I HAVE COPYED AND PASTED LOTS OF FACTS AND INFORMANTION FROM LOST OF SITES TO POST THE TRUTH ON WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR ANIMALS AND HOMLESS ANIMAL, WE NEED TO HELP THIS LOVING AND CARING PETS AND ANIMALS, EVERY PET DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE NO MATTER WHAT THE ANIMAL, PLEASE HELP ME SAVE AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON CAPE COD AND MASS, IF WE GROUP TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A MERICAL HAPPEN, SO MANY ANIMALS WILL SHOW U HOW MUCH THEY THANK U, THERE ARE MORE LOYAL THAN MOST PEOPLE, THE NEVER INTENTIONAL HURT ANYONE! PLEASE READ AND SIGN AND HELP ME MAKE A DIFFERNCE IN OUR TOWNS AND STATE, HOPEFULLY ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND WORLD!! INCLUDING WILD ANIMALS NEED OUR HELP TOO, IN FALMOUTH ALONE THE DOG KETCHER NEVER ANSWERS HIS PHONE OF DOES HIS JOB, WHEN I CALLED THE POLICE STATION FOR HELP, THE PERSONAL TOLD ME THE DOG KETCHER WILL NO COME OUT ELSE A ANIMAL HAS BEEN HIT BY A CAR OR IS DEAD, THAT IS A SHAME THAT MAN DOES NOT DESERVE HIS JOB, OVIOUSLY HE IS IN THE WRONG FEEL AND ITS PEOPLE LIKE HIM THAT ENABLE OUR HUMAN RACE TO TREAT WILD ANIMALS AND PETS LIKE THEY DO! IMAGIN HOW IT FEELS TO GET BEATEN DAY IN AND DAY OUT, OR BEING MADE TO FIGHT TILL THE DEATH, OR USED AS BAIT, COULD U SERVIVE OR STANDONE DAY IN THERE SHOES? WOULD U WANT TOO?

After 100 years of animal sheltering why do we still have a pet overpopulation problem? Why are there so many homeless animals being tossed to the streets like garbage or killed at shelters.

Some of the roughly 600 homeless cats surrendered to the shelter every year are housed in the adjacent house that currently serves as the administrative offices.

If 1 city,Los Angeles is only 1.24% of America’s population, then lets assume LA has a HUGEPit Bull population and just use 1/10 of 1%…If we multiply that number of Pit Bulls they euthanize every year in regards to their U.S. population percentage, then roughly 728,000Pit Bulls are euthanized every single year. Almost a million! And that assumes a grossly LOW number.

Lack of spay/neuter funding is one of the main reasons any area will become overpopulated with homeless pets.

The sad part is, so much money is being put into sheltering pets, very little is being used to PREVENT them! This is where the funding is MOST needed! Prevention will STOP the horrible cycle of killing pets.

Imagine for just one moment that if we took that same $75 and spayed just one cat with it. Immediately we prevent 6 others. Considering if this cat was left unaltered she would have at least one more litter and her offspring would also have litters of their own, we easily could be looking at over 112 cats. So for $75 we can destroy justONE cat or we could spay ONE cat and preventover 100 cats from winding up homeless.

Even people who claim to love pets, kill feral cats. I guess it's not hard when you convince yourself these animals are unworthy of homes, diseased, pests.

Thousands ofstray/feral cats are killed each year. The public has no tolerance for them. And ABSOLUTELY no respect.

It happens all the time, a call comes in to animal control - neighbors complaining about feral cats. Before you know it traps are set and cats are killed. By law, notices must be posted in trapping areasnotifying residents of the trapping. Most notices read: Only cats wearing a collar will be released. Interesting considering our survey taken back in 2000 stated that 50% of cat owners didn't collar their pets that were allowed outside due to fear of the cat getting caught on something. Some notices state friendly cats without collars will be taken to a shelter for possible adoption. "possible adoption" should beunderlined - Considering most of these cats are taken to overfull shelters, I wonder how many possibly get adopted?

