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Now that we’ve offered our assistance, networked and made contacts around Western Canada, we are bombarded with pleas to help. We are constantly turning down dogs needing help and often their alternatives are death. Death by euthanization, death by starvation, death by the bone chilling winter cold or a lowly existence sitting in a shelter for months up North because there is very little adoption base while other dogs wait to get in the few shelters, all while import dogs are brought in to get homes.

It’s not as flashy as the online posts about the dogs with hours to their euthanization date but we see the regular pleas from our fellow rescuers begging for help because another puppy from a litter they couldn’t take because they were already full, just froze to death. This happens all the time. Need an example to make it real? This is a message we received through our networks:

“Here is another litter brought to our attention. They are currently at the owners house in a covered dog house. There are 6 pups now as one has froze there as well.” -A fellow rescuer

What is a dog shoot/cull & where are they happening?

A dog shoot/cull is where dogs are rounded up and shot to control over-population. This is common practice in Canada. Need to see it to believe it? Follow the links.

“While most dogs remain friendly and rarely get aggressive, the ones who do are rounded up and taken out of town and shot. Sometimes, dogs are taken out in groups and culled because there are just too many of them. Few people want to talk about it though. “I feel sad when it happens,” says Kamalapisit but knows it happens at least once a year.”

“Part of the horror of this happening is the complacency surrounding the events.” -Turtle Gardens Rescue in Terrace

Have a link to add? Send it to Shannon@IslandDogsRescue.com

Another factor that is often hidden is that when shelters are full, where do the dogs go? In some areas they go to the local vets who hold them for only 72 hours before euthanization if a spot doesn’t open up or they aren’t claimed. This is not something the vets like to do but they have little to no options if they do not have support and placement for the dogs.

What about dogs that are euthanized? Quebec is infamous for it’s gassing of dogs, as well as having very high rates of over population and the largest puppy mills busts in Canadian history.. What happens to the carcasses in the areas where more dogs are being euthanized? If you want to live in a happy rainbow filled bubble, stop reading and don’t click the link… What’s Inside the Dog Foods We Feed