| PAWSIndia - Pet Animal Welfare Society (PAWS). Dedicated to the prevention of cruelty towards animals. Offers adoption, rabies eradication, and sterilization programs.
PAWSIndia - Pet Animal Welfare Society (PAWS). Dedicated to the prevention of cruelty towards animals. Offers adoption, rabies eradication, and sterilization programs. Animals have people problems. Currently, animal shelters and rescue organizations are designed to take unwanted animals from humans that want to give the animal up. Usually animals are given up for a myriad of reasons which often include, moving, allergies, military enlistment, divorce, and bad behavior.
Shelters have a variety of ways of determining which animal should be put up for adoption or euthanized due to temperament and space constraints. Some shelters believe in rehabilitating dangerous dogs, some believe in not euthanizing, some believe in keeping animals in kennels, some believe in no kennels. Almost all shelters require the animal be sterilized before they are put up for adoption.
And yet, after all these constraints and regulations, less than 30 percent of animals are adopted out from shelters. Also, shelters handle less than 50 percent of the animals that are actually homeless. In some areas the numbers are greater than that. It makes me ask the question Do animal shelters really work? Once regarded as the dog catcher and rabies quarantine center, an animal shelter has grown into a safe haven for homeless animals.
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