Unethical Assumption......... Where Is Their Morality?

Prudent Declaration: Recently, we noticed an initialed �C� animal rescue organization had posted an inadequate assumption on their FB�s page. The assumption had pointed directly to HOPE is �selling� on our procedure of adoption or even ‘selling’ our dogs and cats. They claimed that ‘many dog owners’ who surrender their pets to HOPE are unhappy that their pet are sold off without their knowledge”. This is totally ridiculous. We always believe that a pet needs a home, that’s why we always encourage people to adopt rather than buy. We don’t sell pets and we definitely informed or announced it whenever there’s a pet being adopted. They even appeal public to stop making monthly donation to HOPE! There�s a Ms J also ridiculed HOPE is doing trading but not charity! She even claimed that “our marketing department are expert in publicity” which we don’t even know that we have one. We are fully depending on volunteers to help on our work. This is not our first time we had come across to such rumors.(That particular web page had being Print Screen for filling purpose as well as future evidence.)

First of all, to public we have to voice out and make this prudent declaration: �Compassion even though is priceless, but it needs monetary to build up too!� Average perday, rescue requests either from internet or calls are more than 10. If HOPE was going to rescue every single request, can you imagine how many stray cats and dogs are being rescued after a year? Let�s make an assumption of one dog or cat per request. Can you get the total number of strays to be rescue per year? But what if the request is having a bunch of puppies or kittens? That will be an astonishing figure!This is one of the main reason why are we unable to rescue all of the cases. Furthermore, there are lots of �reporters� calls without provide any help. They just call and report whenever there�s a stray who looks very pitiful and insist HOPE to bring them away. That�s it! But does our rescue mission looks as simple as this?Firstly, we are not GPS locator, we couldn’t easily find the location by an unclear instruction or direction of address. If we happened to find the location, but animal would not just stay at that place only. They would move around to search for food or even for shelter. Some of the stray is vigilant to human which is not easy to get close. Some of them is very aggressive and may even attack! Rescuer will be in a dangerous position without knowing any details. We need cooperation from someone who is more familiar with the actual situation.

Our second issue will be on the medical issue. All rescued cats or dogs have to undergo medical checkup and treatment to check if there�s any diseases on them. Basic medical treatments will be the anti flea treatment, de-worming, vaccination and spay/neuter surgery. Critical cases will be emaciated wound�s treatment and X�ray for the whole body too. Most of the stray animals are prompt to have sexual infection. This is one of the most costly disease and also needed a lot of care.

The following will be the sheltering or fostering issue. Every new comer will need to be quarantine for at least 2 � 3 month as an observation period for sickness. If there�s any sickness detected, another sum of medical expenses had to be spend and longer quarantine period are needed. Thus, another space will be occupied. Currently, our shelter space is not more than 1 acre�s and is already being congested with more than 700 cats and dogs, the space really comes to its utmost limit. How about the funds for their food? All the animals need to eat every day. Where do these food comes from? Our operating funds is about RM30,000 per month, there are pinch of them promised to donate regularly on monthly basis, but it usually ended up to be louder words than action� We can�t run on the risk of facing emptiness of food for our sheltering cats and dogs at any time.

At this point of time, we had just touched about medical fund and food fund. We haven�t mentioned about the vaccination for each and every cat and dog needed yearly and also daily medicine or supplement needed.Upcoming will be the issue of our adoption procedure which is being ridiculed by someone. Basically, HOPE will vaccine and spay/neuter all of our cats and dogs. Most of the adopter prefer to adopt young age puppy/kitten. Puppy/kitten needs at last 3 jabs of vaccination (10 in 1) and so do the spay/neuter surgery. These are meant well for the cats and dogs health which are being adopted. Vaccination is to prevent sickness as spay/neuter is to prevent pregnancy and continuous propagate. Additionally it prevents sexual organ�s pathological changes at their old age. Our current adoption fee is RM350 compared to current market rate of veterinary charges; the veterinary charges wouldn�t be lesser than our adoption fee. HOPE is hoping by doing so is to ensure all our adopted cat/dog will grow healthily and to avoid the pain of giving birth. HOPE is just fulfilling our responsibility to the society. Adoption fee is hoping the adopter to bear his responsibility. Is this called money making? Our society now is very realistic, every single thing needs money. Even though we are an animal welfare organization, but all of our operating funds have to come from public�s generous donations and it will be 100% used for all the dogs and cats in our shelter.

Thus, we sincerely hope that public will understand our situation and please don�t simply give prejudice to our organization or any sincere animal rescue organization. If you have any doubts, please do make a trip to the organization that you are doubt with. Because seeing is believing! Only by personal real experience then only you can make judgments without prejudice! We always believe that every charity organizations are there to help the needed.

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Source: http://hopesjb.blogspot.com/2012/10/unethical-assumption-where-is-their.html

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Homeless & Orphan Pets Exist (H.O.P.E.) is a non-profit organization and no-kill shelter that aims to improve welfare of strays and abandoned pets around Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Our four core missions are rescuing, re-homing, sterilization and increasing public awareness of pet ownership and responsibilities. Currently, we are caring for approximately 700 abandoned animals in our shelter located at Lima Kedai.

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