NJ has a bill to EUTHANIZE on arrival at shelters!?

Unfortunately and very sadly, due to so many irresponsible owners dumping their pets the shelters have no option. There just isn't enough space for all the animals incoming in.

Of course the animals deserve longer than 24 hours. They also deserve better owners. Back yard breeders don't care about selling their poorly bred dogs to good owners who will love and care for the animals for life, they only care about the color of their money and will sell to any moron.

It's a horrible situation and it's not the fault of the shelters it's the fault of scumbag owners who don't care.

It's also sad that animals are considered to be 'too old'. I love the oldies and they're the ones I rescue.

Thank you for making people aware of this. How very horrible and sad! People breed dogs which increases the over-population problem. We need to better take care of all those who are already here. Yes, rescued animals certainly do deserve more than 24 hours.

As far as the person who said other issues are more important - we need to extend our compassion to include those who can't speak for themselves. Animals have no voice and we need to speak out for them when there are wrongs such as this. Also, this is a site to post about animals. It is entirely possible you have posted in the appropriate place about hunger and other human rights issues. But posting about those issues on a site about dogs would be silly.

Again, thank you so much for posting this. It is so important to fight this and to spread the word to get more people involved in making sure this does not happen.

They are already euthanizing surrenders here on arrival.

Someone we know found a litter of kittens and took them to the pound, only to have them euthanized in the driveway.....which was quite a shock to them.

I guess there is just too little money and too many animals to deal with.

I don't know how it is there, but when I was doing breed rescue the pound would call me to come get the dogs. Maybe you could set something up with them so they would call you and you could rescue them before they are euthanized.

that is horrible! i think that they should have atleast 2 weeks at shelters. as for the fixing world hunger and such. ya that stuff happens and it is horrible, but dogs were here first, even if we have altered breeds, and they have rights too. the fix for this is also so simple and easy, make fixing dogs mandatory. and make it illegal to breed your dog unless you are a certifide reputable breeder, only in it to better the breed. simply passing a law, that is all they have too do. the animal cops would do all the rest. such a simple fix that the governement is unwilling to do. it would make the world a better place, and would take almost no time from the fixing of world hunger and such. 8]

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Ace of hearts: in a perfect world, that would encourage better behavior from BYBs and people who abandon their dogs. but we live in reality. so people are not going to do that. already in america 9 million dogs are put in shelters each year, and 4 million are adopted. the rest put down. who does this encourage? people just dont know or dont care.

OH MY GOSH THATS TERRIBLE i would love to help but im confused can you please tell me in the additional details exactly what you want me to do, email him? what all do i say ? i strongly believe every animal deserves a life cause they are just like people, better in a lot of ways they dont mess up the earth and treat other creatures unfair so yeah i would love to help

I'll probably get loads of TDs for this but oh well. I honestly don't think that's a bad idea. Maybe it'll slap some sense into people and make them start being more responsible when it comes to animals.

Sorry but not all animals can be saved. Sad, yes, but it's reality.

Don't get me wrong I love animals as much as the next guy, but I wish people would be more passionate about things like poverty or world hunger than saving animals...