Animal shelters ?

Question

what do you think about them?? why do they make a difference? If you had $5000 to give to a charity or an animal shelter, what would you use the money for, for the animal shelter? Does an animal shelter deserve $5000? Why would YOU try to help the anumal shelter? what do you think about animals left alone in the world?

sorry i misspelled animal in the last 2 sentences

Answer 1

Animal shelters are charities. They do not operate on a profit - far from it.
The shelters have the thankless job of cleaning up after other people's litters. They are the ones who must control the exploding animal population by spaying and neutering and providing low-cost speutering, too. So yes, I would give money to a local shelter - the hardest part about that would be trying to decide which one!

Answer 2

I think that animal shelters give some animals a second chance for a good and loving life. Just think, when someone adopts an animal from a shelter, they are saving two lives, the animal that they are adopting and the animal that gets to take its place in the shelter. If I had 5000 dollars to give away, I would defenitely help out animal shelters with some of it but I would also give some of it to a charity that helps children. I think it is our responsibility as humans to be responsible for our world and of those who depend on us for survival, we are to blame for overpopulation and only we can help to get it under control. I think that it is our fault for animals having to be alone in the world, if we all just do our part, we can prevent it from getting worse. There is no excuse for all of the abandoned and mistreated animals in the world. So I say, if you want a pet, skip the breeder and head to a shelter or rescue program and adopt an animal from them. Those animals deserve a second chance. And last, spay or neuter your pets!!!

Answer 3

$5000 to an animal shelter is quite alot of money. That money would go to giving vaccinations, buying food, maybe even taking care of some surgeries for dogs who need them. If I had $5000 it would most certainly go to a shelter organization, because not enough people donate to help animals.
Which is why, Connie P, shelters are forced to put dogs to sleep. What would happen to all those poor animals if shelters ceased to exist? Think about that, Connie P.
There is nowhere near enough money donated in the country today to help all the homeless pets. Shelters are forced to cope with the difficult decision of who is to live and who is to die every day. They do the best they can to save as many as they can. It is a heartbreaking job and one I highly respect.

Answer 4

I think the thought of giving $5000 to an animal shelter is very worthy. I am very much an advocate of helping those that are unable to help themselves deserving of any assistance. If you are researching for other reasons, then my answer would be different. If you have only $5000 to endow, then spit it between childrens charities and other. If you have an extra $5000 and don't know what to do with it, then help the animals.

Answer 5

At the shelter I work at we make a huge difference in the animal world!
We recieve 50+ phone calls a day from people looking to give up their unwanted pets.
We take in what we can. We are always full to capacity, sometimes overfull.
Our pets(and we treat them like our own) are well fed, well socialized. They recieve everything my own personal pets recieve, sometimes more!
Not a day goes by that I haven't had at least 50 dogs in my lap! Some up to 15 years old, with nowhere to go.
We run on donations ALONE! and have done so for 56 years.
Lots of animal lovers out there willing to donate to the cause of animals.
Lots of charities out there! I would divide the $5000 up between human and animal charities.

Answer 6

My brother is a veterinarian in the UK and he has always maintained if you are going to give money to animals then giving it to a local home or shelter will get the best results.

He did extensive work (and still does) with the RSPCA in the UK (which is the biggest animal charity) and while he says they do great work that smaller donations just get lost in administration costs and that the local homes and shelters usually only survive on private funding so need your donations more than the large charities.

Answer 7

For all you human beings asserting NO, i think of your thinking approximately how the undesirable lil animals get killed for no reason. My husband works for animal centers and that i be responsive to what disadvantages there are. How could you sense if a rabid dogs growls and tries to bites you and chases you? Or a feral cat that scratches and bites you until you BLEED. OR the ill little kittens that are going to have a loooong drawn out dying. i'm excited by the killing of those animals because of the fact it makes the first public AND different animals safer! And no I dont believe them killing animals after each and every week yet that purely occurs at FEW animal shelters interior the country. What else could you do with the overpopulated animals? they are asserting there is 7 dogs for a million human...thats the reason certainly everyone could spay or neuter their dogs and cats. so that they dont have un mandatory positioned downs.

Answer 8

To be honest I'd probably give it to the cystic fibrosis foundation- or maybe like $4000 to the foundation and $1000 to the shelter.

I love dogs- but cystic fibrosis killed my mother's only sister and her 3 brothers- she is the only one left. I don't want any parents to have to go through something like that again or any siblings. I can't even imagine.

I love animals- but...

Also- shelters HAVE to kill some dogs- even the no-kills kill very sick or very aggressive dogs. It's not their fault- it's society's fault. My local shelter would rather do anything than euthanize an animal. The animal control guy gave me and my dog a ride home in his truck after I adopted just because it got the dog out of there several days earlier and I couldn't walk him home on the busy highway. Don't blame or penalize kill shelters- if they had more money they would euthanize less animals. Some dogs just can't be adopted- poor breeding, poor socialization, no the shelter's fault.

Answer 9

I would definately donate to an animal shelter over any charity for people. National charities receive more money from all over, rather than a local shelter.

I prefer to help animals over people. People can help themselves, animals can not.

Answer 10

Animal shelters are a necessary evil. The uninformed public buying dogs from BYB and pet stores contributes to the over population of dogs and the idiots that will not spay or neuter their pets. If everyone was required to spay and neuter their dogs except responsible breeders and a few select other interests then you would not have to worry about giving money to an animal shelter. Would you?