The Tearfree household has just acquired a new member, Bridget, an eight week old Scottish Terrier, whose pictures will be featured on Wednesday if we are still around.
When Tearfree let it be known that she was getting a purebred dog, it generated a certain amount of controversy. Many people think buying a purebred is immoral given all the homeless mutts available at the SPCA. Many others think every purebred dog comes from either a puppy mill or a crooked breeder. Whatever! Tearfree is not going to apologize for Bridget, who is a total awesome rockstar puppy.
The SPCA gives out a lot of cats and dogs that should be put down as they say. The problem is that many of the decision makers there are virulent animal rights types. Tearfree knows this because, among other things, she has experienced it first hand when the SPCA gave her a feral adult street cat who was totally unfit to live in a house and jumped off the upstairs balcony within one hour of arriving at his new home.
One of Tearfree's students who volunteers at the SPCA and tried to talk Tearfree out of a Scottie, admitted that psycho pets, were indeed a problem there but promised she'd find Tearfree "a puppy whose tail you could step on."
In the end, Tearfree, who hasn't had a dog since she left home at 21, decided that she wanted to get her dream pet and despite all the protestations, went for the purebred and wrote the check.
4 comments:
Congratulations? What is it with some humane societies, anyway? The one in Toronto is ridiculous. They won't put any animals down, including the sick and ailing and most incredibly, including a vicious pitbull who practically ripped the face of some kid a few years ago. They actually think someone might want to adopt the poor, misunderstood killing machine.
Making the decision on getting a dog is a big one, and you should never be pressured to choose mutt over purebred - so good for you for making the choice to get what YOU want.
We have a pound puppy, but it was just something that kind of happened. Before that, I grew up amongst dachschunds - these always came from breeders, with papers, and seemed like they were well-treated.
As long as you're happy with the dog, that's the important thing.
So humane societies in Canada are "no kill". That's admirable, but the ones here in the U.S. will only keep dogs for so long and put them down if they're "not adoptable" - like your killer pitbull, for instance. There are no-kill shelters, but these seem to be private non-profits, and even those will only accept dogs that are deemed "adoptable".
They're not officially "no kill." It seems to happen de facto because a high percentage of volunteers are PETA members.
Yes, as far as I know, only the Toronto Humane Society is no kill. Others are more sensible. A lot of vets have left the Toronto HS in an outrage because the guy who runs the place won't let them put sick and incurable animals down. It is stupid.
They also wouldn't let me adopt a cat unless I lied and said I would never allow it to go outside. I lied. And I know there is a vicious indoor versus outdoor cat debate. But my cats don't roam the neighbourhood at will. They go out when I get up in the morning and I call them in before I leave for work. Then they go out for an hour in the evening.
Contrary to popular belief, you can train a cat to come when they're called.
Oh dear ... how boring ...
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