Persuasive Essay On Animal Euthanasia

The euthanasia of animals is a very problematic social issue in the world today. Approximately there are about 7.6 million companion animals that enter animal shelters each year. Of those, about 2.7 animals are euthanized, and cats have the highest rate, according to “The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” (2017). When you hear the term euthanasia in reference to animals, you think of a painless process that ends the countless suffering your pet had to endure over the span of their lives. There are many reasons for which these animals are “put to sleep.” When most pet owners put their pets to sleep it is because their pets have incurable disease, painful illness, behavioral problems and are of old age. When an animal is suffering and is no longer able to recover, this process may be the most humane thing to do. However, euthanasia turns into murder when perfectly healthy animals are killed. Since there is an overpopulation of animals there are many animals left on the street wandering alone. When there isn’t any room for all these new animals being brought in from off the streets, shelters have no other option, but to euthanize. Each year more and more dogs and cats are born and sent into shelters, but for every animal being born another one has to leave and once the animal leave they are most likely going to be euthanized. No matter the situation animals are losing their lives for no clear reason.

Thesis: Addressing what a No Kill Shelter is and that they should have standards for using specific euthanasia methods, treating “unadoptable” animals, and evaluating the Live Release Rate will help decrease the unnecessary deaths of shelter animals around the world, especially with the help of shelter based programs.

A problem has grown among animal lovers. On one side are the traditional shelters that euthanize to make space for more animals. On the other side are those that call themselves “no kill”. They represent a rage of shelters from all over the country that won’t euthanize any animal on their property. No-Kill shelters are gaining popularity in the United States, According to one source, “More than 600 shelters and that’s just a fraction. The popularity has put pressure on the other shelters to become no-kill” (Fasseas). Now there are two different sides to the story, half of the people agrees upon euthanize animals for space and the other half agrees that there should not be any kill shelters here in this area or anywhere in the country.

When Mary Ray of Woodbury, Minnesota unexpectedly passed away at her home during the winter of 2012, the last thing she would have expected was that her beloved perfectly healthy, young pet cat would be euthanized by the Woodbury Humane Society shelter instead of being sent to the home she had detailed in a note posted on her refrigerator. In retrospect, this would not have happened if the Woodbury Humane Society shelter had adopted the new and growing trend of “no-kill” philosophy for animal shelters, which simply stated, is an operating philosophy for a shelter that is based upon the premise that no healthy adoptable animal should be euthanized for any reason and that they should be sheltered until they find a loving home. The number of

First of all, they limit how much time an animal has to get adopted. According to an article, “To clarify, there are some shelters that will let an animal stay for two weeks before euthanizing it. Others give only 3 days. According to research, some shelters may give an animal 3 days, then an additional 7, should the owner come looking for the animal. Meanwhile, other shelters may give the animals a few months, a few weeks, a few days, or even just an hour.” This shows how these shelters don’t care about finding homes for these homeless animals. Furthermore, kill shelters use excuses for murdering the innocent little animals. An article said they use excuses like “We don’t have enough room, we don’t have enough money to keep them alive, or they aren’t young or ‘cute’ enough and nobody will want to adopt them.” Every year, approximately 2.7 million dogs and cats are euthanized because there isn’t enough room. As you can see, these shelters don’t even think these animals are worthy of being alive. Lastly, research told how kill shelters send out little to no notice of advertisement for the animals. The only advertisement that some kill shelters send out is a “death row” which tells adopters that they are about to kill some animals, so they need to come adopt one before it’s too late. In other words, kill shelters don’t give much effort in encouraging people to adopt an animal. Kill shelters are the most harsh shelters of them

Should shelters have the ability to euthanize one animal in order to have the ability to serve more animals? The ownership of an animal is perhaps the biggest factor in euthanizing an animal. Emotional reasonings, such as determining when will it be an acceptable time for an animal to be euthanized, can be easily answered with logic that identifies the condition and future of an animal. No matter the outcome one should keep in mind the standards of an animal’s welfare in order to make the best decision

Each year, 2.7 million adoptable dogs and cats are euthanized in America. Too many people are breeding their pets for a quick buck, but not realizing the effect that their actions play in the animal world. As breeders and puppy mills are mass producing purebred puppies/kittens for thousands of dollars, there sits an abandoned dog/cat in a shelter who costs much less. This drastic number of euthanized animals could be reduced if Americans spay/neuter their pets and consider rescue shelters over a high-end breeder.

