Urgent!!! Westie Needs Help Please Read

[animeprincess]

WESTIE NEEDS HELP URGENT PLEASE READ [19 Apr 2005|11:42pm]
Please Read about this little dog. I have already reported him to the west highland terrier club whom have contacts with rescue workers. This little purebred, healthy, 10 month old Westie is going to be KILLED in NINE days. He needs to be adopted NOW. There is simply not enough room at the shelter where he is located. Get him out please. Anyone who works for rescues or who wants a perfect pet. I think he is adorable. Hell, I want him myself but I have no way of traveling to Nevada to get him. His rescue fee is ONLY 17 dollars! TRUST ME that is cheap! All the other small breed rescues ive seen go for 400-600 dollars. He is purebred anad not even a year old. He is in good health. Doesn't he deserve a chance?

At first i thought his name was dewey based on the email adress "friends of dewey" but this dog does not even have a name. He is simply a number. And he will be eliminated to make room for new dogs if he is not taken out of the shelter IMMEDIATELY.

My email to the westie rescue workers:
http://www.petfinder.org/pet.cgi?action=2&pet=4337612&adTarget=468doggeneral&SessionID=4265ccc5692f91c7-app2&display=&preview=1&row=0&tmpl=&stat=

"I saw this guy on petfinder. He is due to be killed next friday. PLEASE help him. I would adopt him but I live too far away (in PA usa)

He is fullblooded westie, incredibly cute, healthy, and young, only 10 months old. He would make a perfect pet for someone. He does not deserve to die.

Please go save him.

I found your website earlier this week when i was reading about westies. Tonight while looking for a westie to adopt I found Dewey on petfinder. I can't bear to think someone will kill him. He is just too perfect. His rescue fee is only $17. If no room or home for dewey can be aranged I would be interested if transportation could be arranged somehow. Dewey deserves a chance. He will be killed in 9 days. Please don't let that happen."

[britly]

I have called a Westie rescue, I talked to the women she said if he hasn't been adopted out yet that she would send someone to get him, I am in Michigan, I would love to have him too, but can't get to him, and of course can't afford to wait. She is going to keep me updated on what happens with him. Thank you for posting this, hopefully he has either been adopted, or they will get to him to save him.

[pandiapita04]

Saving this 1 dog is no good when 1000's of dogs are being killed every day............. i am not saying that you should not TRY, if you look in shelters were you live you are bound to find a great dog........... We can't have dogs/cats were we live now BUT we when't to the shelter to look and 95% if NOT ALL the dogs were purebread......... Min pins, gn ret, rottie, pits, aust cattel, sharpies, huskies, and more in 1 shelter

[britly]

Sorry but i completely disagree with you, saving this dog is important, would you rather we just left it because we can't save them all? why save one if you can't save them all is that what your saying? Every dog needs a home, if you can save one so be it, but no one can possibly save all of them, why not help the ones you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pandiapita04]

why not help the ones you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats what i am saying, you said you would but you are to far away........ so why not save the ones in a shelter near you?

[britly]

I have adopted several dogs from shelters, my local spca and another local shelter, I have also made donations to local animal shelters. I help who I can help, I cannot bring home every dog. If he was near me I would go get him, it doesn't mean now that I am going to go to the shelter to get all of the animals that are going to be put to sleep that is what rescues are for, that is why I called them instead of finding a way to get him.

[britly]

and why would you say saving the one doesn't matter, he matters, he is a dog, like any other dog in any other shelter, it wouldn't of mattered to me where he was or what breed he was I wouldve done what I did which is calling till I found someone to save him. HE DOES MATTER!!

[pandiapita04]

All animals matter! hes cute hes likely to be adopted.. but why go out of the way when there is a shelter right there.... i am not saying he don't matter!! am not saying to adopt all of them! i am saying he is less likely NOT get a home then other dogs... i was not trying to argue :sorry:

[britly]

he is going to be killed in two days, he doesn't have time to just sit and wait for someone to come get him. I didn't go out of my way it took a simple phone call to make sure he didn't die, so that is what I did.

[britly]

this person put this thread up to try to get someone to help she cares about that dog and so do I but like I said I am not going to go around to all the shelters to take out every single one that needs help, impossible.

[britly]

Now all I am doing is repeating myself, and really don't care to.

[pandiapita04]

I love all animals!
I've had 5 dogs but they had to be given away whne we moved to the city.. I've had 7 cats, They had to be given away..
I do hope that someone gets the poor Westie, I love terriers, I love all dogs!!

