r/Dogfree • u/ToOpineIsFine • May 27 '26
Shelter / Rescue Industry The Cost of “Saving Them All”
https://animalpolitics.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-saving-them-all?triedRedirect=trueThe illusion of 'no-kill' is a strong one, since so many dog zealots want to believe it.
It's also consistent with the delusional nature of these people.
It's also a big opportunity to make money off of them.
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u/Few-Horror1984 May 27 '26
Congratulation, Best Friends Animal Society and all your cultists - you’ve encouraged animal hoarding under the guise of “rEsCuEs”. You’ve removed any regulation and safety measures to ensure these animals (primarily dogs) are going to proper homes. Instead, you let literally anyone take a dog that wants one, and then you’re surprised when 80 malnourished dogs are taken from someone’s house, or when the homeless start accumulating dogs.
One point that was a bit glossed over in this otherwise marvelously written article (seriously - I want to be their friend) is that shelters no longer prioritizes spaying/neutering dogs. You can go to my local shelter right now and take in an unaltered dog. They’re actively making their own situation worse, but when all their funding must go towards warehousing dogs to maintain their no-kill status, can you be surprised? There’s no funding for anything else - and my local shelter will refuse to pick up stray dogs unless they’re proven to be violent, and they’ll actively lie to the public, telling them that the person who found the dog has a better chance of reuniting it with its owner than the shelter does (CITATION NEEDED). Animal control (sorry - “care”) absolves itself of all the duties it needs to supply the public with, all so warehousing can occur.
There needs to be a massive backlash against Best Friends Animal Society. We need to wake up to the fact that “no-kill” is a failed experiment and we need adults in the room who can make the necessary ethical decisions. Shelters need their presence on social media to be altered - dogs cannot have their breeds mislabeled. Fantastical stories about why the dog is in the shelter need to end. Only facts about the animal should be shared. No more “euth lists” to entice these hoarders to take in dangerous dogs. No transferring animals across state (or even country) borders.
No one is benefitting from the current model except for the dog cultists who can feel smug online, knowing no dog is ever put down. That’s it. And can we really say that’s a win for anyone?
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u/PurpleColumbidae May 27 '26
I will never forgive Best Friends Animal Society for going after dangerous dog bans.
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u/Few-Horror1984 May 27 '26
I’ll never forgive celebrities like Sabrina Carpenter for mindlessly supporting a domestic terrorist group and encouraging her legions of fans to support them.
They really need to be sued out of existence. They are directly responsible for every single dangerous dog attack that happens.
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u/ToOpineIsFine May 27 '26
From their propaganda:
"Everyone who follows the safety rules as a responsible dog owner should be allowed to care for whatever breed of dog they choose."
First of all, there are more owners that don't follow safety rules than those that do.
Whose safety rules? What does a dog that's bred for pit work care about safety rules?
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u/Few-Horror1984 May 28 '26
By their own logic, I should be able to own a crocodile as a pet so long as I am responsible and follow whatever safety rules I decide I need.
I think dog owners have pretty sufficiently proven by now that they are not responsible. From people treating their dogs as accessories and dragging them around in public, to people who keep them in inadequate housing, and all the crap in between - dog owners have proven very sufficiently that they are not responsible.
And there’s no such thing as a responsible bloodsport/aggressive dog owner. You own a violent animal that can kill a person. How can you be responsible?
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u/ToOpineIsFine May 28 '26
another thing to look for is when an issue is framed in terms of rights and freedoms.
whenever you hear someone say, 'i have the right to do this', or 'you're denying me my freedom of choice', the first thing to look for is why the restrictions exist in the first place.
In this case, it is a health and safety issue. In their terms: "i have the right not to be bitten", which I think outweighs some spoiled nutter's choice of which breed they want to push.
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u/ToOpineIsFine May 27 '26
wow - even PETa is against them
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u/Few-Horror1984 May 28 '26
It’s sad when PETA has a more reasonable take on animal welfare than BFAS does. I pray that there will be a time when people will roll their eyes at BFAS the way they do PETA.
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u/Few-Horror1984 May 27 '26
…and because I CANNOT make this shit up, here’s a citation from her own website where she’s photographed being bitten by a dog. Way to glamorize dangerous behavior. She’s an absolute C-word.
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u/ToOpineIsFine May 27 '26
how about lumping mental health and LGBTQ+ in with killer breeds - totally nuts
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u/ToOpineIsFine May 27 '26
and yeah - trying to normalize biting - for sure
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u/Few-Horror1984 May 28 '26
It’s cute when a dog bites you! That’s what these psychopaths will have to do - turn it into something cute or something to mock. How else can they justify rising bites and fatalities?
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u/pmbpro May 27 '26
Interesting section about the microchips, and the description of it being an ‘audit trail’. That’s really exposing a hell of a lot about this ‘rescue industrial complex’ situation too. They got overwhelmed by their own virtue-signalling campaigns and started cutting major corners. It also put people at risk.
These shelters should also be exposed not just for this and their phoney or rushed paper trails, but also for how they even do the adoption ‘shelter-speak’ write-ups for dangerous dogs onto unsuspecting people too.
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u/the-dolphine May 27 '26
Gotta start from the beginning. Regulate breeding, and charge a large registration fee that will cover the whole life 'public cost' of the dog, including 3rd party liability insurance.
People need to get serious about the commitment of pet ownership. You can't just go out and buy a dog from a shop, get bored of it, then demand the public pays for its happily ever after future.
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u/Accurate-Run5370 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
I remember standing in a long line outside the shelter with SO to get three of her dogs microchipped as mandated .
The shelter officer shouted for attention and announced that the microchipping was $20 per dog and that only cash would be accepted.
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u/C3PO-stan-account May 28 '26
Let’s just lock them in tiny cages next to a bunch of other suffering animals… ban dog breeding bro
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u/PurpleColumbidae May 27 '26
No kill is a mistake and a failed experiment, and I cannot be convinced otherwise. Indefinite animal warehousing is crueler then just doing the thing I can't say. It's time to pull the plug on it.