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This is my good, bad and disturbing page. Lovely Las Vegas sometimes is not all glamour and glitz.
Or they say “The dog got bigger than we thought it would”.
It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there. It’s strange, but it happens with every one of them.
Then a shelter worker who we call a “euthanasia tech (not a vet)” finds a vein in the front leg and injects a lethal dose of the “pink stuff”. Hopefully your pet doesn’t panic from being restrained and jerks.
Do the research, do your homework, and know exactly what you are getting into before getting a pet. These shelters and humane societies exist because people just do not care about animals anymore.
Here is an updated photo of Hope at her foster mom's house, doesn't she look FABULOUS??? Won't it be great to be able to do this for more dogs like Hope?!? We can, with your help! Thank You!
Currently a blog host and volunteer for GRRSN (Golden Retriever Rescue of So. NV), the co-founder of FUPI (Foreclosed Upon Pets, Inc.) and not to mention many other endeavors, including the "Great Pahrump Cat Rescue", sponsored by Best Friends. I have learned that every helping hand and dollar is needed for all of these and many more organizations to survive and continue doing the fantastic work that they all do.
As one we can make a difference, as a group we can change the world!
Let's step up to the plate as a community and make the change! Come on, let's get involved today!
Yesterday, May 25, 2011 at the dog park on Buffalo & Washington, a dog was taken by 3 men who pulled up, opened the gates, grabbed a dog, and sped away. A by-stander got the license plate, but unfortunately it was a stolen vehicle. I am afraid that this dog was taken to be used as a bait dog or sold to a laboratory. I can only imagine the pain that the owner of this dog is feeling after witnessing these evil men stealing her beloved pet. Please watch over your 4-legged friends as they always watch over us!
Nicole
Gimme Shelter Foundation
The Feral Colony May 2011
Here is Scruffy, she has been living in a feral colony for close to 18 years. Up until seven weeks ago, no human could get near her.
I mentioned to the colony care-taker that she badly needed shaving back in March. Due to the cold weather it had not been done.
This May, I saw the cat again, and again she ran from me. It was not until I realized that she could barely hear and see out of only one eye was I able to sneak up behind her and pick her up.
Expecting to get mauled, I kept her at arms length! Well all she did was wiggle a little, so the next day I brought my clippers with me.
As the matted hair began to come off, in some places nearly 5 inches thick, this "feral cat" began purring, then she began grooming herself and finally licked my hand. I tell you the experience was almost spiritual!
After two days of shaving, a total of six hours, I took this emaciated and lethargic baby to the vets office. On the scale she weighed in at a whooping 6.4#'s and it was determined that she is in kidney failure anemic and blind in one eye, (some sort of old battle wound I guess). She was given sub-q fluids and began to perk up slightly.
I brought her back to the caregivers home, she ate and promptly fell asleep. I wasn't convinced that she would be alive in the morning...but she was!
After a week of three high protein meals per day, (canned only), medication for anemia and kidneys, I felt she was strong enough for a much needed bath. (See below).
The point of this story is: Sometime during this 18 year old cats life span she was not a feral feline and obviously loved humans. She now follows me around like a dog, crawls into my lap and purrs.
How did she end up in such a horrible condition? Was she lost? Tossed out? We will never know.
I applaud everyone of you who feed the feral colonies, let's try to kick it up a notch whenever possible and give them the extra care that some might desperately need.
Above is a pretty dirty and freaked out feral kitten who is a product of people who don't spay and neuter their pets. Her chances of adoption are slim at best and most probably won't ever be a lap cat.
Thank you Libby for continuing your dedicated work of TNR.
Alambforthedogs@aol.com Annie Lamb 525-4707 or Alison Welch alisonwelch15@gmail.com 485-9914 November 18, 2011
This is what happens to pit breeder dogs, this poor sweet girl was bred so many times that it has literally sucked the life out of her. Dr can't even determine how old she is, between 3-7yrs. Isa's teeth are falling out and she has tumors all over her body. The good news is her blood work came back good and the biopsy on the tumors were negative. Isa does have many cyst and looks like she just had a litter before being dumped.
We are looking for someone to show her their are good people who will love her. She is one of the sweetest girls, her spirit is daunting she just seems to love everyone and dogs. Isa has been in boarding for several weeks we would like Isa to be able to have a foster home for over the holidays instead of a cage that I am sure where she has spent most of her life. Due to Isa health she can not be spayed for sometime and she doesn't have any training. Our wonderful trainer Milana we work with her so we can find this special girl a home when she is medically fit to live out her life in a safe environment.
If you are interested in fostering Isa please contact us or if you can help us get her the medical care she needs you can make a donation for her at Ann Road Animal Hospital 579-9111 3110 W Ann Rd NLV 89031
We would just like to give her a little time to be loved the way she deserves.
