Pounds Dogs and Puppies (Contains Disturbing Images)

wyliecat88 · Pounds Dogs and Puppies (Contains Disturbing Images)

Please be aware, this isn't nice. (Taken from www.germanshepherdrescue.co.uk)

Before you go out and buy that puppy please read carefully

Did you know that at least 150 dogs are killed in the UK every week? How and why? They are destroyed by lethal injection by man because they are surplus to requirement.

The Dog Trust survey reveals that a shocking 105,000 strays are picked up every year with some 300 being abandoned every day. A minimum of 150 dogs are put to sleep every week in the UK.

How sad that we claim to be animal-lovers yet the throwaway mentality is so evident in our treatment of our own pets.

Whether a dog lives or dies is very much a post code lottery and in some areas there the rate of destruction is as high as 35%.

Their crime is being surplus to requirement

There are many council run pounds across the UK that do care about the animals that are brought in and they will work with rescues and do what they can to help rehome dogs.

Unfortunately there are many privately run pounds who care little for the dogs. The pound staff are very cold hearted and the dogs mean nothing to them. They make lots of money from taking in these dogs and it is easier and quicker to kill them than try and find a home for them. They only have to keep them 7 days and then they can kill them to make room for more.

Think puppies don't end up in the pound and get put to sleep? WRONG!

In many pounds the dogs are housed in runs small runs which will have no suitable bedding, usually wet newspaper on cold concrete floors. Often pound workers clean the dog runs with the dogs in them, by turning on the hose and hosing down the faeces, urine etc. So the poor animal will be left doused in water and goodness knows what and left to shiver.

The kennels are often dark and unheated (eats into their profits) so floors stay wet for hours and the poor dogs young or old have no choice but to lie there. Most dogs are are fed on just dry kibble which is often thrown on the floor -saves having to wash dog bowls. Many will go hungry for days simply because if they don't eat then they do not shit. Similarly if they don't drink they don't pee. Less work for the pound workers - no mess to clean up.

What did I do to deserve this?

If a staff member takes a particular dislike to an animal or it shows any sign of aggression it is 'disposed of'. Even good natured dogs find it hard to cope with the types of conditions found in many of the pounds, hence many animals will have little chance of getting out alive, especially if they are a bit timid because they may have been mistreated by their previous uncaring owners etc.

Often members of the public who surrender their dogs are never told that many of these dogs will be killed after 7 days unless they are lucky enough to be rescued. It's like a concentration camps with rows and rows of dogs waiting to go for slaughter.

This is happening every day 365 days a year and Christmas and public/school holidays are the worse times as the numbers of dogs taken in rises.

The killing will be done well away from the public eye with the dogs which are sceduled to die being taken to a building in the back of the pound, where the puplic cannot see. There they await their turn, while they are watching the other dogs die one by one.

Innocent victims of todays society disposable throw away items no longer required. Often the person who euthanises the dogs is not a vet, just a heartless pound worker who gets great pleasure in giving them the lethal injection.

The dogs bodies are than loaded into a freezer to be taken away by truck - who knows where. Some commercial pet food companies are known to use pet carcasses in their products.

Appalled - any caring person would be!!

PLEASE HELP US SAVE POUNDIES