Imagine being a dog that couldn’t get into the shelters because there wasn’t enough room and then freezing to death. Or, imagine if you did get into the shelters, but you got put down with euthanasia. Many dogs have this happen to them. For example, “Each year, approximately 1.5 million shelter animals are euthanized,” as stated in “Shelter Intake and Surrender,” from ASPCA. This shows that there are a lot of bad things that happen to animals at shelters for many different reasons.

Although, these groups are generally organized in breed specific categories, such as Greyhound Rescues or Pekingese Rescues, they share the same problem. That problem is finding homes for their rescues that they acquire from their local shelters. Sometimes if they have no potential homes in their data base, they are force to leave the dogs in the shelters, where they are generally euthanized on average after 3 -5 days if not adopted. Even no kill shelters eventually euthanize dogs as well. According to the Humane Society, “about 2.4 million healthy, adoptable cats and dogs—about one every 13 seconds—are put down in U.S. shelters each year” (The Humane Society of the United States, 2016). For these dog enthusiasts, the practice of euthanizing canines is heartbreakingly problematic, which is occurring at an alarming rates despite of their best efforts to find

According to director Cheryl Schneider, the growing population of animals in shelters are increasing due to the “no-kill policies” (8). The “no-kill” idea is used in shelters to help save healthy animals from when they first come in. Meaning when the animals come in, they cannot be put down the first couple of weeks because of the “no kill” coming into play, with the “no-kill” idea the animals start to get over-crowded, leading them to aggression. Stated by a publisher named Nathan Winograd, “roughly 90 communities are representing some 300 cities and towns with the idea of a no kill. The population also over populates in animal shelters because spring and summer are the birthing seasons for puppies and kittens”( Hermans 5). With animals coming

Shelters struggle to find a way to keep all of these animals alive, but all the high running nicer shortens only take in the animals they know for a fact will sell. So since this article suggests that maybe all no kill animal shelters are actually helping kill animals our community needs to take action. Although, they may not intentionally be meaning to use euthanasia on these animals they don't want to take ones in that people won't buy.

How would you like to spot an adorable pet being ready to adopt. Later to find out that it had been euthanized. This happens everyday tow tons of people that happened to spot that animal at a traditional shelter. Non-kill animal shelters should replace way traditional shelters so that no traditional shelters exist.

Eager, excited, and ready to play Max the 6 month old puppy waits patiently for his new owner. Max waits and waits day in and day out to meet his forever family still excited and eager. The fifth day Max is sure he is going home with his very own family, a kennel worker puts him in a metal crate and took off his old plastic collar he is now certain he is going home. The kennel worker took Max through the huge double doors into a cold dim room the kennel worker then places him on a cold steel table. Max now knows he is not going home with his forever family today. Clueless of what is about to happen to him he waits anxious and afraid of what the future has to come, finally a vet steps in and Max knew something was wrong. The vet sticks a needle into his paw and after several agonizing minutes for little Max he was dead and disposed of like a piece of garbage just because he was in the shelter for too long.

A one year old male black pit bull has been at animal control for a month now. He passed all the tests that many don’t pass. He made it through and began to have hope about a new loving home that he had never experienced. One day, though, one of the caretakers walks into the kennels and had a leash in her hand. She came into the dog’s kennel, and he started to wag his tail thinking that he is going on a walk. He was removed from the kennel and soon realized that they walked past the door to go outside. He wondered curiously what they were doing. They turned the corner and his nose became engulfed with the smell of death. He becomes frightened. The only reaction that comes to mind is to flee, but he can’t. He is restrained by the rope leash tied around his neck. The only thing that he can do is put on the ‘brakes.’ The

Opposing to turning over our research facility to the army so they could euthanize the animals would be more beneficial than euthanizing the animals. If we consider the option to let the army euthanize the animals the chance of the virus spreading further would cease to exist or lessen the spreading. Although the animals would be euthanized, the human population would still be fine. People would no longer be at risk of getting the virus, there would no longer be a possible threat made by this virus to the human population. In an article, it states how dangerous it can be for us, “Recently, this super strain made headlines by causing potentially serious infections in schools in at least six states. At least three student deaths were reported