Please report to anyone who will listen if you think there is a back yard breeder near you. If we all stick together and everyone of us make a phone call to Animal Control when we know there is a breeder of any kind maybe one day we can stop this kind of abuse.
Annie Lamb
Independent Rescuer
Animal Network
702-525-4707
Independent Rescuer
Animal Network
702-525-4707
You can’t keep your pet? Really?
~ By a Shelter Director ~
Our society needs a huge “Wake-up” call. As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all…a “view from the inside” – if you will.
First off, any of you whom have surrendered a pet to a shelter or humane society should be made to work in the “back” of an animal shelter – for just ONE DAY.
Maybe if you saw the life drain from those sad, lost, confused eyes, you’d stop flagging the ads on here and help these animals find homes. That puppy you just dropped off will most-likely end up in my shelter when it’s no longer a cute little puppy anymore. Just so you know, there’s a 90% chance that your dog will never walk out back out, once entered in to the shelter system…
Purebred or not! About 25% of all of the dogs that are “owner surrenders” or “strays” that come into a shelter are purebred dogs.
The most common excuses: “We’re moving and can’t take our dog (or cat).”
Really? Where are you moving to that doesn’t allow pets?
Or they say “The dog got bigger than we thought it would”.
How big did you think a German Shepherd would get?
“We don’t have time for her”.
Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs!
“She’s tearing up our yard”.
How about making her a part of your family?
“We just don’t want to have to stress about finding a place for her & we know she’ll get adopted, she’s a good dog”.
Odds are, your pet won’t get adopted & how stressful do you think it is for your pet?
Did you know…
- Your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off? Sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn’t full
and your dog/cat manages to stay completely healthy. - If it sniffles, it is euthanized.
- Your pet will be confined to a small run/kennel in a room
with other barking & crying animals. - It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps.
- It will be depressed and will cry constantly for you.
- If your pet is lucky, there will be enough volunteers in that day
to take him/her for a walk. - If not, your pet won’t get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose.
- If your dog is big, black or any of the “Bully” breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door.
- If your cat is scared and doesn’t act friendly enough, or if it catches a cold (which most of them ‘do’), it will be put to sleep.
Those dogs & cats just don’t get adopted.
In most cases, it doesn’t matter how ‘sweet’ or ‘well behaved’ they are. If your pet doesn’t get adopted within 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the shelter isn’t full and your pet is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed it may get a stay of execution,
but not for long.
but not for long.
If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because the shelter gets paid a fee to euthanize each animal and making money is better than spending money to take this animal to the vet.
Here’s a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being “put-down”.
First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash. They always look like they think they are going for a walk…happy, wagging their tails…until they get to “The Room”, every one of them freaks out and puts on the brakes when they get to the door.
It must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there. It’s strange, but it happens with every one of them.
Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 shelter workers, depending on the size and how freaked out they are.
Then a shelter worker who we call a “euthanasia tech (not a vet)” finds a vein in the front leg and injects a lethal dose of the “pink stuff”. Hopefully your pet doesn’t panic from being restrained and jerks.
I’ve seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood…the yelps and screams are deafening.
They all don’t just “go to sleep”, sometimes they spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.
You see, shelters are trying to make money to pay employee pay checks and then, there’s the board of directors…who need to be paid too!
Consequently, corners are cut, & we don’t spend our funds to tranquilize the animal before injecting them with the lethal drug, we just put the burning lethal drug in their vein and let them suffer until dead.
If it were not a business for profit, we’d do it humanely and hire a licensed vet do this procedure. That way, the animal would be sedated or tranquilized and THEN euthanized.
But to do this procedure correctly would only cost more money... so we don’t necessarily do what is right for the animal, we do what’s expedient so we can continue to make a buck!
Shelters do not have to have a vet perform their euthanasia procedures. Oftentimes, they are untrained personnel administering lethal injections. So… that employee may take 50 pokes with a needle and 3 hours to get inside the vein.
In the end, your pet’s corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer, usually in the back of the building with all of the other animals that were killed. There they will sit until being picked up like garbage.
What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? Or used for schools to dissect and experiment on?
You’ll never know and it probably won’t even cross your mind. After all, it was just an animal and you can always buy another one, right?!
I hope that those of you who still have a beating heart and have read this are bawling your eyes out and can’t get the pictures out of your head. I deal with this everyday. I hate my job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be there unless you people make changes and start educating yourselves, your children, the public.
Do the research, do your homework, and know exactly what you are getting into before getting a pet. These shelters and humane societies exist because people just do not care about animals anymore.
And PLEASE stop breeding!
Animals were not intended to be disposable but somehow that is what they’ve become.
Here is an updated photo of Hope at her foster mom's house, doesn't she look FABULOUS??? Won't it be great to be able to do this for more dogs like Hope?!? We can, with your help! Thank You!
