ASPCA: Dead Dogs Maybe Better Than Live Ones

Really, I don't want to flog a dead dog horse — but just this morning, in my physical therapist's waiting room, I thumbed through the March 10 issue of People and found an article on Alex Aliksanyan, the founder of dogsindanger.com. In the half a year since its inception, the website that features pictures of shelter dogs that are about to be put down has helped save more than 4,400 of these canines.

Instead of lauding Aliksanyan, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals scoffs at his success, and at the kind-hearted pet lovers who've rescued condemned dogs through the site. People quotes senior vice president Gail Buchwald as sniffing,

"Guilt or emotional blackmail is never a good reason to bring a dog into your home."

I thought that my local SPCA was accidentally staffed with petty, arrogant know-it-alls — that this was a fluke, not a nationwide institutional attitude.

Now I'm not so sure.

Like her dog-killing underlings in Trenton, Maine, Ms. Buchwald believes that the good is the enemy of the perfect, and she stands proudly ready to remind everyone that if they can't adopt a dog for reasons she approves of, the animal might as well be executed.

God, these people disgust me.

Comments

[Hermes Ten]

Yeah, you should never do something for a living creature because you feel sorry for it, or guilty, it's much better to let it suffer until you get your head right.

Is it possible to get to the top of any large organization in this country without being something akin to a sociopath?

[Phelps]

Dog adoption are serious business.

Especially for the dog.

[SusanK]

Nice quote from the senior VP of an organization which lists "Cats" not being on broadway as a reason to adopt a pet (along with the sex appeal it brings).
http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=adopt_adoptiontips

[RLPerry]

This is just the tip of the iceberg ... what you all need to do is search "rogue humane societies" ...

Someone in my family was a victim of the humane society (aspca, hs, and peta are all tied up together) killing and mutilating many of her animals, taking the rest, and totally ruining her life so that the could make pleas for donations to help the poor abused animals (they made HUGE money from it).
Not ALL of the local units are involved so I don't want to infer that they are all bad people, but the problem is getting bigger and bigger as they climb on board the big money bandwagon.

[Tami]

So many people give $ to PETA because they believe they are protecting animals, but PETA believe dogs/cats are better dead than as pets. The statistics are they they euthanized 97% of the animals that came into their shelters. HSUS is working hard to make sure we don't have any more purebred breeds. The Animal Rights activists are gaining inroads through our children, school programs & Materials aimed at children. Dog owners, pet lovers need to pay attention to what these groups are doing because they are pushing through legislation every day that will limit our ability to own pets.

[ann]

i too was a victim of the rogue HS they fabricated everything from planting a dead horse on my farm by the road ,to information given to the press and courts.

[ann]

I would like information anyone can give me on these monsters who call themselves animal rescuers. I am documenting cases and information on them in order to bring them down. I am a member of PAART an organization of other victims and all our stories are the same .They involve fraud, false information, outright lying, torturing of animals by the HS themselves,and even murder. Please help if you can.I soon will be going public with my story. Thank you, Barb

[Ncline38]

I had a black lab pup dropped on my doorstep that had been beaten from two weeks old until she made it to my house....She was more than what I could handle with her fear of other people and not leash broke.. You need to understand that physically my shoulder are shot..... So I went to the animal shelter or ASPA and asked if they would work with her fear of people. I was assured that she would stay there for three months before they would put her down...Paying them to keep her and giving them my phone number if anything went wrong and I would buy her back... A week later I found her a really good home just to find out they put her to sleep two days after I left her there.... I cried for days... What right did they have to do that to such a sweet dog...