Sunday, November 15, 2009

Stomach-turning news about shelters

KC Dog Blog has its usual terrific weekly roundup, including links from Nathan Winograd about shelters across the U.S. where the so-called humans in charge routinely starve and beat animals to death.

Humans don't deserve this planet. And many two-legs don't qualify as human.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Demand accountability. NOW.

The City of Memphis had a shelter system that tortured animals, burying an injured live dog under the corpses of animals being sent for cremation, and starved animals to death. And in Memphis, nothing changes. The people responsible for this animal cruelty continue in their jobs as though nothing happened, one collecting almost $100K. They KNEW about this. They had been told about this, repeatedly. And did NOTHING.

Starve the fat f*ckers to death. And it still won't be justice.

Continuing story on YesBiscuit October 30, YesBiscuit November 3 , the Commercial Appeal November 3, YesBiscuit November 5

Warning: Graphic photos.

H/T to KC Dog Blog.

Side note: This could be happening in your own community, if the animal shelter or pound isn't under any requirement for transparency and accountability and no one in the municipality's bureaucracy gets off their fat arse to make sure there is.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Michael Vick hasn't paid, and never will.

Read the excellent article on SFGate.com entitled "Michael Vick's unpaid dues: Why dog advocates aren't moving on", by Christie Keith of the Pet Connection blog.

Which explains why I despise Michael Vick and others of his ilk.

And which is why Vick supporters, including the team that hired him and Nike that's giving him freebies, should be ashamed of themselves. But they're too stupid to be ashamed.


Sunday, November 1, 2009

Give a meaningful gift.

With this weakening economy, more and more animals are being given up due to financial crises within their homes. This puts extra strain on animal rescues' resources and their ability to help animals.

You can donate to an animal rescue through Canada Helps, which reduces the administrative burden for rescues since Canada Helps does the tax receipting.

To make a donation to Speaking of Dogs, you can donate through the umbrella group K-9 Rescue Me and get a tax receipt through the Canada Helps website. Click here for instructions.

Give a gift of and for life, for those who cannot help themselves.