Currently a blog host and volunteer for GRRSN (Golden Retriever Rescue of So. NV), the co-founder of FUPI (Foreclosed Upon Pets, Inc.) and not to mention many other endeavors, including the "Great Pahrump Cat Rescue", sponsored by Best Friends. I have learned that every helping hand and dollar is needed for all of these and many more organizations to survive and continue doing the fantastic work that they all do.
As one we can make a difference, as a group we can change the world!
Let's step up to the plate as a community and make the change! Come on, let's get involved today!
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| Left in a backyard - June 8, 2011 |
These very sweet dogs have been abandoned by their owner over 1 year ago. She moved to California, left her house and left her dogs in the back yard. The dogs were being fed and watered by the neighbor climbing over a ladder to get to the back yard. One dog is a black male Cocker Spaniel approximately 6 years of age. The other dog is a Brindle mix female. These dogs need an immediate foster home. They are no longer in the back yard but really need an foster home right away. Please call Alison Welch at (702) 485-9914 or alisonwelch15@gmail.com if you can show some compassion to these poor dogs. They are very loving and sweet. They get along with other dogs.
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| Tied to a post and left behind 6/8/2011 |
Samantha was tied to a post behind a local vets office and abandoned. She is a 5 month old Boxer-Pitty mix that has the most unusual dark mocha brindle coloring and a white diamond spot on her forehead to signify her royal beauty. She is spayed, vaccinated, and micro-chipped. She is very loving and likes other dogs and cats. If you can give her a foster home or a forever home please let me know. Alison Welch at (702) 485-9914 or alisonwelch15@gmail.com Annie Lamb at (702) 525-4704 or alambforthedogs@aol.com
Nicole
Gimme Shelter Foundation
The Feral Colony May 2011
Here is Scruffy, she has been living in a feral colony for close to 18 years. Up until seven weeks ago, no human could get near her.
I mentioned to the colony care-taker that she badly needed shaving back in March. Due to the cold weather it had not been done.
This May, I saw the cat again, and again she ran from me. It was not until I realized that she could barely hear and see out of only one eye was I able to sneak up behind her and pick her up.
Expecting to get mauled, I kept her at arms length! Well all she did was wiggle a little, so the next day I brought my clippers with me.
As the matted hair began to come off, in some places nearly 5 inches thick, this "feral cat" began purring, then she began grooming herself and finally licked my hand. I tell you the experience was almost spiritual!
After two days of shaving, a total of six hours, I took this emaciated and lethargic baby to the vets office. On the scale she weighed in at a whooping 6.4#'s and it was determined that she is in kidney failure anemic and blind in one eye, (some sort of old battle wound I guess). She was given sub-q fluids and began to perk up slightly.
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| Scruffy May 16, 2011 |
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| The Make Over, May 17, 2011 |
After a week of three high protein meals per day, (canned only), medication for anemia and kidneys, I felt she was strong enough for a much needed bath. (See below).
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| Angie a.k.a. Scruffy May 25, 2011 |
How did she end up in such a horrible condition? Was she lost? Tossed out? We will never know.
I applaud everyone of you who feed the feral colonies, let's try to kick it up a notch whenever possible and give them the extra care that some might desperately need.
SB 223 has been nicknamed “Cooney’s Law,” for the rescue dog tortured to death by Rios. After brutally killing Cooney, a beagle mix, Rios returned her to the shelter he adopted her from and asked them to dispose of her body. He described her death in great detail to the shelter manager, who called animal control...click on the Jojo link below to read the rest of the story... and sign petition.
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| Jojo rescued from the streets - click here Jojo after a needed spa day, shots and spay  |
Thank you Libby for continuing your dedicated work of TNR.
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| Lucky |
Above is Lucky. He only recently acquired that name when he was caught during a feral trapping weekend in a low income neighborhood overrun with cats. The doctor says it looks like someone "hung" this cat as his skin was literally ripped open. It appears he was beaten as well. For all purposes, he should have been dead .............. but he must have had one more life left to live.
Either cat owners on that street simply cannot not afford to spay/neuter, or have just moved away and left their animals behind. The street was once filled with cats. Lately, many have disappeared. When one of the neighborhood feeders asked around as to where all the cats had gone, some young girls riding bicycles said that their father hates cats. He catches them, breaks their necks, and then drowns them, according to the story the girls told.
.)Donations via credit card are being accepted directly at West Charleston Animal Hospital, 702-362-7387 to the Animal Aid Foundation / Kaya Morgan account; or, you can donate on the web site at www.AnimalAidFoundation.org at the bottom of the page via PayPal.
Trapped and Starved DobieLas Vegas, NV (KTNV) - Several people are pitching-in to help after a disturbing discovery. A hiker found a Doberman trapped behind a cell phone tower fence on Sunrise Mountain, nearly starved to death...click above to see video...
