The Animals Need Our Help
Take A Two Minute Tour of Our Animal Shelter. This was the Douglas County animal shelter on Sunday afternoon May 27th. The animal shelter is full, there is no more room for dogs or cats and more are arriving each day. The shelter presently has approximately 90 dogs and 90 cats and they need to have at least a third of thsoe adopted or rescued this week before Thursday afternoon. Recent adoptions and rescues have continued to be steady, however, there have not been enough adoptions or rescues to stem the tide of animals arriving daily.
Have a look at the video and take a short two minute tour of the dog kennels and see just how packed they are right now. There is a large variety of dogs and cats available at the shelter right now, many of which are spayed/neutered and have had their rabies vaccinations. All have had their Parvo, distemper and kennel cough vaccinations.
There are presently approximately forty puppies of various ages and the same number of kittens available for adoption and rescue. The cats and kittens are in equally desperate need of adoption and rescue. Please visit the shelter this week and encourage your friends to visit also. These fur kids deserve a second chance at life and many won't get that chance if they are not adopted or rescued before Thursday afternoon.
Thursday afternoon, decisions will have to be made concerning euthanasia on Friday morning. Animals will be put to sleep Friday morning to alleviate over crowding and to create space for new arrivals at the shelter. Time is critical this week for many of these animals as there simply isn't enough space and if they cannot find adoptive homes by Thursday afternoon, there are no other alternatives.
So please consider coming to the shelter this week to adopt a pet. Adopt one of these fur kids and give them a forever home and a second chance at life. If we all pull together this crisis can be avoided.
James Bell
12:00 pm on Monday, May 28, 2012
If they are forced to kill these animals perhaps we should video tape the event and put it on DCTV23 for all to see. Would a protest / demonstration help to bring attention to the shelter in the Atlanta area? I wish I could take another dog and cat. But I can't. I don't know how else to help! :-(
Carl Pyrdum Jr.
1:59 pm on Monday, May 28, 2012
What is needed is a community wide effort to adopt and rescue the animals. Fort Worth Texas recently avoided a similar and worse crisis by pubicizing their need. The public responded and their shelter was emptied. We need to raise public awareness and seek the public's help to resolve the problem.
Lynette Orange
10:34 am on Thursday, May 31, 2012
Thank you for the video, although the situation is so, so sad! I will definitely come to Douglasville for another pet. Please let's raise public awareness, like the other writer responded! People really don't know about this shelter or their urgent desire to get those great animals a home.
Carl Pyrdum Jr.
11:55 am on Thursday, May 31, 2012
There are a lot of people presently working very hard to network these animals and find them homes. It is an overwhelming task and undertaking, but it must be done. This is summer and the season when litters are born and people decide they don't want their animals anymore. For whatever reason, the animals are coming into the shelter daily. Like a broken faucet that drips, trying to stay ahead of the flow of new animals is the challenge. Right now today, there are close to 200 animals at the shelter, therefore, as many as can possibly be -re-homed, adopted or rescued need to have that happen today, or else tomorrow many will be put down for space. That is the cold reality. Therefore, we as a community have to come together to address the needs and the problem. Thank you for caring and for your support.
Carl Pyrdum Jr.
7:56 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012
There were a few last minute success stories today at the shelter. Eight dogs and 2 cats were adopted by individuals and one dog and 18 cats were rescued by rescue organizations. Thank you to A Ray of Hope Sanctuary for rescuing Jerry the beagle today and a big thank your to Pat Hopper for pulling 18 cats today for other rescue organizations. The shelter remains at capacity.
debra woodard
9:45 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012
hi-for some reason this 5/28 edition didn't hit my email feed (comcast) until about 10 minutes ago at 9:34 pm 5/31 thurs. night. did you re-release this tonight? i'm glad some of the babies were adopted, but didn't know the shelter was full. i'll try to adopt another cat from there asap-thanks for the update...
Carl Pyrdum Jr.
10:00 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012
Thank you Debra. Sorry you missed it. Yes, the blog was posted on the 28th. I don't know why your notification got delayed. Anything you can do to adopt or spread the word is appreciated. There are still a lot of deserving dogs and cats available, but tomorrow more will go down because we failed to get the numbers down enough through adoptions and rescues by this afternoon. Maybe this coming week we can do better.