Odessa

I needed cat food so off to my favorite pet store I go. Its Saturday and they are having an adoption clinic and it is wall to wall dogs and corner with a few cats. A woman is talking to the lady with the cats and I over heard most of the conversation. The woman is taking issue with adopting a pet from or donating money to the organization the lady is with because they kill too many cats. She eventually leaves in a huff.

There are so many in the rescue world who are "no-kill" and sit on their high mountain tops looking down their noses at the rest. It must be nice being so sanctimonious when you leave the dirty work for someone else. Furthermore, for every "difficult" case you take in that may never get a proper "forever" home because they are so screwed up, there may be two well-adjusted very easily adoptable pets in the shelter that may get put down because no one wants to go to the death house.

Fact is, you can not blame shelters for euthanising unwanted cats, dogs and other creatures. They are not the idiots who didn't spay or neuter their pets before they could produce large quantities of cuddly kittens and puppies who then become cats and dogs no one wants. They are just the ones left with the unpleasant task of killing the ones that no one wants.