[Jaymesferrealz]

Good work, britly. :)

[Spudnik]

Yay for britly and animeprincess! :D

pandiapita, you seem to have misread... britly isn't adopting this dog, she's found a rescue to take him in...

[froglover051094]

what kind of dog and where in pa?? maybe i can help!!!!

[Jaymesferrealz]

A West Highland White Terrier in Nevada, froglover.
Petfinder Link (http://www.petfinder.com/pet.cgi?action=2&pet=4337612&adTarget=468doggeneral&SessionID=4266bc86435d39b9-app5&display=&preview=1&row=0&tmpl=&stat=)

[britly]

no the dog is in nevada, the rescue I called is going to take him in if he hasn't already been adopted out. But he is a wast highland white terrier, very cute, type in the address animeprincess put in and see him, I don't understand these high kill shelters, how can they give a dog a week to live, how is that even legal, well it definatly shouldn't be, they should've called around to find a rescue to take him, like all the rest of their dogs, someone out there is bound to want those dogs. It's just awful.

[britly]

If he hasn't already been adopted out, than it was animeprincess that kept him alive. So great job animeprincess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kellpoky07r]

Did someone find him a home yet??

[oates34]

Hi Animeprincess:

I seen your posting on here last night and I posted the call for help for this little guy on the pet sitter forum I am a member of. A lady named Gayle from Texas was able to contact her area Westie Rescue who in turn contacted the Westie Rescue closer to Las Vegas and he has been rescued!!! They have him now. Thanks so much for being the guardian angel for this little guy.

As mentioned in this thread, of course we can not save them all, but for the ones that can be saved, we must try!!! Good job!!!

Sandy
Missouri

[castiglione]

I don't understand these high kill shelters, how can they give a dog a week to live, how is that even legal, well it definatly shouldn't be

It's legal and they do it because there is only so much money to go around and eventually they have to start making difficult choices like putting unadopted dogs to sleep in order to give other dogs a chance to be adopted. Money doesn't grow on trees and feeding, housing and giving vet care to dogs can add up.

And this sort of thing happens because there is a serious overpopulation problem where a lot of pets are concerned because too many people purchase pets when they really shouldn't - they either don't have to time to devote to the animal, the money to feed it or provide vet care and simply think that hitting an animal when it doesn't understand what they're saying is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Also, too many idiots don't get their animals spayed/neutered and let them run unleashed because it would be "mean" to keep them leashed or want their kids to witness the "miracle of birth" without taking into consideration that those cute puppies will eventually have to have a home.

These kill shelters do what they have to do simply because there are TOO MANY PETS and not enough people who can adequately care for them. Seriously, too many people are willing to buy an animal without doing the homework and thought required to really see if they're up to it (either financially and/or emotionally) and the damn pet industry encourages it by always bringing up the pluses of bringing a cute little fuzzie snookum wookums into your home while glossing over the responsibilities and minuses associated with having a pet.

Don't blame the shelters. They only have so much money to work with.

[britly]

Ya I know, I am just saying they should wait longer than they do to put them down, this shelter says all animals that come in have like 6 days or something, that is not enough time for them to be adopted, and before they put them down they should try to contact a rescue. And oates, that's cool, must be its either the same one I contacted, or they got to him before the one I contacted did, do they have a branch in California do you know? I contacted one in California that had people in las vagas as well.

[castiglione]

[QUOTE=britly]Ya I know, I am just saying they should wait longer than they do to put them down, [QUOTE]

Yes, and I'm saying they probably can't because they don't have the funding.

I really doubt those people working at those shelters are sadistic black-hats who twirl their villainous black mustaches and they send another dog off to its maker.

It's basically a triage situation. If they let some dogs wait longer, they'd probably have to euthanize some dogs after 3, 2 or 1 day just to make room for the influx of other dogs.

[britly]

I never said they were like that, I am sure they are not enjoying it, but why can some shelters keep their dogs longer than other shelters?

[oates34]

Castiglione, do you or have you worked in a shelter? Your responses are very much like what someone would say who is a shelter employee or operator.

And in this particular case, you would have thought someone at the shelter would have gotten in touch with the rescue especially since it is a purebred and most purebred groups have rescues as well as many that help with all breeds.

There is a county operated shelter in my area that doesn't even take down names of people reporting lost dogs so that they can match it to people calling in who have found dogs, or with dogs that are turned in as strays. How long does it take to do a daily log of calls as they come in.....name..description, phone number? lazy if you ask me!

[britly]

I agree with you oates!! We do need shelters for all the animals who don't have homes, but when they come in why not try a little harder to find them homes. There are also mixed breed rescues too.