Hotel Vegas
Animals Not Toys
RECEIVED Mon., Nov. 28, 2005
Dear Editor,
I am writing about a response [”Postmarks Online,” Nov. 23] that you received to your No-Kill Millennium article [“What Happened to the No-Kill Millennium?,” News, Nov. 18].
A reader was upset because he couldn't waltz into TLAC and get his child the kitten he wanted like it was the only one there, like it was a toy car or truck and not a life that should be considered a part of the family for the rest of its life through good and bad until the natural death of the adult cat.
He didn't feel he should be questioned or counseled, he just wanted a new toy for his child. He was angry they didn't get exactly the one they wanted.
I am so sorry! Get real, there are hundreds of animals that need a new home; there are no perfect pets and no perfect homes, but any shelter worth its salt should screen homes and sort out who they think will give an animal a forever home and not have it be the thrill of the moment.
It's just too easy to get an animal and too easy to give it up, as if their was no shame in this at all.
Fewer pets would be killed if people wouldn't be so picky about getting just the perfect pet and would take a homeless one and not all fight over a few "cute" ones or purebred ones. They all deserve good, lifetime homes, not just the babies or pretty ones.
What about the big ones, the older ones, the "ugly" ones, and the proverbial black ones.
No need to fight over a shelter animal, there are way too many dying to get out!
I am writing about a response [”Postmarks Online,” Nov. 23] that you received to your No-Kill Millennium article [“What Happened to the No-Kill Millennium?,” News, Nov. 18].
A reader was upset because he couldn't waltz into TLAC and get his child the kitten he wanted like it was the only one there, like it was a toy car or truck and not a life that should be considered a part of the family for the rest of its life through good and bad until the natural death of the adult cat.
He didn't feel he should be questioned or counseled, he just wanted a new toy for his child. He was angry they didn't get exactly the one they wanted.
I am so sorry! Get real, there are hundreds of animals that need a new home; there are no perfect pets and no perfect homes, but any shelter worth its salt should screen homes and sort out who they think will give an animal a forever home and not have it be the thrill of the moment.
It's just too easy to get an animal and too easy to give it up, as if their was no shame in this at all.
Fewer pets would be killed if people wouldn't be so picky about getting just the perfect pet and would take a homeless one and not all fight over a few "cute" ones or purebred ones. They all deserve good, lifetime homes, not just the babies or pretty ones.
What about the big ones, the older ones, the "ugly" ones, and the proverbial black ones.
No need to fight over a shelter animal, there are way too many dying to get out!
Deborah Ullrich
