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Help Needed to Rescue 150 Animals Scheduled For Euthanasia
Central California Shelter to Euthanize Entire Population By March 7
Published on Feb 22, 2009 - 12:16:31 PM
By: Butte Humane Society
Feb. 22, 2009 - Butte Humane Society is organizing a rescue effort for at least 150 animals slated for euthanasia at a Central California shelter. The high-kill shelter, who asked to remain anonymous, is moving to a new facility on March 15 and has decided to euthanize the entire shelter population - about 100 dogs and 50 cats - so that no possible disease will be brought into the new facility. No major infectious diseases are known to be within the population, though a few dogs have bordetella (kennel cough) which is easily treatable with antibiotics. The shelter's staff will be vacating the old facility and moving to the new facility on March 15. The shelter's volunteers are desperately scrambling to place the animals in permanent or temporary homes, and are willing to transport the animals to other shelters, rescue groups, and foster homes.
Butte Humane Society has agreed to take as many animals as space permits and is working to find foster homes in our community. If you can provide a temporary home for one or more of these animals, please contact the shelter at 530-343-7917 or e-mail kimthompson@buttehumane.org. You will be required to complete a foster volunteer application and verify that any pets you own have current vaccinations. BHS will provide any necessary medication and can provide food and other supplies for their care. These animals will need to be fostered for at least one week to ensure they are healthy and ready for adoption, and as space opens up in our shelter we will take in the animals and place them up for adoption. If foster parents can care for the animals on a more long-term basis, BHS will work to adopt out animals directly from the foster homes.
Web site: Butte Humane Society
Editor's note: Merced County has released a statement on their new shelter and their policies: Merced County Responds To Animal Control Rumors
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Comments
Mindy
21 Sep 2009, 15:41
I adopted one of these dogs from another shelter where he was the shelter
that he came from so I can Get a better understanding of his past so I can
help him with his few issues! So glad that he is with us, But I want a
better history of his past. Can you help?
Jackie Simonson
23 Feb 2009, 17:25
The shelter in question is the Merced County Shelter. If you can help by
fostering one or two of these dogs, the dogs win. Scooter's Pals
(www.scooterspals.org, a non-profit rescue organization, has pulled several
dogs from the Merced Shelter, and has a member on their way there even as I
type to pull another one.
You are absolutely correct, Donna, that public funds support that shelter.
We are glad that a new shelter has been built -- but what a horrible end
for the animals in the old one.
Kudos to Butte County for taking a role in helping these dogs -- and to
YubaNet for publicizing it.
Donna Jones
23 Feb 2009, 16:36
Those of us who aren't in rescue need to know what shelter is planning such
cruel and misguided action! My bet is that public funds are used to
support that shelter and this is a betrayal of the public trust. Please,
YubaNet, try to publish the name of this "shelter" so the rest of us can
try to intervene. Thank you.
Jackie Simonson
22 Feb 2009, 18:14
Why would the Butte Humane Society agree to keep the name of the offending
high-kill shelter's name anonymous, (which all of us in rescue already know
anyway)? If more people knew, they could write letters of protest and
expose them for this atrocious behavior.
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