Did you know that any cat that shows signs of aggression while trapped is deemed feral and slated for euthanization? Who determined this an effective way of spotting a feral cat? Imagine being trapped, you are scared, strangers are around you, approaching you and you can't flee. Cats by nature are untrusting of strangers, their only defense when cornered is to hiss and spit. If a stranger approached my cat stuck in a trap, most of my cats would behave 'feral' also.

Several years ago we trapped and rescued200 cats from just one yard in Wareham. With huge numbers of cats running the neighborhood, people started shooting them.Out of control, the cats were due to be trapped and killed. A Helping Paw stepped in just in time and took over. I can guarantee you almost every cat we trapped hissed and spit at us, most we couldn't handle. Though the end result, nearly 85% of these cats socialized and have been adopted into homes.

By extremely conservative estimates we can conclude that at least 1,000,000 Pit Bulls are euthanized every year and probably much more than that. There are 35,000Pit Bulls available for adoption right now.lets make a difference? Save A Life.....Adopt♥

It is estimated that there are 3-5 million Pit Bulls in the U.S. The term 'Pit Bull' encompasses mainly three breeds of dog: the American Pit Bull Terrier, the American Staffordshire Terrier, and the Staffordshire Bull Terrier. Considered a 'bully breed' and subject to Breed Specific Legislation, they are by far the most euthanized breed.

Pit Bulls and Pit Bull mixes average about 33% of shelter intakes nationally, but in large cities the numbers are as high as 40%-65%. About 75% of municipal shelters euthanize Pit Bulls immediately upon intake, without them ever having any chance at adoption. Those that are offered for adoption are usually the first chosen for euthanasia when overcrowding forces the shelter's hand and decisions have to be made.

Studies estimate that up to 1 million Pits are euthanized per year, or 2,800 per day. Some estimates are up to double that number. In the Los Angeles area alone, 200 per day are put to sleep. A study by the organization Animal People reports a 93% euthanasia rate for Pit Bulls and only 1 in 600 Pits finding a forever home.

Read that again. Only ONE in 600 Pit Bulls will have a forever home.

Further, euthanasia estimates don't include the misery and death Pit Bulls face as the #1 dog-fighting breed. Fought dogs that don't die in the ring often suffer excruciating abuse, neglect, abandonment, and eventually death even worse than humane euthanasia.

Until we can educate the public and move them to spay and neuter, we're just putting a Band-Aid on a gushing wound. One female dog can produce two litters of 6-10 pups per year. In 6 years that female and her offspring can produce 67,000 dogs! When a St. Louis animal shelter worker opened the door of the euthanasia chamber, he couldn't believe his eyes. After 30 minutes of breathing carbon monoxide gas, the reddish brown Basenji mix dog was alive, alert and looking straight at him over the bodies of the dead dogs all around him.

The staff didn't understand how the dog had lived through the euthanasia process but they didn't have the heart to re-gas the survivor and he was adopted and named 'Quentin' by the founder of Stray Rescue of St. Louis, Randy Grim.

Another story of euthanasia survival is even more astounding. "Gabby" survived not only a gas chamber but was found alive four days after she had been assumed dead and placed in a freezer! It is estimated that one animal in one million survive gassing.

The details of euthanasia are hard to read but understanding the process is the first step to improving it nationwide. As you can imagine, gassed animals claw, cough, choke and struggle until they become unconscious.

Luckily, Florida is one of the twelve states that have banned the antiquated chambers into which homeless animals are herded and asphyxiated with lethal gas. Six more states are currently considering legislation pending to ban the chambers. Sadly, that still leaves 32 states using hundreds of the chambers. Animal euthanasia is an evil that can be eradicated but we need to spread the message of adoption and spay and neuter. Until people responsibly practice these two simple things, there will continue to be overpopulation that adoption shelters cannot begin to counter no matter how hard they work to find homes for their charges.

It's so simple. Adopt, spay / neuter and spread the word to save lives!<3 <3 <3 <3 <3