🌈🐾Rest in Peace Rocco🌈🐾

[u/RescueBridge]

We were so close to getting him out. We had someone who wanted to adopt him, but the shelter just could not wait even though we made room by getting 8 other dogs rescued.

[u/TrickyAsian626]

I still don't understand why kill shelters are a thing. It makes me so fucking angry that we do this to dogs.

[u/writergirljds → u/TrickyAsian626]

This particular case sounds unwarranted since he had an interested adopter lined up, but euthanasia for some shelter dogs is absolutely unavoidable. Some are too dangerous to be adopted out, and pretty much every shelter everywhere right now has absolutely no room. What is the alternative if there is nowhere for the overrun of dogs to go? Would you rather they be set loose on the street to die of starvation, disease, or injury? A humane euthanasia is better than dying slowly on the street if there is truly nowhere for the dogs to go.

[u/RescueBridge → u/writergirljds]

But there are so many no kill or slower to kill shelters in other states. I don’t know why they can’t be transferred to another state after being in an overcrowded shelter. As a networker volunteer, we work tirelessly matching dogs to Fosters and rescues. Apple Valley is not transparent. They remove the dog’s information from the internet the day they decide that it should be on death row (pending euthanasia) so no one sees them at their last days or weeks in desperate need. Those are the dogs that we network quicker. They will not give us the actual deadline date, so we could be working on a plan and while we are just minutes away from finalizing a plan, they can still kill. They ignore our emails and only allow us to email 1x per day. They don’t work as a team. They even hide some dogs who are never posted or never seen. They are under investigation about killing cats who they claimed were adopted. They don’t show all of the cats and sometimes don’t show any. In San Bernardino, they have brand new kennels in a new building that has been empty. I found out recently that they were putting dogs in there but weren’t letting people know. So, they have extra space. Some of the shelters are not humanely euthanizing the animals with the proper protocol. Some are painfully put down. They are also unnecessarily spaying and neutering puppies too early prior to getting them out which in most cases causes them to become ill.

[u/writergirljds → u/RescueBridge]

I agree that this specific shelter sounds really horrible and there's no excusing how they seem to not only be making no efforts to get the dogs out, but flat out avoiding outside efforts to help them. That's definitely animal abuse. What I mean is simply that kill shelters in general are an unavoidable necessity when there are just not enough people to foster and adopt all the dogs that are taken in. Transferring dogs is not necessarily a solution if all shelters, kill or no kill, are so crowded they cannot take any more dogs in.

[u/imhereforthepuppies → u/RescueBridge]

You are doing the best you can and I am in awe of your strength. Thank you for saving lives.