Euthanized Shelter Animals

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In shelters about seventy-one percent of the cats and about fifty-six percent of the dogs in the shelters are euthanized or killed (www.americanhumane.org, 1). According to www.bestfriends.org, around seventeen million animals are euthanized every year simply because the animals are old, sick, or unadoptable (http://bestfriends.org, 1). Shelters and their staff are often vilified for humanely euthanizing thousands and millions of animals every single year. People who actually euthanize the shelter animals often suffer from extreme depression (www.examiner.com, 3). Since we have seventeen million animals being killed each year, there is only one way to decrease the number of animals being euthanized which is to decrease the number of animals entering shelters every year (www.oxfordpets.com, 1). Avanzino (the president of the Maddie’s Fund, which is a group that supports the no kill movement) said that about 700,000 of the three million dogs and cats killed every year are “legitimate euthanizations.” Legitimate euthanizations are shelter animals that are unadoptable simply because the animal has health problems, the animal is old, or because the pets behavior is unacceptable (www.npr.org, news article, 2). Most of the animals that are brought into shelters often suffer from infectious diseases. Thousands of cats …show more content…
The no-kill animal shelters will not euthanize their animals unless the animal is seriously sick or they are unadoptable (Kreuz, 102). More than 200 communities around the United States are or becoming no-kill shelters (Best Friends Magazine, 9). Shelters try to place animals in new homes with loving and caring families as quick as they can (Fuzzy Friends pamphlet, 2). Shelter dogs that have good behavior are sometimes trained to be service dogs. Many veterans will get a service dog because they feel safe with a service dog and they know that they are not alone (Shelter Me video,

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