SATURDAY AUGUST 19 2000 Another Adoption Day at Petsmart
9:00a - Bill and I left for Petsmart in Dallas in Bill's van with four dogs: Blackie Blue Eyes, Jake, Tommy and Tipper. Susan Devers and Dr. John Pippin were at Petsmart setting up when we arrived about eleven o'clock.
Blackie Blue Eyes is adopted!
This was to be Blackie's big day! All this week I've been in contact with a young woman named Theresa, who is interested in adopting Blackie. Theresa had seen Blackie several weeks ago during one of our dog adoption days, and she seemed very interested in Blackie at the time. Then just this week I heard from her again. She wants to adopt Blackie!
We've been emailing back and forth all week, Theresa asking lots of questions about Blackie, all of which I answered, and now we've set up an appointment for this Saturday for Blackie's home visit with Theresa. Both Theresa and I were very excited about the adoption!
The visit went beautifully!
John and I took Blackie in John's car for the home visit with Theresa, who lived about 15 minutes away.
The visit went beautifully! Theresa was so happy to adopt Blackie and Blackie was cute to watch as she walked around, peeking her head around the corners of the rooms to "check out" her new home. Blackie Blue Eyes got lots of hugs and gave lots of kisses to her new "mom." What a pampered house pet she will now be!
Jake has two potential adopters
Both individuals said they would be in contact with us this week or would visit Jake again next Saturday at Petsmart.
While doggie sitting Jake, John "Big Dog" Pippin, M.D. tries to get Jake to take his cap off:
If any of you would like to volunteer your dog-caring services to help us out on our Saturday Petsmart Adoption afternoons, we'd love to hear from you. Please call me if you are able to help. Thank you. Pat (903) 479-3497
We continue to thank all of you for you financial and moral support, which has made it possible to save the lives of these wonderful dogs, give them the care they need and adopt them into good, loving homes.
Not only is it the morally higher choice to spay and neuter before more puppies and kittens are conceived rather than to euthanize millions of healthy young dogs and cats after they are born, but it is also a stupid waste of taxpayer money to deal with the overpopulation problem using the catch and kill method.
Year after year after year we Americans spend more money catching and KILLING surplus dogs and cats than it would cost us to put an end to the overpopulation problem of companion animals in one fell swoop by way of a massive spay and neuter campaign. In fact, with adequate funding we, as a society, could achieve companion animal population control--WITHOUT KILLING--before the next reproductive cycle is upon us.
The war on unplanned dog and cat pregnancies can end almost immediately if WE collectively decide to make it end!
Straydog's Proposed Plan of Action:
- FIRST: We must educate the millions and millions of Americans who are still unaware that there IS an overpopulation problem. With newspaper, radio and television ads we must immediately bombard the unaware portion of the public, and we must keep up a massive media campaign until we finally DO make everyone aware of how dire the situation is and how simple the solution can and will be.
- SECOND: Once everyone has been made aware of the overpopulation problem, we must, as a society, perhaps for just a limited period of time (possibly no longer than the length of one reproductive cycle in dogs and cats) make available free spaying or neutering for any dog or cat taken to any of the (yet-to-be-established) program veterinary clinics throughout the country.
- THIRD: With a drastic reduction in puppy and kitten births, the population of animal shelters will diminish rapidly. A solid plan must then be implemented to maintain the population of dogs and cats at a low enough level to ensure no more surplus, no more killing.
Straydog Inc. hopes to begin a SPAY & NEUTER campaign in our local area ASAP. We plan to run the above "Plan of Action" as an advertisement in our local papers, in which we will be asking that those who cannot afford to have their pets spayed and neutered apply to the "Straydog Spay & Neuter Fund" for financial assistance. Would you please consider implementing a similar campaign in your area?
Please continue to support Straydog (our Happy Home for Strays) AND please also contribute to the "Straydog Spay & Neuter Fund." Let us together end this horrible overpopulation problem the humane way: via spay and neuter rather than euthanasia.