted on 12/19/2023 5:57:36 PM PST by Axenolith (MALITIIS HOMINUM EST OBVIANDUM)
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To: MortMan

To feed the illegals.


33 posted on 12/19/2023 6:16:30 PM PST by nanook (Thomas Jefferson was right.)
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To: nickcarraway

The numbers of dogs and cats euthanized at shelters is staggering. I volunteered to do the nasty deed pro bono for ten years at our shelter so the money could go to use to save some of the animals. BION much of the expense of shelters is to euthanize animals. I probably saved the shelter around $1-300,000 dollars in ten years and put down thousands of animals. I stopped after ten years because of the negative affect it had on me. The shelter then had to pay another veterinarian to do the job and the shelter went back to being in the red. The shelter and the board were mad at me for stopping the service pro bono. No good deed goes unpunished.


34 posted on 12/19/2023 6:21:39 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: ansel12

“”””Can’t stand when people defend pit bulls. They should all be taken and shot.””””

You sound like the kind of guy who owns a few pit bulls.


No. He doesn’t. He sounds like just the opposite. Can’t you read ?


35 posted on 12/19/2023 7:24:29 PM PST by AirForceVet1988 ("As the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough.")
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To: AirForceVet1988

Can’t you read the menace, the violence, the decisive impulse to solve it all with a forceful taking and a quick bullet imposed by that mindset?

It was a little bit humorous because if you read it you can see that he sounds like the kind of guy who would own a few pit bulls.


36 posted on 12/19/2023 7:52:12 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t take them in.


37 posted on 12/19/2023 8:49:15 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: nickcarraway

They’re working on how to kill Humans more effectively without making it obvious.

They have to start somewhere.


38 posted on 12/19/2023 9:08:32 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: MortMan
To make room for illegals?

Good answer, but no. It's to feed the illegals. Asians in particular are partial to eating dogs and cats.
Thanks for playing!
39 posted on 12/19/2023 9:10:43 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: ansel12

Can’t you read the menace, the violence, the decisive impulse to solve it all with a forceful taking and a quick bullet imposed by that mindset?

It was a little bit humorous because if you read it you can see that he sounds like the kind of guy who would own a few pit bulls.


I have no idea what you’re talking about. Sorry I chimed in.
Have a great night. 😶


40 posted on 12/19/2023 9:58:20 PM PST by AirForceVet1988 ("As the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough.")
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