Show X y a. t Humane Society for animals Every animal that is brought to the shelter has five days to get adopted or its precious life is taken A female dog can be adopted from the shelter for only 40 while a male can be adopted for 35 In all an fairness this is a grea great price to pay considering all the loyalty you will receive the friendships you you will gain and all the love and affection your new pet would be willing to give You hear all the time that life is a terrible thing to waste So why doesn't this stand true for our four legged four legged friends Someday our society will realize that animals were put on this earth for their companionship protection and most of all for their love We must learn to cherish them because if we dont don't we may lose their friendship forever This must be done in the near future or someday we will turn around and they will be gone If we keep killing killing killing kill kill- ing cats and dogs they will soon become extinct like many other animal species that we have killed This will willbe willbe willbe be far into the future but we must realize now how to protect the animals Before the dog or any other animal can be mans man's best friend we must stop the abuse stop the abandonment and most of all stop the killing Albert Schweitzer once said The liThe quiet conscience is the invention invention invention tion of the devil No one of ofus ofus ofus us may permit any preventable preventable preventable prevent prevent- able pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore therefore therefore there there- fore not visible is non exis tent It is as if life had said Im going to send you into a world of cruelty I shall make you sensitive to pain fear heat cold hunger and tion In this world of cruelty I shall make you defenseless In addition I shall strike you dumb This is the kind of world that animals are born into I Every year millions of animals suffer abuse or they get abandoned by their owners and soon after face death Every year the numbers numbers numbers num num- bers keep getting higher and higher Whatever happened to dogs being mans man's best friend Ac According to Katherine Brant director of development development develop develop- ment for the Utah Humane Society last year in the Humane Society of Utah unwanted animals were taken to the shelter Of those only 10 to 15 percent of those animals sur sur- When you look into the eyes of these animals N w q Y they have the unmistakable look that they sense impending impending impend impend- ing death Just like a prisoner a dog is offered his last meal before he makes his long walk to the euthanasia room Unlike death row inmates though dogs or cats know they will face certain death in ina ina ina a very short time The country's thousands of pounds and shelters are forced to kill and kill and kill killin killin killin in order to make room forthe for forthe forthe the new ones that will flood them that day all of this is the result of thoughtless pet owners Marian Eckley |