What the hell is this craziness? US shelters have “run out” of dogs and are importing them from overseas? So now animal shelters are defacto pet stores running an import trade.
Animal shelters in USA send away for more strays Many cities’ pounds go overseas for homeless dogs
I love this:
Hmm. Think this might have something to do with that?
I think it’s very simple. People saw an end coming to their relatively easy jobs, and thought of a way to keep on going.
Could a kindly mod please replace “have” in the thread title with “are”.
That’s particularly weird. My sister used to work in an animal shelter and there was certainly no shortage of stray dogs there.
Wouldn’t there also be some concern about canine diseases being brought into the country by the stray dogs?
That’s certainly not the case here in Middle Tennessee. Our “shelters” are killing dogs by the thousands.
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We’ve got plenty of strays here in the Salt Lake valley too. The city/county shelters take animals for free, but the humane society actually charges (I believe) $20.00 per pet to take an animal in. About four months ago I was talking to an animal control employee who mentioned that most of the cats brought in are feral and not adoptable, which means they are automatically euthanized.
Why don’t they get dogs from other shelters in nearby towns or other states first? Is it because they wouldn’t be able to charge $200 for those?
What the $200 fee covers? Probably transportation (much of it), medical care required prior to bringing the animal, vaccinations, sterilizations, food… When you see all they have to pay, the amount they charge seeems a bit more reasonable.
My local no-kill shelter has an $85 fee for adopting cats or dogs. It is not a stretch for me to see $200 as a fee for pets being brought from overseas.
Canine diseases in Puerto Rico are similar to those in the United States (I think most diseases are pretty common worldwide, anyways). The dogs are vaccinated against lepto, parvovirus, rabies, probably bordatella, and perhaps something else. The dogs have to go through a veterinary examination before leaving the country, and I’m sure any animal considered sick would stay in the country until declared healthy.
When I lived in Boulder, CO, the local shelter there told me that they got puppies from New Mexico all the time. They had no problem adopting them out at all. Apparantly, there was a shortage of puppies in the local area, and many in New Mexico.
Our dog (adopted as a 4 year-old adult) came from the Boulder Humane Society. According to the shelter workers, she was transported up from Santa Fe, NM.