If you want a good laugh this morning, click here and watch the “Ruger enjoys the water” video.
Ruger is a 2-3 year old male Weimaraner who is in foster care with Weimaraner Rescue of the South.
Ruger is a big, strong, handsome, and happy boy with a great sense of humor; he loves to engage his foster mom and other dogs in a fun game of chase whenever he gets the opportunity. The perfect family for Ruger would be an active family with no small children (he likes them, he just doesn’t realize how big and strong he is and could accidentally knock them down), at least one other big active dog to be best buddies with, and no cats.
Visit Weimaraner Rescue of the South if you’re interested in Ruger or another Weim like him.
This little baby Boxer boy of 5-7 weeks needs your help to survive the week. He’s listed as urgent Barrow County Animal Shelter and dogs are euthanized on Wednesdays. Without an adoptive or foster home, he’s likely to be put down.
Ben Smith has written a story at Saporta Report about the fight in DeKalb County for funding of a new animal shelter.
A citizens task force in early 2012 called the facility a filthy, smelly, bug- and rat-infested, understaffed “chamber of horrors.” Out of every ten animals that go there, three die. It has the highest “kill rate” of any animal shelter in metro Atlanta, the task force reported.
In its three previous meetings since March 12, the board had put off voting to put up $2.75 million in bond funding to design and begin construction of the new shelter next toDeKalb-Peachtree Airport.
Meanwhile at the current shelter, an average of 16 animals a day perish.
The board voted 5-2 to put off a vote on the proposal. The commissioners said they hadn’t been given enough time to read an analysis prepared by staff members in Ellis’ office and an advisory board that favored the airport location over dozens of other proposed sites in the county.
The County Commissioners are not the bad guys here, nor are the shelter staff who oversee an unconscionable number of euthanizations of healthy animals. It’s the fault of people who allow their animals to breed without spaying or neutering and then turn in the animals to the shelter. But it’s important to understand that if you live in one of Atlanta’s metro counties, some of your tax dollars go to killing thousands of dogs and cats each year. I cannot believe there isn’t a better way.
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