I would love to hear your solutions. This has been an unfathomable and heartbreaking problem here in the United States, and I am not sure how we as a nation can fix it.
Nik & I adopted a dog who we named Marvel. He was deemed un-adoptable from the shelter because of aggression issues, the shelter just didn't have the time or energy or resources to put towards him.
Originally, he was left at a house when the owner moved out. I got him through a very lucky and strange situation through a friend. He was getting euthanized, they couldn't even examine him, he was growling and in a ball and he was in the back of the shelter.
Nik & I had him home for about a week, and he is the most loving dog, he was basically just scared shitless.
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If you have an actionable steps that others should know about, please add to the comments.
I came up with this one: If everybody in San Diego paid $5 a month (doggie tax), just $5 which is a cup of coffee and that money went DIRECTLY toward building better shelters, educating the public, offering free spay/neuter clinics, and moving towards no kill, and also working with all the rescues as a unit (I believe Synergy; a rescue, rehab & sanctuary for special needs animals is at the forefront of this movement in San Diego), we would have a better system and a model for other States.
Do you have any opinions or solutions? Please share to get a good dialogue going. Also, do you have any heart warming rescue stories to share?~ LEE
Our other rescue is my little Norton, I rescued him from Ramona Humane Society here in San Diego. He's an intellectual. :)
