Comments on: DogsBlog.com Announces New Partner and Major Dog Rehoming Initiative http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/398/dogsblogcom-announces-new-partner-and-major-dog-rehoming-initiative/ by K9 Magazine, the lifestyle magazine for dog lovers Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:27:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Crazy Canine http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/398/dogsblogcom-announces-new-partner-and-major-dog-rehoming-initiative/#comment-4993 Crazy Canine Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:49:22 +0000 http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/398/dogsblogcom-announces-new-partner-and-major-dog-rehoming-initiative/#comment-4993 'Thanks to the work undertaken by charitable organisations there has been a dramatic reduction in the number of stray/unwanted dogs in the UK over the last ten years. However, progress has now stagnated. Despite a year on year increase in the number of dogs re-homed, the population of rescue dogs has remained consistent for the last four years. In 2007, 7,892 of these dogs were destroyed1.' Dogs Trust (2007), Stray Dogs Survey, accessed online at www.dogstrust.org.uk/press_office/stray-dog-survey-2007/ What about the work of council's who seize the dogs and pass them on to these charitable organisations after holding them for the statutory number of days? Also the Dogs Trust figures show that 'evil' councils destroyed (the word used by Dogs Trust is usually 'killed') 7,892 dogs. Were all of these dogs healthy or were there a dogs that were so ill when their owners threw them out for the local council to deal with them and the council workers have the traumatic event of having to get vets to put them down due to their neglected condition. What about dogs that had been injured in road traffic accidents and are suffering so much that vets decide that to prevent further suffering they have to be PTS? What about those totally irresponsible people who dump dogs that for whatever reason are 'aggressive' for want of a better word, those dogs that when they are taken to kennels act aggressively towards kennel staff, would the Dogs Trust want to rehome those kinds of dogs that it would be foolhardy and probably downright irresponsible to do so to new ownewrs? Brilliant concept and partnership approach for the rehoming of dogs, just saddened that CEVA uses the Dogs Trust statistics that are brought out every year to beat local councils who do their best with poor funding from the government. ‘Thanks to the work undertaken by charitable organisations there has been a dramatic reduction in the number of stray/unwanted dogs in the UK over the last ten years. However, progress has now stagnated. Despite a year on year increase in the number of dogs re-homed, the population of rescue dogs has remained consistent for the last four years. In 2007, 7,892 of these dogs were destroyed1.’

Dogs Trust (2007), Stray Dogs Survey, accessed online at http://www.dogstrust.org.uk/press_office/stray-dog-survey-2007/

What about the work of council’s who seize the dogs and pass them on to these charitable organisations after holding them for the statutory number of days? Also the Dogs Trust figures show that ‘evil’ councils destroyed (the word used by Dogs Trust is usually ‘killed’) 7,892 dogs. Were all of these dogs healthy or were there a dogs that were so ill when their owners threw them out for the local council to deal with them and the council workers have the traumatic event of having to get vets to put them down due to their neglected condition. What about dogs that had been injured in road traffic accidents and are suffering so much that vets decide that to prevent further suffering they have to be PTS? What about those totally irresponsible people who dump dogs that for whatever reason are ‘aggressive’ for want of a better word, those dogs that when they are taken to kennels act aggressively towards kennel staff, would the Dogs Trust want to rehome those kinds of dogs that it would be foolhardy and probably downright irresponsible to do so to new ownewrs?

Brilliant concept and partnership approach for the rehoming of dogs, just saddened that CEVA uses the Dogs Trust statistics that are brought out every year to beat local councils who do their best with poor funding from the government.

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