Do They Have To Die?

Edward Lee shared this link:�http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/world/deathrow-dogs-20120706-21lyu.html

It shows the portraits of death-row dogs in their final moments at a shelter in Taiwan, just before they were euthanised by lethal injection.

If you have a soft heart, I don’t think you can finish looking at all the photos as each one would tug at your heart-strings and I am sure you would ask, “Why?? Do they have to die??”

The only reason I looked is so that I know what I’m uploading here, but I could barely look beyond the 3rd photo. �It is just too sad.

None of them are sickly dogs. They are all healthy, but shelter policies require animals to be euthanised due to overcrowding.

The question I always ask is this: How many no-kill shelters can we build? As many as we can build, they will all be full in no time and no-kill shelters have to close their doors once they are full.

The next question we need to ask is: What kind of animals end up in a shelter or a pound?

1. Strays that are captured by the local councils when people complain, or worse, when dog-catching is sometimes made into a money-making scheme.

2. Pets that are captured by the local councils because owners let them out or abandon them for various reasons and they become strays.

3. Pets that are surrendered by owners who do not want them anymore due to various reasons.

To solve the problem above and to reduce the sad event of animals being euthanised in shelters, we need more responsible pet ownership where a pet is regarded as a member of the family and is not to be surrendered to any place where it will be killed.

We need to massively CNRM the strays to control their population so that they will not be captured and killed at the pounds.

If we do not have the capacity to massively CNRM, then we do one life at a time.

For every animal that we CNRM, hundreds of unwanted lives will not be born and hundreds of lives will not be killed by that lethal injection.

Please let’s do our part.

If you’re not convinced how sad it is to be on death-row when one is innocent, helpless and cannot even fight for one’s life, click on the link above and look at all those photos until the end.

Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2012/07/07/do-they-have-to-die/

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