Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Help this Animal Shelter

The Community Animal Rescue and Adoption Shelter is in danger of closing. The Clarion-Ledger reports:
"the state's largest no-kill animal shelter, may have to close if fundraisers and donations don't pick up."
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080903/NEWS/809030341/1001/news

Folks, this is definitely a worthy cause for donations. These people do a great deal of good work and its a shame seeing helpless animals put to sleep because a schedule had to be met. The staff there are dedicated and I know of several who actually keep some of these animals at their homes when the shelter gets too many animals.

Contact info:
www.carams.org (601) 922-7575.

Question: Animal Rescue League, CARA, the government animal shelters. Has anyone thought of combining them all into one shelter?

Posted by Kingfish at 7:46 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

CARA concerns me. I am all for their model, but I am not sure if CARA owners really want to place animals for adoption. I know it is hearsay, but I have heard that they are hoarders over and over again ever since CARA opened. I do know that two animal loving friends of mine have tried to adopt from CARA, and the owner blatantly steered them away from adopting and they left empty handed. My friends said it was the weirdest experience... I have visited from time to time, and I have seen the same animals in cages every time I go. This disturbs me greatly.

MARL concerns me, as well. I do have a friend who works there and from what I hear, new procedures have recently been initiated to prevent adoption-worthy animals from being put down. I know this has been an extremely unfortunate issue with this shelter. Although they do not turn away animals for any reason and their adoption rate has skyrocketed since they moved into their new facility, I do hope they stay on top of their staff to provide every healthy animal the opportunity to be adopted.

Regarding your question of combining - seems good in theory, but I don't think it could ever happen. from what I hear, the politics/missions/egos of each shelter would prevent that. It is a shame that the ones who truly suffer from any of these facilities experiencing dysfunction are the animals.

September 3, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Kingfish said...

A bunch of egos blown up over animal shelters?

you're kidding, right?

September 3, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Anonymous said...

no I'm not. There is a huge subculture in the Jackson area (and this is true for most areas with shelters) who are more than passionate about the shelters and what goes on there... When animals are involved folks truly let their colors show.... I have been amazed at what I have seen and heard... Hell - I have three dogs so I love dogs as much as the next guy, but my experience volunteering for some of these places has been that human egos, more often than not, get in the way of truly taking care of the animals. Your suggestion that there be one central agency for this is a good one for so many reasons... wish it could happen.

September 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Becca said...

Many times prospective owners are turned away if they don't meet the shelter's standards of a pet owner. Almost anything is better than life in a cage at a shelter, but they are just trying to protect their animals from more cruelty. At the rescue league I volunteer for, they would rather see an animal euthanized than fall into the wrong hands once again. I think this is good in theory, but as you described, there are still kinks in the system that prevent animals from being adopted to good homes.

It's a heartbreaking situation, and seeing the desperation in all of the shelter animal's eyes should encourage everyone to become an advocate for spaying and neutering all pets! Okay, stepping down from my soapbox now...

September 4, 2008 at 4:22 PM

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