The East Bay SPCA will euthanize an animal whose poor health can not be solved humanely by our highly skilled medical staff or consulting specialists or an animal whose condition
puts other shelter animals or workers at risk.
An animal may be euthanized, however, «to alleviate undue suffering or to protect shelter staff and / or
other sheltered animals from an animal's severe aggression or contagious deadly health condition.
At his ripe old age, he appears thin and quite weary — oblivious to the cries, yelps, growls and barks
of other shelter animals.
By doing this, we keep pets out of shelters or abandoned in the streets, thereby decreasing the euthanasia rate of animal - control facilities, lowering the tax burden on citizens whose tax dollars fund county - run animal control services, and
giving other shelter animals a longer period in which to find their forever homes.
Dogs and
other shelter animals will benefit from application of the same concepts to achieve improved living conditions and less overwhelmed staff.
As I am sure all
the other shelter animals are!
The term «unhealthy and untreatable» means and includes all dogs and cats that have behavioral or temperamental characteristics that pose a health risk to
other shelter animals, pose safety risk, or represent such other risk that make the animal unsuitable for placement as a pet, and are not likely to become «healthy» or «treatable» or: