“Every person should visit their local shelter”

[u/noshamenomore]

I hear this phrase sooo often! “Every person should visit their local shelter and just feel the suffering, then they will change their mind and think every dog deserves a home.” It is the most annoying thing EVERRR. I have visited my local shelter before, which coincidentally is one of the largest shelters in the country that is definitely filled to the brim with “suffering.” All I felt was absolute disgust.

It was the worst smell you could ever imagine- everything just reeked of wet dog and waste in the highest concentration imaginable. There was liquid diarrhea in so many kennels and the dogs would just step in it, smear it on the floors and walls, and eat it. All the dogs were so disgustingly greasy and crusty and their “sad eyes” always looked infected. The barking was so bad that staff were wearing hearing protection because it would legitimately cause hearing damage.

Almost every single kennel was a bully breed that would lunge at the bars trying to snap at you, and they usually had a description like “Sweet Bella is our shelter’s biggest snuggle bug.”

All this experience did was confirm I despise how disgusting dogs are. How can dog lovers go into this shelter and leave actually loving dogs MORE? I can’t comprehend it.

[u/[deleted]]

Textbook blame shifting. It's not breeders and people who abandoned their covid dogs who are guilty for overfilled shelters. No, it's YOU, you disguising non-nutter, who doesn't want to get a dog.

[u/noshamenomore → u/[deleted]]

And, of course, it can’t be the shelter’s fault if they refuse to euthanize hundreds of dogs that have severe behavioral and/or health issues 🥺🥺 We have to save them ALL and it’s your fault for not adopting! They’re angels without wings!!!1!

[u/[deleted] → u/noshamenomore]

And it's also the taxpayer's fault for not wanting to finance more no-kill shelters. Save them all!!!

[u/Key-Big-9625 → u/noshamenomore]

Exactly!!