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Chapter #1 - Animal shelters kill vs no kill
What is a shelter
An animal shelter is an Establishment, a Establishment is a action of establishing something or being established or it can mean, a business organization, public institution, or household. To include in that, an animal shelter is especially supported by charitable contributions. They also will do all in their power to get the animal(s) adopted. A shelter gets
There are 2 different types of shelters
A no kill shelter gives animals a few days, months or even weeks, but a kill shelter give the animals 3 to 7 days or even a couple of weeks sometimes an hour because of their race in color. A no kill shelter also cures the sick animals, so do the kill shelters. Lastly a no kill shelter gives animals a second chance at life, and a kill shelter gives excuses for why they have to be put down or be
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They also have information about your pet’s personality, medical history and habits.
You have to fill out paperwork and pay the adoption fee, which is often set by your adoption process. It takes 30 minutes to 2 hours to complete the interview and paperwork.
In cases you will bring your pet home the same day, but there are a few adoption partners that require a background check and/or a visit to your pet’s safety, ask your adoption feseputive if waiting a couple of days is not what you had in mind. Another petsmart store in your area that may have a person that does some-day adoptions How animals die, adopt, and abandoned
One fact is that approximately 6.1 million animals have entered us animal shelters nationwide all year, 7.2 million were declined from 2011, as well as there are 3.3 million
This means that regardless of how the animal is they will not euthanize it compared to other shelters where if an animal gets to a certain point they will put it down.
“Unnecessary” background checks. (These are done in order to ensure the safety of the animal. The adoptee is essentially another life that is being put into your care and as the owner you must keep them safe.)
Only about ten percent of people who want to receive a domestic adoption actually do. Further, it could take years or months to be matched up with a child depending on the family. Next, one must set up an adoption profile with their chosen agency. Biological parents have a list of things they want to see in an adoptive parent and this is how they choose the right person for their child.
The adoption process can be really long and drawn out. For young children, who do not have strong grasp of the concept of time, learning that you want to adopt a child before you know that you can will make the process stretch out endlessly for your
When you find a pet that you are interested in meeting and getting acquainted with, you get the id number and take it to a staff member. You will then be allowed to spend some time with the pet in a safe environment with staff there to help answer your questions. It is the job of the staff member to talk to you frankly about the cares and needs of the animals and see if this situation is truly a "match".
We should not have a professional jury system because it simply doesn't work for our government system. If we were to have a professional jury system, jurors would be biased, lazy and experiences with past cases would interfere. Although there would be different jurors with different histories on a panel, Jurors would be biased because they would all have the same education telling them what is right and wrong. The same textbook would be deciding whether a person is guilty, or not guilty. Another circumstance where a juror would be biased is race. If a white male were to be convicting and black male, it could easily fly under the radar that the white male juror is holding a grudge. Many black males and minorities would be discriminated against
(Charity Navigator, 2015, Charity rating) These numbers are a far cry from what Mr. Bergh told the Governor of New York when he paid a visit to the ASPCA and he stumbled over a hole in the old, tattered carpet and told Mr. Bergh to buy better carpet and send him the bill, Mr. Bergh simply replied, “No, thank you, Governor. But send me the money, and I will put it to better use for the animals. (as cited in Winograd, 2012, ¶3)” Moreover, for the last 15 years, the shelters, rescue groups, feral cat caretakers and No Kill proponents who have tried to restore Bergh’s vision through the No Kill revolution have been opposed by those like past ASPCA CEO Ed Sayres, supported by a Board of Directors content to count the money, all of whom appear intent on squandering Bergh’s noble legacy. When we look back on Mr. Berg’s life’s mission and what he wanted to accomplish and then look at the ASPCA today, one must wonder what happened? While it is not an easy task to undertake, we will take a look at animal “shelter”
Some of the shelters in California are amazing, at Sonoma County’s animal shelter has new policies for the crowded conditions and are working to reduce the number of healthy animal’s that are killed. Dog and cat owners who may want to give up their pets have to make an appointment with the shelter staff to discuss alternatives. Healthy animals will be taken in only if the space is available, otherwise the owners must wait. According to one source, “Most public shelters have around 393,000 cats that enter public shelters and it increased to 25,000. About 278,000 cats were killed in shelters in
When most people think about Animal Control shelters, it usually negative. Animal control shelters get an unjust reputation of just being a place where unwanted, problem dogs go to be euthanized. I mean, you call the your local animal control office when you see a stray dog hanging around the neighborhood, right? They show up in a van or truck driven by a uniformed officer who carries a scary looking pole with a loop on it to catch animals. Well, there’s more to your local animal control shelter than just catching stray dogs and cats.
To begin with, we need to know what’s the main differences between these two spaces. And, it’s basically profit, ways of taking care, and the probability of death. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, known as ASPCA for its initials, many pet stores sell pets from puppy mills, which is a large-scale commercial dog breeding facility where profit is given priority over the well-being of the dogs. Stopping to buy cats or dogs from pet stores will make run out of business this cruel industry. Although many people believe that pet stores will be bankruptcy for not selling animals, the truth is, that pet stores’ major income comes from selling cloth, food, toys, and supplies for pets. On the other hand, shelters are establishments, especially supported by charitable contributions, that provides a temporary home for dogs, cats, and other animals that are offered for adoption (Dictionary). In it, pets are well treated with proper veterinary care and food. However, after a period of time, pets that are not adopted are KILLED.
Moreover, there is a strategic interview and background check on those who wish to adopt. We do not let just anyone adopt a child, nor do we go without checking up on his or her history to predict the likelihood of that person being a good candidate for a parent. There are forms to be filled out, house inspection, and an overview of their income to make sure they are suitable to take in and care for this child. According to a study published by the Child Welfare League of America, despite
Imagine this scenario, you and a friend are at a party. The host offers you and your friend to smoke a joint. Thinking that it’s a cigarette you and your friend both take one, without realizing it’s actually marijuana. You and your friend enjoy it so much thinking it’s a different brand of cigarette that you end up smoking more than usual. Before leaving you grab a handful of marijuana. You and your friend end up driving back home, but you two are pulled over by an unexpected police check. You both are arrested for driving under the influence of marijuana, you get another charge for having a large amount of an illicit substance. This essay defends the claim that, the state should regulate drugs by decriminalizing them.
That is one every 13 seconds. Only 25 percent of animals in shelters get adopted.
Sometimes these reasons can be the animal is an inconvenience to care for anymore, a sudden death of the animal’s owner, or loss of a pet friendly home. A shelter is a place that takes in animals that no one wants anymore. Some shelters are no kill and some shelters are not. No kill shelters will try and help animals find a new home through an adoption. Kill shelters give a short amount of time for the owners to find their lost pets. Pets are a part of a family, they are not property. We need to prevent abandonment through awareness. Things like foster programs can help a pet temporarily until they can find a permanent home. This is cost effective and better for the animal.
The Canterbury tales collection by Geoffrey Chaucer presents varied characters that each one have to tell a tale in their way to Canterbury, those characters belongs to different social, religious classes. In the time of many religious social differences has happened, such as the raise of doubt towards corrupted churches and religion in general, it could be noticed how Chaucer portrays the characters in several different ways, there are the good heroine characters, the low class characters, the holly religious characters, the corrupted greedy characters and so on. Through roaming in the Canterbury tales collection, there were several tales were told by religious characters that have drawn my attention to it, such as the Prioress's Tale and the second Nun's Tale. Both of these tales opened my eyes to notice how Chaucer uses the concept of religion in an ambiguous way to serve his portrayed aim behind each tale. Therefore, in this paper I tend