Wednesday, October 31, 2012

HOW'S THAT NO KILL WORKING FOR YOU NOW, AUSTIN??

Not to well. In the previous post, the Town Lake shelter didn't fair well in a recent State inspection. So now the begging begins.


 Subject: Please Help Austin Pets Alive
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> Many of you might have seen the segment last night on the news
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the potential closing of the Town Lake Animal Shelter currently being utilized by Austin Pets Alive. The city is threatening to stop all funding to them and close them down if repairs to their kennels aren't made by Nov 30th. They had just had an inspection this summer and all was fine and then a surprise inspection a day ago happened and all of a sudden things for the inspectors weren’t fine.  Hmmmmm.  Either way, if you have ever volunteered there, adopted from there, or been there, you will know this awesome organization is busting their buns to keep Austin a No Kill City. We need them desperately. Please go to their website to see how you can help. I know many of you are owners of pets and animal lovers and I hope you can find it in your hearts to help out our friends at APA.

What was that about No Kill costing less? Sure it can cost less if you don't care about the conditions the animals are kept in like Spindletop.

Austin Pets Alive says the city is in danger of losing its no kill status. The non-profit group says more animals may be put down unless more money comes in. But the city says there's no bite behind that bark.

And the solution according to everyone - just hunker down. This should be interesting.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wait a MINUTE. I am so confused. I thought there was no pet over population problem and No Kill made money. I feel duped! And importing highly adoptable kittens and puppies to incrase traffic and avoid people going to puppy mills! Any shelter can adopt puppies and kittens even the worst shelter on the planet but I bet it sure kept the adoption numbers up! Plus it keeps people from going to puppy mills? Where the heck does the good Dr. think all those imported animals are comming from a Zoo! It has always been the hard to place animals filling the shelters not the puppies and kittens that are the problem. And the blame game begins! In the end it will certainly be all Austin's fault because they did not want to spend another bazillion dollars! Well maybe the public will step up. Kind of doubt it but I can dream. And we are in the slow season for intakes! Wow would hate to be a politician in Austin these days. Too bad they took the easy way out at the start. Yes should be interesting!

Anonymous said...

They'll let the animals die of disease or kill each other in cages and then lie to everyone and say they got homes.

No Kill is built on lies and suffering, and the animals pay the price while the No Kill con artists try to keep up the sham.

All so the breeders can lie and say there is no overpopulation so they can go on breeding more and more, and creating more and more homelessness.

Anonymous said...

So APA takes the cute adoptable animals from surrounding communities to artificially inflate their own adoption numbers and then no kill goes back and beats up on those communities because they can't adopt out all the less desirable animals. Typical no kill strategy. Take the good ones move the killing to another place and then claim u are no kill having never addressed the real problem of pet over population at all. And then of course u blame the local govt. for not bailing u out with more dollars. Would almost be funny if the animals were not the losers.

Your Quiet Neighbor said...

What is this? Give us money or the dog gets it? Shades of that National Lampoon magazine cover from the 1970s!

Anonymous said...

They are asking for more money again today and of course to email the city council. I did email them but it probably was not the kind of email they had in mind. Just pointed out that every department has to live within a budget so APA should also and that working a little more on the front end with spay neuter and effective breeder laws would help. But I guess since there is no pet over population Austin can just build more buildngs to warhouse the "non existant" problem. Geez.

Anonymous said...

They are asking for more money again today and of course to email the city council. I did email them but it probably was not the kind of email APA had in mind. Just pointed out that every department has to live within a budget so APA should also and that working a little more on the front end with spay neuter and effective breeder laws would help. But I guess since there is no pet over population Austin can just build more buildngs to warhouse the "non existant" problem. Geez.

Anonymous said...

Yes I think you have it right! Give me money or the dog gets it! I do not know if it is an intentional strategy or if no kill just fell into it but that is the bottom line. If any community wants to support their animals by spending money I am all for that but lets end the deciet of claiming it costs nothing, animals don't suffer, no new facilities are needed and lets try to look a bit longer term at spay neuter efforts to reduce the population, breeder control plus the marketing efforts. Realize too that it is a long term strategy! For any jurisdiction that wants to go no kill I would suggest they do a study (just like they do on everything else) that recognizes all programs needed and costs involved and then if necessary take it to the voters. If the voters (taxpayers) want to do it then great. But lets stop the shell game of no kill=no cost. The good news is their are enough real world examples out there of huge cost over runs, disease problems, manipulation of data problems etc. that any organization contemplating no kill should be able to make a reasonale analysis of what is involved and then determine if they want to or can go forward.