Not exact matches
These include reporting owners who fail to clean up after their
animals who may defecate in public
places, cause some sort of environmental damage, or are
aggressive and exhibit behaviours like chasing, biting or excessive barking, both within or outside their dwelling.
Buying a puppy from a such a
place supports
animal abuse and, since puppy mill puppies often have health and behavior problems, can leave the owner have to care for a sick or
aggressive dog.
On January 1, 2013, the SPCA of Brazoria County instituted a «No Kill» policy, meaning that they would only euthanize a pet
animal if it was too ill or injured to be humanely treated or too
aggressive to
place it back out into the public.
MYTH # 1: Shelters are dirty, smelly
places that keep inferior,
aggressive animals cruelly caged until it's time to kill them.
They also reported finding sick
animals placed with healthy ones and
aggressive dogs housed together.
If you're
placing pressure in the wrong areas or the
animal does not feel secure, your handling can actually make the
animal struggle and become
aggressive.
St. Bernard Parish
Animal Services Director Beth Brewster says the shelter attempts to
place all dogs in adoptive homes, ships some to rescue groups and tries to put down only those deemed
aggressive.
What procedures are in
place to segregate more
aggressive animals?
They neglect to note that a large number of these
animals are either surrendered by their owners for euthanasia because they are old and sick, seriously injured, or dangerously
aggressive; that many of the dogs euthanized are unidentified, unclaimed strays that are too old, sick, injured or
aggressive to be
placed in new homes; and many of the cats euthanized are feral
animals that were never owned but were trapped and impounded because they have become nuisances.
Animals are euthanized if they are too
aggressive to be safely
placed in a home or too ill to be rehabilitated.
All evacuated exotic
animals, small mammals and
aggressive dogs and cats that have not been
placed with family or friends will be housed at SFACC or across the street with the SF SPCA regardless of where the guardian is sheltered.
We reserve humane euthanasia only in instances when
animals are suffering greatly with no potential for relief, or if an
animal is so
aggressive that he or she presents a danger to people or other
animals and can not be safely handled or
placed.
It is home to 125
animals and each
animal has been
placed in the zoo after either being injured or orphaned or tamed, or may have been too
aggressive for the area where they originally resided.