see website inside, click purple tab daily to support shelter pets

• Pedigree commercial with the dog, Echo, at the - pound, looking hopeful, BREAKS MY HEART.nm
  • Echo - Linda
  • Me too! - ERMT
  • Add me to the list - Chavera
  • This breaks my heart and they have others - Doggie
  • My daughter and I get all teary when it comes - on.....we can't bear to see it.
  • all their commercials sadden me. Buy Pedigree people. - they donate to shelters.
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please go to following site, all you need to do is click the purple button in the middle of the page, daily, to help keep the website up and take care of animals. 

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3

cranked up so loud the pictures fall off the walls.

At the time I posted it was a 23-y/o Korean THE DETAILS of who did the shooting had not hit the newswires UNTIL THEN.

My sister's first dog was an AKC standard American Eskimo she got from a no-kill shelter.  He was supposed to be a show dog, but wasn't *perfect*, so his original owner considered him a worthless mouth to feed and left him at the shelter.  For my sister's family, he was a beautiful and loving pet for many years.  You will pay for the necessary shots and probably to have your pet *fixed* as well as perhaps a bit of a mark-up to support the shelter, but you will have a healthy pet, and you will get the one you see.

My sister's current dog is an AKC Pomeranian she got from a Pomeranian rescue organization.  Again, she got a beautiful and loving dog.  His original owner had decided that he was just too much trouble.  If I remember correctly, the rescue service had pictures of available pets on their Internet website.  Again, there was a good-sized fee to cover having him checked out by a vet and *fixed* with again probably a bit of a mark-up to support the organization.  She had to drive a ways downstate to get him - they would not just ship him.

My sister considered the fees reasonable.  As she says, it's a reminder that this is a living creature whose life has value, not a toy to be played with for awhile and then discarded.  I hope you will be as fortunate as my sister has been in whatever way you find your pet.

Police Dept., or whoever handles animals in your community.  I hate to break it to you, but you're *already* paying for it.  So why not have your tax dollars spent on spay/neuter, education, and training programs thru the shelter *instead* of having to be spent (as they currently are) on housing, feeding, and ultimately euthanizing so many animals?  Because a TON of $$$ is spent on that now.  Look it up for your community.  You'll probably be shocked at the costs. 

Honestly, looking at it strictly from the financial aspect of it, it would cost *less* to do more spay/neuter and education.  We have it completely backwards.  Makes no sense. 

That being said, many communities do have organizations that offer low cost spay/neuter for seniors and low income families.  And many shelters are starting to get things going in a more postive direction.  More power to them.  Now if we could only get the pet stores/puppy mills and backyard breeders under control... *sigh*

Go out of the house to do it, call from a pay phone, not your cell phone or anywhere that it would leave a trace. They will be able to help you get out of there safely. It is dangerous to try to do this on your own, especially if your husband will come looking for you. You need the help of people who are experienced with this kind of situation and can offer you a safe haven while you are figuring out your next move.

Call them TODAY. Don't wait any longer. Just tell your husband you need to go to the grocery store (and be sure you come home with some groceries). Call them from a pay phone. If you don't know the name of your local battered women's shelter, call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) and they can guide you. There is a link below to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Good luck. Please keep us updated on your situation.

We really wanted to give an older one a home too, because our little local shelter here is PACKED with cats and the poor things only have a 'shelf life' of 7 days before they are euthanized.  We have 3 small yappy dogs and they just didn't have any older cats that they would be comfortable placing with us, and I can COMPLETELY understand that.  It's just so sad to see these cats in cages looking so sad and deserve so much better than whatever life's circumstances caused them to be brought there.  The volunteers told us more and more people are surrending their cats because they have to choose between cat food and fuel.  I'm sorry, but you can feed a cat (healthy ones anyway) the cheapest of cheap dry food, I mean, if that's what it takes to get by.  I couldn't imagine just dumping my cat off at a shelter, where you know they will be put to death...I would walk the streets and collect cans first. 

Sorry for the rant.  Just so sad to think that people just throw their pets away like this...or worse and leave them outside to fend for themselves. 

So no, no cats in the near future for me I'm afraid. 

Have you investigated pay-per-click? I  did quite well with that system.

I ran a suceessful web site and gave it up to take care of my terminally ill mother. At one point I was selling $1,000 daily. Please remember that was  $1,000 in sales, not profitt; nevertheless a substantial amount.

I posted once on this board for a QA issue (the day after  my mother went to heaven) and was chopped to pieces. I was sad when she went to heaven but nearly suicidal after reading  others' responses.

e-mail me and and I will try to help!